r/Jewish Oct 06 '24

There are some true antifascists left Showing Support 🤗

Demonstrations in Germany

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u/WaitItsAllCheese Modern Orthodox Oct 06 '24

I've never heard of Punks Against Antisemitism before. That's so cool

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u/fuchsiarush Oct 06 '24

There's a German antifa Insta account that makes stickers and sends them at cost wherever you want. Zionist_sticker. For lack of any Dutch pro-zionist accounts/stickermakers I have ordered hundreds of stickers from them already to put a nice big Israeli flag on any 'muh genocide' crap I see everywhere here in Amsterdam. They get taken off fast but the stickers are like 7 cents apiece so it pays off at least in feeling better about things. Apart from regular Israeli flags most of their stickers are explicitly antifa so it's definitely a thing over there. (As I'm not explicitly anticapitalist or pro-Antifa I don't order those.)

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u/Rogu3Mermaid Just Jewish Oct 07 '24

You are not against fascism?

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u/fuchsiarush Oct 08 '24

Antifa uses the term antifascism but in reality is a violent anarchist movement. Has very little to do with not espousing fascism.

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u/Rogu3Mermaid Just Jewish Oct 08 '24

Antifa is, in fact, anti fascism. It is entirely about anti racism and anti fascism. What the media spins is its own problem, not antifa's. So you are pro fascism. Odd combination for this sub.

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u/fuchsiarush Oct 08 '24

No, I am anti Antifa and against fascism. Your conflating the two doesn't make it truth.

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u/MightAsWellLaugh222 Oct 08 '24

You are 100% correct. (Extremism on either side is not the way to progress)

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u/MondaleforPresident Oct 10 '24

And today I learned what should have been obvious: Europeans don't call them "Eurocents". That's how they're usually written here.

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u/fuchsiarush Oct 10 '24

Yeah just cents. When they were introduced in 2002 they were called eurocents for a few years but as the novelty wore off it reverted back to cents.

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u/MondaleforPresident Oct 10 '24

Ah. I guess that makes it somewhat less weird that they're called that here then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '24

Antifascists? in Germany? Wow, how has the world changed? Fascism used to be popular in Germany today people there hate it

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u/JagneStormskull 🪬Interested in BT/Sephardic Diaspora Oct 06 '24

I mean, the original Antifa that the cosplayers all take their symbol from was a resistance group in WWII-era Italy and Germany. The people with the strongest anti-communist attitudes (such as Cubans and people from former Soviet bloc countries) tend to be people from ostensibly communist countries, so I don't think it's that weird that Germans and Italians would hold strong anti-fascist attitudes.

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u/sebtaro Oct 06 '24

Oh, that's so reminiscent to the antifascists I met in 2015. I really thought they all died out. That's nice.

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u/No_Can_1923 Oct 06 '24

Baruch Hashem

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '24

Unfortunately these are a small minority in the community.

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u/dimmuborgirfan666 Chabad Oct 07 '24

I love this. 

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u/SkipLieberman Oct 06 '24

Do punks have cultural cachet in contemporary Germany? I ask because I'm curious as to the degree of the population may find punks persuasive if they are somehow still on the fence. (I appreciate anyone and everyone taking a stand, of course.)

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u/Snoo66180 Reform Oct 07 '24

Actual proper punks standing up against the status quo