Neo-Nazis are showing up at protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream.
Horseshoe. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Politics makes strange bedfellows
Neo-nazis and far right wingnuts have 2 brain cells, and if any one of those scumbags could see beyond their noses they’d know they’re too stupid to have any power.
Proof comes from watching the GOP flush America down the toilet.
… too stupid to have any power.
The American Fascist Party controls the House of Representatives. Their criminal Dear Leader is going to get the nomination to be their candidate for President. And if he doesn’t win, they will respond with violence.
And if he doesn’t win, they will respond with violence.
I sure hope that violence monopoly that the legal government wields can be used for good also. They were a bit lackluster on Jan 6th but perhaps they learned something there.
And the speaker of the House is … ?
Most of them are too stupid to hold power, but there are enough smart but evil ones that it doesn’t matter much.
Unfortunately, it’s already working on people susceptible to that sort of broad, hateful messaging. Eerie to see how easily people are taken over and recruited into the same sort of things that happened up to, during, and after Kristallnacht. And it’s working worldwide. It’s scary to see young people, even 21 year olds, getting arrested for posting threats that they will murder all their Jewish classmates at college. 5:33 in the news: https://youtu.be/K1wP1oPkzok?si=oCg67zMcPucRblaq
People are extremely vulnerable to it, especially without a strong grasp of world history.
They would probably harm the movement more than anything, but otherwise the enemy of my enemy is my ally.
Are you saying Nazis are your allies?
If their goal is to stop Netanyahu and the other genocidal leaders of Israel, then yes.
You know Nazis also despise the left and would do anything to put you in camps if they could. They are not allies. You are falling in the exact trap described by this article, trying to attract leftists on the few subjects they appear to have in common to make the Nazis appear normal or even allies.
I’m not offering to let nazis rule the world, I’m asking for the crowd who wants to stop Israeli’s bombing run and remove Netanyahu from power to be even one person larger.
horrible take. you don’t cooperate with nazis.
When goals align I’ll cooperate with literally anyone. When they are attempting to do what I am doing, there is no discussion. We in that moment become allies.
The only question is if our intended outcomes actually align at all.
Shocking absolutely nobody
Its almost like the far right and the pro palestine people share certain things in common.
Like what?
Pro Palestine people want Palestinian people to be freed from oppression. It doesn’t matter that the people currently oppressing them (most directly anyway) are Jews, it just matters that they are the oppressors.
The far-right (the ones being discussed here anyway that are going to these events and spewing antisemitic crap) hate Jews because they’re Jews. On a different day I’m sure they’d be saying horrible shit about Arabs too.
So, they might have “I don’t like Netanyahu” in common, but that doesn’t really warrant a loaded statement like “It’s almost like the far right and the pro palestine people share certain things in common” now does it
On a different day I’m sure they’d be saying horrible shit about Arabs too.
Hell they’ll start saying it a few sentences later
If anyone thinks this is a unique situation - this has happened so many times. The easiest example is the Nazis, or the “national socialists” because socialism was popular back then so they used the term despite starting with killing union workers and leftists.
Vincent Bevins talks in depth about this in his book If We Burn, where he discusses why (certain) protests fail by going through real life examples of movements that were hijacked by right wing extremists. This is not new or novel, this is going by the playbook on how to fight against movements that ask for justice, peace, more democracy, economic equality, and so forth.
Well, the Nazis didn’t just randomly co-opt that term, they were the result of a merger of two different political parties, one far right and the other far right but with some ✨ socialist characteristics ✨ (if you’re ethnically German). On the Night of the Long Knives, all of the socialist-leaning elements of the new NSDAP were murdered in cold blood by the SS.
I think it would be a good look to balance pro-Palestine demonstrations with anti-Nazi symbolism.
Would be funny to watch ‘journalists’ report on the Nazis in a protest when there are more people with anti-Nazi gear.
Couldn’t they just report that Nazis and anti-Nazis are pro-Palestine?
That’d be a pretty weird report, but sure.
They can report anything.
I’m not sure what would be weird about it if it was what literally happening. How would you report it?
It is kind of funny to see the nazis who hate muslims more than jews and those who hate jews more than muslims go against each other
