from geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 29 May 20:16
https://lemmy.ml/post/30862067
Becker was consulted by the Tagesspiegel because of his affiliation with the Decoding Antisemitism project at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, which he led from 2019 until 2025. With the help of a large language computing model, the project aims to create “an [AI] algorithm that will automatically recognize antisemitic statements in web comments . . . so that antisemitic posts can be removed more efficiently and accurately” by online platforms.
The dataset is divided into labels of differing forms of supposed antisemitisms such as “analogies with Nazism,” fascism, apartheid, or colonialism; calling Israel a racist or terrorist state; accusing it of genocide; referencing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS); giving Israel the sole blame for the plight of the Palestinians; applying double standards; and denying Israel’s right to exist.
On the topic of Palestine and Israel, the glossary seems to operate within a logic that sees emotional responses to a live-streamed genocide not as a human reaction but as an indicator of antisemitic beliefs.
In an interview with Israeli news outlet Mako, Becker suggests that social media providers are opening their doors and hearing concerns like his. This strongly suggests hopes to commercialize and implement its findings with online platforms. Five years after its inception, it appears that its conceptual framework and glossary have been overtaken by reality.
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Only a Nazi conflates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism.
Those on the right, being Nazis, use the Hitlerian definition of anti-Semitism. In this Hitlerian definition, Jews can never actually be full citizens of any other nation besides Israel. Regardless of their personal loyalty or belief, any Jew in the US or Europe is suspect, only a partial citizen, a foreigner at their very core. This is Hitlerian, as it is the very way the historical Nazis viewed Jewish identity.
For modern Nazis, being a Jew and being Israeli are interchangeable. A criticism of the Israeli government is an attack on Jewish people in general. Nazis like the modern Republican Party believe that Jews can never be real Americans, and that they will always have some connection and loyalty to the Israeli state. This is the very logic that justified the Japanese internment camps. If you think every Jewish person must be loyal to Israel, you are literally a Nazi.
Finally understanding that, in the fascist world-view, the “big fight” is between internationalism/globalism and nationalism, is what finally made the riddle of the right-wing’s oxymoronic relationship with Judaism (i.e., rabidly pro-Israel, yet often conspiratorially anti-Semitic at the same time) start to click at last and make sense for me.
They’re just hyper-nationalistic, and any group of people that doesn’t fit neatly into nationalistic boundaries is suspect.
They want a Jewish state, so that Jews in general, as a culture and as individuals, will stop being so internationally-minded. Right-wingers can conceptually deal with and understand a “nation,” and interact with them like they would other nations. But a people who exist without borders, or in spite of them, that’s scary.
That’s it.
There’s a reason why Hitler, in Mein Kamph, not only targeted Jews, but also Esperantists as dangerous enemies in need of isolation, persecution, and imprisonment (BTW, have you ever met an Esperanto enthusiast? Not dangerous people, by and large, just well-meaning dorks who easily make deep personal connections with people in other countries, and did so before the internet was a thing - plejparte sendanĝera). BUT, they’re people who sought to soften, not reify, national borders. Hence, Hitler had them imprisoned and killed (including the creator of Esperanto’s own children, tragically).
Same with Communists. It’s not the economic model of communism that scared them so much (although they certainly didn’t love it) - it’s the espoused, unapologetic internationalism of the communist project (at least in theory, if not in practice). That’s it - that’s why fascists sought to destroy communism. It was international. It was borderless (in theory).
That’s also why right-wing conspiracy-minded wingnuts are suspect of liberal/democratic international organizations, like the UN, as well. It’s not the liberality that’s dangerous from their POV - it’s the internationality!
It’s not ideology that threatens fascists, and it’s not religion. It’s globalism. That’s it. That’s the boogie man for fascists and right-wingers. Porous borders. Loose national identity. Missing national pride and “peoplehood” inextricably linked to country, flag, and state. That’s it.
Fuck ‘em. People are people everywhere, humanity first.
YIKES! So after empty speech of doing something against the enthnic cleansing now instead of ramping up, they decide to drown dissent.
Germany is starting to literally depart from being any semblance of a democracy at this point.
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
Okay I know Germany’s been struggling as of late, but I had plans to flee the US and go there for a time.
And now I’m thinking that isn’t a great idea. Like, out of the frying pan into the fire?
Boycott Zionazi Germany