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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Jews *are* telling the truth, and no amount of nepo-fascist gaslighting will change that. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...

Jonah Platt
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Imagine for 1 second that you have it wrong and Jews are telling the truth. That the genocide libel is bs. That Hamas are terrorists. That you are being manipulated to desire the removal of Jews from society.

Do you understand if we’re right, that makes you the millions of European and African and Asian friends and neighbors who wiped millions of us off 3 continents just a few decades ago?

What’s more likely - that we, the tiny minority who have been libeled and blamed and persecuted by every society in which we’ve ever lived for centuries, are the bad guys? Or that you, the non-Jewish masses who have hounded and defamed and slaughtered us all over the world over and over and over again, have once again been suckered in by propaganda you unquestioningly latch onto because it gives you a scapegoat to blame for your own problems and sins?

“History repeats itself… except this time! I’m different!” Is essentially what every Jew hater tells themselves. No. You are no different than the Iraqi or Soviet or German or Algerian who turned on their Jewish neighbors the second they got the societal green light. Never in the history of the world has the group persecuting Jews been “on the right side of history.” Not once.

Courage isn’t going with the crowd to hate on us some more. That’s easy. Courage is looking in the mirror, in a history book, at what is happening to Jews in our society, and saying stop this train, I’m getting off.
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July 15, 2025
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Ian on the internet @ianishere.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"What's more anti-semitic, the idea that Jews are normal human beings, just as capable of atrocities as anyone else, or that they are just so inherently unlikable that they are incapable of existing anywhere without being absolutely despised?"

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