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   Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:01 JST Thomas Zimmer

   The Republican Speaker of the House is a Christian supremacist; Trump, the party’s standard bearer, is the leader of a fascistic movement and the providential leader of a rightwing base that has rapidly descended into more and more aggressive forms of conspiracism. 14/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:01 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Against this background, the way institutional leaders like Columbia’s president are pretending these Congressional hearings are actually about fighting antisemitism and bending over backwards to appease the Republican inquisitors is not only bizarre, but dangerous. 15/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:30 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Across the “West,” far-right movements and parties are following this same playbook, gleefully exploiting the anger and fear of Jews for political gain. Marine LePen, for instance, leader of the National Rally in France, was quick to announce her support for Israel. 18/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:30 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     The key takeaway is that the most dangerous, most violent forms Islamophobia and antisemitism are fueled by similar ideologies, they are coming from the same people. Helping them advance their cause would be a disaster. 19/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:32 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     These hearings are part of the eternal reactionary crusade against the college campus as a place of subversive leftwing indoctrination. Higher education has always been one of the institutions on which rightwing resentment has focused most intensely. 16/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:32 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Moreover, the fears over antisemitism are being leveraged to legitimize the reactionary mobilization against egalitarian democracy more broadly – the “counterrevolution” against the sinister forces of globalism and “wokeism” people like Christopher Rufo dream about. 17/

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     Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2024 03:43:37 JST Thomas Zimmer

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     Under no circumstances is “Let’s help the party of Trump, QAnon, Christian supremacism, and ‘Great replacement’ theory exploit the situation and further their antiliberal project” a plausible answer to the question of what must be done in response to rising antisemitism.

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