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Incredible research, thank you for pulling this together. I knew about a few of these examples but it's really powerful to see them all laid out together like this.

"“left” and “right” constitute the modern Hegelian “thesis” and “antithesis” to achieve a singular agenda" - this is really the crux of things. I have been thinking more and more of this phenomenon where right-wing extremism is finding different creative ways to a) veil itself into a liberal/leftist garb and try to reach left-leaning audiences through literal subterfuge or b) smear actual left-leaning entities as 'secretly Nazi', 'covertly right wing' or whatever. It's by far the most interesting part of their overall strategy, which on the whole is very blunt and unsubtle, so this is additionally fascinating. I am not aware of the left ever pulling those types of tricks. In general the left seems a lot more naïve in how it approaches political discourse. (By the left I mean actual left-leaning people, not the US democratic party which really isn't very leftist at all, in fact they are pulling the same types of tricks as the extreme right, trying to masquerade as 'the left' while in truth being center right at best).

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Exceedingly glad to hear my compilation is well-received, Lidija. And concurred: right now there indeed is an "alt-right" effort to in infiltrate the pro-Palestine movement which ostensibly serves Zionazi ends of smearing human rights activists by association-fallaciously linking them to neo-Nazis. As to establishment pseudo-leftists like the ADL, I am relatively certain they have a hand in this infiltration scheme.

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Makes sense. I guess we have to get good at spotting them and calling them out.

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Absolutely agreed -- the real trick is recognizing the "core" substance of Zionazi propaganda to avoid accidentally propagating it from the "other side." For example, when they abuse Old Testament passages on Amalek to justify war crimes, don't fall into the trap of blaming the Hebrew Bible itself for Judeo-Nazism. A pattern I notice now and then is that too much of the pro-Palestine movement can get easily baited into believing the "root" lies behind Zionist propaganda.

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For sure. But what do we make of, like, the Rabbis who are claiming it's ok for Jewish soldiers to rape non-Jewish women during war because 'they have the right to satisfy their urges' etc etc? Like of course no religion at its core is about promoting rape, as such. But on the other hand most religions do tend to carry some of these problematic messages that can then be taken out of context to push problematic viewpoints. Like, I feel both of those need to be called out. While, of course, remembering the old adage that 'the devil can quote the bible to suit his own purpose'

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In those cases, the extremist (and probably ultra-Kabbalistic) rabbis are pushing the exact same narrative as neo-Nazis, aka the false notion that "Talmudic law justifies Jewish supremacy." Hopefully you now see the general pattern of how Zionazis and neo-Nazis "dialectically" push the same core lies from "opposite" ends?

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oh yeah. It's pretty fascinating in a gruesome way.

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Excellent 👍

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Thank you, Sean -- much appreciated!

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…to speak out or protest against jewish NAZIS committing GENOCIDE is NOT “anti-semitism” …FUCK HAMAS and FUCK NAZI netanyahu !!! …neither are represent their people

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