The game of “Jews Scaring Jews” is a viral smash hit! Whoever’s idea it was to take the Penn BDS conference—a conference organized by some university students to discuss a nonviolent tactic in which nobody dies, and a program featuring many Jews—and turn it into something worse than the Holocaust, is genius!
Was it a school prank gone out of control? Was it a social experiment in hysteria? Or perhaps it is just the latest in a line of inane fads—everyone’s doing it, but nobody knows why or who started it—akin to “planking” or “Bros Icing Bros.”
Planking
Bros Icing Bros
Regardless of its origins, the game has escalated, with each contestant attempting to outdo the predecessors in invoking the scariest buzzwords, adjectives, and imagery capable of triggering the deepest depths of Jewish trauma—and then associating that trauma with an upcoming conference at the University of Pennsylvania.
Let’s trace the path of escalation.
StandWithUs got the ball rolling nicely with a December 23, 2011 press release about the Penn BDS conference, deploying the following juicy buzzwords:
bigoted
prejudice
incite hatred
foment bitter divisions
extremists
propaganda
demonize
blatantly racist
blood libels
murder of Jews
bitter divisiveness
hatemongering
hostile
threatening
Then on January 4, 2012, the Jewish Exponent published an editorial against the conference that attempted to convey the same meaning but in a slightly more dignified manner, in keeping with the pretense of being a reputable newspaper purporting to serve its Jewish readership:
insidious
delegitimize
misguided
malicious
pro-Palestinian agenda
anti-Israel rhetoric
end of Israel
blaming Israel
divisiveness
manipulating
destructive
But leave it to David Horowitz’s FrontPage Magazine to leave the others behind in a trail of trauma–triggering adjectives and evocations of genocide, in a January 20 piece:
venom
virulent
hatefest
anti-Semitic
deeply hostile
delegitimize
destabilize
blood on their hands
kill
Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated
push the Jews into the sea
intimidate
physical violence
genocidal logic
systematic ethnic hatred
steeped in hatred and anti-Semitism
pro-jihad
aggressors
hate
What do you do for an encore? On February 1, Sarit Catz, a rookie player from the New Jersey Jewish News, gave it a good try but was ultimately hamstrung by her limited vocabulary:
hatred
bigotry
misinformation
false, false, false, falsely, utterly false
obscene
hateful
anti-Semitic
hate group
racist
political correctness
That last term was a nice touch, though.
On the same day, however, Penn professor Ruben Gur put his PhD to use in an opinion piece that left no doubt about the dark cloud hanging over the University of Pennsylvania:
genocidal
anti-Semitism
Hamas and Hizballah daggers
hateful
blinded by animus
totally negative
Mein Kampf
scheming
deceived
discriminatory
delegitimize
Nazis
Capos
extermination camps
unproductive
Sure, anyone can invoke Hitler (or Willis Carto), but Gur’s real achievement was in the timing. He weaves subtle warning signs (“totally negative,” “unproductive”) in between the real shockers (“Mein Kampf,” “Nazis,” “extermination camps”). And the Jews participating in the conference? My god, they’re “kapos.” That is the sign of a true wordsmith. It’s crying out for an auto-tuned remix.
Jews Scaring Jews: Former champion Alan Dershowitz
will take on the competition on Feb. 2.
Honorable mention goes to David Roberts of the Stonegate Institute. Although Roberts’s submission is largely flavorless, he inserts a real zinger near the end:
The conference…is outspokenly a workshop that intends not only how to wage an economic war-by-other-means against Israel, but also to hand out weapons to with which [sic] to wage it.
That’s right—according to Roberts, they’re handing out weapons at the conference.
The trick to this game is that most of the players are themselves Jewish. They know particularly well how to exploit the fears of fellow Jews with specific buzzwords and exaggerated threats in order to get them to react in a way advantageous to the players’ agenda. It’s a phenomenon that I described in a previous post. Gentiles pretending to alert Jews to a looming threat just wouldn’t have the same air of urgency.
As for the conference—what is it really about? Who cares, bro! It’s “Jews Scaring Jews!”
Can’t wait to see the Dersh, wearing blue and white trunks and dancing like a butterfly, come out swinging tonight at the Hillel meeting! As you show Phan, the competition is fierce!
lol, thanks Phan, you never fail to entertain.
can’t wait for the conference!
Good news. Keep the amen crowd whining and you know they are on their heels.
As you said, BDS is a non-violent tactic , aimed at curbing the real criminal state behavior of Israel and it’s occupation and colonial conquests.
But they’ve missed the intent of BDS. To them it’s another pogram
gaining steam, which any shrink would see as bizarre. The Ruben Gur
piece is awfully strange for a professor:
The “explanation” itself presents a fuzzy “anti-Israel” cloak that barely conceals the Hamas and Hizballah daggers. It will deceive only those who, knowing nothing of the history, cannot tell lies from truth, or who, so blinded by animus against Israel and Jews, are willing to be deceived.
as for jews scaring jews, what could be scarier than idf soldiers attacking peaceful arab and jewish demonstrators in w.b. villages? then there were the false flag operations that israeli agent provacateurs carried out in order to frighten jewish-arabs of several north african countries into fleeing to the zionist entity, not to mention the uptick in worldwide antisemitism attributable to israel’s oppression of the palestinian people. israel & its legions of israel firsters, today’s foremost inciters of antisemitism.
And this is how Palestinian rights becomes a “jewish issue” in America. Might as well have Linda Richman (mike myers from SNL) tell the crowd to “talk amongst yourselves”…..
Just fucking Boycott, enough with the “lets have everyone — Jews– understand where we are coming from” nonsense. Go to a Bed Bath and Beyond and hold signs that say “F Sodastream” (or something) and tell the Zio’s your going to encounter to F themselves.
Go to a trader joe’s and say loudly enough for the person next to you to hear, ” Im definitely NOT buying Tribe Hummus, I dont support Apartheid”
I see any actions like the ones I mentioned as being much more productive than sitting in a auditorium listening to a bunch of american jews talk about BDS, their feelings about BDS, their feelings about “their people” and all the other nonsense that is sure to be ever-present at this “conference”
The only thing that needs to happen at this conference is for Ali Abunimah to get up and say, ” We are here to call on all people of conscience to boycott Israel in its entirety, and we (I) dont give a rats ass about what world jewry thinks of it”
And you would be able to tell immediately who is for real and who is full of it.