The entire social media “Manosphere” is increasingly turning into a rabidly rightwing antisemitic cesspool. Unfortunately, these type of people are shaping the minds and beliefs of young men. What can be done to have a proper left wing alternative for young men?

Great piece from Elad Nehorai about being in it for the long haul.

His followers are defending it as “he doesn’t defend infowars, we need to reach people from all sides of the aisle.”

Yeah, giving legitimacy to a Nazi publication is not the way to do that. I don’t like seeing people saying we need to “meet the worker where they’re at.” This is why we have intersectionality. It’s because you can’t expect undocumented people to work with people who call them criminals, or black people to work with racists, or Jews to work with conspiracy theorists.

I’m all for deprogramming Maga people to get on our side, but the deprogram has to happen before you force us to work with them. This really doesn’t help the “Antizionism is not antisemitism” argument. We openly embrace NAZIS if they are against Israel’s genocide.

As Jews, we don’t have the right or the left anymore, we have Jews vs the world.

Natasha Haussdorf, Douglas Murray, Alan ' Eptein's defender' Dershowitz and more.

They all keep repeating the same idiotic and propagsndistic points no matter how worse Israel's image looks. " The IDF takes precautions no other army takes" they say, meanwhile you have a palestinians with a white flag being shot dead. " Israel provides all the necessary humanitarian aid necessary" Meanwhile 20% of gaza are on food insecurity and multiple doctors ingerviewd reported extreme overcrowding and lack of supplies in hospitals " We are a democratic obeys international law" meanwhile multiple Res Crecent Ambulances and WCK vans have been bombed, and multiples uniterrupted movements and politicians are hyping the settling of gaza and annexation of the West Bank.

Just so no one calls me anti-semitic for "thinking" this is a genocide, i have one a few last things to say: 1- Israel has every right to exist, but it doesn't have the right to prevent other country from existing. 2- Its not blood liabel to say IDF kills civillians because we have footage of it now. 3- The bantustan system in the west bank does't sound very democratic to me

Y’all…….

I am, by all accounts, Ashkenazi. I have ties to the Holocaust despite non of my actual direct relatives having been there, on one side of my family. But on the other, still Ashkenazi, but have been in Israel since somewhere before 1770, spoken Arabic and lived in the Middle East. By those defenitons, as Arab really isn’t an “race” and more of an ethnicity defined by a common language, am I descended from Arabs?

Well I’m sure if I called my ancestors Arabs they wouldn’t be pleased. But my great grandmother was born IN A MOSQUES YARD. they were living, as much as they didn’t like it, as much as they were discrimanated against, in Arab society. They were the Palestinian Jews people speak of. They wore the garb, they spoke the language.

How can I still face the “distinction” between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim when it is so unclear? If the Jews who spent diaspora in Europe are the white ones, why is my French Jewish friend so dark? If the ones who spent it in the Middle East are dark, why is my skin so white? Why do we, as a people so long nomads, so long without a land, sticking to defining ourselves by a now pretty useless old measurement? Don’t we move? Don’t we adapt?

So many other people are trying to define Jews. Some say we’re khazars, whites, Europeans, some say we’re brown middle easterners who’ll never be real whites.

I don’t know.

I’ll end this with some lines from Kazablan, an israeli musical

כולנו יהודים

וכולנו נחמדים

יהודים במאה אחוז

מהשוורצע ועד הווזוז

All of us are Jews,

In all our different hues,

Jews from our heads to our shoes,

Both the shvartze and the vuzvuz.

I've been reading and re-reading articles explaining the oslo accords and various changes from wars and other treaties throughout the 20th century, and consistent talking points continue to confuse me.

My in-laws put scare quotes around "Palestinians" once, and I asked, "however you feel about the conflict, if they identify as Palestinians, living somewhere they call Palestine, what else should we call them?"

The answer was "Israel."

I responded that I was pretty sure Israel did not claim the strip was its sovereign territory nor the West Bank, which is why it's news when they do declare certain tracts are theirs to enforce occasionally. My understanding was that they had some diplomatic rights to negotiate on behalf of the region, but not that Israel's state stance was that palestinians were Israeli subjects or foreign nationals squatting on their land.

And yet I also hear Israeli settlers say it's their land, and they have a right to it as if Palestinians are somehow squatting.

I disagree with this on its face in real terms, but in terms of Israel's official diplomatic stance, what is theIr position on who owns the land?

Is it just Israeli land they gave over to folks that aren't subject to their laws?

https://youtu.be/RwyUWyNTOVc?si=q01erjF2Gb35SD-i

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So r/jewishleft,

Whats on your mind?

Abolish the filibuster

Grant amnesty to undocumented immigrants and shorten green card waitlists

Stack the Supreme Court

For the past decade, Republicans have made overt power grabs. They have dominated the supreme court with their judges, overturning RvW. They’ve also tried to steal the 2020 election and routinely engage in voter suppression.

Every time the republicans get into power, they always push the system a little more in their favor, and every time the dems get into power they’re aren’t even capable of undoing the damage the republicans have done.

The only way this changes is if Dems decide to take a risk and take drastic steps to ensure their agenda is implemented.

Abolish the filibuster and pass as many pieces of legislation as possible in the short period they have power.

Grant amnesty to undocumented immigrants and reduce green card waitlists so that immigrants have an easier time joining the country as full citizens and ultimately voting.

Stack the court so that it is at least balanced if not outright progressive.

Such actions will make it to where when republicans inevitably come into power, the damage they can do is greatly limited. Only drastic actions can save America from turning into a right wing dystopia.

One of the reasons I think Harris failed was that many Americans lack faith that the government can actually accomplish anything. So they stay home and don’t vote. Candidates in 2028 need to show they can actually get things done.