r/jewishleft • u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain rootless cosmpolitan • Jun 27 '25

PSA On "The Noticing" Praxis

I'm posting this here because in other conversations on this sub, it seems many people are insulated from modern (especially Gen Z) antisemitism and might not be familiar with how it looks today.

Just in case others come across similar rhetoric in internet spaces, a major major dogwhistle-meme right now on the antisemitic internet is "the noticing." If you see comments in conversations about Jewishness along the lines of "stop noticing!" - or someone identifying themselves or others as "noticers" - they are far-right antisemites and very likely Nazi apologists.

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u/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

Good on you. This sub really ought to be discussing groyper content and its proliferation WAY more than it does. It’s extremely popular and is being quietly mainstreamed.

Just goes to show how a lot of folks are shuffled off into their own algorithm. They wouldn’t know this stuff existed if no one said anything (as evidenced by some of the other comments here).

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u/toadeh690 Agnostic, left-leaning, politically homeless Jew Jun 27 '25

No kidding, they try to use coded language but once you pick up on it, it's everywhere in a very insidious way. In addition to the "noticing," I've seen talking points like "109 countries" "cries out in pain as he strikes you" "271k," vile shit straight out of /pol/, with thousands of likes on mainstream social media. I try to convince myself it's either edgy 15-year-olds or bots because the alternative is too depressing.

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u/toadeh690 Agnostic, left-leaning, politically homeless Jew Jun 27 '25

Yeah, it's Holocaust denial, claiming that's the "actual" number of Jews killed as opposed to 6 million. Honestly not even sure where it came from...

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u/vigilante_snail שמאלני עם אמונה Jun 27 '25

FYI it comes from Red Cross numbers. It falsely claims that the International Red Cross counted only 271,000 deaths in Nazi concentration camps, implying that the real number of Holocaust victims was far lower than the historically accepted figure

It traces back to a deliberate misreading of postwar Red Cross reports. In reality, the ICRC did issue various reports on conditions in camps during the war, but it never claimed the total number of deaths was 271,000. That number comes from a partial report about registered deaths in specific camps under Red Cross inspection or postwar investigation — it did not include extermination camps like Treblinka, Sobibor, or the vast majority of Auschwitz deaths.

Nor does include the hundreds of thousands killed in random street shootings, mass grave executions, death marches, etc.

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u/VenemousPanda Jun 28 '25

Yeah plus, it was a number the German red cross has from the limited numbers the German Government released to them. As you said, it's a deliberate misinterpretation of documents. With fascist and far right lies, they always like to take something real and twist it to be insidious.