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Behind the Aegis

(55,630 posts)
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 03:11 AM Aug 20

(JEWISH GROUP) 'Nazi Summer Camp': Fidelity Investment Employee Launches Antisemitic Tirade Against Jewish Journalist

A telecenter operator who was, until recently, employed by Fidelity Investments launched on Monday a volley of antisemitic insults at a Jewish journalist via social media after learning that her children attend a summer camp which fosters pride in Zionism.

“F—k you and f—k your kid who goes to Nazi summer camp!” Danielle Gordon, the now-former employee, wrote to Bethany Mandel, author and contributor to the “Mom Wars” Substack. “Free Palestine from you sick f—ks!”

The exchange began when Mandel publicly discussed the presence of a paraglider over the camp’s property which, due to lingering trauma caused by the memory of the use of paragliders in Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel — which preceded an explosion of antisemitic incidents across the US — appeared to pose an imminent security threat. Gordon seemingly took umbrage at Mandel’s concern for Jewish life and the lives of her children, and hastily fired off the messages from an account which listed her legal name.

“I found it troubling that she sent such antisemitic vitriol when she’s just a working class, college educated white woman living in Denver — that is how far this rot has spread,” Mandel told The Algemeiner on Monday after her sharing of Gordon’s messages amassed over a million views on X. “Antisemitism has become normative discourse for people of her demographic.”

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(JEWISH GROUP) 'Nazi Summer Camp': Fidelity Investment Employee Launches Antisemitic Tirade Against Jewish Journalist (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Aug 20 OP
When you're scared and/or angry those feelings have to go somewhere. Biophilic Aug 20 #1
I don't understand JustAnotherGen Aug 20 #5
I suspect that like much of our prejudices the antisemitism is just a socially acceptable outlet. Biophilic Aug 20 #6
People like this woman? JustAnotherGen Aug 20 #7
A year ago I would have hesitated answering that statement. Biophilic Aug 20 #8
According to X she is no longer employed at Fidelity. One would think her entire carreer should be over now. There is lostincalifornia Aug 20 #2
Also - she has JustAnotherGen Aug 20 #4
This JustAnotherGen Aug 20 #3
This is the thing that stands out most for me: madaboutharry Aug 20 #9
This is the worst possible reaction of all possible ones jfz9580m Aug 25 #10
Stupid woman showing off how Cha Aug 26 #11

Biophilic

(6,029 posts)
1. When you're scared and/or angry those feelings have to go somewhere.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 08:20 AM
Aug 20

I will never get antisemitism. It simply makes no sense to me.

JustAnotherGen

(36,806 posts)
5. I don't understand
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:50 PM
Aug 20

Why she would be scared because a woman sends her child to a Jewish Day Camp.

I'm NOT Jewish but my Grammie Hannie made sure I could attend summer camp through our JCC so I could have exposure to my heritage. She figured out by the time I was 8 that I wasn't going to be a 'christian' for all of my life. My heart wasn't there. Now I'm a UU.

I partially credit this great experience as a kid with keeping my heart open.

I don't see why someone would be afraid of that.

Biophilic

(6,029 posts)
6. I suspect that like much of our prejudices the antisemitism is just a socially acceptable outlet.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:51 PM
Aug 20

Over history antisemitism has usually shown up and become popular when other things are going wrong. It has been used by rulers and leaders as a means to misdirect peoples fears and angsts as well as to get support. There is no justification for it.

Biophilic

(6,029 posts)
8. A year ago I would have hesitated answering that statement.
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 07:19 PM
Aug 20

Unfortunately, now I have no trouble agreeing with you.

lostincalifornia

(4,304 posts)
2. According to X she is no longer employed at Fidelity. One would think her entire carreer should be over now. There is
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 10:38 AM
Aug 20

no room for any employer to have someone who publicly propagates hate, and harasses people.


JustAnotherGen

(36,806 posts)
4. Also - she has
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:48 PM
Aug 20

Crazy eyes. Not an excuse for her evil intent and purpose in life . . . but just an observation.

JustAnotherGen

(36,806 posts)
3. This
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 01:46 PM
Aug 20

“Antisemitism has become normative discourse for people of her demographic.”



There's that banality of evil again.

madaboutharry

(41,993 posts)
9. This is the thing that stands out most for me:
Wed Aug 20, 2025, 11:27 PM
Aug 20

People are now comfortable with engaging in antisemitic diatribes, seemingly certain that there will be no consequences. And most of the time there are no consequences. Jew hatred has gone mainstream and a lot of people don’t want to miss out!

You can’t be for the denial of Jewish identity and nationhood, the denial that Israel is the homeland of the indigenous Jewish people, and advocate for its destruction without being a Jew hater.

Ms. Gordon is a monster and I’m glad she is now unemployed.

jfz9580m

(15,914 posts)
10. This is the worst possible reaction of all possible ones
Mon Aug 25, 2025, 12:20 PM
Aug 25

And it’s going to get worse at this rate.

It’s just depressing to see how the endless cycle of human conflict plays out, assiduously fostered by our media/other war profiteering industries...

I can feel like such an outsider in human affairs and conflicts (shrug..always preferred animals), you can see the same dynamics play out over and over ad nauseum…

Cha

(313,964 posts)
11. Stupid woman showing off how
Tue Aug 26, 2025, 12:45 AM
Aug 26

insidious propagandized hate can cause serious harm to the brain.

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