for those who arent on Jewish Twitter: A prominent member of the online Jewish community, a WW named Ariel Sobel, created a sock puppet account pretending to be a Black antiZionist woman, from which she sent rape threats at herself to make herself look like a victim of Black Jewshttps://twitter.com/Jaccuse_org/status/1206627789627154432 …
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So, after her plan to vilify Black leftist Jews as violent antisemitic rapists imploded, she deleted her main account and left the sock puppet up, disappeared for a little bit, and came back a few months later, at which point she proceeded to **ACT LIKE NOTHING EVER HAPPENED**.
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Several white Jews (esp white Zionist Jews) have defended her actions, and even more have welcomed her back into the Jewish community with open arms, and given her a platform by publishing her work in Jewish publications; just completely ignoring the Evonne Schwartz Incident.
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She’s never said a damn thing about it. She’s just waiting for everyone to forget about what she did: that Ariel Sobel used her white womanhood to lie and to play victim in an attempt to demonize Jews of color in one of the most vile, historically violent ways she could.
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But despite what she did, she’s still getting paid & she’s still getting bylines. So, this is a thread just letting her know that we haven’t forgotten what she did, and letting the publications know that we haven’t forgotten their role in enabling her either.
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Here’s some more reading about it in the following tweets, because no, we will not let this go. (also ig she issued a statement through a publicist, so decide for yourself if that counts as saying something)
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Under her sock puppet account she claimed to be a member of this organization, an anti-racist leftist Jewish organization loathed by many right wing Jews, who then said they had no record of anyone by that name.https://twitter.com/ifnotnoworg/status/1162723205624291328 …
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Here’s an article about it for further reading:https://www.heyalma.com/who-is-evonne-schwartz-the-jewish-twitter-controversy-explained/ …
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I feel white women in the Jewish community need to be particularly vocal about condemning this because of the history of white womanhood being used as a weapon against Black folks in this country, esp when it comes to fabricated threats of sexual assault.https://twitter.com/coffeespoonie/status/1206894860596330497 …
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I should have put a CN on this thread for mentions of (fabricated) threats of sexual assault, antisemitism, anti-Blackness, and misogynoir in particular. I apologize!!
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this got more eyes on it than I thought it would! here just a few wonderful, talented Black Jewish folks to follow & support & learn from:
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CORRECTION: Ariel Sobel’s pronouns are they/them. I apologize for fucking that up; I would never intentionally misgender someone.
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I would like to share some things that people have shared with me and my friend over DMs. Most have asked to stay anonymous for fear of backlash. Please note that Ariel’s pronouns are they/them; which most people (myself included) did not know before the medium piece.pic.twitter.com/z2KZ03ELEh
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Two more people confirmed via DM they had Ariel’s phone number and when they synced their contacts, the Evonne account came up. One of them also confirmed the number has now been removed from the Evonne account as of earlier today. (Screenshot and shared with permission.)pic.twitter.com/hycxmOxoCS
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TW: SA one last thing for now. Ariel posted a response piece today. I won’t be addressing it rn (and frankly it makes them way more guilty imo but please do decide for yourselves). HOWEVER, this KILLS me. They call the people holding them accountable “virtual gang rapists”.pic.twitter.com/drvNk43PFH
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TW: SA / rape / CSA If you don’t know that I have PTSD from a violent sexual assault that happened a very very long time ago and that involved multiple adult men, now you know. So, you can maybe see why this is kind of making me lose my fucking mind a little bit.
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