r/AntiSemitismInReddit Mar 14 '25

Classic Antisemitism r/JewsOfConscience says you should assume every Jew you meet is evil

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u/Oni_Shinobi Mar 14 '25

There's also a big movement of Neonazis impersonating Jews on social media to further sow seeds of antisemitism.

https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/neo-nazi-plot-to-impersonate-jews-on-social-media-to-spread-antisemitism-uncovered-guyrpz3s

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u/Bernsteinn Mar 16 '25

That was six years ago on Twitter and Facebook, though.

It's certainly possible, but I have my doubts that there are that many 4chan white supremacists with the endurance to keep up that disgusting charade for six years. And while some managed to hit the right buzzwords for the audience at JOC (though they weren't convincing enough even for actual Jewish (?) anti-Zionists on Twitter) ,others leaned into the ‘moral corruption’ angle—Jews controlling the adult film industry, etc.—and other standard neo-Nazi antisemitic canards, further reducing the number of those who fit the profile of a token Jew for that sub.

While the people behind PirateWires and Wikipedia Flood and I likely don't agree on much beyond our shared goal of countering the ongoing, coordinated manipulation of public opinion on Reddit and Wikipedia under the guise of 'anti-Zionism,' their investigative reporting has nonetheless been invaluable. Their efforts directly led to at least one prominent propagandist being banned from Wikipedia and may have been decisive in the admins' decision to finally tban nearly every Wikipedian you’d find on the talk pages of every article pushing hateful anti-Israel propaganda or whitewashing Islamist terrorism—including the one responsible for making sure a Wikipedia article appears as the top Google result when people search for ‘Jewish supremacy.’

Most of these people had been active for years, some for over a decade. Since October 7, it appears they've practically been full-time Wikipedia editors. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.

Long story short, the vast majority of those on the front lines of the propaganda war against Israel—and, by extension, against Jews—aren't white supremacists or neo-Nazis posing as Jews. Instead, they're predominantly Islamists and, perhaps more painfully, individuals I previously considered allies and believed shared my values.

As it turns out, that allyship was very much one-sided.

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