In which, if you don't agree with someone, they'll challenge your identity:
"...there is the creeping sensation among observers that, as the philosopher Susan Neiman told reporter Peter Kuras, German memory culture has “gone haywire” in the last several years. Kuras’s eye-popping report, which went online last week, takes Germany’s expansive system of antisemitism commissioners as its case study in memory gone awry, presenting a portrait of a government bureaucracy peopled largely by non-Jews with scant expertise, for whom 'antisemitism' has become the vehicle for state-sanctioned Zionism and Islamophobia. To be frank, this story is bonkers. During the editing process, I was continually shocked by the sheer chutzpah of these figures, who frequently tell Jews who disagree with their political orientation that perhaps they aren’t Jews at all, or that they’re not being sensitive enough to the German position vis-à-vis the Holocaust. This has coincided with a draconian crackdown on Palestinian speech in Germany; protests of Israeli oppression have been barred for several years in a row—with input from antisemitism commissioners, as Kuras’s reporting reveals. As we wrote in our Spring issue responsa, there is something uniquely mind-bending about how Holocaust memory is now being harnessed by the historical perpetrator for counterintuitive ends."
— Jewish Currents email, "Now Online: Two Pieces on Holocaust Memory in Europe," Aug 9, 2023
Meanwhile, Instagram is allowing antisemitism.
Meanwhile, the organization Middle East Forum maintains a database that, when viewed by HuffPost in 2025, "contained entries for over 5,500 individuals and 10,600 organizations. MEF did not say how many entries it now contains but pointed to its millions of data points pulled from public records. Entries appeared to track people in 45 countries, but most (over 4,700) were based in the U.S." Rowaida Abdelaziz reported on this; she found herself in the database. (HuffPost)
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