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   Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:03:11 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

   The ease through which the ultimate horror of the 20th century, the Holocaust, has been weaponised by so many reputable organisations (incl Holocaust education ones) to justify Israel’s ongoing genocide tells me that most people in positions of influence have simply concluded that the Holocaust can be cheapened for cynical political purposes, which is seriously harming the very important work of continuing to actually study the Holocaust’s repercussions

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     Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:03:52 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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     In all of this Jewish agency is being erased in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’. Jews critical of Israel are rendered invisible and most people speaking on behalf of ‘fighting antisemitism’ are non-Jews who found their new clash of civs discourse to go after racialised Muslims. The profound cynicism deployed here will hurt us all, Jews and non-Jews.

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     Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:04:18 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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     Again and again we have to repeat that fascists come after all of us. The ‘pro-Israel’ discourse in this context facilitates this bcs it is fundamentally about dehumanising the Other.

     It doesn’t even matter as much who the Other is. Israel’s genocide other-izes Palestinians. European islamophobia and racism masquerades as ‘fighting antisemitism’ and other-izes both Jews and Muslims at the same time.

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     Elia Ayoub (he/him) (ayoub@spore.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 04:04:48 JST Elia Ayoub (he/him)

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     The overwhelming majority of antisemitic attacks - committed by the far right - are routinely erased bcs they do not subscribe to a clash of civs discourse.

     Anyone with even a passing knowledge of European history should recognise what happens when racialised groups of people are rendered almost entirely invisible.

     Authoritarianism thrives in such environments, paving the way for outright fascism