• skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    Mitch Webber’s original email to him was essentially “yeah you’re golden, fuck as many minors as you like, just bring them to another state first”. And he still seems to have kept his job at (checks notes) an antisemitism group.

    …what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sex — or transport oneself with the intent to have sex with a minor — into a state in which the age of consent is below eighteen (assuming the minor is above the age of consent in the given state)? And your intuition was right. The answer is that there is no violation of law.”

    Let’s be clear: everyone has a right to be represented by a lawyer in court, and we shouldn’t judge lawyers for defending rapists because they’re literally their job. But that’s not what’s happening here; this is him actively helping Epstein figure out the best way to rape children.

    https://jewishpostandnews.ca/uncategorized/antisemitism-group-keeps-board-member-who-emailed-epstein-on-the-legality-of-transporting-minors-for-sex/

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      23 hours ago

      he still seems to have kept his job at (checks notes) an antisemitism group.

      to be clear, this is a group for prevention of antisemitism and not a group who aims to be antisemitic, right?

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        21 hours ago

        “Antisemitism” has been redefined to mean opposition to the genocide of Palestinians.

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            20 hours ago

            innocent jews still exist.

            Absolutely, and I’d say even the majority. Sadly, the non-innocent ones have just devalued the definition of antisemitism so harshly that it cannot be used anymore without the assumption of bad connotation. I would recommend coming up with a new, more specific term that can’t be used as a genocide shield.

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              Indeed, and the word doesn’t fit anyway. Arabs are a semetic peoples. Bigotry takes many forms, but idk if hating a country’s actions would fit into any of them in an honest definition. It’s not xenophobia to oppose the actions of a government, I don’t know what type of bigotry would even be close.

              Because opposing official actions of a country, is not bigotry. Opposing the actions of a people, is not bigotry under any reasonable definition unless you are opposing it because of whom they are.

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            20 hours ago

            It’s just fucked that in a time where Nick Fuentes is getting mainstream airtime, organizations which claim to fight antisemitism are often more concerned with justifying Gaza.

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              18 hours ago

              there are people like Ben Shapiro that are on the same side as those bastards while emphasizing the “JUDEO” part of “JUDEO-Christian values” which , btw, is a term that has been engineered specifically to exclude islam out of the group of “Abrahamic religions”, and/or to shove jews into the same bucket as the majority when “christian values” would be used instead.

              it’s fucking dog whistles all the way down.

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        22 hours ago

        Ostensibly, yes. As far as I can tell from their entry in influencewatch they also do something called “pro-Israel legal advocacy”, but I don’t know what that is. Either way it’s not a great look having Epstein’s consigliere on board.

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          Legal advocacy for Israel is likely very dark stuff, to name a few possibilities here, the new anti protest laws states passed around 2018 deserve mention along with their campaigns to turn the opposition to big money and Israel into domestic terrorists. They have laws on the tamer end that cancel the bill of rights and make it against the law to support the boycott movement. Some just for state contracts, but some go farther, either way it’s punishing 1st amendment protected activity.

          The advocacy can be connected to their pursuit of critics under accusations of supporting terrorism and financing, and advocacy can be pressuring prosecutors, politicians, judges, the media, etc. to take the position that there is a terror angle. At which point they could take all of their assets, arrest everyone tangentially involved, seize those tangential peoples’ assets, get them all fired, could file rico to boot, private or public and expand it out further with a friendly judge.[

          There are also new laws from around 2018 that illegalize protest. These were orchestrated by fossil fuel companies in response to oil project protests and the like mostly. A lot of the more shitholier states passed them. Some, I think AZ might be one, it was reported in the Intercept I could find it, make organizers responsible for anything and everything that happens at a protest. There was a lot more to them than that. Impeding critical infrastructure is like a serious felony if not domestic terrorism with it. Chaining yourself to an oil pipeline under construction could see you in prison for life with all of your assets stolen and those of everyone you have any connection to basically. Being told to leave an area and not doing it immediately, or being accused of not doing it, is a serious felony if not terror. They are a further repudiation of the 1st amendment.

          So an Israel protest they could have their own guy punch someone, the organizers could be charged, and face ruinous 100k fines and the like if I recall. It is just built for agents of the groups being accused to create and incident and destroy the organizers, and others involved in the protest. Or blocking a road, crossing the street could get you accused of blocking it and you are a terrorist or at the least a person facing 30 years in prison or whatever and hundreds of thousands in fines.

          I am not sure if the greenpeace rico kangaroo court ruling used these new laws in north dakota, but that is sort of how it will play out. Basically going forward you can’t have any established group sponsor or even endorse a protest.

          Even if the charges don’t stick it’s ruinous to be charged and they know that, and the Israeli superfans are as vicious and capricious as they come, pleasuring in their impunity as the chosen people (of the US Government,) that are above law and given absolute power over American politics. A notion only we dispute.

          https://theintercept.com/2019/08/19/oil-lobby-pipeline-protests/ Same issue different article than I read, search engines don’t try to find what you ask anymore they give you one close, maybe, from the publication you are asking. Problem started for me in 2021 before that it worked I could find any article with knowledge from memory.

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          Israel is pretty antisemitic. They kill lots of semitic arabs. And pro-israel groups tend to condone or excuse all that semite-killing, which is pretty antisemitic.