Professor of Religion @TempleUniv. designer of guitar effects. Jew. Glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.
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Mark Leuchter retweeted
What if… singing fuck the Arabs and tearing down a Palestinian flag is reprehensible AND watching someone scream “I’m not a Jew!” in order to stop getting beaten up IN EUROPE, understandably triggers the hell out of any Jew. What if… two things are true at the same time?
Pursuant to an earlier post. Dismissing what the evidence clearly reveals because it challenges a preferred sociopolitical narrative is intellectually disingenuous and extremely dangerous.
Here is one of the pogromists.
He explicitly says he is going on a Jew hunt and curses the Jews.
Jews. Not ‘Maccabi Tel Aviv fans’. Not even ‘Israelis’. Jews.
Shame on every single person who denied that this was an antisemitic attack. Shame on every single person who positioned it as ‘football hooliganism’.
Hang your heads.
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Our goal should not be pushing a narrative from a zero-sum triumphalist perspective, but shedding light on dangerous conditions in as responsible a way as possible. The goal must be to make things better, as much as is within our meager power to bring to fruition. 11/11
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If someone with an expertise in studying violence and extremism in the Netherlands has good reason to question the veracity of a piece of evidence, it is a matter of intellectual and moral responsibility to take that position seriously. 10/
One final thing. In this era of suspicion, confusion, misinformation and propaganda to which ALL of us are vulnerable, it is essential to trust the expertise of researchers who know the detailed textures of an area of study better than most of us…9/
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But we should not cling to and use questionable material in clarifying what is happening irrespective of the case we are making or the problems we seek to call out. An accurate narrative will emerge without resorting to that even if it appears to “help” our case. 8/
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It reminds me of the Dagestan airport crisis last year, where crowds flooded the terminal trying to hunt down Jews for the purpose of lynching them. This was among countless other incidents of antisemitic violence of various sorts (which I have personally experienced as well). 7/
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As such, I am going to delete my original post that might contribute contested and questionable details to a narrative that is still unfolding. Common sense moves me to still see this as part of a larger trend of antisemitic violence…6/
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Yet while it makes sense to me to classify this indeed as a type of pogrom, I realize that we live in a cultural ecosystem where narratives on digital media quickly become canonical without sufficient critical scrutiny. 5/
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What had happened, to my mind, still cannot be dismissed as common post-game “hooliganism”. The reports I’ve encountered are of people being pursued with weapons meant to inflict death blows. It’s not a common drunken street brawl. 4/
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I have been privy to other information from people I have known for decades and trust who have close relatives and friends on the scene; their reports are credible and point to terrifying violence against Jews throughout the city. I have no reason to doubt them. 3/
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In light of this observation, I am re-examining the information I had regarding those WhatsApp exchanges. This is not because I doubt that the mobs hunting down Jews were coordinating with each other, but because the seriousness of this situation demands critical caution 2/
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Earlier today I posted that WhatsApp chats from the perpetrators of the attack on Jews in Amsterdam demonstrated coordination. An academic expert on violence and extremism in the Netherlands drew my attention to problems with that dimension of the account 1/
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This week, Dr. Mark Leuchter (@MarkLeuchter) joins Jordan Jones to discuss one of the Hebrew Bible's most famous tribes: the Levites. Join us as we walk through the history, origins, and identity of the Levites. youtube.com/watch?v=QkVTRWTn…
I don’t really know who Jake Paul is, but after seeing some footage of Tyson in training, I suspect that after Nov 15th I’ll have to say I don’t know who Jake Paul was.
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