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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting

This 2018 mass shooting took place soon after Columbia University and the Anti-Defamation League independently reported a spike in antisemitic activity online, especially on the popular social networking platforms Instagram and Twitter.[27][28][29][30] In addition, other antisemitic acts had been committed elsewhere.[31]

The immediate rise in the months of August to October 2018 was attributed to rising tensions associated with advertising for the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.[32] A similar rise in online attacks had occurred during the 2016 US election,[27] with the midterms being a "rallying point" for far-right extremists to organize efforts to spread antisemitism online among the populace.[28] In 2017, there was a 57% rise in antisemitic incidents in the United States,[30][29] in context of rising hate crimes against other groups, including Muslims and African Americans, as reported by the FBI.[30] For instance, hundreds of Jewish gravestones were vandalized in Pennsylvania and Missouri,[28] and antisemitic incidents on university campuses doubled in number.[31]

In August 2017, the widely publicized Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia featured Nazi symbols, salutes, and the slogan "Blood and Soil",[31] among other racist and antisemitic rhetoric. Considerable antisemitic material was being spread online via conspiracy theories about wealthy Jewish individuals, including billionaire George Soros. Columbia University's Jon Albright said that these represented the "worst sample" of all the hate speech he had seen on Instagram.

All under Trump.

Face-eating leopards won't be going hungry for a long time.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

"Antisemitism" is a particularly bizarre thing if viewed through the lens of MAGA right-wing autocracy.

The thing is that it requires two completely different but oddly complementary lies.

The first is the standard ludicrous notion that opposing the policies of the Israeli right somehow equals antisemitism.

The second is the at least equally ludicrous notion that holding generally negative opinions of Jews in general - a thing that's not coincidentally quite common among MAGAites - somehow does not equal antisemitism.

So MAGAites live in this bizarre mirror universe in which falsehood is truth and truth is falsehood.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Not even remotely unique to Trump. Like 90% of US politicians do this.