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Antisemitic tropes cited by the Texas synagogue hostage-taker have deep roots

Malik Faisal Akram’s decision to take four hostages at a Texas synagogue left many wondering: Why Colleyville? Why the Beth Israel Congregation?

The 44-year-old British citizen chose the small, tightknit congregation, according to his hostages and those who heard him on the live stream of Saturday services, because he saw it as the closest gathering of Jewish people to a federal facility in Fort Worth where a convicted terrorist was being held.

Akram wanted the release of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman serving an 86-year sentence in federal prison in Fort Worth for trying to kill American soldiers in Afghanistan. And he apparently thought the Jewish worshipers assembled for the Sabbath could make that happen — drawing upon centuries-old antisemitic tropes and conspiracies that Jews secretly control the moves of politicians and manipulate world events to their advantage.

Akram told the assembled that he chose to attack a synagogue because “America only cares about Jewish lives,” according to Beth Israel member Stacey Silverman, who viewed the online Shabbat service.

“He even said at one point that ‘I’m coming to you because I know President Biden will do things for the Jews. I know President Trump will do things for the Jews,’ ” Jeffrey Cohen, one of the hostages, told CNN. Akram “came here, he came to us, he terrorized us, because he believed … these antisemitic tropes that the Jews control everything, and if I go to the Jews, they can pull the strings,” Cohen said.

because he was muslim...

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1. I'll post this here: Woman spits on 8 year old after making anti jewish remarks, New York

They'll catch her fast walking racist ass... nice clear pictures

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2. Great article

We have to "hear" ourselves.

The belief that Jews have too much power over world affairs can also be found on the far-left, Feldman said, particularly when Jewish people are blamed — and at times violently attacked — for actions taken by the government of Israel.

‘Being Jewish and alive shouldn’t be a miracle’: World reacts to Texas synagogue attack
While examples of antisemitic violence attract national attention, “most antisemitism is not violent,” Feldman said. “Most antisemitism crops up in … comments, or slurs, or stereotypes … discrimination and so forth.”

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2. Great article

We have to "hear" ourselves.

The belief that Jews have too much power over world affairs can also be found on the far-left, Feldman said, particularly when Jewish people are blamed — and at times violently attacked — for actions taken by the government of Israel.

"Traditionally", in the US that kind of antisemitic crap came from KKK-scum. But ever since the mid 60s and the Six Day War, antisemitic crap started slithering out of academia, out of the UN, out of Foggy Bottom, even out of KKK-supporting Dem pols, to the point that antisemitic crap is well within the Dem Party mainstream, and has been for at least 1-2 decades.

* Jimmy Carter made his antisemitism clear to those willing to see through his anti-Zionist smokescreen.

* Obama ... the "pastor" of the "church" he and his family attended for a couple decades is a rabid anti-Semite, and Obama had his family sit through all his antisemitic crap. Then as President, Obama poisoned relations with Israel while funding Iran's Israel-targeted nuclear weapons program.

* Ilhan Omar ... Rashida Tlaib ... AOC ...........

The Dem Party is fully Corbynized, and unlike the UK Labour Party, evidences no inclination to clean their antisemitic-manure-filled stable.
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Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

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"Traditionally", in the US that kind of antisemitic crap came from KKK-scum. But ever since the mid 60s and the Six Day War, antisemitic crap started slithering out of academia, out of the UN, out of Foggy Bottom, even out of KKK-supporting Dem pols, to the point that antisemitic crap is well within the Dem Party mainstream, and has been for at least 1-2 decades.

* Jimmy Carter made his antisemitism clear to those willing to see through his anti-Zionist smokescreen.

* Obama ... the "pastor" of the "church" he and his family attended for a couple decades is a rabid anti-Semite, and Obama had his family sit through all his antisemitic crap. Then as President, Obama poisoned relations with Israel while funding Iran's Israel-targeted nuclear weapons program.

* Ilhan Omar ... Rashida Tlaib ... AOC ...........
Don't forget Jesse Jackson (Infamously referred to New York City as "Hymietown"), Al Sharpton (His racist and anti- Semitic rhetoric, including the anti- Semitic slur term "Diamond merchants," helped directly incite the Crown Heights Riots and the Freddy's Fashion Mart incident), Louis Farrakhan (Too many to count), and Hillary "You f@cking Jew b@st@rd" Clinton.