If you're not subscribing to Melissa Steinberg Brodsky on Substack, here's some of what you're missing. Deploy freely. Here's the first and a few of the worst:
1. The Trailer Park Theorist
He types “Hitler should have finished the job” or “The moustache man was right” and “Tiny hat problems, tiny moustache solution” from a trailer that smells like cigarettes, regret, and a dog nobody’s bathed since the Obama administration. His greatest accomplishment is getting the Wi-Fi password from the gas station next door. He has crafted genocidal opinions about one of the most literate, accomplished, and historically resilient civilizations on earth. They survived Pharaoh. They survived the Inquisition. They survived the actual Hitler. They will absolutely survive him and his 47 followers, three of whom are bots and two of whom are the same cousin.
Truth: Antisemitism has always been the last resort of men who needed someone to blame for a life they built themselves. He didn’t fail because of Jews. He failed because of him.
19. The Trauma Poker
He’s the worst one. Not the loudest. The most precise. He always shows up on hostage posts, survivor testimony, kibbutz accounts. He doesn’t come in loud. He comes in with a question. A link. A gentle suggestion that maybe the account is missing context. He has located the wound and is pressing on it deliberately and calling it inquiry. By the time you’ve identified what he’s doing he’s already done it and moved to the next post. There is a word for someone who seeks out trauma survivors specifically to destabilize them. He knows what it is. That’s why he never says it.
Truth: Arriving in the comments of survivor testimony to ask “but are you sure” is not skepticism. It is deliberate cruelty aimed at people in the most vulnerable moment of their grief. He selected that content specifically. He knew what he was doing. The only question is whether he’ll ever be honest enough to admit it and the answer is…probably not ever.
22. The Go Back to Europe Guy
From a Western city his own family immigrated to, probably from the Middle East, he has determined that Jews are in the wrong place and need to leave. Not him. Just them. Jews maintained continuous presence in the land of Israel for three thousand years, were expelled by empires, returned, expelled again, returned again, and he has surveyed all of that and concluded the problem is they didn’t stay in the Europe that was actively incinerating them. The European label isn’t a descriptor. It’s a weapon built to strip Jews of their indigenous identity and leave them with no legitimate home on earth. He isn’t making a historical argument. He is a mouthpiece for a project with a very long and very bloody track record.
Truth: Jews are indigenous to the Levant. This is not a political position. It is confirmed by archaeology, genetics, and three thousand years of continuous documented history. The European label was engineered specifically to erase that fact and leave Jews with no legitimate home on earth. He is not making an argument. He is continuing a project that has always had the same intended outcome.
23. The Khazar Conspiracy Theorist
He has a browser tab open to a genetics blog run by someone with no genetics credentials and a very clear agenda, and he considers this peer review. Jews aren’t really Jews. They’re Khazars, a Turkic people who converted in the 8th century, which means the history is fake, the connection is fake, the identity is fake, and he has personally solved the whole thing with three weeks of targeted googling. Every major genomic study conducted on Jewish populations confirms shared Levantine ancestry across Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi communities. The Khazar theory has been tested and demolished repeatedly. He is aware of this. He just can’t afford it, because the moment Jewish ancestry is real his argument collapses and he has to find a new reason for what he already believes.
Truth: Every major genomic study confirms shared Levantine ancestry across Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi Jewish communities. The Khazar theory has been scientifically demolished repeatedly and completely. He keeps using it because he needs Jews to be foreign, and science refuses to cooperate. So he ignores the science and calls it research
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