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Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed justified a man driving a vehicle full of explosives into a Jewish preschool by saying, “hurt people hurt people,” and offered a qualified apology months later.
Maybe the fact that Democrats are now breaking ranks over his candidacy is...not shocking?
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
The New York Times has a new piece asking how much of the opposition to Abdul El-Sayed is anti-Muslim. Honestly, some of it is. But some of it isn't, and we shouldn't pretend otherwise.
I don't care what his mother did in Egypt in the 1970s, and it’s not his responsibility what a half-sister he wasn't raised with has posted, including her praise of the 7 October massacres.
But I do care that El Sayed did sign a letter supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in 2012. Pointing out he did that is not bigotry.
When a man drove his truck into a Michigan synagogue with 140 children inside, El-Sayed condemned it, then released a video the next day explaining that 'hurt people hurt people' because the attacker's relatives (Hezbollah members) had been killed in Lebanon. He apologised five months later, during an election campaign, but reminding people what he said at first isn't bigotry either.
He has repeatedly declined to say whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, and when he condemns terror groups like Hamas and the regime in Iran, it tends to come with a 'but.'
We can condemn anti-Muslim sentiment without ignoring antisemitism. It's not hard.
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
So it turns out that Hamas runs a WhatsApp group with all of Gaza’s journalists, where Hamas “managed the discourse and the narrative.”
These outlets have "journalists" in Gaza:
Reuters, AP, NYT, CNN, Wapo, PBS, NPR, BBC, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Drop Site News
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
The French Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark, David Bertolotti, is delighted to take up his post in Denmark and is taking this opportunity to address you in the local language!🇩🇰🇫🇷 – at Copenhagen, Denmark
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
This will be my last comment on this whole Macklemore saga (or maybe not, who knows). In his self-aggrandising statement after he got dumped, he talked about weaponising accusations of antisemitism.
I want to talk about that. First, I don’t think that anyone who dressed up like this and claimed he didn’t know it was a Jewish stereotype gets to talk about what is and isn’t antisemitism. As I’ve said before, antisemitism is not necessarily or merely a hatred of Jewish people, or of all Jewish people. It’s a worldview built on libels about destructive Jewish power.
So this gets me to the second and more fundamental point. My presumption whenever I see someone talking about weaponising accusations of antisemitism is that they are, indeed, antisemites (or Jewhaters if you prefer).
Why? It’s axiomatic for those who proclaim themselves as anti-racists or progressives that minorities get to define what is bigotry targeting themselves. And that those minorities’ lived experience must be listened to and not spoken over. Not only are Jews denied these norms, but they are told that their accusations of bigotry are made in bad faith as a way for them to exploit their power and subjugate others. That’s two lots of double standards right there.
As the brilliant Henry Ergas wrote in The Australian earlier this month in response to Richard Flanagan who used the same tired lazy formulation:
“The goal is simple: to avoid addressing the substance of the charge by impugning the accuser's supposed motives. Critics are presumed to be acting in bad faith, fabricating persecution to advance their political ends. Hatred is thus rebaptised as legitimate criticism, while those who object become accomplices in a secret campaign to stifle debate.
Every attempt to expose antisemitism is therefore just further proof of Jewish deceit, allowing the Jews to be accused of inventing the antisemitism that now mars our national life.”
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Ed Sheeran has now put out a statement. It’s a thoughtful and fair one I think and aligns in part with what I said below.
The moral narcissism of this guy.
People don’t generally pay to go to concerts (certainly not Ed Sheeran ones) to get lectured by a dropkick about geopolitics, and objecting to that doesn’t make them bad people.
It’s like giving a speech about cancer at someone’s wedding and then saying well cancer is more important than your feelings and so it’s my right and duty to give a speech about cancer and if you complain about it you obviously don’t care about cancer. There are layers of logical fallacy here.
As I’ve noted before, sufferers of Israel derangement syndrome think that everybody else should be as deranged as they are, and that those who are not are morally inferior.
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Det er rent ud sagt påfaldende, at Vänsterpartiet i Sverige kan gå frem efter afsløringen af antisemitisme og terrorhyldest hos 33 kandidater
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Vi er til grin for egne penge. Vores universiteter og islam-apologeterne: Disse to kvinder gør sig meget i pseudo-akademisk udenomssnak relateret til de problemer som de er sat i verden for at belyse, hvilket er emner som æresrelateret social kontrol, også kendt som muslimsk kvindeundertrykkelse. Begge kvinder er ansat af danske universiteter og bakkes nu op af landets uddannelses- og forskningsminister, vores universtiter og Djøf, i ligestillingens navn? Universiteterne er efterhånden, også I Danmark, blevet institutioner som nærmest bekæmper egentlig viden. Hvorfor lever vi i omvendt land? Hvor jeg og andre som jeg, der gerne vil tale om problemerne, ikke bliver hørt, men afvist og dæmoniseret, som kontroversielle og hadske typer, hvis ikke andre skældsord, når vi faktisk forsøger at sætte den muslimske kvindeundertrykkelse på dagsordenen?
Det er ulideligt at være vidne til, og endnu værre er at kvinder der faktisk oplever volden og undertrykkelsen, som bliver truet på livet og som skal leve et dobbeltliv, ikke får den hjælp og de løsninger som de fortjener. Vi har stadig kvinder i Danmark der bliver æresdræbt. Er I klar over det kære minister, ledere for vores universiteter og Djøf? Fremmer I undertrykkelsen, i ligestillingens navn?
Det fremgår klart af disse kvinders udtalelser at det er enormt vigtigt for kvinderne at deres religion ikke bliver sat i et dårligt lys, selvom deres religion om nogen har behov for at blive kritiseret. Godt og grundigt. Ikke mindst på vores universiteter.
Deres religion er hovedansvarlig for den æresrelaterede sociale kontrol som kvinderne siger de forsker i. Begge kvinder har brugt deres karriere på at tale udenom netop islams rolle i den sociale kontrol og æresrelaterede konflikter.
RUC-forskeren Bushra Hanif, med muslimsk baggrund, afviser på mediet X sammenhængen imellem islam og social kontrol, hun skriver: “Så kære alle jer der mener, at alle vi muslimer er undertrykte eller begrænset i vores frihed. Kig på mig, jeg er hverken begrænset, undertrykt eller domineret af herskerteknikker. Min forskning peger på, at social kontrol er misbrugt og forældet. Narrativet om den sociale kontrol kan der ikke koges suppe på mere. Mette, inviter mig ind til en snak om min forskning. Magnus, du er også velkommen”. Jeg går udfra at hun med Mette, mener statsministeren?
Måbende, må jeg sige: Denne udtalelse på X er indbegrebet af hvad woke-Danmark har gjort ved niveauet for forskning i Danmark.
Det er ikke længere tid siden end i 2020 at Mattias Tesfaye som integrationsminister måtte fjerne eller trække en RUC-rapport tilbage. Denne handlede netop om social kontrol, og grunden til tilbagetrækkelsen lå netop i det vanvittige indhold i rapporten, med bl.a. forslag om koranundervisning til bekæmpelse af den sociale kontrol.
Bushra Hanif er nu i samarbejde med RUC og Dansk Kvindesamfunds krisecenter igang med en PhD om vold imod kvinder. Alligevel mener Bushra altså at det er forkert at tale om social kontrol. Et begreb hun gerne vil have aflyst, fordi hun ikke selv er undertrykt?
Tråd: Læs videre i kommentarerne.
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Anklagerne om, at chefanklageren ved Den Internationale Straffedomstol, Karim Khan, har begået grov seksuel vold, er så alvorlige og troværdige, at 82 ud af 125 medlemslande har stemt for, at han skal fjernes fra sin post.
Men for antisemitten Francesca Albanese, Enhedslistens store idol, og Sikandar Siddique, lederen af et antisemitisk parti i Danmark, er det selvfølgelig én stor konspiration.
Den muslimske kvinde fra Malaysia, der i et tårevædet interview stod frem og fortalte om de grove seksuelle overgreb, som chefanklageren angiveligt begik mod hende, er intet værd i deres øjne. Det hele handler om Israel.
Der er simpelthen ikke ord for, hvor grænseløst nederdrægtige de her mennesker er.
Sjovt nok har det sædvanlige hylekor af menneskerettighedsentusiaster og fans af international ret og Den Internationale Straffedomstol været bomstille om Khan.
Ikke et ord fra Enhedslisten, Amnesty, Oxfam eller Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke, som ellers ikke laver andet end at tale om, hvor vigtig domstolen og international ret er.
Man skulle mene, at denne historie ville være skabe dyb forargelse hos dem. Åbenbart ikke.
Hykleriet og den selektive bekymring for ofre for seksuel vold er slående. Endnu et eksempel på hvordan moralske korruption i endnu en international institution bliver mødt med tavshed.
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
#warcrimes ICC has just fired chief prosecutor Karim Khan tonight.
Story from AP, which first broke sexual harassment allegations story in 2024.
apnews.com/article/icc-court…
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
🚨Major admission by @pressfreedom. CPJ is finally conducting a full review of its Gaza “journalist” fatality database after Hamas & PIJ themselves exposed many listed “journalists” as their own fighters. Israel said this all along and Hamas/PIJ's own martyr notices proved it.
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
What a classy answer by Australia's Delta Goodrem, in response to a media question about attempts to boycott Israel at Eurovision.
Wishing the best of luck to both Delta and Noam Bettan in the Grand Final tomorrow! 🇮🇱🎙️🇦🇺
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Men du kan godt se, hvad der står på vores t-shirts? Vi demonstrerede midt i Moskva mod USSR og blev overmandet af Komsomol unge, der hev vores banner væk og inddæmmede os. Sammen med RU, DSU og norske unge. Så en lidt anden præmis end Line og de andre ungkommunister
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Intet men. Jeg brød mig ikke om Kirks debatstil, som jeg ikke fandt lødig. Men hans tilgang var baseret på ord, meningsudveksling, debat. At dræbe, fordi man ikke bryder sig om holdninger, åbenbarer en rystende voldsparathed og polarisering og er en demokratisk falliterklæring.
Heidi Højmark Helveg retweeted
Folkedrabsforskere tager til genmæle mod fusket resolution fra IAGS
jpost.com/diaspora/antisemit…
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A German women's club football record attendance of 57,762 at Allianz Arena for FC Bayern Frauen's Bundesliga opener against Bayer Leverkusen today
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I disse år høres ofte anklager om, at nogen er »på den forkerte side af historien«.
Det dækker typisk over en kalorielet, men opstyltet tankegang, som hører hjemme på historiens intellektuelle losseplads, lyder det fra @kurrild i denne kommentar. berlingske.dk/kommentatorer/…