Pro-Israel group blasted for ‘antisemite of the year’ list featuring Ms. Rachel and leaving off far-right figures

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/stopantisemitism-antisemite-of-the-year-ms-rachel-b2876655.html

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SW42@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 278d (4 replies)

What the actual… Saying that killing children is bad makes you an antisemite. Got it.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 34 pts · 278d

No. Saying killing Palestinian children is bad makes you an antisemite.

Remember… racism.

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 278d

Discrediting the intentions of the Israeli Government is now anti-semitic.

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 278d

Criticizing the Israeli government for any reason makes you an antisemite. Which means I must be antisemitic as fuck.

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 278d

Yeah this is just pr for antisemitism. Not that everything else about zionists wasnt.

underisk@lemmy.ml · 39 pts · 278d (4 replies)

Where does the guy who got on stage during a nationally televised event and did not one, but two Nazi salutes rank on this list?

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 278d (1 reply)

The ADL defended him.

underisk@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 278d

I'd like to nominate the ADL for the antisemite of the year awards.

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 278d

Great friend to the jewish¹ people, basically one himself.

¹diaspora jews are weak, and the holoocaust was justified, and really hitler wasnt such.... Wait where'd the 'translate from hebrew' button go?

mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 278d

but but but he's just autistic he doesn't actually believe that stuff

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 278d (10 replies)

I hope she wins. Nothing says "Don't take me seriously" like pointing at the modern iteration of Sesame Street and screaming "Jew Hater!"

NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 9 pts · 278d (2 replies)

Clearly the fact that she used words when she speaks is a reference to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 278d

Wasn't it Hitler who said

We must secure the existence of all people and a future for young children

Or something near enough? They're basically the same person.

cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 278d

Larping a darker and edgier 21st century fanfic of it though; thats fine.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 5 pts · 278d (6 replies)

Not sure about the Sesame Street part. I swear I’ve seen images of her with Sesame Street characters.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 278d (5 replies)

She's got her own stable of stuffed animal Muppet knock-offs as part of the show. My toddler son is utterly hypnotized by it.

I'm sure there's been some kind of PBS / Ms Rachel crossover at some point. She's also worked with Blippi and a few other notable bigger name YouTube kids show creators.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 5 pts · 278d (3 replies)

Found a whole playlist of videos with “Elmo and Sesame Street”. Does Elmo have some kind of contract where he has to be credited separately when he makes appearances?

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEeIyWKd-HQ7101lg3zuULYsYZo9sBqsW

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d (2 replies)

Sesame Street licensing is crazy.

Certainly possible that there's a fully separate provision for using Elmo specifically, requiring separate credits.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 3 pts · 278d (1 reply)

That article just list different licensees and different types of uses for a license that have occurred. I remember when Elmo was so popular that he outshined the rest of Street.

My generation was the emo Elmo parody.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d

I remember when Elmo was so popular that he outshined the rest of Street.

I mean, there was a toy back in the 90s that was aggressively over hyped. And as Children's Television Workshop was privatized, turning children's programming into a commodity was all that mattered. But Kermit went through the same cycle in the 70s/80s, then fell out of fashion.

hopesdead@startrek.website · 4 pts · 278d

All I really know is she is super popular. I saw an adult dress up as her for Halloween.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d

Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!

SupersonicHail@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 278d

Israel sucks! Fuck em. 

But antisemitism 😭🤡🥴

No. This isnt antisemitism. This is justice.

yeather@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 278d (4 replies)

IIRC they do not reuse finalists, so since Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and a bunch of other people were already finalists in previous years they do not use them again.

Tm12@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 278d (1 reply)

Why not if it’s a yearly award?

yeather@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 278d

No clue, I don’t follow them on twitter and haven’t looked into it further than a tweet they put out explaining why Nick Fuentes wasn’t a finalist.

idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d (1 reply)

That still leaves many millions of people more antisemitic, surely

yeather@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 278d

But how many have a large enough platform to be noticed? My great grandfather might be more antisemitic but he know about 10 people still alive.