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Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn find themselves at the center of increasing antisemitic violence. Just this week, two teenagers chased a frantic Hasidic man down a street.

Anti-Jewish assaults during the preceding months include six assailants beating a 21-year-old Orthodox man as he walked to synagogue on Shabbat in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. According to NYPD statistics, antisemitic crimes surged 400 percent last winter over the previous year, with Brooklyn serving as an epicenter of anti-Jewish hate.

Despite white people comprising the majority of nationwide hate crime offenders, assaults targeting Haredim are primarily perpetrated by racial minorities.

Commenting on this phenomenon, New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a 2020 interview with Haaretz, we cant shy away from the facts that attacks against Jewish residents were committed by young people of color. Comporting with James acknowledgment are results from a 2021 study of more than 3,000 American adults, which found that antisemitic attitudes were higher among minority groups than white respondents.

A Black-Jewish partnership once rooted in shared grievance found itself floundering after Israels victory in its war of defense against Arab neighbors during the Six-Day War. Organizations including the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), whose noble advocacy on behalf of civil rights involved freedom rides and sit-ins, began expressing undercurrents of antisemitism by defending the Palestinian cause and condemning the Zionist Jewish terrorists.

A similar paradigm shift emerged in the shadow of Israels May 2021 war with Hamas and the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, when nationwide protests culminated in a slew of antisemitic attacks. Yet, unlike decades past, narratives surrounding inequality are now popularized through the ideological framework of intersectionality. Its permeation in academic, political, and social media circles renders todays era of antisemitic hostilities far more toxic than previous versions, with organizations like the official Black Lives Matter movement finding common cause with pro-Palestinian extremists and terrorists.

The 1960s-70s saw prominent minority voices, including civil rights activists Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin, vocalizing support for the Jewish people.

In his book, Zionism and the Black Church, founder and CEO of the Institute for Black Solidarity with Israel (IBSI), Dumisani Washington, recounts Kings implicit understanding that the Arab-Israeli conflict could not be reduced to colorism.

In 1975, responding to the growth of antisemitism within Black communities, Randolph and Rustin organized the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee (BASIC). That same year, BASIC placed an ad in The New York Times, signed by over 100 Black leaders, condemning the anti-Jewish blacklist and reaffirming the rights of Israel to exist as a sovereign state.

Yet soon after, mainstream leaders like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton helped anti-Zionism gain a US political foothold. Their hate-mongering involved Jackson remarking that he had an evil feeling when visiting Israel, and referred to Jews as Hymies during a 1984 Washington Post interview. Sharptons eulogy for 7-year-old Gavin Cato following the 1991 Crown Heights riots denounced the neighborhoods apartheid ambulance service, and invoked the diamond merchant libel to describe Jews. Still, Jackson garnered almost seven million votes during his 1988 presidential run, with Sharpton reportedly making over 60 visits to the White House during President Barack Obamas time in office. Despite comparing Jews to termites and blaming them for the evils of racism and slavery, noted antisemite Louis Farrakhans list of admirers consists of former Womens March co-chair Tamika Mallory and celebrities like Nick Cannon.

For their part, organizations like the Jewish Council for Public Affairs backed Sharptons 2020 Virtual March on Washington, and encouraged followers to engage with groups promoting racial justice even if led by those with whom we may disagree. As for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the watchdog group has recently stepped up efforts to address left-wing antisemitism. While offering financial rewards for information on those responsible for the Brooklyn attacks, the organization remains restrained in its rhetoric on the racial makeup of those assaulting Orthodox Jews.

Those who fail to condemn leaders espousing Jew hatred also lend cover to antisemitic criminals, and leave those who are visibly Jewish exposed and vulnerable to attack. Rather than ingratiating themselves with unsavory characters, the Jewish establishment must support minority groups who believe in the IBSIs goals, and must speak the truth about the minority groups committing attacks on Jews. Refusing to speak the truth about their racial background harms all communities.

Following his 2019 article, titled The Moral Case for Israel Annexing the West Bank-and Beyond, Jamaican-born professor of philosophy Jason Hill was censured by DePaul University colleagues and revealed in a Fox News interview that he needs security while walking around the Chicago campus. The ideological debate framing the smear campaign against Hill mirrors the progressive commentary contributing to the rise of antisemitism within Black communities. The gravitational shift from Rustin to Sharpton and Randolph to Farrakhan did not occur in a vacuum. Rather, societys collective commitment to advancing intersectional myths coupled with the Jewish establishments fear of alienating a segment of the Black population is placing Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in the crosshairs of a misguided political pedagogy.

Irit Tratt is a writer who resides in New York. Her work has appeared in The American Spectator, The Jerusalem Post, JNS, and Israel Hayom.

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The video Jordan Peterson made to take a firm stance against "woke moralists" and Twitter has become a viral meme in itself.

The Canadian psychologist was suspended from Twitter recently for a tweet he posted about actor Elliot Page, in which Peterson deadnamed Page. Soon after, he posted a passionate video reply on his Instagram and YouTube channel where he said he'd "rather die" than delete the tweet to get himself back on the platform.

It's now a good job Peterson isn't on Twitter, as a snippet from that 15-minute speech has been adapted and repurposed for a series of memes there.

"Up yours, woke moralists. Let's see who cancels who," Peterson says in the clip, which is doing the rounds online.

The Twitter user @BradenIsBased appears to have been the first person to cut out the short clip and share it. After two days it has had over 5.9 million views and more than 142,000 likes. @BradenIsBased wrote in all caps: "I can't breathe this is the funniest thing I've ever heard," alongside the video.

Thousands of people retweeted it too, with some adding their own spin on it.

A surprising Kermit the Frog spin was put onto the video, as people compared Peterson's voice to that of the famous muppet.

"He really does sound like it Kermit the Frog got radicalized by divorce court," @BradenIsBased wrote, which seemed to inspire many others. @Uncle_authority overlayed the audio of Peterson onto a video of Kermit talking, which gained over 100,000 views.

Journalist Taylor Lorenz also reshared the video, adding the caption: "After posting for the 40th time about keeping the thermostat at 87 degrees."

The Hill Reporter Zack Budryk also found the humor in the video. "This is the exact energy of a kid who tries to use an anime attack on a bully," he wrote.

The faux situations kept on rolling in, using the same video clip. "Me after people find out I microwave my milk before I put it on my cereal," wrote @GrantOB and "Me when the IKEA employee tells me "Ma'am, the toilet is for display purpose only" wrote @LilithLovett.

Other users played with the format a little more. Comedian Dylan Adler performed their own interpretation, channeling Cruella de Vil in his version.

Others added laugh tracks, while some people mocked other bits of the speech.

British comedian Will Sebag-Montefiore held a pretend interview with Peterson, using his impassioned quotes as answers to his questions.

Peterson was given a temporary ban on Twitter earlier this month for writing: "Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician."

That tweet got him banned, but fellow conservative political commentator Dave Rubin also got banned from the platform for sharing a screenshot of Peterson's original tweet.

Jordan Peterson has yet to reply to Newsweek's request for comment.

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The King of Toxic Masculinity. Andrew Tate/Instagram

Former kickboxer and self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate was banned from Facebook, Instagram and TikTok this week. Unfortunately, cancelling him is unlikely to change his fans minds about women and the world.

Few people embody misogyny quite as well as Tate. Theres video evidence of him assaulting his ex-girlfriend, and he often speaks disparagingly about women.

The majority of Tates 4.7 million Instagram followers were young men. What drew them to a worldview like Tates in the first place?

Messages that positively encourage men are thin on the ground in the mainstream media. Jordan Peterson did help fill some of this vacuum, but his message is often tough, urging people to find meaning in hard work and sacrifice. Many men have good reason to suspect that Petersonian work and sacrifice will never be valued by a society that pathologises masculinity.

Unlike Peterson, Tate doesnt deliver theological lectures which many may find hard to follow. He does not preach that sacrifices will be rewarded. Instead, he emphasises physical self-perfection and a domineering attitude, while downplaying the importance of intelligence. (He once made fun of a young boy for reciting pi to 200.)

What could be more appealing to a generation of young men looking for uncomplicated advice on how to be good at life?

These same young men can compare Tate to a feminist zeitgeist that accuses them of oppressing women not just in the present, but throughout history. The feminist answer is for young men to take a backseat and give way to their female peers. In many areas of life, such as higher education, this has already occured. Tate then, is the beneficiary of a culture almost designed to generate resentment in these boys.

Feminists generally fail to consider all the ways in which men may feel powerless. At the same time, women have more choices than ever before. Our culture glorifies conventionally masculine traits in women remember the girlboss? while labelling these same traits in men as toxic. In this perplexing environment, its unclear what the new male role should be.

If Tates popularity signifies anything, it is that some young men want to end this confusion by embracing the rules of the jungle again. In nature, physical strength is essential for victory, and this is exactly what Tate espouses. He is merely offering insecure men who feel invisible a way of being seen. Its no coincidence that depression in men may manifest as anger and aggression.

Lecturing men on how to be less toxic and silencing the few voices that address male hopelessness (however inappropriately) is not going to bring peace between the genders.

If we genuinely want to cultivate a healthy relationship between the sexes, we must acknowledge the pain and confusion men may feel as a result of their ambiguous roles in contemporary society.If more of us were willing to hear them and offer them encouragement, obnoxious figures like Tate would become much less appealing to this generation of lonely young men.

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Earlier today, TikTok banned Andrew Tate, an influencer known for spreading extreme misogyny. Meta and Instagram had done so earlier last week and so did Twitter, after he claimed that rape victims should bear responsibility for their attacks. Other hot takes of Tate include describing women as property, while calling them lazy, and saying they belong inside the house. He might be banned now, but the damage has already been done. Tates reach is unfathomable on TikTok, he has over 11 billion views.

Gods and fathers with a capital G and F have been a cultural fixation myths extol them, and legends uphold their role as the disciplinarians of society. They are patriarchs; men who style themselves after them, represent our most base histories in exclusion, violence, and prejudice. Theyre generally shunned in polite society, but on the Internet, they enjoy cult status. And so, it has come to be that Andrew Tate represents a dangerous father figure for a new generation.

The phenomenon points to an unsettling Internet trend where growing progressivism is met with a scarily effective pushback in the form of the cult of father figures who style themselves as the resistance. In reinforcing the most traditional norms around gender, they validate the supremacy of men and endorse a kind of masculinity that can only exist in tandem with misogyny by putting down women and those existing outside the gender binary.

Although Tate is more openly hateful in his views about women, his popularity lies in the way he instructs young men on how to behave providing them with a ready playbook for several milestones in their lives. Its the same way that another cultural father figure Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson acts as a benevolent patriarch while pitting impressionable people against others who are far more vulnerable.

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These men ply in what they call logic, facts, and histories that the woke left wants us all to forget. They emphasize what they deem to be the natural state of things hierarchies, biological sex, and gender roles. Where Jordan Peterson speaks in vocabulary that sounds right but isnt, Tate is the other side of the same coin that says it like it is. Peterson speaks to disaffected millennial men, validating their prejudices about feminists and serving as a surrogate father figure, wrote Nathan J Robinson, about how our current political landscape has given rise to figures like him.

Petersons rise to cultural prominence especially among men should have been a warning, then, for the way it could potentially pave way for others to succeed him. He frequently attacks social justice discourse as postmodern Marxism (a coinage that itself makes no sense) and is notorious for undermining trans rights, and opposing legislation that upholds them.

In other words, hes the Internets red pill a term that describes a distortion in someones understanding of the world, usually for the worse, and leads to a nihilistic, cruel, and often misogynistic outlook thereafter. The term has its origins in The Matrix, where the protagonist Neo is offered a choice between taking a blue pill, that would allow him to remain content in ignorance, or the red pill, that would show him a life-altering truth about the world. And Andrew Tate, incidentally, preaches to his mostly male followers about escaping the matrix along with giving them pro tips on how to treat women and find masculine communities.

Their influence also spans countries speaking to the lowest common denominator of patriarchy everywhere. Because their worldview is so deceptively simple, it has a wide appeal every society has been born out of unequal social orders, especially along gendered lines, and every society has seen some form of resistance against these arbitrary hierarchies. But the Petersons and the Tates of the world cement an arbitrary connection between the longevity of an ideology, and nature. In other words, because something has been a certain way for a long time, that must make it natural. This, in turn, means that men can reclaim their authority on this basis making the father figures in essence the flag-bearers for a return to a disquieting status quo.

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When Will screamed at Mike and said "I have been a total third wheel all day, it's been miserable," in Stranger Things, I bet everyone who has been the third wheel at some point was able to relate. To see two of your friends in a relationship usually makes us happy.

However, sometimes when there is an issue between them, the usual third-wheeling can take an even more awkward turn. After all, what are you supposed to do?

About a year ago, I had to deal with this situation where two of my friends were struggling to communicate freely in their relationship, causing continued misunderstandings and an overall sense of resentment. When asked, all I could tell them was to have an honest conversation with each other.

What I have learnt from my experience is that your friends will often not listen to you, even if they were the ones asking for your advice in the first place. Since this is an emotionally tumultuous time for them, they might not want to listen to any logic or reason. Thus, it is safest to lend an ear and keep your opinions to yourself.

In such situations, it is important to remember it is not your responsibility to fix things for them, the most you can do is offer a trusted ear and a shoulder to cry on. You may feel like you have to take sides if things get worse, but that only leads to further misunderstandings and blame games. Before you know it, you are now a part of this fight.

In any case if the situation ultimately calls for you to become the mediator, make sure you only do it if they have asked you to do so. Again, this is truly not your responsibility, and what you are doing is out of the goodness of your heart. Try to limit your contribution to making them see each other's points of view, and introducing the concept of reason, at best. If they truly want to proceed with fixing things, they will put in the effort required.

Don't try to be the hero here, it is not going to make things better but rather take a turn in the opposite direction and go downhill. For all parties involved.

You want the best for your friends, but if the worst happens and the relationship ends, try to keep away and allow space for both perspectives. Give them some time to heal from the aftermath.

At the end of the day, you want your friends to be genuinely happy, no matter the state of their involvement. Remember to prioritise your own mental health and wellbeing too.

Angelina Nodee Francis enjoys cracking self-deprecating jokes and running away from her problems. Send her memes at angelinafrancis004@gmail.com

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