Last week, far-right streamer
Nick Fuentes openly called for the mass criminalization of women
and girls.
During an episode of his America First livestream on Rumble,
Fuentes declared,
“Just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists
— all of his political rivals
— we have to do the same thing with women …
They go to the gulag first.
They go to the breeding gulags.”
Netanyahu Plays Trump and American Jews for Fools -- Again (Thomas L. Friedman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/opinion/israel-iran-netanyahu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p97#a260218p97
But it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...
Call for Papers: Jews and the Worlds of the Ancient Mediterranean: Archaeology, Scholarship, and Networks of Collecting (c.1840–1940) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141232/call-papers-jews-and-worlds-ancient-me…
From claims that Jews kill children to make matzo, to accusations that immigrants in Ohio are devouring neighbors’ pets,
the myth of the blood libel is a nightmare that never ends
https://www.openmindmag.org/articles/the-worst-story-ever-told
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration's demand for 'lists of Jews' (Alice Speri/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/13/upenn-trump-jews-list
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p127#a260113p127
Call for Papers: Jews and the Worlds of the Ancient Mediterranean: Archaeology, Scholarship, and Networks of Collecting (c.1840–1940) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141232/call-papers-jews-and-worlds-ancient-me…
Jacob Naimark, a law student at the University of Pennsylvania,
has worried ever since he learned that Trump administration investigators had demanded that his school
turn over the names of many Jewish people on campus.
“It was disturbing,” said Mr. Naimark,
a co-president of the school’s Jewish Law Students Association,
adding, “We know very well the history of governments assembling lists of Jews does not end well.”
On Tuesday, a federal judge in Philade…
Call for Papers: Jews and the Worlds of the Ancient Mediterranean: Archaeology, Scholarship, and Networks of Collecting (c.1840–1940)
https://ift.tt/S5t6oIQ
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
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A recent survey by the American Jewish Committee, a nonprofit, found that
91 percent of American Jews say they feel less safe in the United States in the wake of high-profile attacks last year,
including the arson attack at the home of Pennsylvania’s governor, Josh Shapiro,
and the killing of two Israeli Embassy aides last spring outside a Jewish museum in Washington.
More than half said that they had changed their behavior out of fear.