Is There Really a Huge Spike in Anti-Semitism on X?

/10 Comments/in , /by
In Monday’s New York Times, there was an article (“Elon Musk Has Crossed a Line“) by David Austin Walsh who, perhaps surprisingly given his name, is a postdoc in the “Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism and author of the forthcoming book Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right.”

In an outburst on his platform on Monday, Mr. Musk claimed — without presenting any evidence— that ad revenues on Twitter are down 60 percent “primarily due to pressure on advertisers by @ADL”— the Anti-Defamation League — which he said “has been trying to kill this platform by falsely accusing it & me of being anti-Semitic.”

Greenblatt has acknowledged that the ADL asked advertisers to stop advertising on X when Musk took over, and Musk says it’s never come back.

And as Musk has noted, advertisers (except Bud Light!) are loath to get involved in any controversy.

Musk replied “accurate analysis” to this tweet:

Nawfal’s tweet continued:
an independent assessment by Sprinklr found that hate speech impressions on 𝕏 “to be 0.003% compared to Twitter’s estimate of 0.012%.”
2) Greenblatt clarified that he has never claimed Elon or 𝕏 are anti-Semitic: “I don’t think Twitter as a platform is anti-Semitic.”
3) When Greenblatt was asked by the host (who also identified as Jewish) if he was seeking a position or donation from 𝕏 to the ADL, he took offense to this, called it an anti-semetic trope, almost as if he was trying to cancel him, leaving the host uncomfortable and defensive.
4) Greenblatt claimed ADL is NOT publicly or privately talking to advertisers, BUT shortly after, said, “It is true we did call for a pause back in November, after the acquisition and since then” and in a previous interview he stated “if it remains a hellscape the advertisers won’t take part in [Twitter]”
5) Greenblatt said the ADL is a SMALL non-profit in NY. NOT TRUE. The ADL is an influential organization with over 100 years of history, and according to the ADL’s 2021 tax filings, the organization’s total revenue was $101 million with a balance sheet of $238 million. They ALSO received millions of dollars of indirect government funding via grants to groups in which the ADL has special interests.
6) Greenblatt says the ADL works WITH other social media platforms, including Facebook. We saw in the Politico article that @elonmusk posted that the ADL indirectly CONTROLS what can be posted on Facebook.
7) Greenblatt claimed he doesn’t know what prompted Elon’s tweets, but Elon was clear it was prompted by the 60% drop in advertising from the ADL’s interference, which Greenblatt admitted in the video. Doesn’t seem like the meeting with X CEO Linda Yaccarino went as well as Greenblatt is making it out to be.

Walsh continues:

While the website has long had a reputation as a cesspool for lies, hate speech and a significant neo-Nazi user base, under a former chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey, Twitter had begun to take steps to ban the most provocative and openly racist and antisemitic users. A 2018 report by the ADL noted that 4.2 million antisemitic tweets had been shared or re-shared on the platform in the previous year, before Twitter’s ban on extremist accounts took effect. Mr. Musk largely reversed those policies under the aegis of free speech. Thanks to the reinstatement of extremist accounts — and a new algorithm which prioritizes posts from “verified” users who have forked over $8 a month to the company — X/Twitter now functions as a bullhorn for the most toxic elements of the white nationalist right.

The problem with these numbers (even though he didn’t make the claim that such Tweets have doubled since Musk took over, as the next article claims)  is that the ADL is responsible for tabulating them. Who could doubt that they inflate the numbers by lying or at least by including fact-based tweets? (See below for discussion of examples of fact-based “anti-Semitism.”) Or their numbers may include false flags from anonymous users, perhaps encouraged or even recruited by the ADL. Why get rid of people like James Edwards, Paul Fromm, Tom Sunic, Jared Taylor and me—all of whom made responsible, fact-based tweets—but keep all the anonymous users on, many of whom make over-the-top nutcase comments that feed into the narrative that people who are critical of Jews are conspiracy theorists or mentally ill? It seems obvious that we were removed at the behest of the ADL since they openly brag about their activism on all social media platforms. But of course, it’s never enough. The ADL wants to destroy any hope that X could be profitable.

Here’s another article condemning Musk, again with the numbers propaganda, and notice that both authors call X a “cesspool.” Monday on The Hill, by Arsen Ostrovsky:

Twitter was a cesspool of antisemitic hatred and vitriol long before Elon Musk took over. But now, under his leadership, the newly renamed platform, X, has become an unrestrained free-for-all against Jews, where neo-Nazis and white extremists seemingly run rampant and antisemitism is widespread.

Research shows that since the company’s takeover by Musk in October 2022, the volume of English-language antisemitic tweets has more than doubled.

The last link goes to a report by an organization called Beam which states that it uses the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism for its research. This definition of anti-Semitism clearly includes statements that may well be true and certainly could be made by reasonable people. Here are some of the types of statements said to be anti-Semitic:

  • Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective — such as, especially but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions.

In other words, any claim that Jews as a collective have power in the media, etc. This is outrageous. Where to start with the reams of documentation, much of it available on this website? In fact, the ADL is the prime example of the collective nature of Jewish activism— being essentially an adjunct of the most leftist elements of the Democrat Party which still reliably gets at least 70 percent of Jewish votes and probably well over half its funding. And the Jewish community, including the ADL, do act as a collective on several important issues, the most important of which are support for Israel despite its present reality as a racist, apartheid ethnostate while decrying those same policies in the U.S., and support for replacement-level immigration and refugee policy in the U.S. while calling the use of the term racist and anti-Semitic.

And despite many campaigns by the ADL to raise money off attacking Musk (trust me, I’m on their mailing list), Greenblatt claims that any suggestion the ADL would try to shake down Musk (like they did with Kyrie Irving and the New York Nets) is an “anti-Semitic trope.”

To which Musk replied:

  • Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations.

Are we supposed to think that all Jews in the West are more loyal to the countries they live in than to Israel? How do they know that, given that many Jews living in the West have dual citizenship and all can emigrate to Israel at any time, and given the power of the Israel Lobby with its long record of supporting U.S. wars that benefit Israel at great cost to the U.S. and credible charges of spying on behalf of Israel?

  • Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

Claiming that the “existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” is one thing (I wish we European-descended peoples could have our own ethnostate), but it’s silly to deny that Israel is a racist ethnostate.  Thomas Friedman, an apologist for Israel if ever there was one, has called Israel a Jewish supremacist state, and the current government includes people who proudly proclaim their racism (see “How Democrats Learned to Defend Israel’s Ethnocracy,” by Mitchell Plitnick).

  • Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

It’s reasonable for Americans to be more critical of Israel than other countries given the level of financial, military, and diplomatic support that the U.S. routinely gives it. The U.S. is essentially endorsing whatever Israel does.

  • Using the symbols and images associated with classic antisemitism (e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel) to characterize Israel or Israelis.

The “blood libel” is a reasonable belief given Ariel Toaff’s book on medieval Ashkenazi practices. Indeed, the campaign against Musk is highly reminiscent of the campaign against Prof. Toaff’s book, as described in the above review.

  • Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

Which policies? Being concerned with race and with ethnonational interests? Religious fundamentalists and the ethnonational right are clearly in charge in Israel, to the point that there have been huge protests by liberal Jews—without lessening the pro-Israel activism of the ADL and the rest of the Israel Lobby in the U.S. The above-linked article by Mitchell Plitnick in Mondoweiss makes clear the ethnonational reality of Israel and the massive explicit support it receives from nearly the entire U.S. Congress.

  • Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel.

It’s hard not to hold the Jewish community responsible when one notes the massive support that American Jews give to Israel, without which Israel would likely have been destroyed a long time ago. Support for Israel spans the Jewish-American political spectrum, including neoconservative Jews who have been a powerful force in the Republican Party. Despite some dissenting Jews, support for Israel is a collective project of the American Jewish community because the great bulk of Jewish financial, political and media power is directed at support for Israel.

At a time when any mention of George Soros’s influence (even without noting his Jewish background) and any mention of globalism or the Great Replacement are considered anti-Semitic by Jewish activists, one can be forgiven for supposing that tabulations of anti-Semitism on social media platforms by Jewish activists are nothing more than propaganda. Sort of like trusting Democrats not to cheat on elections.
*   *   *
James Edwards has some highly relevant comments on the ADL, from an article that will soon be out on American Free Press.

The ADL never stops seeking to portray white people as monsters who are always on the verge of lynching a black person or burning down a synagogue, and are only stymied in their efforts by the constant vigilance of the ADL.

More recently, every time President Trump did anything to restrict immigration, the ADL immediately went to court and filed paperwork seeking to have a federal judge declare his efforts unconstitutional—and they almost always got their way. The ADL paints white Americans who oppose mass immigration as “Nazis,” while at the same time defending Israel’s extremely race-based immigration policies.

The ADL is also a gigantic and Orwellian surveillance outfit. Author Matt Taibbi once described Goldman Sachs as a “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.” The ADL does the same thing to truth, freedom, and Christian culture.

Did you know that for decades, when many U.S. Representatives and Senators received letters from “right-wing conservatives,” they would forward the letters to the ADL so they could “keep an eye on” them? Did you know that many newspaper editors across America used to do the same thing? Even more incredibly, PayPal recently gave the ADL access to its database to search for transactions from groups it doesn’t like. This isn’t a secret; PayPal admits it. Every American should be up in arms over this, but nobody seems to even be aware of it.

And finally, it’s pretty clear that Musk isn’t stopping. I wish him well. The ADL is very powerful and they will certainly continue their campaign against him no matter how long it takes and no matter what the cost. From September 8:

10 replies
  1. Heidi
    Heidi says:

    Speaking of HATE:

    Is it the ADL which is actually the “HATE group”?

    Please follow along:

    Jewish organizations say that denying or diminishing the Holocaust is anti-Semitism and, therefore, HATE.

    Yet – YET – these Jewish organizations have often denied or diminished (in concert with Israel and Turkey) the 1915 genocide committed by Turkey against Christian Armenians.

    In fact, these Jewish organizations tried to defeat Armenian Genocide resolutions in Congress, again with Turkey’s and Israel’s urging, This is all well-documented, and no one denies it.

    So, given the above, does that make the ADL and other such groups “HATEFUL” by its own definitions?

    You can easily answer that question for yourself.

    Note:
    Israel, unlike the US and Europe, refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide and sometimes belittles it. Does that, therefore, make Israel HATEFUL? I leave it up to you.

  2. James Clayton
    James Clayton says:

    On hate-enhanced shakedown, arbitrary & capricious persecution, deplatforming, consider that in such times, the majority being fed-up with minority ethnic behavior, keeping a lower profile rather than hysterically discriminating for one’s co-ethnics. Were I a judge, these days, I would want to be particularly patient in cases such as this one here:

    One of the cattle was recently foreclosed upon by his homeowners association run by the usual buckaroos with conflicts-of-interest. Another of those similarly managing his gratification but a former director accepted a deal.
    The former hapless, traumatic-brain-injured disabled American veteran was secretly video recorded by two directors along with their opinion that their neighbor– who lived beside the two of them– was dangerous, that they were frightened of him and his “threats”, just about the only trick such ponies can do for restraining orders. The dominant television station has a long-term relationship with the REALTOR– “who has KTLA on ‘speed dial'”, an HOA “manager” who particularly resembles Reb Greenblatt and the law firm owners have similar interests. The dangerous young man had been video recorded by one of the women– the one who has fired a shotgun to “just to frighten” neighbors, was long-time “like extended family” (“maybe an unrequited love interes”) for many years prior to her own traumatic disability and self-medication. The feature story on the evening news and video included a rant that the woman who made the recording had a “Nigger in the Woodpile” . While not always meaning Kaepernick-coiffed the term, like “bastard” is a trope for many things besides ancestry, big hair, what-have-you. But still, don’t miss https://www.curlcentric.com/why-do-jewish-people-have-curls/

  3. Captainchaos
    Captainchaos says:

    Musk doesn’t give a damn about the 14 Words, he’s just pissy that the Jews are effing with his ad revenue.

    What’s funny is that ZOG is willing to liquidate the perception of its political legitimacy in order to take down Fake Orange Hitler (Trump) instead of Real Hitler. Fire your last bullet when you actually need to, not when you don’t.

  4. Devon
    Devon says:

    They always cry out in pain as they strike you.

    I don’t personally trust Musk but what he’s saying and allowing to be said in the last couple weeks is encouraging!

  5. Bobby
    Bobby says:

    Thanks for writing about this Kevin.

    Like Devon above me, I kinda gave up on Elon. I rarely go on Twitter/X, any longer.

    You have to remember that Elon is South African, so I’m sure he is well aware of who instigated the destruction and the fierce anti-white policies that are now in place there. I think he even talked about. Might be one of the reasons that the ADL is on his case.

    Many platforms, Gab of course we all know, but Substack, I heard also Rumble, and others, are teeming with “anti-Semitic” essays and other types of literature about the tribe and their deeds now and through the ages – gee, I wonder why?!

    A bit off topic, but Eric Striker wrote a great article: “Kaganism: The People Steering Us Into Another World War”. 8/10/23. The Unz Review. He also backs it up with some serious facts.

    Everyone needs to read it. If we let them, the Jews are going to start WWIII and unlike WWII, there are now plenty of nuclear bombs around, plenty, just think Russia, China, and soon Iran. That’s why the Biden Jewish administration just gave Iran $6 Billion bucks.

    It is why I always say, even if everyone tells just one person, just one about Jewish supremacy, we’re getting there, we’re moving forward. They’re so over the top out to destroy the western world that it is starting to become apparent to the masses. Yes we have a long way to go but a lot of hope to hang on to.

    Keep fightin’ the good fight.

  6. Junghans
    Junghans says:

    An excellent article revealing the power and influence of the Jewish oligarchy controlling occupied America. Good work, Kevin!

  7. Wilburn Sprayberry
    Wilburn Sprayberry says:

    Our side is celebrating Musk for confronting & exposing the ADL to the world as a leftist Jewish pressure group for more censorship. OK, great. Maybe it will lead to real changes & improvements that offer us opportunities we can exploit. But so far the only real physical result of this confrontation is an increase in censorship (de-platforming) – by Musk’s X – of some of the last remaining articulate & well-reasoned voices from our side: James Edwards, Kevin MacDonald, & Tom Sunic. Hardly an improvement. Do we (explicitly race-conscious, Jewish-power aware, pro-white whites) have any major figure left on X? Kevin MacDonald himself has described X as our society’s “town square,” for public debate about critical issues directly affecting our future. Yet we have even less presence there now than we did before the Musk-ADL fight began. So sure, celebrate the verbal scolding the ADL is receiving from more mainstream sources than usual – if you think it means anything. I’ll wait & see.

    • Wilburn Sprayberry
      Wilburn Sprayberry says:

      Answering my own question in my previous comment whether there was anyone of our particular persuasion left on X/Twitter: I was pleasantly surprised this morning while listening to Millenial Woes’s guest podcast at counter-currents that he is back on X. I don’t know if he was previously banned or decided to leave voluntarily, but this cheers me up a bit.

    • c matt
      c matt says:

      Well, if what I have read is true, X is soon to be Xed by becoming a fee based service. That will greatly diminish its appeal and claim to be the town square. Gab seems to be a better alternative for the moment. Although it is free of cost as well as much more free of censorship, I will admit it does not seem to function as well as X/twitter. Still, I prefer it, and Torba appears to be more committed to open discussion. And the Noticing memes are absolutely hilarious.

Comments are closed.