Haviv Rettig Gur
Would love to understand what this is. Criticizing it is beside the point. This is a kind of cultural trolling that wants the criticism. The main takeaway is that this seems to be the new normal. Rogan’s favorite guests, Hasan Piker, TikTok. Antisemitism is how you signal authenticity in today’s youth culture. And of course, of course it’s about Gaza. Only the narcissist Jews would think that Gaza was just an excuse rather than the authentic reason. After all, didn’t the horrors of the Yemen war cause people to put up signs reading, “Fuck the Muslims?” Or cause people to protest outside Muslim schools as they now do in Montreal outside Jewish schools? The tragedy, of course, is that as you follow the causal chain back, this very antisemitism drove Gaza’s destruction and will prevent its rebuilding. Hamas is willing to destroy Gaza on the altar of destroying the Jews. That’s why the war will never end so long as they remain. That’s why Hamas bombed every peace process. This joyful dancing with antisemitism helps condemn Palestinians to another generation of disaster and failure. So no, the antisemitism isn’t for the Palestinians. It comes at their expense more than at the Jews’. And dearest Western progressives, this is one more data point in the long litany of data points that causes us not to believe that your morality is anything more than a copy-paste into English of the bigotries that pervade the Arab world. Western progressivism is hard at work erasing itself in favor of some of the most anti-progressive political forces in history. So sure, “Fuck the Jews.” Good luck with that.
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There’s a lesson everyone needs to learn from this, if you haven’t already. What gets me isn't just this horrific sign, it's how many people let it happen. Someone designed it. Someone watched their coworker assemble it. Someone walked it through a crowd that cheered, filmed, laughed, and posted it on social media. No one stopped it. I wonder if anyone - even a single person - was uncomfortable. Did an employee try to say something? Did it even occur to them that they should? The lesson is this: even if you're the only one who sees it for what it is, say something. Do something. Don't delude yourself into thinking someone else will.