The video shows Michael Yon making false claims regarding so-called “terrorists coming across the border being funded by Jewish money.” Yon was speaking at a “Take Back Our Border” convoy in Texas.
In the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, the man can be heard claiming that HIAS, a global Jewish nonprofit that works to protect refugees, is responsible for funding terrorists coming to America.
The only part that surprises me about this is that the convoy isn’t called “Take Back Are Country.”
these morons just need someone to hate, 24/7
Calling Weird Al: There’s a Queen parody to be had here.
Weird Al doesn’t do mean spirited parody. Let me clarify, he doesn’t use his music to tear someone else down.
However, there are plenty of other artists who would be happy to make such a song.
I’m getting worried.
I planned a vacation to TX for my birthday in early April, because it happens to coincide with the eclipse, and Dallas will be one of the best places to view it from.
So, since I had a lot of points to splurge on, I extended the vacation a bit and we’re going to fly into Houston, hang there for a bit, then spend my birthday weekend in Austin, then Dallas for the eclipse, and back down to Houston to fly home.
Lots of stuff I want to do in each city, and I know the cities are generally lean a bit more liberal, but I’m getting more concerned each day about actually spending my birthday and a monumental celestial event inside an actual civil war.
I live on the border, and you really don’t need to worry unless you’re pregnant.
You’ll be fine. The average Texan isn’t even aware of this stupid shit and the cities you listed are way more left-leaning than a small town in whatever state you’re from.
This is a few hundred idiots in a state with a population of 30 million people. I saw more people at Costco yesterday.
Some articles have misrepresented it as 1,000 people, but that was a concert in Dripping Springs, a small town outside of Austin (not the border) with Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin. 1,000 people turning out for a musician with Top 40 hits is actually a very poor turnout for being near a city with 1,000,000 people.
This is all just media hype. Edit to add: And politician hype. I’m not sure which one I’m angrier at. They both suck for trying to “make fetch happen.”
I cancelled my trip for the eclipse. Why mess with texas?
Your first mistake was planning to go to Texas.
Unless some kind of armed violence and wide scale conflict actually breaks out, you’ll be perfectly fine. Especially in the cities, most of those people are just as aghast as you.
I feel like we need to stop using the term antisemitism and split it into two categories. You have the Nazi’s hate speech vs the Israeli government wants to justify killing Palestinian children.
You literally have to read the articles to figure out in which way it’s being used.
And I really wish the Israeli government would stop making me feel I need this distinction.
The confusion around the word antisemitism right now is quite deliberate.
I agree fully it’s a political tactic.
No, we don’t need to split it into two categories because only one of those is antisemitism. If there were an organization of Latino Americans, even a powerful one, who announced that anyone who doesn’t support Mexico’s war against the cartels is racist, no one would say that there are two kinds of anti-Latino racism. There’s racism and then there’s bullshit that a group might claim is racism but isn’t.
(Sorry, I know that’s not a 1:1 example, but I can’t think of an equivalent one to make my point. I think my point still stands.)
No, I get you. I even agree with you. Unfortunately it’s being used both ways, and I honestly think it would help to differentiate the two, because it’s being diluted by the people that need protection from it the most.
I am one of those people and as a Jew I cannot disagree more. People need to know what is and is not bigotry against Jews. They need to know the difference between calling out Israel for its genocide and blaming an American Jew for that genocide. It is absolutely vital for people to understand that there is nothing antisemitic about criticizing Israel because it is vital for people to understand that American Jews are not Israelis. You have no idea how many people essentially consider us to be foreigners in our own homelands. On my mother’s side, my Jewish ancestors go back to the 19th century. Many decades before Israel even existed. I have absolutely no affiliation or association with Israel. I am American. I was born in Indiana. I’m completely steeped in American culture. I know almost no Hebrew or Yiddish. And yet so many people, both pro-Israeli and anti-Israeli assume that because I am a Jew, I must hold allegiance to Israel. And a big reason for that is because Israel wants it that way. What you are suggesting still gives them what they want.
The number of American Jews I know that are backing Israel in this are not insignificant. There’s a lot of I stand with Israel out there It like to throw around anti-Semitism when people disagree with them.
The muddying of the term is deliberate and political. And I agree that it is important that people know the difference, which is why I’m against leaving it muddied. If you walk up to a thousand people screaming it’s anti-Semitism and scream back at them that’s not anti-Semitism there’s no movement. You’re telling them that you don’t think what they’re doing is right and they’re telling you you’re a Nazi.
How do you fix that?
People used to claim all kinds of things like blackface weren’t racist when they are racist. Meanwhile, there are black writers who claim hip hop is racist., which implies that you’re a racist if you listen to it. Such writers are wrong and ‘but they’re black’ is not a justification. Blackface is racist because it’s white people pretending to be black. Hip hop is not racist because it is part of black culture. And the way you fix that is you keep insisting one thing is bigotry and the other isn’t. Which is why people do not accept blackface today but do accept hip hop.
You have a fairly large group of people here that are making every argument possible to validate genocide. If someone calls me a racist for listening to hip hop there’s nothing really hurt in the balance. The one person in a minority view or even the 000 1% wouldn’t bother me.
25% of the Jews I know on social media are still flying the I stand with Israel flag. These are not normally sociopaths. If you get into an argument with them they say you just don’t get it they did this and they did that and they do this and they do that. They start quoting scripture, You say yeah but none of that validates genocide, then they change their argument back to what are the white man do to the Indians.
The term anti-Semitic is being flown as a flag and watered down. I think it would be useful to have a secondary term that means I’m against supporting the genocide of Palestine.
25% of the Jews I know on social media are still flying the I stand with Israel flag.
How many Jews do you know and how many of that 25% claim that any criticism of Israel is antisemitism? Because otherwise, I’m not sure why that’s relevant.
Most of the American Jews I know have been protesting against Israel.
Most here too, The most isn’t a very comfortable number.
I think what they’re saying is, there does NOT need to be a distinction because those claiming it means anything anti-Israel … are wrong. Pure and simple.
It does not need clarifying from the perspective of people saying antisemitism. It needs clarification in that the morons who insist anti-Israel is antisemitic need to be slapped across the face, because they’re wrong.
The muddying of the term is a political attack. How do you stop that? You tell them they’re wrong they tell you you’re a fascist?
And if you ask what exactly a fascist is, they mumble some shit about woke leftists.
The dumbing down of people all over the world will be what kills us all.
While your post isn’t wrong, it’s not suggesting anything to help.
I have tried multiple ways to talk to my son about this stuff, and the only thing that works is we just don’t talk about this stuff.
I can’t force people to see truth. Nobody can.
I’m shocked
These people don’t know whether to hate or love Jews depending on what their talking heads told them that morning
They generally hate Jews unless Fox News tells them that Arabs are scarier.
When it’s not involving Arabs, then Jews are scarier.
I don’t quite understand the hierarchy of fear that’s so present in these communities though, but I assume there’s sub gradations within the groups like an Israeli Jew isn’t as bad as a wall street Jew and a wall street Jew is scarier than a Mexican but not a taxi driver?
I’m probably not racist enough to grasp the nuances of their thinking but I’m among the scary people so I try to catalogue where I am in the moment on the hate scale LoL. Rising the ranks quickly is my current experience…
For many of them the role Israel plays in their eschatological fantasies drives a lot of that complication and nuance.
Been hearing about terrorism in the US for years. Why are they all homegrown?
Oh this is good.
Maybe we’ll see some of that censorship put to good use, now.
Anti-immigration hysteria? Check. Anti-semitic conspiracies? Check. Now all they is some anti-black dog whistles to hit the trifecta. The odds are looking pretty good.
It’s like a horrible game of Bigot Bingo
There must have been at least one confederate flag at this shindig.
Well there’s a shock.
Who’s funding *this *rally??
putin. As usual.
Stupidity
The money that should’ve gone to teachers
Ugh. That’s funding is going to last forever.
The asshole who tells you that you just need to work harder to get that $2 raise, after purchasing himself a new super truck with the money he definitely earned by working hard.
How does a group “descend” to a position they never left. That’s like saying these conservative shitstains “descended” into racism and xenophobia. They are conservatives FFS!
I think it’s funny how the starting point was they’re christian nationalist secessionist traitors but OP’s red line is anti-semitism.
It’s pretty common to see in the Jewish culture. They generally really don’t give a shit about anything outside their bubble but when something happens to them they demand they world drops everything to help them or otherwise you’re a piece of shit.
I see where you’re coming from, but in the case of right wing conspiracy theories, “the Joos are secretly controlling the world!” is a common topic of conversation.
Yeah, not saying that isn’t true. These conspiracy kooks are wild. I just grew up in a Jewish community, so being force fed propaganda from the time I was a child got kind of exhausting. Especially when I got older and started to see through it so I think I have more of an averse reaction to it than most people would.
When does free speech descend into incitement?
When black people do it.
See: BLM protests
I disagree with the word “descends.” Aren’t their previous racist and otherwise positions equally low? This is a lateral move not a descent.
Oh, what? No way.
Referring to every brown person as a terrorist is just making the word meaningless
