The topic of Jews has always been on the fringes of the internet (this board among them), and dismissed wholesale by just about anyone outside of said circles. That is how things worked for the longest time, basically since the birth of the internet as a whole. That changed, very noticeably, very abruptly, and very obviously, after Israel's counter-invasion of Palestine in the aftermath of the October 7th, 2023 attacks by Hamas.
Since then, something has shifted in the wider internet (and maybe wider society, but that could just be wishful thinking), and I can't place my finger on how or why this has happened. Has it been building up over time? Did it blow up all at once? What other factors are involved? I don't know.
Here are a couple recent examples to see what I mean;
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Mark Dice, say what you want about him, is someone I've kept an eye off and on for many years. I would usually place him closer to milquetoast than not (not as bad as, say, Tim Pool the Dim Fool, but just enough to want to keep his channel). However, he went full blown Noticing(TM) in his most recent video, to my complete surprise. He even admits at the end of the video that he thinks he's "flying too close to the sun" (because YouTube), so it's safe to say that he knows.
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Info Wars (and by extension, Alex Jones) has always been willing to broach into many a subject, but has always been rather mum on this particular topic, minus low hanging fruit such as the USS Liberty (the possible reasons why are for another discussion). That is, until a few days ago, when a video + article was put out on Zionism, a pro-Jewish ideology. For all I know, its contents could be total BS, but the fact they address it at all is to be noted.
Of course, we are now seeing the US Government revealing their true loyalties once and for all (i.e. not to the American people, but to the nation state of Israel) in response to these shifts in discussion surrounding <pulls out a gallon of Minute Maid> the juice, and it is currently attempting to make "antisemitism" a federal crime based on an extremely broad definition, that can best be summarized as "rules, ethics, and accountability are for goyim".
Let me know your thoughts.
It's pretty strange to me because it didn't seem like Palestine was much of a hot-button issue. Then when Israel went on the offensive, the far left started going nuts. And several people have had rather extreme reactions every which way to each domestic development.
For people who even casually follow the news or politics, it has become impossible to completely avoid.
There has been some build-up of noticing in the last few years. I can't speak much for major internet personalities and their topics, but there were a few stories that popped up here and in my semi-normie sphere:
Kanye West spoke out some, met with a Mr. Fuentes, and got canceled. A basketball player Kyrie Irving got into trouble for sharing Black Hebrew Israelite thoughts and beliefs. Nick Cannon (former Nickelodeon star; host of the US Masked Singer) also dug into Black Hebrew Israelite stuff in a podcast and was temporarily canceled.
I didn't personally appreciate or understand the disparity between Israeli-controlled territory and the postage stamp sized walled compound that is Gaza until Oct 7th happened and there was so much chattering about it that I couldn't avoid learning the basics.