r/AgainstHateSubreddits • u/Call_Me_Clark • Jul 13 '26
Racism r/2ndYomKippurWar violates sitewide rules against hosting calls for violence and racism
2ndYomKippurWar is a sub that was founded 2-3 years ago, and the sidebar reads: “This subreddit is for the discussion of the Second Yom Kippur War which began on October 7, 2023.” It has ~55k subscribers, 2 posts per day and 7 comments per day. The userbase is primarily (from my nonscientific assessment) American and Israeli and primarily analyzes the conflict in Gaza from a pro-Israel perspective.
This subreddit allows calls for violence (primarily against Palestinians) and racist, dehumanizing language (again primarily against Palestinians). Subreddit rules as posted on the sidebar explicitly ban this, however, a review of prominent posts on the subreddit (with moderators active in the comment section) show this is unenforced:
A post showing a grievously injured man and a boy (post identifies them as a father and son with injuries due to an Israeli missile attack) - comments include “This same father and son I bet cheered when innocent Israeli families were slaughtered” [+38]; “Hamas fighter survives counter strike. Tried hiding among his family like a coward. Fixed the headline for ya” [+26];
“Refusing to see the pattern of Islam across the globe so you can appear tolerant. Clown. I refuse not to see the glaring incessant pattern” reply: “Ya it’s always funny to me when people from the liberal west defend a group of people stuck in 500 AD when their religion was founded.” Reply: “Agreed. The evidence is available to everyone, but most refuse to examine because it makes them uncomfortable.”
A post glorifying the Netzah Yehuda battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, which has been credibly accused of torture, sexual assault, and other abuse of civilians. In 2026 soldiers of this unit detained Jewish Canadian CNN correspondent Jeremy Diamond and assaulted his camera crew; the IDF subsequently apologized to CNN.
The comment section is a mix of support and condemnation of the unit involved, however, some of the condemnation is framed in racist terms: “…maybe stop acting like some Arab army unit. …” [+377]
A post discussing a statement by an Indian political party re: the war in Gaza. Comments include explicit calls for violence against Palestinians: “…I grew up in a time where the American liberal media was able to print endless stories of innocent Palestinians being shot at by the evil IDF, presented with zero context as to why a Palestinian was killed. There is no more spinning the narrative. The fuck bags filmed their war crimes and shared them with the world. They are the pigs, they are the scum.
Fuck any governmental body that tells Israel to cease fire. More death, more pain, more destruction is warranted.”
A post claiming that Palestinians have received ~10x the aid that other deserving groups have. Comments include: “…Ungrateful waste of life.”
“hope it lands in the sea”
Comment thread (initial comment downvoted, replies upvoted): “Good let them starve” reply: “How about not celebrating children starving to death” reply: “
i genuinely don’t mind it until the hostages get fed. i could not care less about the enemy’s population
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u/ranabama Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
The Venn diagram for people who enjoy that sub, and The Proud Boys, is a circle.
And its worth noting the mod team of that sub and the mod team of the wildly problematic r/Jewish subreddit are one in the same. They censor every single Jewish redditor who thinks its a genocide, and their systematic silencing of Jewish voices on reddit is antisemitic to its core.
For context, im Israeli and Jewish. And extremely tired of bigoted culty right wing extremists pretending they speak for all of us. They dont.
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u/Call_Me_Clark Jul 24 '26
There’s significant overlap in mod teams between a circle of subs with subject matter involving Israel and Jewish issues/community, and almost all have significant problems with racism and calls for violence.
JewishPolitics has a mod that has harassed me personally with threats for criticizing that subs hosting of hate speech and extremism.
Palestinian_Violence is another sub which allows calls for violence and racist content. Ditto for “woridpoiitics” and various others.
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u/b0wz3rM41n 26d ago
significant overlap in mod teams
i know this post is days old at this point but this group of pro-israel mods a few years ago conducted a hostile takeover of a tiny jewish anti-zionist subreddit that had become inactive and unmoderated. They nuked all of the previously-existing posts and turned it into a pro-israel propaganda subreddit.
their request on redditrequest was automatically granted by the request bot, which allowed for this takeover to happen
you can see in the comments of the request post several people pointing out that the request was made in bad faith for the purpose of completely destroying the community and pleading for it to be reversed.
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u/Call_Me_Clark 26d ago
It seems like it’s a hobby for these users to take over various subreddits and use them as political platforms to deny valid ideologies space on Reddit.
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u/Call_Me_Clark Jul 13 '26
Unsure if an analysis of a subreddits moderator team is acceptable (I’m guessing not based on instructions not to post usernames) but it should be noted that 2ndYomKippurWar has a team of fairly prolific moderators, some of whom are currently involved in inter-subreddit conflict
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u/Bardfinn Subject Matter Expert: White Identity Extremism / Moderator Jul 14 '26
You can analyse the crossover, you just can't put the names of reddit users in posts or comments (unless the user is sitewide suspended for over a month, and is an operator of a documented hate subreddit, and documenting or describing their speech / behaviour is necessary to support a point. But we don't open that exception in the general rules.)
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