An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.
I had wondered if Trumps hatred of jews would affect his response to Israel. I guess thats coming up next. Smart pick, zionists.
Doubtful. Even the Nazis back then wouldn’t have had a problem with Israel-- ethnostates are kind of their thing.
The religious right needs a Jewish state of Israel to exist, too, so they’re not going to let Trump fuck that up
Exactly. The religious nutjobs love Israel to fulfill their doomsday prophecies. The white supremacists love Israel so they can have somewhere to deport all the US Jews to.
Note how they deliberately conflate Judaism with Zionism? To a white supremacist, a Jew can never really be a true American. They’ll always have some intrinsic loyalty to the state of Israel. To a white supremacist, deporting a US-born Jew to Israel isn’t a crime at all; it’s just sending them home.
There is nothing Israel loves more than antisemites.
Can you imagine how happy Israel would be if Trump deported 8 million Jewish people to Israel to colonize Palestine?
Israel thrives off the illusion that Jews need to create an ethnostate because they would not be safe elsewhere. Which is very much motivated by you guessed it, Israel. Which is a prime sponsor of antisemitic right wing parties world wide.