I’m being told that the largest Mastodon instance - mastodon.social - is now hiding my profile.
One person telling me it’s because of German obsession with making up antisemitism where there is none.
Anyone who knows my work knows that I platform critical Jewish voices. My MA thesis was on Yiddish & Hebrew, I do memory studies which incl Holocaust studies, and I am co-producing a Jewish podcast by three radical Jews. I’m also a writer for 972mag.
So what’s up Mastodon? Am I too Arab for you?
@ayoub The German authorities, and a whole lot of Germans, even some calling themselves antifascist, have a very twisted image of the post WWII world. And of the past I might add. They focus on one thing, ignoring all other Nazi victims, or even damaging their memory over and over, and are blind to what happens in the world today. It's almost funny to see a German so called antifa interact with anti Zionist Israelis, (or with me for that matter) they cannot find their baring.
@Libby_ yeah I complain about that on this site too, but what I want from this specifically is for the mod(s) who made that decision to clearly state why. If I broke a German law I want to know which post(s) did that. Otherwise I’ll have to conclude it’s because of my background.
@ayoub they owe you that, at least.
@ayoub @Libby_
It's basically because >any< criticism is antisemitism (hm, I guess the concept of Nibelungentreue might fit well), even if you are jewish yourself. You can see the effect of it in german/dach-region spaces like r/de quite well, where accusations of being pro-Hamas or antisemitic get thrown around quickly on related topics.
I only got german sources, but:
News with example: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/antisemitismus-resolution-bundestag-israel-meinung-100.html
which referes to this: https://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/kurzmeldungen-1028310
Hope that helps ^^