It's a real flaw with how news works that none of the articles about this are making it clear that this is a war crime.

Bedtime should work like in computer games where I lie down and click "yes" on a menu and then there's an eight hour timeskip and I can get up again all refreshed.

they should have leftist infighting as an event at the next olympics

no the fuck they shouldn't and it's liberals like you that are tearing us apart

holy shit, a gold medalist

i’m going to spare you all from having to read the repulsive garbage matt walsh spewed to garner this reply, but god damn if this isn’t a precision orbital strike

Reminder that the term Zio is a slur against Jews coined by former klan grand wizard David Duke. Imagine saying you're just anti-Zionist and calling people antisemitic slurs

It's another game of spot the bad actor, apparently Zionists don't realize terms can be reclaimed and recontextualized

It's a slur against Jews. COINED BY THE KU KLUX KLAN! ARE YOU STUPID??

imagine saying this about literally any other slur lmao.

neurotypical ableds “reclaiming and recontextualizing” the R-word by calling “bad” disabled/neurodivergent people the R-word. white people “reclaiming and recontextualizing” the N-word by calling “bad” black people the N-word. straight people “reclaiming and recontextualizing” anti-queer slurs by calling the “bad” gays and trans people f****ts and tr*****s.

y’all’re using an anti-Jew slur against Jewish individuals for supposedly conspiring to do the same things people have always accused Jews of conspiring to do. y’all ain’t recontextualized shit. you’re just parroting the KKK.

@a-radical-throwaway I'll play, bigot!:) 'Reclaimed'. Reclaimed from whom, exactly? Where, when, and how was the slur used before it was coined by the KKK (see what I did there, dipshit?;)) for you to 'reclaim' it? 'Recontextualized'. In what ways does your usage differentiate from the Klan's usage of the same term? Y'know, since you've 'recontextualized' it? This should, like the first question, be pretty easy to answer if you weren't completely full of shit!:) What other tiny minority groups do you wield this behavior with? It must happen, since it's apparently common practice, amirite? Christ, you fucking antisemites are so fortunate in your bigotry. Even by the incredibly low bar of bigoted stupidity, as long as you make it clear it's about hating Jews no matter how transparent the pretext, you dipshits can just say anything and it'll be lapped up by your fellow travelers.

When firefighters cleared Beth Israel Synagogue after an arson attack this month, the library floor was slick with water and ash. Prayer books lay swollen and blackened. Smoke clung to the sanctuary walls.

Two Torah scrolls burned. A third Torah did not.

That Torah, displayed for decades in a glass case near the front of the synagogue, survived unscathed. Its presence at Beth Israel was not incidental. It was brought to Mississippi by Gilbert Metz, the state’s only concentration camp survivor — a man who retrieved it from Europe and brought it to the American South. It, too, had survived the Nazis.

“The million dollar question is: How in the hell did he get to Mississippi?” his grandson, Joseph Metz, recalled in an interview on Tuesday.

From Auschwitz to Jackson

Gilbert Metz was born in 1929 in Alsace-Lorraine, France. At 13, the family was forced into hiding. When people fled Nazi Germany, they often gathered silver or jewelry. Gilbert’s mom packed her prayer books and Rashi commentary instead. She had taught her son Hebrew and Talmud, and she refused to leave those books behind.

They snuck back and forth to their summer home in northeastern France, but were eventually captured by the Nazis and sent to an internment camp. From there, a 14-year-old Metz and his family were sent to Auschwitz. His mother and 10-year-old sister were murdered in the gas chambers shortly after their arrival. His father later met the same fate.

Metz survived multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau, and was liberated by American troops in April 1945. He was eventually bar mitzvahed after the Holocaust at 16, a delayed rite marking a childhood interrupted and then resumed.

Relatives who had settled in Mississippi sponsored Metz to come to the United States. He finished high school in Natchez, attended Tulane University, and served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War — at one point having to reapply for citizenship after being deployed overseas.

He eventually moved to Jackson, where he raised a family and became a traveling salesperson before co-founding Metz Industries, a wholesale lingerie business that sold brassieres, hosiery and feather boas to stores across the region — the work of an ordinary American life rebuilt mile by mile. He and his wife, Louise, were married for more than 50 years.

Bringing the Torah to Mississippi

In 1992, Robert Berman, a longtime congregant and former Beth Israel president, heard about an international effort to restore and redistribute scrolls damaged, desecrated or orphaned during the Holocaust. He and his sisters, Joan and Brenda, along with their families, donated the funds to acquire one. Shul leaders decided there was only one person who should retrieve it.

Metz and his son, Lawson, traveled to London to bring the Torah back to Jackson. At a restoration warehouse, he was shown piles of scrolls — some burned, some torn, some riddled with bullet holes — many painstakingly pieced together from fragments. They chose a Torah rescued from Prague and took turns carrying it on their laps during the international flight.

Other Torahs rescued from the Holocaust made similar southern journeys, to congregations in Alabama, Louisiana and Tennessee. Joseph Metz said his grandfather felt honored to be the one chosen from Beth Israel to collect the Torah, and that bringing it to Mississippi was closure for him — a full-circle moment.

A welcoming committee from the shul — including Berman, the rabbi and others — greeted the Metzs and the Torah at Jackson’s airport. “They sang prayers,” recalled Berman, now 94.

Beth Israel held a dedication ceremony at the synagogue and the Torah was installed in a glass case near the front doors, where it remained for decades. The words “Memory sustains humanity” is etched across the top of the case. Next to it hangs a photograph of Metz as an adult wearing the yellow star he was forced to wear under Nazi rule.

The scroll is displayed unfurled to a chapter in Exodus that comes after the Red Sea has closed behind the fleeing Israelites and before the Ten Commandments are given — a narrow span of time when survival has been achieved but meaning has not yet arrived. The scroll has remained that way for years, suspended between catastrophe and covenant.

Behind its building, Beth Israel also maintains a Holocaust memorial garden, dedicated to Metz and to Gus Waterman Herrman, a U.S. Army officer from Mississippi who fought in Europe during World War II and later became a philanthropist. The garden, which features stained-glass sculptures and is used for Yom HaShoah commemorations, was not damaged in the fire.

Berman’s daughter, Deborah Silver, had her bat mitzvah and wedding at the synagogue. She’s now a jazz singer, nominated for a Grammy this year, and plans to perform charity concerts in New York City and Jackson to benefit the shul. “We will be back,” she said, “and we will recover.”

Surviving another act of antisemitism

Saturday’s fire at Beth Israel is being investigated by federal authorities as a possible hate crime. A local teen, Stephen Spencer Pittman, confessed to igniting the blaze.

After the fire, the congregation moved the Torahs to the nearby Northminster Baptist Church, which offered its space. There, five Torah scrolls from the sanctuary were carefully unfurled and laid out across long tables, allowing soot and smoke to dissipate.

On the advice of a sofer, a ritual scribe, the Holocaust Torah was not unrolled.

“It’s extremely delicate,” said Sarah Thomas, Beth Israel’s vice president. She said it appeared to have no visible damage and is now wrapped and stored for safekeeping until the congregation is able to move back into the building.

The Torah’s survival can be explained without invoking a miracle: it was protected by its glass case and by where it stood. Still, for those who know its history, the moment carried weight.

What survives

Gilbert Metz spent decades speaking publicly about his Holocaust experience. His oral testimony is preserved in Holocaust archives, and his story has been taught in schools across Mississippi.

That inheritance was also ritual: For decades at Beth Israel, the shofar on the High Holidays was blown by Metz’s son, Lawson, and later by his grandson, Joseph.

Metz, who died at 78 in 2007, bore the tattooed number the Nazis assigned him at Auschwitz for the rest of his life: 184203. Joseph and his sister, Caroline, each later chose to replicate the number on a tattoo of their own, as an inheritance. He said his grandfather survived so the story would not end with him, but be carried forward.

The Torah Metz carried across an ocean — and across a lifetime — remains.

Reminder that the term Zio is a slur against Jews coined by former klan grand wizard David Duke. Imagine saying you're just anti-Zionist and calling people antisemitic slurs

It's another game of spot the bad actor, apparently Zionists don't realize terms can be reclaimed and recontextualized

It's a slur against Jews. COINED BY THE KU KLUX KLAN! ARE YOU STUPID??

imagine saying this about literally any other slur lmao.

neurotypical ableds “reclaiming and recontextualizing” the R-word by calling “bad” disabled/neurodivergent people the R-word. white people “reclaiming and recontextualizing” the N-word by calling “bad” black people the N-word. straight people “reclaiming and recontextualizing” anti-queer slurs by calling the “bad” gays and trans people f****ts and tr*****s.

y’all’re using an anti-Jew slur against Jewish individuals for supposedly conspiring to do the same things people have always accused Jews of conspiring to do. y’all ain’t recontextualized shit. you’re just parroting the KKK.

Oh boy I can’t wait the US to be embroiled in another regime change in the Middle East. I can’t wait for the US to install another western-friendly “democratically elected” dictator in exchange for oil and Israel recognition, for another fundamentalist terrorist group to coalesce and attack the new US-backed puppet government, for the US to respond by indiscriminately bombing civilians, for the US government to conflate the civilians protesting against their slaughter by a foreign-controlled government with the fundamentalist terrorists and to continue to bomb them, for them to declare Iranians ungrateful for help the US so graciously gave them while bombing them, for millions of Iranians who just want to live a normal life free from an authoritarian government to suffer because those with power see their deaths as the cost of a new business opportunity, for the world not to care because the west already decided decades ago that Muslims don’t count as human.

I mean yay I can’t wait for the US to liberate Iran.

I mean, we all knew this was a psyop to destabilize Iran and make it another Zionist puppet state the way America is.

Those protestors who got gunned down? Fell for Zionist Propaganda, they betrayed their country and got what was coming for it, they even grossly exaggerate the numbers of the dead

You're right! Why would anyone march against a fundamentalist theocratic regime, amirite?;)

A distinction I think we might want to consider: a lot of people aren’t using “Zionist” as a sub-in for “Jew”, they’re using “Zionist” as a sub-in for “kike”—not that they’d actually use that word per se, but that the feelings associated with that word are the ones they’re trying to invoke when they call Jews they don’t like “Zionists”

I think you're on to something. This may also be why they do-not-can-not understand what's so wrong about using David Duke's "Zio" slur; when they say "Zio" they do in fact mean precisely the same thing they mean when they say Zionist: K***.

Funy how "go back to where you came from" is considered racist unless you say it to Jews.

And if Jews go back where they came from they are attacked as colonialists

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

Power is a funny thing.

“The protesters in Iran are burning MOSQUES!!”

Islam isn’t the indigenous religion of Iran. Zoroastrianism is. Islam only arrived in the 7th century due to violent conquests. Persians didn’t choose to convert from the faith of their ancestors, they were violently forced to.

What’s wrong, “free Palestine” crowd? I thought you guys supported decolonization???

oh damn ofc its 4chan again i cant speak for meriam webster but this one def slid under my radar even tho i had heard the term before i hadnt ever made the connection between goyslop and ai slop when everyone started using it to talk abt ai generated content damn antisemitism be everywhere i swear and the language for it always comes from the same handful of fetid rotten internet trenches

Ok, just gonne put this in the reblogs too, but it's probably already too late to stop the misinfornation train.

I'm sorry but the cause and effect in this are completely backwards. The word "slop" is derived from Middle English "sloppes" (ca 1440) and has been around several hundret years before the invention of fast food and also several hundret years before the first known usage of the word "goyim" (1841). The word "slop" does not originate from a recent conspiracy term, it is obviously the fact that this recent conspiracy term has utelized the preexisting word "slop". By the logic that "slop" is antisemitic, because it alledgedly is derived from the term "goyslop", the word "goyim" would also be antisemitic, which it clearly is not.

There is also nothing in this article that points to the idea that the term "slop" in general is antisemitic or even objectionable. The article only talks about the compound term "goyslop" and the conspiracy it references and makes no remark on the term "slop" whatsoever.

We should definitely make sure to not propagate or normalize hatespeak by accident, but we should do that by confirming where the words we use come from and not based on vibes.

I didn't say slop, I said "-slop," as in compound meme words that end in it. It is not based on "vibes." I listen to my Jewish friends and to Jewish people who’ve explained that these newer “-slop” meme terms are antisemitic, as it's used to imply degeneracy. I have confirmed it, by speaking with Jewish individuals. As a goy, I’m not going to argue that something isn’t antisemitic when the people affected are saying it is. Pushing back against minorities about the bigotry they identify is itself bigoted as hell

I sent the ask after one of my Jewish friends felt uncomfortable upon seeing someone respected saying it.

As a tip, willfully ignorant and misreading folks like @assortedinsanities can benefit from asking themselves a really simple question.

See, English has a word for shitty, cheap garbage that clogs up space and wastes resources to market ineffectually, and it's SPAM.

So!

Why is it being called "slop" all of a sudden, when it was called "spam" for decades without issue?

The answer is, of course, the deranged 4chan goyslop conspiracy about how Jews are making media worse to make to erode the ~naturally dominant intellect of the white gentile~.

4chan popularized "slop" as another word for "spam" specifically to encourage widespread hatred of Jews, and to create a new dogwhistle for recruitment.

Stop doing their work for them.

It's SPAM.

YOU CAN CALL IT SPAM.

The thing is, even ignoring etymology, in practice, the conspiratorial connotation of “goyslop” is still retained in the modern use of the shortened version.

The idea that goyslop communicates is that the Jews have conspired to feed you garbage to degenerate society and keep you down because they don’t see you as anything more than livestock and you’re going to take it because you’re a good little piggy. It’s the “goy = chattel” from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, trying to trigger the same aggrieved humiliation as calling people “cuck”.

That doesn’t go away if you change Jew/goy to something else or just leave it as an ambiguous “They”. “ai slop” etc. is still invoking the same conspiratorial, reactionary idea of a cultural degeneracy pushed by a cabal of “elites” feeding trash to their human livestock; it still creates the same humiliated aggrievement of “you’re a cuck/chattel if you accept it” that the far right rhetoric is trying to trigger, that they can use to funnel people down the pipeline.

The framing of this garbage as an intentional humiliation that compares you to livestock is not a neutral framing. It brings with it connotations and implications.

By switching from “The Jews” to “Them” this rhetoric isn’t actually divested from the antisemitic conspiracy theory. It’s still pushing the same conspiracist belief, while leaving a conspicuously Jew-shaped hole in the framing that can be used to manufacture an “a-ha!” moment where people start “Noticing” that maybe the Jews might fit into that Jew-shaped hole in the narrative.

also, no, “the first known usage of the word goyim” was not anywhere near as late as 1841. it’s literally in the Torah, where it meant the (non-Jewish) nations, and the modern meaning of just “non-Jews” had already solidified by the Hellenistic period, 300-30 BCE.

"the first known usage of the word goyim (1841)" is fucking SENDING MEEEE HELP

Maybe 1841 BCE is what they meant? *bitter joking*

oh damn ofc its 4chan again i cant speak for meriam webster but this one def slid under my radar even tho i had heard the term before i hadnt ever made the connection between goyslop and ai slop when everyone started using it to talk abt ai generated content damn antisemitism be everywhere i swear and the language for it always comes from the same handful of fetid rotten internet trenches

Ok, just gonne put this in the reblogs too, but it's probably already too late to stop the misinfornation train.

I'm sorry but the cause and effect in this are completely backwards. The word "slop" is derived from Middle English "sloppes" (ca 1440) and has been around several hundret years before the invention of fast food and also several hundret years before the first known usage of the word "goyim" (1841). The word "slop" does not originate from a recent conspiracy term, it is obviously the fact that this recent conspiracy term has utelized the preexisting word "slop". By the logic that "slop" is antisemitic, because it alledgedly is derived from the term "goyslop", the word "goyim" would also be antisemitic, which it clearly is not.

There is also nothing in this article that points to the idea that the term "slop" in general is antisemitic or even objectionable. The article only talks about the compound term "goyslop" and the conspiracy it references and makes no remark on the term "slop" whatsoever.

We should definitely make sure to not propagate or normalize hatespeak by accident, but we should do that by confirming where the words we use come from and not based on vibes.

I didn't say slop, I said "-slop," as in compound meme words that end in it. It is not based on "vibes." I listen to my Jewish friends and to Jewish people who’ve explained that these newer “-slop” meme terms are antisemitic, as it's used to imply degeneracy. I have confirmed it, by speaking with Jewish individuals. As a goy, I’m not going to argue that something isn’t antisemitic when the people affected are saying it is. Pushing back against minorities about the bigotry they identify is itself bigoted as hell

I sent the ask after one of my Jewish friends felt uncomfortable upon seeing someone respected saying it.

As a tip, willfully ignorant and misreading folks like @assortedinsanities can benefit from asking themselves a really simple question.

See, English has a word for shitty, cheap garbage that clogs up space and wastes resources to market ineffectually, and it's SPAM.

So!

Why is it being called "slop" all of a sudden, when it was called "spam" for decades without issue?

The answer is, of course, the deranged 4chan goyslop conspiracy about how Jews are making media worse to make to erode the ~naturally dominant intellect of the white gentile~.

4chan popularized "slop" as another word for "spam" specifically to encourage widespread hatred of Jews, and to create a new dogwhistle for recruitment.

Stop doing their work for them.

It's SPAM.

YOU CAN CALL IT SPAM.

The thing is, even ignoring etymology, in practice, the conspiratorial connotation of “goyslop” is still retained in the modern use of the shortened version.

The idea that goyslop communicates is that the Jews have conspired to feed you garbage to degenerate society and keep you down because they don’t see you as anything more than livestock and you’re going to take it because you’re a good little piggy. It’s the “goy = chattel” from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, trying to trigger the same aggrieved humiliation as calling people “cuck”.

That doesn’t go away if you change Jew/goy to something else or just leave it as an ambiguous “They”. “ai slop” etc. is still invoking the same conspiratorial, reactionary idea of a cultural degeneracy pushed by a cabal of “elites” feeding trash to their human livestock; it still creates the same humiliated aggrievement of “you’re a cuck/chattel if you accept it” that the far right rhetoric is trying to trigger, that they can use to funnel people down the pipeline.

The framing of this garbage as an intentional humiliation that compares you to livestock is not a neutral framing. It brings with it connotations and implications.

By switching from “The Jews” to “Them” this rhetoric isn’t actually divested from the antisemitic conspiracy theory. It’s still pushing the same conspiracist belief, while leaving a conspicuously Jew-shaped hole in the framing that can be used to manufacture an “a-ha!” moment where people start “Noticing” that maybe the Jews might fit into that Jew-shaped hole in the narrative.

also, no, “the first known usage of the word goyim” was not anywhere near as late as 1841. it’s literally in the Torah, where it meant the (non-Jewish) nations, and the modern meaning of just “non-Jews” had already solidified by the Hellenistic period, 300-30 BCE.