I don't think Julian Assange meant to leak this

[NuclearDem]

Oopsy poopsy.

[jezebel]

1. I don't get it. What am I missing? nt

[NuclearDem]

2. The (((brackets around a name))) is something Jewish people use online

to break how a particular Neo-Nazi browser extension works to identify Jewish people.

Basically, Assange (or whoever's running that Twitter account) thinks the evil Joos are out to get him.

[jezebel]

4. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. I didn't know that. thanks.

[MohRokTah]

9. Yep, in a single tweet, Wikileaks has now aligned itself with Neo-Nazis. eom

[scscholar]

28. It is interesting that they only released DNC...

emails but removed to release GOPper emails.

[citood]

33. Gop emails are likely reverse...Trump is the outsider

Any such RNC emails would probably support Trump's claims of the system being rigged against him.

[Scuba]

50. They did release a whole bunch of war crime material. Aren't the Republicans still the war party?

[paulkienitz]

125. "Aren't the Republicans still the war party?"

Nowadays, that's a good question. Given how, um, engaged Hillary is in the world's various crises, and what a hands-off attitude Trump takes in comparison (especially if it benefits Putin) toward anyone we aren't already fighting today, that distinction is not at all clear anymore.

[11cents]

35. Not for the first time

Assange has said his critics are all "Jews and sissies." His antisemitism, misogyny, and homophobia are well-attested. He's a fascist.

[George II]

65. And one day, hopefully soon, he'll wear out his welcome in the Ecuadorian Embassy....

....and get kicked out and have to face the real world.

Sad state of affairs, wikileaks' founder is holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy and Edward Snowden holed up in Moscow.

[Marr]

84. It doesn't matter if he grills puppies and eats them on a stick.

It doesn't change the information that's been released one iota. Shooting the messenger is a waste of time.

[TeamPooka]

87. Understanding the messengers motives in okay though right? Or just follow blind?

[Marr]

88. I don't care about the messenger, or their motives.

Both are irrelevant. Unless you're arguing about the veracity of the information they're presenting. If that's not under dispute, I don't see how the messenger matters at all.

[awoke_in_2003]

139. To me it calls his character into question...

and makes me wonder whether the information he released was modified to meet his agenda. Whether he did or didn't doesn't matter now, some people will think it. Fuck him and the Aryan horse he rode in on.

[Maru Kitteh]

148. Assange is a grossly dishonest criminal anti-semite rapist. It matters.

[Marr]

150. It is literally the most basic of logical fallacies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

[whathehell]

101. Not necessarily doubting you, but I'm very surprised at those quotes..

Do you have any links to those quotes? They are quite scary and fascistic

[liberalmike27]

104. What

So Assange believes in corporatism? (Fascist?) I don't think the things you listed make him Fascist, just perhaps bigoted. Bigotry and xenophobia are usually just the tools of fascism.

[Marr]

82. That's quite a leap.

We have several posters here-- people you generally agree with, if I'm not mistaken-- who brazenly showed off their antisemitism at other sites during the primary.

Are they 'aligned with Neo-Nazis', too?

[awoke_in_2003]

138. In a single tweet

I am no longer on the fence about him.

[MADem]

18. Sweet mother of pearl--really?

I have seen that on twitter but I did not know that there was any significance beyond style--I just thought it was trendy/cool or something, and I, being old, wasn't clued in.

DU is such a resource--I've learned something new today.

And I've learned another thing about Assange. smdh.

[lib87]

92. This!

And I didn't know Assange was this nasty. I thought he was just a simple whistle blower.

[TheBlackAdder]

98. Same here. I clicked on this OP to find out what it meant.

[tallahasseedem]

20. Um, what?!?!!!

I had no idea this was even a thing! This is terrible...

[notadmblnd]

112. Looked to me that it was asked as a question by Assange, It was not a statement.

Now here is what I found on the internet about it. Hopefully it will clear up some of the confusion that the OP caused.

What does it mean?

The brackets, known as “echoes”, are a far-right invention, to identify Jewish Twitter users, so that other antisemites can then attack them online. The raising of a rabble is not limited to antisemites – misogynist fury can likewise manifest in epic crowds, virtual-baying. But there is something about ((())) that is uniquely unnerving, the secrecy conferring a sense of a developed and organised network of hate. Jonathan Weisman, deputy Washington editor of the New York Times, described how it played out for him following the publication of his article on Donald Trump. A Twitter user triple bracketed him in a tweet, and he was subjected to a sudden hurricane of abuse, images of concentration camps and death threats that has yet to abate.
Who else uses it?

Old-school white supremacists have new allies: the self-styled alternative right, or “alt-right”, promulgators of online viciousness, much of it racist in theme. They cite the rise of Trump as a key factor in their growing confidence, as well as the refugee crisis. They think of themselves as modern, which, to give them credit, they are, since they have managed to weaponise the internet, turning virtual threats into real-life fear. Their tools are hacking and doxing (publishing personal details, home addresses and other whereabouts, of victims), and often just marshalling huge amounts of hostility on to a single target.
Why are people putting the echo symbol around their own name?

Those who want to show solidarity with Jewish people who have been attacked, and indeed, Jewish people generally. The Twitter user @andrewcb explains: “It’s a bit like the urban legend about the Danish king wearing a yellow star during the occupation.” As the myth has it, King Christian X wore a star in response to Nazi requests that he solve his “Jewish problem”, and all the Danish people followed suit, which led the identifier to become meaningless.

Nothing makes the alt-right angrier than the puckish appropriation of a tag, trope or practice in order to mock it and show solidarity with those it is intended to offend. Reclaiming symbols, words and hashtags isn’t new: recent examples include the #1in5Muslims hashtag, in response to the Sun’s radically unintelligent reading of a poll, and #DistractinglySexy, in which female scientists responded to Tim Hunt’s evaluation of women in his field by tweeting portraits of themselves at work in the lab or outdoors. Those women came in for some incredible abuse – as vilified for objecting to Hunt as he was for his original remark. On the internet, sexism and objecting to sexism are basically interchangeable, in terms of what they cost. But they did it anyway.
So, should you put brackets round your name?

Yes, you should. I’m going to.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2016/jun/12/echoes-beating-the-far-right-two-triple-brackets-at-a-time

[awoke_in_2003]

140. Thank you for the info...

I had heard about the triple brackets, but not read a full explanation.

[2banon]

152. Back in the day ((())) meant a "Call to Action" Alert, or intended as a major "headsup"

Direct Call to Action.

I can't believe this is supposed to be assumed as anti-semitic symbol.

Activists from the start of the internet from my neck of the woods (in the SF Bay Area) used it often and frequently, particularly during the run up to the Iraq War, before then it was the WTO, and all manner of huge events to attend or protest.

Maybe the exclamation point will be next..

[Cha]

23. Oh no.. I didn't know either.. thank you for the explanation, ND.

Like he's out to get Dems?

[Pharaoh]

24. Oh geez...........

are you kidding?

You really believe that?

This is Called shooting the messenger.

[MohRokTah]

36. It's 100% true.

The truth hurts. Wikileaks are Nazis.

[Pharaoh]

38. keep drinking that koolaid

I heard the grape is good.........

[DemocratSinceBirth]

51. "Assange did say a Jewish conspiracy was out to get him."

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-jewish-conspiracy-comments

If you believe anti-semitism is of no moment there is nothing I can do to disabuse you of that notion.

[Ghost Dog]

58. From your link:

Assange denied the allegations in a statement , saying: "Hislop has distorted, invented or misremembered almost every significant claim and phrase. In particular, 'Jewish conspiracy' is completely false, in spirit and in word.

The phrase you place in between quote marks, on the other hand, does not occur in the article.

[awoke_in_2003]

141. hadn't seen that. Thanks. nt

[awoke_in_2003]

142. Or...

it's also called "exposing an anti-Semite". Sorry, I can no longer take this chump seriously.

[Grey Lemercier]

57. thats half correct (unless I am misreading)

Neo nazis started using the (((brackets around a name))) years ago to "identify" a Jew. Then they did develop browser extensions to make it easier. Recently people started using them for many things to confuse and ridicule the nazis as a sort of push back. If that what you meant, I apologise for the misinterpretation.

[Mc Mike]

99. That's what I read, also. It was how they attacked the reporter (Julia Ioffe, GQ)

who did a Melania dRumpf story that dRumpf didn't like. So they mobilized a ton of nazi post-ers to get her

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/339709/journalist-flooded-with-neo-nazi-hate-after-writing-melania-trump-profile/

They used the nazi (((echo))), now some anti-right twitter users are self-tagging with it.

"Known as the “echo,” the symbol consists of three parentheses around a Jewish person’s name, for example, (((Efrem))). According to Mic, the symbol was first introduced in 2014 by a right-wing website The Right Stuff in their podcast called The Daily Shoah, and serves as a bat signal of sorts. Or as a neo-Nazi said to Goldberg, “It’s closed captioning for the Jew blind.”

A Google Chrome browser plugin, known as the “Coincidence Detector,” facilitates the search by automatically placing an echo on Jewish-sounding names and organizations and replacing the word Israel as users browse the web. For example, Israel appears as (((Our Greatest Ally))), and every (((Cohen)))), (((Katz))) and (((Weinberg))) were also sandwiched in parentheses."


http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/news/1.722964


Mel and l'il donnie of course refused to condemn their nazi 'fans', saying that Ioffe is to blame, because her words 'provoked' the nazis.

http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/340872/melania-trump-jewish-journalist-provoked-neo-nazi-death-threats/

Of course, none of the dRumpfenfuhrer's words on the campaign provoked any of the violence his fans have been engaging in.

[alfredo]

100. (((Pat Buchanan)))

[leftynyc]

129. Not quite

It's how someone like pat would identify a Jewish person without calling them a dirty Jew.

[alfredo]

132. He's a dinosaur, a dusty exhibit in a dark corner of a shabby museum.

[leftynyc]

133. Unfortunately

The speech he gave in 1992 that disgusted everyone would have been met with a standing ovation last week.

[alfredo]

134. True. "It was better in the original German." Molly Ivin

[krispos42]

59. Really?

I thought it was to indicate hugging somebody.

I feel old now.

[avaistheone1]

96. We use brackets like these at DU - ALL THE TIME to represent hugs.

Looks like we got a group of peeps here trying to make something out of nothing.

[emulatorloo]

108. Think again. Additionally do DU'ers use 'Tribalist', white-supremist code word for Jews? No.

Article on three brackets:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

[awoke_in_2003]

143. There are none so blind

as those who will not see.

[Eleanors38]

126. Seen the brackets as symbols for wi-fi, transmission sources, and for drum brakes in auto manuals.

[Feeling the Bern]

62. We do? I'm Jewish. Most of the people I know are Jewish.

I have never seen this in my life, and neither have they.

Maybe this Jew is missing something here.

[NuclearDem]

66. Here:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

[Squinch]

102. No, it's a thing. It's a way to counteract a neo nazi effort to harass Jews.

[Adrahil]

123. Harry Enten at 538 has adopted this as a way to push back against the alt-right. NT

[MohRokTah]

3. The Neo-Nazis started tagging people with (((Their name))) to identify Jews and sympathizers of Jews

on forums and Twitter so they could organize harrassment.

In response to fuck up their apps to find these tags, people started putting the ((())) arund their Twitter handles.

That Wikileaks tweet is a dogwhistle for Neo-Nazism.

[emulatorloo]

5. Three brackets, see here:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

[emulatorloo]

6. He's stepped in it now. True colors on display.

[hrmjustin]

7. Tells me all I need to know about wikileaks and Assange.

[emulatorloo]

8. Yes, and this thread needs to go to the greatest page.

Rec it up if you haven't already.

[world wide wally]

10. I think Assange is a Republican troll

Maybe not him personally, but whoever is running that account

[MohRokTah]

11. BREAKING: Wikileaks aligns itself with Neo-Nazis in one tweet!!!!

This is huge news.

[fleabiscuit]

12. WikiLeaks, the Breitbart News for conspiracy theorists. nt

[MattP]

13. He did say a Jewish conspiracy was out to get him

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/mar/01/julian-assange-jewish-conspiracy-comments

[emulatorloo]

15. Thanks for that link.

[MADem]

19. Ugh. What ugliness. nt

[Dawson Leery]

14. Time for Snowden and Assange to face trial.

[dynamo99]

40. for what?

Assange isn't a US citizen, whatever he's done wasn't done in the US. Or are you taking the position that American law rules the world?

[Feeling the Bern]

63. Sentence first, verdict after. Didn't the Queen of Hearts from Through the Looking Glass

teach you anything about proper adjudication of justice?

[mythology]

95. Rape

The little pissant has hidden long enough. I'm taking the radical position that a guy who has been accused of rape shouldn't be allowed to hide until the statute of limitations runs out.

[avaistheone1]

97. It is a phony charge.

[liberalmike27]

105. Far as the Rape Thing

I find it suspicious, that anyone who seems to run afoul of the MIC, gets accused of rape, or worse. See Scott Ritter, of Iraq chemical weapons fame--said there weren't any, and it wasn't what the MIC or Bush wanted to hear. Suddenly he's a rapist, or child molester, my memory fails.

Anyway, an accusation isn't a conviction.

[brush]

151. The poster said "face trial", not face trial in America.

[sarae]

16. K&R!!!

Wow...

[fun n serious]

17. Thank you.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

21. Assange works for Putin. That ought to be enough to convince us he is no good. n/t

[tandot]

22. Disgusting

[annavictorious]

25. Too delicious...Rapey Julian pwns himself

and then insists he was ironically re-appropriating the triple brackets.

Hopefully by tomorrow, he'll be able to come up with a bullshit reason for using the dog whistle term the "tribalist".

In the meantime, Rapey Julian is reassuring all his fanboys that the "Clinton hegemony" is the real danger, not Putin.

[sarae]

26. 4chan Trump trolls are discussing it...

warning: NSFW
http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/82436424/wikileaks-no

[emulatorloo]

27. According to them, tweet's been deleted. But they've got a screen grab of it too.

[sarae]

29. There are some really disturbing comments...

like:

I saw this. If I hadn't seen it before it was deleted, I wouldn't believe it.

We're going to win. We're going to make the West great again. We're even going to meme normies into our fold.

Lmao. WikiLeaks accidentally redpilled itself

They may try to publicly backtrack but once you spot the pattern, there's no going back

>tribalist
just that word enough tells me they knew it means Jews. "the tribe" as they call themselves.

I think this was strategic. And intentional. Assange no doubt knows how much the Jews hate being named. So he did it to tell them, back off, or I'll name you FURTHER. I daresay he is sitting on so much dirty material about so many powerful people. This may even have been aimed at a particular Jew or Jews....

kek the damage control

LITERALLY saying "I-IT'S MERELY A COINCIDENCE, RIGHT!?"

That just means Bernie's main base becomes right-wing bigots overnight.

[emulatorloo]

32. Yep, Cesspool stuff

[Oneironaut]

54. God that site is a piece of shit

Obnoxious memes blasted every five seconds and le-edgy teenagers who forgot to turn off their caps lock key. I forgot how annoying 4Chan really was.

[SunSeeker]

30. K & R for exposure. nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

31. Thoroughly disgusting. But ASSange keeps strange company even in the best of times.

[Sunlei]

34. brackets to target persons to harrass seemed to rise-up from trumps twitter friend the Star-graphic

[Rex]

37. Is he leaking? Drip drip drip.

[Cary]

39. Disgusting

What is this site?

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/82436424/wikileaks-no

WTF?

[dynamo99]

42. 4chan

is a web forum that provides total anonymity and is known for, among other things, outrageous behavior of its denizens, obscenity, hoaxes, and Anonymous. Their .com home page advertises "free nude cams and live sex cams". Now, while I don't have anything in particular against voyerism, porn, or sex cams, this does suggest that one might want to be careful in assigning weight to content that is found there.

[Doctor Jack]

41. I am still very confused

I saw Nate Silver retwetted this story but I have no clue what is going on. The only comment was "Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit".

What does this have to do with politics? What does something apperently about Jewish people have to do with wikileaks? Really what does any of this mean? Pretend I am 10 years old. Explain to me what is going on because i havent got a clue.

[Cary]

43. It means that it's another "conservative" phony scandal

Until the next news cycle

[muriel_volestrangler]

46. Someone at wikileaks wanted to draw attention to Jews, or people in solidarity with Jews,

criticising them. They seemed to think saying "most of our critics are Jewish, or are against hatred of Jews" was a good way of countering them. At best, it looks like "don't pay attention to them, they're Jews or bleeding-heart liberals"; at worst, it's "the evil Jews are out to get Wikileaks!!!".

[emulatorloo]

77. Tweet translation: "Evil Jews Are Criicizing Me and Wikileaks"

It is a radically anti-Semitic tweet. Hope that helps.

[MFM008]

44. hes a nut

wikileeks is nuts.

[Scurrilous]

45. K & R

[BooScout]

47. This doesn't surprise me...

He's a total whack job.

[Petrushka]

48. Oh, dear! I thought putting brackets around someone's name sent ((( hugs ))) to that person.

[giftedgirl77]

53. Lol....

Shit, I'm 38 & had not a clue.

[Petrushka]

55. Thank you for the Lol . . .

. . . I needed that!

(((( giftedgirl77 )))))

[msanthrope]

49. He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026388527

[greatauntoftriplets]

52. Wow. Just wow.

[Loki]

56. They can never keep the mask on forever.

It always slips and shows us the rotting cesspool beneath.

[Grey Lemercier]

60. here is an article (and wikileaks actually posted a 2nd, double down tweet)

Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump

https://heatst.com/politics/wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump/

Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.

However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

break


The (( )) symbol is used by Jews and their supporters to fight back against the anti-semitism of the alt-right.

Many liberals on Twitter who had previously supported Assange were mortified. Brianna Wu kindly showed me the second, double-down tweet of racism from a presumably blind drunk Assange:




By Louise Mensch | 9:25 pm, July 23, 2016
Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.

However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

J A antisemite

The (( )) symbol is used by Jews and their supporters to fight back against the anti-semitism of the alt-right.

Many liberals on Twitter who had previously supported Assange were mortified. Brianna Wu kindly showed me the second, double-down tweet of racism from a presumably blind drunk Assange:

13h
Louise Mensch ✔ @LouiseMensch
@Spacekatgal @dhw @wikileaks @JulianAssange_ did he put up two? I only have a shot of one
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Brianna Wu @Spacekatgal
@LouiseMensch @dhw @wikileaks @JulianAssange_ Here's the follow up. pic.twitter.com/pWb5w7ouSP
2:35 AM - 24 Jul 2016
View image on Twitter
1 1 Retweet 2 2 likes
Not only the denigration of the ((())) symbol but also the use of the term ‘tribalist’ to imply Jews is, of course, base racism, a particular racism that Putin shares.

View image on Twitter
View image on Twitter
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Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD
Holy shit. Holy shit. Holy shit.
1:16 AM - 24 Jul 2016
1,189 1,189 Retweets 1,252 1,252 likes
14h
Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD
The black-rim glasses part is just hilarious. Imagine not knowing about both modern antisemitism and the timeless appeal of Ray-Bans.
Follow
Kelsey D. Atherton @AthertonKD
Are you fucking kidding me https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/756992600574484480 … pic.twitter.com/oDpFA6BMZZ
1:26 AM - 24 Jul 2016
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165 165 Retweets 159 159 likes


When I pointed out the rabid anti-semitism of these tweets Assange/Julian replied to me saying it wasn’t racist:

@LouiseMensch Nonsense. Our critique is of those who are not anti-racists but who are using it as a pro-establishment designator.
On being challenged about not leaking anything against Putin, wikileaks / Assange replied they/he had done so, but linked to a site full of pro-Putin propaganda leaks:

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[emulatorloo]

78. Thank you so much for the link n/t

[riversedge]

61. Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump

Much for including meaning of ((())) and Assange Response tweets:



Wikileaks Posts and Deletes Anti-Semitic Tweet as it Does Putin’s Bidding For Trump

https://heatst.com/politics/wikileaks-posts-and-deletes-anti-semitic-tweet-as-it-does-putins-bidding-for-trump/


By Louise Mensch | 9:25 pm, July 23, 2016

Wikileaks and Julian Assange rode in at the obvious bidding of Vladimir Putin today, to assist Donald Trump, Putin’s candidate, being run by fixer Paul Manafort. As Tim Kaine stunned the world with a mighty speech, Julian Assange tried to release some minor DNC leaks that looked anti-Bernie – although everybody had pretty much figured out that Debbie Wasserman Schulz wasn’t playing fair long ago.

For a long time Putin has been running Wikileaks. His attempt to use them today to release DNC emails was further evidence that Trump is Russia’s pet candidate.


However, Julian Assange, long known to have said many publicly anti-semitic things, and who is widely believed to tweet the @wikileaks account – as a former biographer reported – ruined his day’s press by tweeting and then deleting this amazingly anti-semitic tweet:

J A antisemite

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[msanthrope]

68. He employs a vicious Holocaust denier......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028042165

[Loki]

64. Now I'm beginning to see a link here.

DWS is Jewish. What better way to sow discord in the DNC and among Democrats that to have this provocateur Julian Assange start spewing his anti-Semitic hate and truly do Trump and Putin's work for them. This shit stinks to high heaven and to those who are promoting this spew on this site, fuck you.

[ismnotwasm]

67. Julian Assuage is a pig

Once you start researching him, that's first of all impressions that evolves. A ugly human being.

[nolabear]

69. The internet makes politics global, doesn't it? Incredible times.

I suspect internet security is a field that's hiring.

[runaway hero]

70. The board's neoliberal champ has spoken.

Great, now let's make sure trump doesn't win

[OilemFirchen]

71. Julian Assange is "the board's neoliberal champ"?

That's just weird.

[runaway hero]

74. I was talking about the OP.

the one who wanted to escalate us involvement in syria.

[NuclearDem]

80. Yeah, except not.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027303049

NO NO NO NO FUCK THIS NO NO

First Afghanistan and now fucking Syria!

Hey dumbasses, remember that little mess at the VA you still haven't cleaned up? Maybe you finish taking care of the veterans you have now before you make new ones!

God fucking damn it, do we actually matter to any of you?!

[emulatorloo]

109. Well done, great to see you push back on lies about you n/t

[Loki]

72. Wrong board...

[runaway hero]

73. I was talking about the OP.

[KittyWampus]

75. sad to see some still apologizing for him.

[Mosby]

76. WikiLeaks Jew Hatred

Back in 2011, WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange denied he was antisemitic, after reportedly making some statements that suggested he might just be.

Julian Assange has blamed a number of journalists for a “Jewish” conspiracy against his whistleblowing website, WikiLeaks, according to the editor of Private Eye, Ian Hislop.

In the latest issue of the satirical magazine, Hislop writes that Assange called him on 16 February to complain about an article on Israel Shamir, a WikiLeaks associate in Russia who has denied the Holocaust and has published a string of antisemitic articles.

“He said that I and Private Eye should be ashamed of ourselves for joining in the international conspiracy to smear WikiLeaks,” Hislop writes. “The piece was an obvious attempt to deprive him and his organisation of Jewish support and donations, he said angrily, and he knew perfectly well who had written it. He then named a Fleet Street hack who had nothing to do with it.”

Hislop adds that Assange went on to claim that Private Eye was “part of a conspiracy led by the Guardian which included journalist David Leigh, editor Alan Rusbridger and John Kampfner from Index on Censorship – all of whom ‘are Jewish'”.

“I pointed out that Rusbridger is not actually Jewish, but Assange insisted that he was ‘sort of Jewish’ because he was related to David Leigh (they are brothers-in-law),” writes Hislop.

“When I doubted whether his Jewish conspiracy would stand up against the facts, Assange suddenly conceded the point. ‘Forget the Jewish thing’.”

More at:

http://www.israellycool.com/2016/07/24/wikileaks-jew-hatred/

[msanthrope]

86. Thread on Israel Shamir....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028042165

[revmclaren]

79. K & R for continuing exposure.

Masks are falling off all over during this election.

[emulatorloo]

81. Spin off: Gen Michael Flynn retweeted an anti-Semitic tweet from a wikileaks fan.

Trump ally Michael Flynn sorry for retweet of antisemitic message
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2284823

Content of tweet he retweeted:

"CNN implicated. ‘The USSR is to blame!’ Not anymore, Jews. Not anymore.”

[MrModerate]

83. I suspect he was referring to presumed hipsters . . .

Who have recently adopted the (((echoes))) usage in solidarity with those who were being abused by its use. A sort of digital "I am Spartacus" moment.

Or am I reading too little into Assange's remark?

[emulatorloo]

85. Sorry, doesn't explain away the use of 'Tribalists'

This is a link to David Duke's website.

Jewish Tribalism, Jewish Racism, Israel and Zionism: Dr. David Duke Responds to a Christian Anti-Zionist
http://davidduke.com/jewish-tribalism-jewish-racism-israel-zionism-dr-david-duke-responds-christian-anti-zionist/

I certainly don't want to send site traffic to that White Supremacist's ranting. I just want to point out that 'Tribalism' is another loaded term used by anti-Semites.

[OilemFirchen]

89. Yes. I am an M.O.T.

"Member of the Tribe".

Kinda tough to pin that one on hipsters.

[Scurrilous]

90. Kick

[Dawson Leery]

91. Wikileaks: Hitler approved.

[R B Garr]

93. What a great thread!

[Behind the Aegis]

94. Interesting thread.

I especially like the 'excuse' of "I haven't seen this, so..." and "oh this is another anti-Semitic dog-whistle" being used by those who have used them themselves. Mindboggling!


When the "attacker" is right-wing, or disliked for one reason or another, then suddenly all these "experts" on anti-Semitism emerge, but when other instances happen, those of us who actually do have some expertise in the field, are shouted down as "playing the anti-Semitism card (sometimes the 'Holocaust card')".

[Hestia]

103. Exactly. Doesn't this all seem a bit too manufactured?

Didn't know Putin had co-opted Wikileaks, which is a shame. If he tweets from their account all the time (and he is not above it at all), could it have not been Putin who posted the anti tweets using Assange's account?

If you are going to play the game, you need to understand the nuance.

[Helen Borg]

106. Why all this sudden vitriol against WikiLeaks and Assange?

[emulatorloo]

110. Because majority of DU'ers push back on those who use white-supremacist dog-whistles like

"Tribalist" and use coded-antisemitic neo-Nazi symbols to claim Jews are conspiring against him.

There's always been vitriol on DU towards those who tweet anti-Semitic memes.

[Helen Borg]

119. Righto...

[liberalmike27]

107. Wiki Exposes Hillary's crooked DWS

And suddenly he's anti-semitic and a rapist, without a trial on either.

I'm just amazed that anyone falls for this.

Glad Sanders voters were vindicated--we knew she was cheating all along, and we knew the media was putting narratives in place to help defer the focus on the cheating, and make it look like Sanders campaign problems, instead of corruption at the highest level of the DNC.

And then Hillary embraces it, embraces the corruption by appointing her to the campaign.

[emulatorloo]

111. liberalmike exposes his tolerance for neo-Nazi and white-supremacist code words

Tribalist/Tribalism

Jewish Tribalism, Jewish Racism, Israel and Zionism: Dr. David Duke Responds to a Christian Anti-Zionist
http://davidduke.com/jewish-tribalism-jewish-racism-israel-zionism-dr-david-duke-responds-christian-anti-zionist/

Three brackets:

Why are there triple brackets around names on social media?
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/06/why-are-there-triple-brackets-around-names-social-media

"an anti-Semitic Google plugin which was deleted from the Google store this month. “Coincidence Detector” would search web pages for names that it identified as Jewish and add three brackets to either side of their names.

The extension’s users would then organise online attacks against those highlighted by the plugin. Jonathan Weisman, a journalist at the New York Times, was the target of one such attack and wrote a piece about the harassment in which he said “much of it [came] from self-identified Donald J Trump supporters”.

[avaistheone1]

113. Sorry, but I read the David Duke link and I see no connection to Assange at all.

[emulatorloo]

114. So Wikileaks tweet did not use the code-word "Tribalist" in his tweet?

Very difficult to explain that neo-Nazi code word for Jews away.

[avaistheone1]

116. Tribalist has several different connotations,

so does the use of brackets.

I think you are nitpicking. This attack is nonsensical at best.

[emulatorloo]

117. Enlighten me on the positive uses of these neo-Nazi code words.

I think you are in denial. Your defense of obvious anti-Semitic memes and tropes is naive at best.

I do want to note that I stand corrected on source of tweets. May not be Assange himself but an underling.

[leftynyc]

130. No - the use of 3 brackets

is well known as belonging to nazis who want to identify Jews. Feel free to defend the anti semitic repulsive twit assange all you like but you don't get to make up your own facts.

[liberalmike27]

135. Why Thank You

Anyone running afoul of the MIC, the DHS, or the security state, seems to be immediately labeled a sexual predator.

And no, I don't think the guy hates Jewish people--he's probably not keen about those who disagree with him, or demonize him in the media, but that's incidental to the issue.

I've found you either like being informed about the untoward things going on, or you want it all hidden away, particularly when it makes your corporate candidate look bad. It's tragic Hillary supporters can't accept the wrong that was done, and continue to try to use some kind of kitty toy or the other, to distract. Nope. Not working, and it only makes you look worse, here at the HU. (Hillary Underground)

[leftynyc]

136. Yawwwwwnnnnnn

Defending this misogynist, anti semitic asshole who is hell bent on getting don the con elected. How charming.

[Blue_Tires]

115. FWIW, some teenaged little shit usually mans the official wikileaks twitter

and believe it or not he/she has said much more extreme/outrageous stuff than this, but it flies below the radar...

I'd post some of the juicier examples, but those cowards blocked me long ago...

[Blue_Tires]

118. Wikileaks RTs one of our old favorites:

:large

[avaistheone1]

120. After reading the various links in the postings on this thread, I must say this this thread is

Last edited Tue Jul 26, 2016, 09:24 AM - Edit history (1)

much adieu about absolutely nothing.

Evidently this is a mean-spirited effort to throw mud at Julian Assange with no real evidence. Moreover the know-nothing bully DU echo chamber on this thread is toxic...shame on you!!

[Hissyspit]

122. Yup:

From a Facebook poster:

"The tweet is really easy to misinterpret if you don't spend an inordinate amount of time on Twitter. There's a certain clique of sycophantic journalists who only suck up to politicians lest they lose access (so naturally, they hate Wikileaks for making life so difficult for their benefactors). Many of them have taken to co-opting a neo-Nazi signifier in their handle as a weird show of solidarity. Wikileaks was merely pointing out that by them doing this, the imagery now is more closely related to self-identification in their clique (most who are not Jewish) than the original meaning."

Clumsily done and ill-advised on Wikileaks part, for sure. Assange (apparently) walked into it, as can be seen in the lack of context (an important missing Tweet, for one thing) in the OP.

[Blue_Tires]

121. Another classic: The "Jewish Pro-Censorship Lobby"

[Behind the Aegis]

124. I doubt he cares.

It is obvious some will do anything, and I mean anything, to deny anti-Semitism. So, when something like this comes along, it is no surprise those who rush to say "NO! This is not anti-Semitism!" It may not be "the big picture" but it is certainly part of the canvas. Anti-Semitism is one of those bigotries many have no real issue with and therefore, are selective in their outrage and condemnation.

[leftynyc]

128. Not the first time

he's let his anti semitism get the better of him. The man is repulsive.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2011/03/is_julian_assange_an_anti-semi.html

[Agnosticsherbet]

131. People are putting ((( echoes ))) around their names on Twitter – here’s why

People are putting ((( echoes ))) around their names on Twitter – here’s why
If you’ve been on Twitter lately, you’ve probably noticed people with brackets around their name.
If not, it basically looks like this: ((( Ashitha Nagesh )))
There’s a reason for this – and it’s not immediately obvious.
People are adding the brackets – known as ‘echoes’ – to their names as part of an online anti-racist movement.

Why brackets?
For a while, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites – groups largely now part of the disturbing ‘alt-right’ movement – have been putting three sets of brackets around Jewish people’s surnames on Twitter.
The brackets worked like a dog whistle – other neo-Nazi followers would see it, and send that person a barrage of anti-Semitic abuse. It essentially put a virtual target on Jewish people’s heads.

I am not surprised to learn Julian Assange is a racists anti-semite.

[awoke_in_2003]

137. I used to be on the fence about this guy...

fuck this guy.

[FairWinds]

144. I'm not buying this . .

can't you folks deal with Assange's actual ideas and
actions instead of engaging in character assassination?

If we had had MORE LEAKS in 2002-03 perhaps that
catastrophic war could have been avoided.

And why pick on Assange while giving Petraeus, Clapper,
Libby, Armitage, etc. a TOTALLY FREE PASS.

[msanthrope]

146. It's not character assassination when the depiction of one's character is accurate. nt

[snot]

145. If your enemy brought you truth, would you refuse it?

It's called checks and balances / balance of power – something Madison tried to build into our system.

[NuclearDem]

147. Remind me, which Article deals with foreign espionage as a check on government?