AaronNov 17, 2023
Micah Lee
One day after Elon Musk agrees with a great replacement Jews "hatred against whites" tweet, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League thanks Elon for his "leadership in fighting hate" because he's suspending X users who post the phrases "decolonization" or "from the river to the sea"
Nov 17, 2023 at 11:46pmWeb
Show threadTim ChambersNov 17, 2023
@micahflee (Sigh)
Show threadGeorge Liquor, AmericanNov 17, 2023
@micahflee What a weird time to be alive !
Show threadAmbiorickxNov 18, 2023
@micahflee the adl seems to have lost the plot
Show threadapophisNov 18, 2023
@ambiorickx @micahflee depends on what you think ADL's plot is... people have complained about them for many years
Show threadErich M.Nov 18, 2023
@micahflee
disgusting shitshow. Nicht gedacht soll seiner werden, dem Schlemiel!
Show threadKevin CarsonNov 18, 2023
@micahflee Elon would make a great Souther Baptist. He hates Jews but loves Israel.
Show threadTed SpenceNov 18, 2023
@micahflee there is no coherent thinking except that he wants to be a bully. He likes being on the side of whomever is more powerful making fun of those with less.
Show threadPaul CantrellNov 18, 2023

@micahflee
The ADL is a sad cautionary tale about where a virtuous mission will take you when it becomes monomania.

I really, really hope they get their heads out of their asses — or that a more circumspect organization picks up their original mission of fighting actual antisemitism. Because we urgently need people doing that right now, and the ADL ain’t it.

Show threadBen RosengartNov 18, 2023

@inthehands @micahflee Do you think maybe there's a tension between fighting antisemitism, and supporting revisionist Zionism?

I do. I think Netanyahu and his friends want me to feel unsafe as a Jew, so I'll accept their crimes as necessary evils.

Show threadPaul CantrellNov 18, 2023
@fivetonsflax @micahflee
Indeed, and I think the ADL has •exacerbated• antisemitism by trying to argue that any criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic, which has ended up wrongly implying that all Jews everywhere are responsible for that gov and every awful thing it does. Don’t think ADL would agree that’s what they’re implying, but they really have kind of backed themselves into that corner.
Show threadsiderealNov 18, 2023

@inthehands @fivetonsflax @micahflee The Anarchist Labor Bundists predicted this in the 30's, btw

"Oh you foolish little Zionists
With your utopian mentality
You'd better get down to the factory
And learn the worker's reality

You want to take us to Jerusalem
So we can die as a nation
We'd rather stay in the diaspora
And fight for our liberation"

written by Ts. Lakhman in 1931, here's a modern recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMRwk8WDd4

Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn - Oh, You Foolish Little Zionists (Yiddish Anti-Zionist Song)

YouTube
Show threadPaul CantrellNov 18, 2023

@sidereal @fivetonsflax @micahflee
What a slice of history. Thank you.

I’m personally very sympathetic to members of long-marginalized desiring land, independence, and self-determination that are not subject to the whims of the forces that have oppressed them. So I approach Israel as an idea with far more sympathy than the song.

However, that desire requires extreme care lest it go to evil places — and as you point out, the song makes that warning and the likes of Likud should have heeded it.

Show threadAGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸Nov 18, 2023
@inthehands @fivetonsflax @micahflee Absolutely, the ADL is antisemitic af because of this one massive issue. My Jewish friends are not responsible for Israel's crimes. Trying to tar all Jewish people as apartheid supporting monsters is dangerous to them for obvious reasons.
Show threadtobieNov 18, 2023
@inthehands @fivetonsflax @micahflee The ADL argued no such thing. But nice try to say that a group that fights antisemitism is responsible for promoting it. It's an argument worthy of Elon Musk.
Show threadBen RosengartNov 18, 2023
@tobie1 @inthehands @micahflee Elon Musk, the guy the head of the ADL keeps praising? 🤔
Show threadPandanusNov 18, 2023

@tobie1 you mean the bunch that’s accusing Orthodox and Progressive Jews opposed to genocide of being “antisemitic” - that ADL?

https://theintercept.com/2023/11/11/palestine-israel-protests-ceasefire-antisemitic/

Anti-Defamation League Maps Jewish Peace Rallies With Antisemitic Attacks

Progressive Jews are in the streets by the thousands calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. ADLs CEO says the organizers are “hate groups.”

The Intercept
Show threadtobieNov 18, 2023
@pandanus Sorry but JVP really is the equivalent of Jews for Jesus, and don't get me started on what a fringe group Neturei Karta is.
Show threadPandanusNov 18, 2023
@tobie1 the “no true Scotsman” fallacy writ large and committing genocide…
Show threadtobieNov 19, 2023
@pandanus You may have slept through the Vietnam War but 3.3 million North and South Vietnamese died in that conflict. There are many claims you could make about the current war but genocide is not one of them. Even the prosecutor from the ICC who recently spoke at length about the conflict did not make that charge. I guess Mastodon has its own set of experts specializing in the law of armed conflict.
Show threadThe Saanich DailyNov 18, 2023
@micahflee Which only goes to prove that the ADL doesn't really care about antisemitism it cares about defending Zionism. Essentially making it a racist supremacy organization.
Show threadOggieNov 18, 2023

@micahflee Just in case you weren't sure where the ADL was ending up on everything, I guess.

Good lord.

Show threadgretaredNov 18, 2023
@micahflee holy mentally colonized, Batman!
Show threadScott D. Strader 😐Nov 18, 2023

@micahflee We, as a species, don't deserve to live. Reason number four thousand whatever.

what
the
fuck

Show threadOrca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️‍⚧️Nov 18, 2023
@micahflee Typical ADL moment ​​
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-gelman-anti-defamation-league/
The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems - Boston Review

Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of wielding its moral authority to attack Arabs, blacks, and queers.

Boston Review
Show threadFerles  Nov 18, 2023
@micahflee @dino_joe Why didn't you include this post by Greenblatt that directly addresses Musk's tweet about hatred against whites?
Show threadFerles  Nov 18, 2023

@micahflee @dino_joe I found several news sources referring to this Greenblatt's post attacking Musk's claim. I have not found a single one referencing the one that you showed.

Seems very suggestive to me that the one you posted is fake.

Show threadDROP\ TABLE Hacker of EarthseaNov 18, 2023
@micahflee the I don't hate Jews, but secretly hates jews
Show threadClem H. FandangoNov 18, 2023
@micahflee wow, people with money and power are shiftless, dirtbags?? I am shocked. SHOCKED.
Show threadLukefromDCNov 18, 2023
@micahflee This is why we call it Birdchan. My advice is to cancel Twitter instead of being cancelled by it. Cancel Tesla too. Note that in at least one country dock workers are now refusing to unload (non-union) Teslas. In fact, rich people who own Teslas might want to think twice about where they park them now.
Show threadBørgeNov 18, 2023
@micahflee Not only was it great replacement theory, it was also someone explicitly saying he agreed with Hitler.