I mean it wouldn't be an anti-Musk/Trump protests without fascist propagandists claiming *checks notes* millions of protestors were a paid psy-op (and also, Hamas, apparently.)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/elon-musk-says-saturdays-protesters-were-paid-puppets-thats-not-what-i-saw/

Elon Musk Says Saturday’s Protesters Were Paid “Puppets.” That’s Not What I Saw.

"Musk chimed in on the same video: “The problem is the puppetmasters, not the puppets, as the latter have no idea why they are even there,” he wrote. “He had to read the paper he was given to understand the sign he was holding,” Musk wrote over a video of a protester explaining what his sign—which said “End the kakistocracy”—meant. Musk also shared several posts from the Wall Street Apes account on X, which has more than 929,000 followers, and right-wing influencer Mario Nawfal, who has more than two million followers, alleging—without evidence—that the protesters were paid.

Conspiracy theorist and journalist cosplayer Laura Loomer also alleged that “the radical left is BUSSING IN PROTESTERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY TO CAUSE CHAOS IN WASHINGTON DC” who she claimed were “pro-Hamas,”an apparent reference to the fact that some were holding Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs."

Folks, I don't know who needs to hear that it is feasibly impossible for a "puppet master" (man, he even talks like Goebbels) to pay MILLIONS of protestors, but it is. Please keep in mind that when it comes to Musk, who is literally a fucking nazi, this is the same guy who was accusing George Soros of paying hecklers at his Wisconsin Volkish Revival rally while he was dishing out million dollar checks to voters for "signing a petition" in an effort to buy a judicial election. As for Loomer, I'm pretty sure she also thinks her Uber driver and any particularly "swarthy" person she encounters in public spaces is also "Hamas" if her past social media transgressions are any indication.

The bigger picture here is pretty simple; for whatever the Hands Off protests did, didn't, will, or won't accomplish, if these nazi maggots are scared enough to lie about it with poorly-coordinated conspiracy theories to try and explain it away for the cult of Trump, that means *they* certainly noticed millions of people giving up their Saturday to tell Trump and Musk to get in the fucking sea.

@terryb

I genuinely find it fascinating how people can sit idly by while hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed by the Assad government, while millions in Africa die in terrible wars, while over ten million Uighur are oppressed and killed, while LGBTQ+ folks are sentenced to death (or worse) in many countries, but the only country they express their anger towards is Israel. The only country they express wanting to divest from is Israel.

There are no saints here, nor absolution of Israel for its actions, but I find the double standard of going to the school yard and picking on the smallest kid indicative that maybe it's not injustice that bothers them but (((something else))).

That goes even more so when it's not Israel they're after but "Israel adjacency". That's just antisemitism's 21st century costume.

And that doesn't even touch on BDS's domestic terrorist actions or terrorist links.

@rmischook

Quoting Iris Leal on how Netanyahu and his allies are spreading antisemitic tropes:

Leal writes that #Netanyahu and allies have weaponized antisemitic propaganda against political opponents. Netanyahu stood beside Hungary's Orbán (who declared Soros an "enemy of the state") while his son Yair shared a cartoon depicting Soros as a lizard manipulating Netanyahu's critics—imagery that received praise from neo-Nazis. She argues that while Netanyahu's circle has accused Jewish philanthropists like #Soros and the Wexner Foundation of global conspiracies against Israel, they themselves may have been taking Qatari money.

[…] Soros, according to the right, is not just a political opponent, he also stands behind a global movement undermining the existing order. The speech Netanyahu gave during his visit to Hungary ignored the Hungarians' role in the murder of Jews, and as the Qatar affair explodes in the background with updates every half hour, one could remember György Schwartz, Soros by his familiar name, who was born in Budapest in 1930, and whose family members, as they say, pretended to be Christians during the Nazi occupation and helped save other Jews.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-04-06/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000196-0656-df1e-a1be-667704440000 or https://archive.is/inQm0

@israel
#antisemitism #holocaustdenial

Speaking of cowardice, complicity, and paving the road for fascism, let us not forget that the Trump regime's enabling of an ongoing genocide by Israel in Gaza, their fascist kidnapping spree against student protestors, and their quest to control American universities under the guise of "fighting antisemitism" are built on the back of policies, and in particular ideological justifications, provided by a Democratic Party that picked supporting genocide, hunting down migrants, and building out a police state over winning "the most important election in American history."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/26/universities-columbia-trump

Don’t just blame Trump – Democrats paved the way for this campus crackdown

"For instance, the reason Trump could plausibly refer to Gaza a “demolition site” is because, for more than a year prior to his re-election, his Democratic predecessor (urged on by Schumer and others) supplied unlimited weapons to Israel to carry out a campaign of destruction that has few modern equivalents – a campaign that was not just restricted to Gaza, but also extended to the West Bank, Iran, Yemen, Lebanon and Syria. Biden’s planned successor, Kamala Harris, and her surrogates repeatedly stressed to voters that these policies would continue largely unchanged under her watch.

Even before Trump had a chance to weigh in, Joe Biden immediately characterized the protests at Columbia as “antisemitic” and declared that “order must prevail” on college campuses. Democratic lawmakers put aggressive pressure on the former Columbia University president Minouche Shafik to crush the protests. She ultimately did so with the assistance of New York City’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams (who justified his clampdown via evidence-free statements that the protests were driven primarily by “outside agitators”). Trump celebrated the pictures and videos of students getting roughed up by the NYPDand, upon Trump’s reclaiming the White House, the justice department interceded on behalf of Adams – making his criminal investigation go away in apparent exchange for the mayor adopting a more aggressive posture on immigration – a move that critics claim is a quid pro quo.

In a similar vein, it was Biden who enshrined the IHRA definition of antisemitism into federal guidance, despite the definition’s author repeatedly describing it as a “travesty” to use this definition to regulate speech and behavior. Building on Biden’s introduction, Trump is poised to sign a bill that would implement this same definition into federal anti-discrimination law – and in the meantime, he’s insisting Columbia and other schools adopt this definition in their own codes of conduct. NYU and Harvard have already taken this step, overriding concerns by civil rights and civil liberties organizations – from the ACLU, to Fire and the AAUP, to Israeli civil rights groups – who stressed that IHRA’s definition is extremely vague and provides strong leeway for institutional stakeholders to censor most critical discussion of Israel, Zionism or Judaism more broadly, by Jews and non-Jews alike."

Look, you can criticize me for playing "the blame game" all you like, but every goddamn thing Trump is doing surrounding the US-backed genocide in Gaza, including the domestic installation of fascist ideological policing, was and is facilitated by a Biden administration that was warned all of this - from Trump winning, to deploying War on Terror logic repression on anti-genocide protesters - was on the table if they didn't change course. If you want to know why only fourteen Democrats signed a letter decrying the fascist abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, and only thirty-four Democrat lawmakers signed the letter demanding the release of Rumeysa Ozturk (whose only "crime" appears to be have been writing an op-ed calling for her University to divest from Israel and condemn a genocide) you don't have to look any further than a mainstream Democratic Party leadership class that's fat on AIPAC donations and happily told you student protestors were violent antisemites who endorsed terrorist organizations, demanded colleges take action to suppress the protests, and justified a brutal police crackdown on... college kids who don't want their government to facilitate a genocide. It's kind of hard to criticize all that fascism when your donors love it and you directly made the arguments Trump is using to conduct it, after all.

@bifouba good to know…

with Netanyahu screaming antisemitism every 5 secs, who could forget the Hungarian government’s public enemy number one… ?

#netanyahu is both a #holocaust denier and trades in #antisemitism for profit

@appassionato In view that the Palestinian people are also a semitic people, I've come to the conclusion that the most anti-semitic governement in the world is the Israeli government.

@hannu_ikonen Thank you for sharing that; it’s an excellent piece and I hadn’t seen it.

“#Antisemitism in the U.S. is a real and dangerous phenomenon, most pressingly from the alt-right white-supremacist politics that have become alarmingly mainstream since 2016. To contend against these and other antisemitic forces with clarity and purpose, we must put aside all fabricated and weaponized charges of “antisemitism” that serve to silence criticism of #Israeli policy and its sponsors in the U.S.”