Churches, pro-life centers attacked as Supreme Court abortion ruling looms
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202...e-court-a/
INTRO: Pro-life pregnancy centers and churches are being firebombed, attacked and vandalized as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the future of legalized abortion in America.
Police in Amherst, New York, are investigating a fire that gutted a CompassCare pregnancy center Tuesday in what leaders of the pro-life organization decried as a politically motivated attack less than a month after a May 8 arson attempt at a Right to Life center in Keizer, Oregon.
In other incidents, vandals have sprayed blood-red paint and posted graffiti threats on the walls of pro-life pregnancy centers in the District of Columbia, Washington state, Maryland, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Texas since the leak last month of a draft majority opinion that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationally.
According to a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops report, there have been at least 134 arson and vandalism attacks on churches in 35 states and the District since May 2020. The bishops say the number is growing amid intensifying protests at the Supreme Court and near the homes of conservative justices... (MORE - details)
Why Twitter Won’t Ban Its Most Powerful Anti-Semite
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep...-semitism/
EXCERPTS: Yesterday, the supreme leader of Iran posted an anti-Semitic tweet to his nearly 900,000 followers. In the past on the same platform, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied the Holocaust and compared Israel, home of half the world’s Jews, to a “cancerous tumor” that should be “uprooted and destroyed.”
This was, in other words, a normal Wednesday for him. Here’s the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1...1681111041
For those who haven’t already cracked the code here, allow me to translate: “The Jews have always been a plague, even before establishing the fraudulent Jewish regime. Even then, Jewish capitalists were a plague for the whole world.”
What’s happening in this tweet is pretty straightforward. Every anti-Jewish bigot worth their salt has figured out that if they just take classical anti-Semitic libels and replace the word “Jew” with “Zionist,” they can continue being anti-Semitic with few consequences, particularly on social media. [...] Because criticizing Israel is a perfectly legitimate endeavor, but attacking Jews is not, these individuals attempt to disguise their anti-Jewish animus as m ere anti-Israel activism.
[...] The silly substitution of “Zionist” for “Jew” assumes that the audience is stupid and will not figure out what the anti-Semite is up to. When it comes to Twitter, that assumption appears to be correct. But while social-media companies may not care about this bigotry and how it manifests itself, we should... (MORE - missing details)
RELATED (scivillage): YouTube restricts violent hate speech, except Jihadist antisemitism
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/202...e-court-a/
INTRO: Pro-life pregnancy centers and churches are being firebombed, attacked and vandalized as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on the future of legalized abortion in America.
Police in Amherst, New York, are investigating a fire that gutted a CompassCare pregnancy center Tuesday in what leaders of the pro-life organization decried as a politically motivated attack less than a month after a May 8 arson attempt at a Right to Life center in Keizer, Oregon.
In other incidents, vandals have sprayed blood-red paint and posted graffiti threats on the walls of pro-life pregnancy centers in the District of Columbia, Washington state, Maryland, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Texas since the leak last month of a draft majority opinion that would overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationally.
According to a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops report, there have been at least 134 arson and vandalism attacks on churches in 35 states and the District since May 2020. The bishops say the number is growing amid intensifying protests at the Supreme Court and near the homes of conservative justices... (MORE - details)
Why Twitter Won’t Ban Its Most Powerful Anti-Semite
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/deep...-semitism/
EXCERPTS: Yesterday, the supreme leader of Iran posted an anti-Semitic tweet to his nearly 900,000 followers. In the past on the same platform, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied the Holocaust and compared Israel, home of half the world’s Jews, to a “cancerous tumor” that should be “uprooted and destroyed.”
This was, in other words, a normal Wednesday for him. Here’s the tweet in question: https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1...1681111041
For those who haven’t already cracked the code here, allow me to translate: “The Jews have always been a plague, even before establishing the fraudulent Jewish regime. Even then, Jewish capitalists were a plague for the whole world.”
What’s happening in this tweet is pretty straightforward. Every anti-Jewish bigot worth their salt has figured out that if they just take classical anti-Semitic libels and replace the word “Jew” with “Zionist,” they can continue being anti-Semitic with few consequences, particularly on social media. [...] Because criticizing Israel is a perfectly legitimate endeavor, but attacking Jews is not, these individuals attempt to disguise their anti-Jewish animus as m ere anti-Israel activism.
[...] The silly substitution of “Zionist” for “Jew” assumes that the audience is stupid and will not figure out what the anti-Semite is up to. When it comes to Twitter, that assumption appears to be correct. But while social-media companies may not care about this bigotry and how it manifests itself, we should... (MORE - missing details)
RELATED (scivillage): YouTube restricts violent hate speech, except Jihadist antisemitism