We live in a weird time: the accusation of anti-semitism has never been more common and the consequences have never been more severe, but the accusation has never been more likely to be a compliment.
In most cases today, if someone is accused of anti-semitism, they are being accused of being against genocide. Against the mass murder of ci civilians. Against children being deliberately shot in the head and against prisoners being raped to death
To be sure, real anti-semites exist, but if someone hasn’t been accused to anti-semitism, one knows they have no ethics and are either a wimp, unwilling to even say “genocide is bad” or an evil person who thinks genocide is good.
On the other hand the phrase “pro Israel” means “supporter of mass murder, the deliberate killing of children, and of raping people to death.” If someone describes themselves as pro-Israel they are evil, they have condemned themselves out of their own mouths and no decent person will have anything to do with unless coerced.
The irony, of course, is that by wrapping themselves in Judaism Israel has made the charge of anti-semitism bear no moral weight and has increased real anti-semitism, as many people no longer take the care to distinguish between Zionism and Judaism. This is unfair to the many Jews (almost all outside of Israel, Israel is in the running for sickest society in history) who have opposed Israel’s genocide.
If you ever asked yourself “what would I have done were I alive during the Holocaust and aware of it?”, well, the answer is “whatever you’re doing right now.”
Your soul has been weighed, and many should pray it does not fall under Ma’at’s gaze.
mago
This anti antonym is a fake out weaponized and solidified dog turd.
Who’s zooming who?
Step right up, bend right over, gonna give you the anti where the sun don’t shine.
Meanwhile, the ante’s five dollars and the game is five card monte.
Ante up. The deal is on. . .
Edmund
Absolutely, it’s time to reclaim the word, though for now I only dare to say ”anti-semitic according to the Israeli government definition of anti-semitism”.
Oakchair
The people living in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and the West bank are Semite people. In our current Orwell nightmare opposing the genocide of Semite people is anti-semitism.
Think it will be 5 years before the media war sluts are telling us we need to bomb Al-Qaeda and ISIS forgetting that they cheered the West funding, arming and helping them take control of Syria?
I have to admit it has been a solid business strategy arming and funding the groups you’re making trillions bombing and invading.
someofparts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/what-did-marjorie-taylor-greene-say-about-pope-francis/ar-AA1DANsQ
Then eventually the practice of bogus charges of anti-semitisim lead to an offensive absurdity like this.
someofparts
long overdue, but finally –
https://x.com/AlonLeeGreen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1915492047550583153%7Ctwgr%5E63a99c7583302f0b492b0ae1c521b543e27366fe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2025%2F04%2Flinks-4-26-2025.html
Mark Level
During the Reich’s terror in Europe, US authorities arrested ethnic German and Italian sympathizers in the US, and mass-confined Japanese residents, including citizens, with no due process. At least in the case of the European-Americans jailed, there was cause and a threat (albeit negligible.)
During Israel’s ongoing terror in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, etc. it is those who have human empathy and protest who are doxxed, arrested, smeared as “anti-Semites”, including not just by knuckle-dragging Republican racists but by Elite institutions like Yale University. The PMC Libs are as rabidly Islamophobic and Zionist as the ReThugs are. https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/yale-palestine-israel-protests-trump-grants-ct-20293045.php No actual evidence of “anti-Semitism”, the “anti-Semitism” is considering Arabs in Palestine to be human beings.
Ever since Hillary’s ludicrous failure in 2016, the Libs prattle on that “Black Lives Matter”, “No Space for Hate,” blah-blah but support not only the Israeli Apartheid regime but also Ukrainian far-right Neo-Nazis who wish that their heroes had prevailed in the 1940s, outlawed speaking Russian to the 45% of their populace that did so, have anti-Russian/Slav school curriculum, shut down & looted Russian Orthodox churches, wear Nazi insignia and sing “Deutscheland Uber Alles” while going into battle.
Oh, and there’s a reason that one can’t take a genetic test without a court order in Israel. Is Benjy Netanyahoo a “Semite”? Not by a long shot, his family were from Poland, original name Mirskovitz, so a made-up “Middle Eastern” name is substituted. The Palestinians are Semites, and the descendants of the ancient Jews as well as neighbor Caananite-Semite tribes. Ashkenazis from Latvia, Lithuania, the Ukraine, Poland, Australia– a few might be, the majority are simply “white” which is why the British Empire put them there.
Colonialism never changed its color since the 15th century, as Josep Borell said, there is a “jungle” and a “garden”. Odd that there are many white people and blondes in Russia but “the Rules Based Order” says they are subhuman also. I guess something as dumb as caste-based racism can’t really be “scientific”. The claim was mostly dropped after the early 20th century apart from “The Bell Curve” and some other old-line White Supremacists. But the governments of the US, UK, Germany cling to their old ideas, most of the rest of the world looks on with disgust and horror.
Feral Finster
I have long said that Zionists demands for special pleading and outrageous double standards have created more genuine antisemites than all the idiots ever to post garbage on the internet.
This is entirely intentional, as it provides a pretext for further demands, and convinces waverers that ethnic solidarity is their sole protection.
Joan
I’ve mentioned this before but I lost a friend over this. She was Israeli and while not religious or spiritual she was culturally Jewish. I suspected from comments she made that we didn’t agree on the conflict, so I tried to not bring it up but it ultimately did come between us and end the friendship.
She kept saying I wasn’t being nuanced about it and I didn’t know that whole history. That is certainly true. I don’t know the whole history, and sometimes I am not nuanced. But this is a line for me: are there a bunch of innocent people dead?
JakeS
Ian, I see this all the time: “what would you have done during the Holocaust? Whatever you are doing now.” True. But so what? I hold signs on the street corners, I carry a flag of Palestine, I vote, I write my Congresscritters, I share your posts and others. It’s inadequate. Are you doing more? Is anyone? Can we do more?
Guilt tripping others is not really getting anything done.
Olivier
Bear in mind that Israel benefits indirectly from fanning the flames of antisemitism abroad: It has a demographic problem, so the more diasporic jews do their aliyah, the better. And Israel is cynical enough to play that game.
elkern
I don’t think the current mess will result in ‘the end of Anti-Semitism’. I do not expect the current political/geographic incarnation of ‘Israel’ to survive much longer, but I expect Jews and Judaism will survive that.
The end game for Israel will be very messy, as in millions of casualties at least, and it will vastly increase real anti-Jewish sentiment among, well, pretty much everybody else on Earth, so Jews and Judaism will probably have to go underground for a century or so. And of course, that will just reinforce the paranoid solidarity which is one of the most dangerous aspects about Judaism.
The best case scenario I could imagine is for Jews around the world who survive that next holocaust to move toward the beautiful, humanitarian aspects of Judaism, and give up on the terrible zero-sum Neolithic tribal vision of recapturing Jerusalem. But I don’t expect even that change of heart to end all [real] anti-Semitism, because humans are tribal jerks. And of course, tribal jerks among surviving Jews will eventually rediscover the dark aspects of their Book, leading to yet another cycle…
Perversely, the worst-case scenario is the only one where I can imagine a permanent end to anti-Semitism: if Israel pushes the Samson Option button, it could ignite a maximal nuclear (and bio-weapon?) WWIII. No more people, no more anti-anything.
In the meantime, I’m sad to see how Israel’s actions are making things worse for everybody, including Jews around the world. And of course, I’m pissed that so many Jews in the West continue to label opposition to Israel as ‘anti-Semitic; how can they not understand that they are actually inflaming [real] anti-Semitism by conflating ‘Israel’ with ‘all Jews’?
Soredemos
@Joan
Israel-Palestine is about the least nuanced ‘conflict’ you can imagine. Claiming it’s ‘complicated’ is pure obfuscation. It’s colonialism, pure and simple.
mago
Nothing to do with the anti Semitic bs, but the extremists running the Israeli show have stupidly committed regional dwellers to negative long term health affects derived from the toxicity spewed into the atmosphere as a consequence of reducing buildings, animals and humans to particulate matter blown on the winds and inhaled with every breath taken by every living being in the region, and furthermore that toxicity will affect plants and earth and water for at least a generation or more, so unless they drop the big one in which case it’s sayonara time immediately, the damage will continue on all levels, culturally, environmentally, economically for a long long time.
Wow. That’s my longest run on sentence yet.
And as I’m fond of saying, you ain’t seen nothing yet . . .
someofparts
and this too mago –
https://www.greenmatters.com/big-impact/jordan-river-drying-up
Failed Scholar
“A weird time” indeed Ian. Turns out that “crazy racist uncle John” was bang on the money about ‘Jews control America’. Hell, even he wasn’t cynical enough, because it’s the most sociopathic + genocidal ones that seem to run Western foreign policy. Another fat L for the ‘race doesn’t matter, diversity is our strength, the West is colourblind, Rule of Law matters, etc etc etc’ types (which I should mention was me once upon a time).
mago
Yes someofparts, drought and agricultural destruction along with human and animal displacement in the Levant isn’t something featured on the evening news, although it’s a major driver of regional and world events.
Grow your garden, pull your weeds, do good, be well and don’t let the bastards get you down.
KT Chong
I wasn’t searching for anything specific—be it geopolitics, mineral economics, or the irony of Trump’s crackdown on anti-Israel protests and the deportation of foreign students. I was simply passing time on YouTube when I stumbled upon a video from a recent UCLA campus protest. Riot police stormed the campus, arresting and handcuffing an Asian student leading the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine protests. As they removed her facemask, I thought, “Wow, she’s really pretty!”
She wasn’t just “normally” pretty. She was at a guerrilla protest, not a date, with barely any makeup on when arrested and unmasked. Yet, she was exceptionally pretty—the natural, minimal-makeup kind.
Curiosity (and, okay, a bit of thirst) took over. I did what anyone might: I searched for more photos and videos of her. From news reports, I learned her name—Liu Lijun, a former UCLA graduate student. Using her name, I found her old papers from her university days in China. That’s when I realized: if she was deported, it’s America’s loss more than hers. Want to guess why?
Just search “Chinese UCLA student Liu Lijun” to find more about her. Here are some links of her getting arrested and unmasked at a UCLA protest and about the US government revoking her student visa and deporting her:
• YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqcTNMMZnfw (her arrest starts at 0:38)
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TJMoe28/videos/visa-revoked/1063491822497572/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dancohentv/reel/DFhq7dZtxly/
• TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/discover/liu-lijun-visa-revoked
• Reddit: Chinese national who organizes Palestine rallies at UCLA just had her visa: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnewsvideo/comments/1j5uwow/chinese_national_who_organizes_palestine_rallies/
• A dozen UCLA current, former students’ visas revoked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEt81Gn8X-U
“Oh, She’s Pretty”—But Wait, What’s This Paper?
While searching for her photos and videos, I discovered Liu Lijun isn’t just strikingly attractive—she’s a published scientist. Her expertise lies in geoscience, specializing in critical and rare earth minerals—the kind America’s tech, defense, and energy industries desperately need, especially since China has restricted exports of these materials to the U.S.
Here are some of her works:
• The key role of volatile-rich magma in the formation of porphyry molybdenum deposits: A case study of the Chalukou deposit, China: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gj.4673
• Genesis of the Baiyangping Cu–Co and Pb–Zn Mineralizations in Lanping Basin, SW China: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/4/2129
• Whether short-lived or prolonged duration of multistage combined magmatic and hydrothermal events in the giant Chalukou porphyry Mo deposit, China: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169136821006028
• Rutile in Amphibolite Facies Metamorphic Rocks: A Rare Example from the East Qinling Orogen, China: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/18/8756
Lastly and most importantly:
• The key role of volatile‐rich magma in the formation of porphyry molybdenum deposits: A case study of the Chalukou deposit, China: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/367341525_The_key_role_of_volatile-rich_magma_in_the_formation_of_porphyry_molybdenum_deposits_A_case_study_of_the_Chalukou_deposit_China
.. important because the last paper includes her headshot:
https://i1.rgstatic.net/ii/profile.image/11431281206454258-1700713058250_Q512/Lijun-Liu-37.jpg
(The last paper is actually the first paper I found because I clicked on her pretty headshot in Google Image search results.)
For comparison, here’s a close-up from a news video of her arrest: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ40qGAvOSpTmxkfGrg-B5m2CfAmWxNHDGrIO0QLMyA8AdVu60WeanTMxzBUOff2I7lvlQ&usqp=CAU
The photos confirm it’s her. In the research headshot, she’s slightly younger, paler, and thinner, with longer hair parted in the middle. In the arrest photo, she’s tanner—likely from Southern California sun—and has gained a bit of weight, which, in my opinion, makes her look healthier and more attractive. She has the same straight hair (but shorter when she’s arrested) that’s parted in the exact same middle, the same nose, same lips, same long droopy ears, and same slightly upturned eyes in both pictures.
Liu, the “pretty protester,” is a rare earths expert—exactly the scientist the U.S. needs as it scrambles to reduce reliance on China for these strategic minerals. As the first author on several papers, she did the heavy lifting. She came to UCLA, a top geoscience school, bringing her expertise from China to the U.S.
America’s Strategic Misstep
My search shifted from “she’s really pretty” to “did the U.S. just deport someone whose expertise is a national priority?”
If reports are accurate, yes, they did.
While the Trump administration touts “protecting national interests” by deporting student protesters, it seems no one checked Liu Lijun’s work. Her knowledge could help America secure domestic rare earth sources, a field where the U.S. is dangerously dependent on China. Instead, ICE may have sent her back to China, where her skills will benefit the global leader in rare earths.
The Irony: America Needs Her More Than She Needs America
Deporting Liu Lijun isn’t just a blunder—it’s America undermining its own strategic goals. The U.S. loses a brilliant mind in a field critical for national security and tech manufacturing. Meanwhile, Liu will thrive. With her expertise, she’ll be welcomed by universities, labs, or companies worldwide that value her skills.
Final Thought
America, you may have fumbled a rare talent. Liu Lijun is exceptional—in her beauty, her brilliance, and her potential to shape industries. Good luck finding another like her. You’ll need it.
someofparts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEQ2KhO6jE4
If the link works, I’ve stumbled on a podcast from anti-Zionist Jews in Israel interviewing a U.S. Jewish anti-Zionist activist.
One of the Israeli hosts talks about having childhood memories from the kibbutz where he grew up, only to learn later that it was built on stolen Palestinian land. As a U.S. citizen who was born in the Jim Crow South, I relate to this guy’s experience so much. Unlearning the racism I was brought up to perpetuate has been one of the major through-lines of my entire life. I rarely hear anyone talk about the damage this sort of thing does to families internally, but I promise you the harm is real and I suspect it is widespread as well.
also, KT Chong – wow, just wow – bless your eagle-eye One of my favorite things about this site and NCap as well are the splendid comments. So often I learn as much from comments as I do from the headline posts themselves. Your comment was one of those times.
someofparts
M Level – The animus against Russians from the racist crowd is because they are slavs. Slavs are understood to be Nordics who inter-married with Asians and are thus considered racially impure.