No one should be surprised that Anonymous is finally be reported as antisemitic and is turning out to repeat the worst tropes of the Holocaust deniers.
And for good measure, note that Anonymous turns out to be misogynist and talking about "feminazis" -- surprise, surprise, for all those progs who thought Anonymous was just a fabulous tool to raise their women's rights issues around Steubenville.
Anonymous vicious attacked Israel recently, and even the lefty Atlantic had to say, cynically, "the always-classy Anonymous attacked Israel on Holocaust Day" -- which of course was deliberate.
Anonymous always likes to pretend that it's just a loose coalition of hackers, anyone can join for any reason, there is no leader, blah blah.
But not when there are accounts with names like Anonymous Operations and @Anon_Central with 170,000 followers. Of course the "ops" at Anonymous are heavily controlled by the deeply-concealed real leaders of Anonymous who approve ops that might get started "spontaneously" (often with a lot of nudging) and which may "go nowhere" or make their way up the ranks to huge visibility, depending on whether the top cadres of the real echeloned Anonymous cult movement clears it or not -- by which I mean not only retweeting, sometimes with armies of bots -- but killing off the people who propose the ops, sometimes by doxing them and hounding them off Twitter (as ultimately happened with #JusticeSec and #KnightSec around Steubenville, in case you weren't paying attention).
The early forms of Anonymous and 4chan we saw in Second Life were always antisemitic, grossly so, screaming antisemitic slogans, peppering sims with self-replicating textured blocks showing a Jewish man in a yarmulke crying, and combining it with their other slogans of "Pools Closed Due to AIDS" and all the other nonsense. The 4chan idiot who kept hounding me for years would join the open group "Jews in Second Life" and go hopping around naked with the title "Jew in SL" floating over his head and then grief people by prim littering and knocking them with giant dongs and then ultimately crashing the sims. The idea was to get people to hate the group by associating it (falsely) with griefing.
The ideology of antisemitism goes with the ideologies of far right and far left that the leaders of Anonymous in fact embraces.
At any time, any Anon could come forward and say, "Oh, but we repudiate that" or "we condemn that" or "Anon_Central, despite its name, doesn't represent us".
But they don't. That's why whenever you see things like the Anonymous-supported WikiLeaks claiming that obsessively anti-Israel pro-Kremlin provocateur Israel Shamir "doesn't work for us," you have to say, "But do you really disassociate yourselves from him and denounce the kinds of things he is saying and doing?" And the answer is: No.
Some reports indicate that outright antisemitic attacks in real life are falling, although they still remain the highest form of hate crime in America, according to the FBI. Yet if there are less cases of graffiti and hate speech and cemeteries disturbed, it has moved online where it replicates more easily and is so countless that it doesn't really figure in reporting. Every time some people try to object, others are sure to demand space for "legitimate criticism of Israel" -- although such malicious obsessiveness about the Israel/Palestine conflict is like no other on earth, including quite a few with many, many more victims -- starting with Syria and continuing on through Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Russia's North Caucasus.
In any event, what you can read here goes beyond anything that anyone would remotely call "legitimate criticism of Israel". It's vile antisemitism as it has always shown its ugly face, allied with communism, allied with "progressivism" and the left.
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