WHEN OREGON MUSIC teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she thought she would be preparing for a sixth year teaching at Valley Catholic School. Instead, she lost her job.
Lewis was shocked, she recalled in an interview with The Intercept, as were her colleagues and students. The school did not give any explanation for why they did not renew her contract. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the pro-Israel blacklist organization StopAntisemitism had recently launched an online campaign against her, framing her social media posts about the genocide in Gaza as “using her platform to spread vile antisemitic hate online.”
She sued StopAntisemitism for defamation in an Oregon state court over the summer, and the case was elevated to federal court last month. Her suit faces long odds, legal experts told The Intercept, but serves as a rare chance to register public dissent in the courts against the group’s targeting.
It’s probably more accurate to call them “Israel First” as opposed to anything about antisemitism.
Jewish man here. Our Rabbi left our (mostly) progressive Temple to form his own so he could be a leader in the Jewish space to advocate for Gazans/Palestinian civilians and speak out against the fascist Likuds.
I am so proud of him.
There are many of us, also inside of Israel, that condemn all genocides, including the one in Gaza.
L’chaim to that Rabbi then, and mazeltov to his new temple.
Jews are not a monolith. One can criticize Israel without it being a criticism on Jews or Judaism.
Blaming all jews for the actions of Israel (or any religion for the actions of a few) would be like blaming all Christians in the world for the actions of Trump, just because he happens to be Christian.
That’s the point. Israeli extremists are purposefuly conflating criticism of israel’s indefensible war crimes in Gaza with defensible antisemitism. It’s worked wonders for them.
They’ve done this for decades, and it was finally starting to fail (mostly because of the diminishing power of the gatekeeping ability of the MSM). But now they have the Taco admin behind them.
Most people have seen through this for a very long time, but mostly had to be quiet about it. Otherwise, to criticize Israel was to be called “antisemitic” and the conversation was considered over.
Israel: You people don’t hate genocide, you just hate Jews!
Millions of people: I hate Jews, huh? Well sure mister bossman, if you say so.
Israel is creating the antisemitism.
Is he, tho?
Not that there’s anything wrong with your point.
But Trump’s only God is Trump
Satan is the father of lies.
He says he is and you really have no way to prove it one way or the other.
Christians like to say stuff about works and then conviently ignore that Jesus had more to say about paying taxes than slavery and criticized the Pharisees for not stoning mouthy kids.
Fact is, we gloss over most of Jesus’s actual teachings because they’re problematic to most modern people. He taught the Torah, which included all sorts of atrocious laws.
The God of the Torah made a big deal about worshipping no-one but Him, especially golden idols. Trump is the king of golden idols, usually in his own likeness and name. He even shills the Trump Bible. Jesus would have whipped him down the steps.
That’s not really true, though. The first commandment is to worship no-one above him. Not but him.
Given that Jesus wasn’t the messiah… they’re two peas in a pod.
if you're curious as to what I mean by Jesus not being a messiah.
Depending on how much of the gospels you assume are true… if Jesus is son of god by marry… then he can’t be the messiah at all and Joseph’s lineage is meaningless. The entire reason they gave it is that the Messiah was supposed to be of David’s direct line.
If you go with Mathew’s lineage, he can’t be the messiah because Jeconiah (son of Jacob), gone done fucked up and got cursed. (The curse being that none of his descendents would ever be king.) But even if you accept all of that, Jesus was never anointed the king of Israel and never actually ruled anywhere.
Of course Christians will then retcon all of the messianic prophecies to be “oh they meant a ‘spiritual’ king!” cuz, yeah. that’s totally what the messianic prophecies meant. (they meant that there would be a king who was also a high priest, of the line of david, who would defeat all of Israel’s enemies, and conquer the world and then we would <shifts into Paplatine’s Voice> have everlasting peace.)
oh, I’m not one to gatekeep, although I see your point.
nah, drumpf only hides behind religion for the exact same reason - a lot of the magats do
Apparently not
Death, death, to the IDF!
Actual neo-Nazi antisemitism - I sleep
Liberals and leftists criticising the slaughter in Gaza - REAL SHIT?!
The former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin finally realized that peace is better than murdering each other. Albert Einstein was 100% correct.
