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After Minneapolis, a Youtuber comes for Jewish 'welfare queens'

JL;DR SUMMARY In his Forward article, Arno Rosenfeld examines a troubling trend of online influencers spreading antisemitic rhetoric, highlighting YouTuber Tyler Oliveira's focus on Orthodox Jewish communities in Kiryas Joel and Lakewood. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish StereotypesOnline InfluencersSocial MediaConspiracy TheoriesRacismLakewoodOrthodox Jewish CommunitiesKiryas JoelTyler Oliveira

Places mentioned

Kiryas Joel, New York, United States
"Orthodox Jews in the village of Kiryas Joel, New York, May 14, 2017, during celebrations for the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, marking the anniversary of the death of Talmudic sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai approximately 1,900 years ago."
Lakewood, New Jersey, United States
"The two videos about Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic enclave in New York, and Lakewood, a heavily Orthodox town in New Jersey fit a mold gaining increasing traction in the second Trump era."
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
"The massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation in Minneapolis was prompted in part by a 23-year-old vlogger who made a video claiming to expose social services funding fraud by Somali residents of the city."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"and an immigrant arrest operation in Manhattan followed an influencers demand for a crackdown."
Riverdale, New York, United States
"A flimsy premise also undergirded a much shorter video released this week by Essa Ejelat and Erik Warsaw, two online influencers who use concern for Palestinian rights as a thin veneer for antisemitism. The six-minute short shows the pair walking and driving through an affluent part of Riverdale in the Bronx while Essa talks about how feminine Zionists are and Warsaw does a dance meant to represent a scheming Jew."
Arkansas, United States
"At several points he complains of a double standard that allows Jews to live together but supposedly prevents white people from doing the same, posting screenshots of the Forwards coverage of a white supremacist settlement in Arkansas that forbids Jews."

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