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In a previous post, I reviewed a pseudoscientific pamphlet by a certain Joss Sheldon. Sheldon, who claims to be Jewish himself but demonstrates right from the introduction that he doesn’t possess the slightest inkling of actual Jewish history or tradition, unleashes a textbook display of conspiratorial antisemitism. He gleefully rips quotes by historical figures out…
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Actually, when I hear that name, I think of the hero of my childhood, Donald Duck, and not a narcissistic, megalomaniacal egomaniac. Even your first term in office was a nightmare and showed that you have absolutely no understanding of how geopolitics works. No wonder that your greatest ‘strengths’ before that were your bankruptcies and…
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Dismantling the Unverified Narratives of Activist Journalism The accounts shared by authors like Joss Sheldon on their blogs represent a familiar phenomenon: travel writing masquerading as objective journalism, only to deliver a pre-packaged ideological narrative. Sheldon does not set out to critique complex geopolitical realities; instead, he seeks to validate a deeply one-sided worldview, effectively…
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“If you go on a journey, you’ll have something to talk about,” my parents always used to say. And they were right. Though I doubt they anticipated the likes of Joss Sheldon—a self-proclaimed universal genius who, according to his alternative internet bios, „identifies as Jewish.“ Well, I identify as a unicorn without actually being one. In…
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Boycotts against Israel are nothing new; they are probably as old as Jewish history itself. It is reasonable to assume that, when the inhabitants of Judea and Samaria rebelled against the Roman occupation, laws were enacted in Rome to boycott goods from that region. Perhaps Romans stood outside the market stalls with hand-painted signs bearing…
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I happened to come across the ‘author’ Joss Sheldon, who, according to his own description, „is ‘a nomad, an unmoored free thinker and a postmodern radical. Born in 1982, he grew up in one of the anonymous suburbs that wrap themselves around the beating heart of London. Then he escaped! With a degree from the…
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