Thursday, April 20, 2023

Transphobia and antisemitism contribute to political violence (context: attack on Paul Pelosi)

Transphobia and antisemitism contribute to political violence — even against people who aren't trans or Jewish.

See my article: "The hammer meme hits hard". Medium lets you read a certain number of stories for free every month. You may also consider a paid membership on the platform.

art of person in anguish

This is going on in June 2023:

Alejandra Caraballo tweets: 'Matt Walsh named a bunch of Jewish doctors as being pedophiles and nazis who invented trans people. His neo nazi followers were upset because he didn't actually 'name the Jew' and explicitly denounce the Jews. Even Matt Walsh isn't transphobic enough for these people.' She’s responding to Walsh’s tweet: ‘The trans agenda was invented by pedophilic psychologists, degenerate quacks, lunatic sexologists, literal Nazi scientists, and other assorted deviants. A collection of the most despicable monsters imaginable came up with all of this stuff. Here are five names you should know.’

The person who committed a mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, 2022 had put a transphobic, antisemitic meme in his manifesto.

Alejandra Caraballo tweets: 'The replies are full of blue checks sharing anti Semitic conspiracy theories and propaganda. This particular 'meme' was in the Buffalo shooters manifesto.' The meme is ‘Who is behind the rise in transgenderism’ with the images of six people with Jewish stars stamped on them.
Alejandra Caraballo tweets: 'Explicitly so.' She screenshotted a tweet: ‘id argue more important than being German was ‘Jewish and gay’, but let’s get real, you won’t go there with a ten-foot pole.’

Trump's bullying, insulting tone toward Jews

As background, see this 2020 report from Bend the Arc about what U.S. Jews think of Trump.

On September 2, 2023, Elon Musk "'liked' a tweet by Keith Woods, an Irish white nationalist and self-proclaimed 'raging anti-semite'...Musk then further engaged with Woods, directly replying to him that 'ADL has tried very hard to strangle X/Twitter' and posting a flood of tweets on his perceived grievances with ADL. In doing so, the hashtag immediately become the top trending topic on X...featuring antisemitic tropes, stereotypes, caricatures and neo-Nazi conspiracies of global Jewish domination, Zionist attempts to disrupt established societies and immediate threats posed to 'white people.'" (The Hill) In response to this, the ADL declared that "the real issue is neither ADL nor the threat of a frivolous lawsuit. This urgent matter is the safety of the Jewish people in the face of increasing, intensifying antisemitism."

Elad Nehorai tweets September 6, 2023: Reminder that THIS was how the ADL campaign first started. THIS is what Musk took part in. And when he engaged with it, he did so by responding to a neo-Nazi. Any media outlet reporting this as simply a dispute between Musk and the ADL is abdicating its responsibility.

On September 17, 2023 — the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year — Trump posted to his Truth Social platform "a flier created by the organization JEXIT — a group that seeks to draw Jewish voters away from the Democratic Party." It read: "Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America & Israel because you believed false narratives! Let's hope you learned from your mistake & make better choices moving forward! Happy New Year!"

A few days later in September 2023, in Texas, the Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District fired a teacher who assigned 8th-grade students Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation, written by Ari Folman and illustrated by David Polonsky. As HuffPost wrote: "It details an experience in which Anne Frank walked through a park that displayed nude female statues and a conversation in which she asked a friend that they each show each other their breasts, The Associated Press reported in April. It also includes a section where she discusses both male and female genitalia, according to the Post."

Relatedly:

"The White House on Thursday took new steps to fight antisemitism, with eight federal agencies officially declaring that an essential civil rights protection outlaws antisemitism amid a rise in hate crimes targeting Jewish people.
Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act outlaws discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in any program or activity that gets federal funding. But, for the first time, eight federal agencies put it in writing, explicitly stating that the protections apply to “certain forms of antisemitic, Islamophobic, and related forms of discrimination in federally funded programs and activities.”
— 8 Federal Agencies For First Time Declare Civil Rights Act Protects Against Antisemitism Title VI of the landmark 1964 law outlaws discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin in any program that gets federal funding. Marita Vlachou, HuffPost, Sep 28, 2023

David DePape convicted of assaulting Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Michael Finnegan, Washington Post, November 16, 2023

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