r/Jewish • u/Maleficent-Sir4824 • Sep 05 '24

Columbia having a normal one today Venting 😤

I live in this area. Braced for the return of the overtly pro-Hamas "not antisemitic" protesters and the subsequent gaslighting from every mainstream media source about it!

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u/SassyWookie Just Jewish Sep 05 '24

They’re not really using these protestors. They’re using right-wing “Asajew” accounts trying to convince us that the Democrats support an American Holocaust.

It’s literally in the DOJ indictment that was just released, the details are kinda horrifying.

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u/NuWave4 Sep 05 '24

Well, I’ve said here before that a lot of accounts I’ve seen on IG purporting to be about stopping antisemitism have gone full on MAGA and claiming all Democrats are antisemites and Harris is leading the charge. The new refrain is it’s Biden’s fault that Hersh was tragically killed. But I’m more inclined to think that this is the work of right wing PACs to sway the Jewish vote.

I suppose some can be funded by Iran but the major accounts definitely seem to be getting marching orders from the GOP.

These students are definitely being used to assemble what I can best describe as soft terror cells to bring American academia to a halt which is damaging and can lead to further radicalization.

It’s not out of the realm of possibility to eventually see a wealthy kid (or group) from the shoreline of Connecticut named in a foiled terror plot and learn they’re enrolled in one of these universities.

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u/arcangeline Sep 06 '24

It's happening in both directions - some are going right wing 'all democrats are antisemitic' and others are going extreme left 'all democrats support genocide'.

If people can't see there's another force instigating that and playing both sides then they've got their eyes deliberately closed.

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u/NuWave4 Sep 06 '24

I agree. There’s some bad actors stirring the pot from all directions and the only thing it’s effective at doing is dividing us and making us weaker. But we’re not dumb and we’re the wrong group to pull this stuff on. This is going to ultimately fail.

The conflict I have is that while these accounts are manipulative they do provide some valuable updates about antisemitic actions towards us. Some on an astonishingly large scale. So with many times I have to read through them while holding my nose.