{"id":3711,"date":"2021-05-14T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2021-05-14T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T01:54:00","slug":"where-does-the-satanic-temple-stand-on-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/?p=3711","title":{"rendered":"Where does The Satanic Temple stand on Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TST members have lots of opinions on Palestine, but the Temple&#8217;s co-owner Cevin Soling is a Zionist, and his is the opinion that matters <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Israel continues aggressively expanding and deepening its apartheid state, destroying Palestinian homes, killing children, and letting lynch mobs run through the streets in the name of self-defense, you may wonder where various Satanic groups stand on these issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can only speak for ourselves (#<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2021\/6\/10\/why-israel-is-so-desperate-to-silence-savesheikhjarrah\">SaveSheikhJarrah<\/a>) but many don&#8217;t know one of The Satanic Temple&#8217;s two central figures and owners is Cevin &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/2014\/07\/22\/trolling-hell-is-the-satanic-temple-a-prank-the-start-of-a-new-religious-movement-or-both\/\">Malcolm Jarry<\/a>&#8221; Soling.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3715\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Note: You may recognize Shane Bugbee from his <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/why-you-havent-left-the-satanic-temple\/\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/lucien-greaves-and-the-satanic-temple-have-a-lot-to-answer-for\/#r-slur-story\">collaborations<\/a> with Doug Misicko a.k.a. &#8220;Doug Mesner&#8221; a.k.a. &#8220;Lucient Greaves&#8221;.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Soling has many ongoing side projects, relevant here is a not-yet-nonprofit also based out of Massachusetts called &#8220;Alliance for Integrity and Justice Ltd.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/corp.sec.state.ma.us\/CorpWeb\/CorpSearch\/CorpSummary.aspx?sysvalue=0ZVXR3QjVnUeh422HMvBIByebl_mSCbTekP2AIxY0QA-\">Massachusetts Secretary of State corporations page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3713\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While not obvious from the title, &#8220;Alliance for Integrity and Justice&#8221; is an organization with the express purpose of targeting Boycott, Divestment, and Sanction (BDS) supporters in the name of making opposition to Israel equivalent to being antisemitic<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3712\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know, like how <a href=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.tumblr.com\/post\/634614776210866176\/tom-metzger-dies-at-82-notorious-kkk-boss\">certain <em>other<\/em> people<\/a> like to conflate &#8220;Israel&#8221; or &#8220;Zionism&#8221; with all of Jewishness for their own purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The website, in all its glory: <a href=\"https:\/\/allianceij.org\">https:\/\/allianceij.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/queersatanic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3714\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Be warned; that Spectacle Films video is pretty upsetting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AIJ Intro video\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/273362440?h=b1471617cd&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"229\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can place your own bets on whether TST officially will have no opinion, will advise members not to publicly associate TST with pro-Palestinian activities (as they did for months with Black Lives Matter last summer), or if they&#8217;ll come out with an official statement to the right of Biden in support of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it&#8217;s <em>highly<\/em> unlikely that &#8220;No one should be victims of brutal state violence, and Palestinians must be free&#8221; will be where they land given how their owner is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-haunted-salem-a-jewish-church-founder-preaches-the-art-of-satanic-social-change\/\">on the record<\/a> talking about The Satanic Temple as its co-owner and his support for Israel as recently as 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-a8e7549b1bc23ad55d765b2222eb7310 is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to Jarry\u2019s belief that Judaism and Satanism can co-exist, there are parallels with how Judaism and Satanism have been branded by their detractors, he said.<br><br>\u201cThe false accusations that have been thrown at Jews historically are similar to what some people say about Satanism,\u201d said Jarry, mentioning accusations of blood libel and \u2014 more recently \u2014 <strong>fabricated allegations that Israel perpetrates genocide against Palestinian children<\/strong>.<br><br>\u201cI do not accept when people delegitimize Israel or use lies to marginalize Israel,\u201d said Jarry. \u201c<strong>I am an unwavering supporter of Israel, so long as it remains democratic, pluralistic, and protects human rights.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This<\/em> is TST&#8217;s opinion on Palestine and Palestinians, not what individual &#8220;card-carrying members&#8221; say or do. This is TST&#8217;s opinion on Palestine and Palestinians because one of its two owners, and the most important person in regards to their finances, says so.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TST members have lots of opinions on Palestine, but the Temple&#8217;s co-owner Cevin Soling is a Zionist, and his is the opinion that matters As Israel continues aggressively expanding and deepening its apartheid state, destroying Palestinian homes, killing children, and letting lynch mobs run through the streets in the name of self-defense, you may wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[648,719,808,813,858,979,15,1150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alliance-of-integrity-and-justice","category-cevin-soling","category-free-palestine","category-fuck-antisemitism","category-israel","category-palestine","category-the-satanic-temple","category-tst"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qs.gehenna.ynh.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}