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In a chilling move that echoes Nazi Germany, the Trump administration is making a list of Jewssupposedly for their own good.
The Intercept reported on Wednesday that professors at Barnard College in New York City received a text message to their personal cellphones with a survey from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that asked recipients if they identify as one of the following options: I am Jewish, I am Israeli, I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry, I practice Judaism, and Other.
Professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish, told the outlet, The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister.
The questions on the Barnard text were written under the guise of the Trump administration purportedly trying to root out antisemitism on college campuses. But this excuse is a Trojan horse for attacking dissent on college campusesto the point of disappearing peopleand pushing an anti-immigrant agenda.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/24/2318529/-Team-Trump-is-making-a-list-of-Jews-what-could-go-wrong
Dave Bowman
(6,536 posts)Hekate
(100,131 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,140 posts)Guess we should be glad they are as ham handed as they are.
When the yells of protest arise in the next 24 hours, expect a half hearted denial. So far he has said he changed his mind on previous outrageous proposals, but I assume he is lying to avoid consequences. Dr by
Canada Kid
(257 posts)Aside from the part of the Jewish community who stupidly and blindly voted for Trump while ignoring his antisemitic rhetoric of the past, as well as his father's Nazi history, there are a huge number of Jews who see through his BS and recognize that he says what he has to when it's convenient to gather votes. Associating with types like Musk, who think it's okay to "Nazi salute", ultra right wing fascist groups who he calls "regular folk", and countless other rightwing "KKK type" characters seems just fine with Trump. He should be all over this labelling shit like glue on a stick...but he just doesn't care. He got their vote...so fuck 'em. That's the attitude. And his Jewish son-in-law is a self-hating lowlife who should be putting a stop to this...but he's the worst kind of threat to any Jew. Fuck him too!
PCIntern
(27,948 posts)Motherfuckers. Who did Nazi this coming?
Behind the Aegis
(55,884 posts)Frankly, I can see this falling into more wrong hands and all hell breaking loose. This "were cracking down on anti-Semitism" bullshit red herring from the mis-administration is already repercussions against the Jewish community. Frankly, they care as much about anti-Semitism as the general population: not at all!
Javaman
(65,054 posts)this is their mission.
give it time and he will unleash the moron militias upon us.
Solly Mack
(96,284 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,484 posts)September 01, 1941
Jewish Badge
Reinhard Heydrich decrees that all Jews over six years of age in the Reich, Alsace, Bohemia-Moravia and the Germanannexed territory of western Poland (called the Warthegau), are to wear yellow Star of David on their outer clothing in public at all times. The word "Jew" is to be inscribed inside the star in German or the local language.
During the Nazi era, German authorities reintroduced the Jewish badge as a key element of their larger plan to persecute and eventually to annihilate the Jewish population of Europe. They used the badge not only to stigmatize and humiliate Jews but also to segregate them, to watch and control their movements, and to prepare for deportation.
Evolve Dammit
(21,420 posts)It is a full blown acquisition of data for raw power as the Reich wing targets all Dems, Libs, "radical" judges, law firms, universities, NPR, PBS, and it's only been 100 days. Steve Bannon's assertion of "shock troops" has proven to be correct. Probably a Presidential Medal of "Freedom" candidate (for a price...)
usonian
(23,299 posts)
Renamed.

Richard D
(10,018 posts). . . tens of hundreds of millions of Americans would register as Jews.
Nigrum Cattus
(1,199 posts)Just like losers, they are recording Jewish people, autistic people,
trans people. We need to make lists of repug haters. This is 100%
white christian nationalism.
Cha
(316,439 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(174,319 posts)trump is an antisemite