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Heidi Schmidt's avatar

Now, that was funny

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Jonny Goldmaker's avatar

So many great lines, “The BBC has been so biased lately, even Hamas have started paying their TV Licence.”

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Krista Maddiss's avatar

I particularly enjoyed the last couple of lines: "Even psychopaths have their standards."

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Marko Arčabić's avatar

Hehe, love it when you let it rip

You write well being a Jew and all

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Giulia Hunt's avatar

So very funny - and on point, as usual FF!

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Sara Bannerman's avatar

I got into a lengthy argument with one of my favorite authors over the fact that it’s the artists that are doing the most damage. Politicians and members of government can be generally ignored because they’re, well, politicians and members of government. But musicians, painters, authors. They’re the ones that steer the car, and I find it hard to forgive that they’re using their gifts to spread lies and antisemitism. Needless to say that author and I aren’t speaking to each other anymore. I guess we weren’t to begin with. But still! ☝🏻

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Scott Levine's avatar

"If there’s one thing Jewish people should never do it’s adopt an ideology that separates everyone into their own ethnic and religious groups. Or get on a train." -- I want this on a t-shirt.

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Mikel's avatar

It’s spreading. I saw someone in Tesco smashing bottles of Tropicana. The hate has spread to the juice now as well.

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Benji Waterside's avatar

Enlighten me.

Why can't I discuss this in this thread? What if I identify as Jewish? What if I convert, right now? Is one's opinion on a subject more or less valid if they're Jewish? What's your point?

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WayneMC's avatar

Brilliant FF :)

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Oliver Schleicher's avatar

Small correction: Hitler would have definitely ate vegan ice cream, he's the one who started all this animal rights crap in first place!

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Clare Panter's avatar

Love it! 🤣

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Carolyn Jackson's avatar

I thought you had previously said that your mum's family were originally from Lebanon, which is where you get your 'Jewish' look from. You have no Venezualan ancestry, hence you don't look Hispanic.

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Benji Waterside's avatar

Why don't you do a piece about the history of Zionism, from inception til the present day?

Maybe that'll help clear up the confusion.

I don't suppose it occurred to you that simply equating Judaism with Zionism, as you have done throughout the article, is in itself, anti-semitism?

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Sir Lift Aloft's avatar

Are you Jewish? If so, then you should know that Jewish beliefs (like any other religion) are variable, and you are referring to the beliefs of a small portion of Jews. If you are not Jewish, then you should not be explaining Judaism and antisemitism to a Jew.

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Sir Lift Aloft's avatar

Equating Judaism with Zionism is not antisemitism. The vast majority of Jews are Zionists, although some Jews are not. Not taking those Jews into account isn’t antisemitism.

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Benji Waterside's avatar

The vast majority of Jews are atheistic AF.

The actual God-fearing Torah following Jews tend to be the loudest anti-Israel voices in the room.

Any Jewish scholar will point out that the Jews are forbidden from having their own state, for starters.

They are compelled by God himself to live as guests in other cultures.

Just saying 🤔

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EpictitusIsEpic's avatar

I'm not seeing it. Is anyone with glasses just seen as Jewish, in the UK? Your nose isn't that big

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Nathan Woodard's avatar

You're a Jew. Common, man. Seriously? Think about it for a minute. (pause for thought) Second of all, you're just too funny to be 100% gentile. (Unless you were Scottish or Irish...which would be even more unlikely than your current self-identity.) Thirdly, did it ever occur to you that there has to be way more than 15M of us? Perhaps thousands of years of pogroms and other insults to G_d and humanity has resulted in a certain number of jews self identifying as gentiles?? Venezuela you say.....hmmmm lemme think here....so your grandmother immigrates to Venezuela by way of Argentina upon finding herself surrounded by X-Nazis. What to do? :) :) :)

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Terminally_Drifting's avatar

Good take, and if you feel like reading the reason the Monolithic Jew has returned, I write about this in quite an uncompromising and raw way that's bound to hit nerves on both ends of the spectrum:

https://terminaldrift.substack.com/p/the-perpetual-monolithic-jew

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