- Global surge in antisemitic incidents following the conflict between Hamas and Israel, affecting Jewish communities in various countries.
- Antisemitic acts range from verbal abuse to physical assaults, often justified by anger over the Gaza conflict.
- In areas like the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, and South Africa, antisemitic incidents have increased several hundred percent compared to the same period last year.
- Official responses vary, with Western authorities generally quick to support Jewish communities, while some countries like China have not taken steps to curtail antisemitic content online.
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What the fuck is with these comments.
Jewish people outside of Israel (citizens of other countries) are not equal to the Israeli government. They have no say and no control over what the Israeli government does. They are not connected.
Jewish 20 year olds going to college in the USA do not deserve to be attacked for simply…being Jewish (see Tulane University events). And so on.
Attacking Jewish people worldwide for the actions of the Israeli government is pure antisemitism, plain and simple, and needs to be called out and condemned.
People just love to have a reason to hate. Just like when COVID started and Asians were getting attacked all over despite having zero connection to China.
A lot of people just seem to hate jews, and now the masks have come off (again).
Why though? Why is anti-Semitism even a thing?
Religion, plus they were an easy minority to scapegoat historically.
What’s the religious reason people hate them?
They believe in a different version of the magic sky daddy.
But theirs was the original. All of the Abrahamic religions are their religion.
It is varied and complicated throughout history-
Pre-Christian anti-Judaism in Ancient Greece and Rome which was primarily ethnic in nature
Christian antisemitism in antiquity and the Middle Ages which was religious in nature and has extended into modern times
Muslim antisemitism which was—at least in its classical form—nuanced, in that Jews were a protected class
Political, social and economic antisemitism during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe which laid the groundwork for racial antisemitism
Racial antisemitism that arose in the 19th century and culminated in Nazism
Contemporary antisemitism which has been labeled by some as the new antisemitism
Christians have some historical antisemitism because the Jews are blamed for crucifying Jesus.
Muslims i have less knowledge, but i know in modern times they hate the founding of Israel among other reasons pertaining to “conflicting sky daddy”
Also for some other context, many practicing Jews kept traditions that made them stand out in the past. Leading to negative (and often false) stereotypes.
Lastly, it doesn’t help that they proclaim themselves God’s chosen people in the eyes of outsiders.
Edit: corrected mistake
With respect to the Christian and Muslim antisemitism:
Christianity largely made up the crucifixion… In many capacities. But, if we take the story at face value, it would be the Romans who did it because… the Romans crucified a LOT of people.
Much of the hatred from Christianity is rooted in Judaism not banning money lending. So combine that with a lot of Christians excluding them from other professions and you had a LOT of Jewish bankers (which continues to this day with the idea that “Jews are good with money” and “Jews are great lawyers” and so forth).
But when the time came to need some extra cash to fund a Crusade or just pay for some more jewels? Suddenly the Christians (and Catholics) had a really nice and really juicy target that they could attack and rob (which is also where a lot of the Nazi targeting of Jews came from).
As for Islam? A lot of the above coupled with the Jewish people not having multiple Crusades/Jihads worth of soldiers to back up their claims to territories… so lesson learned on that front I guess.
But “the Jews were responsible for crucifying Jesus” is a complete load of nonsense. And is a long standing source of dog whistles and antisemitic hate.
Jews are one of the least religious ethnic groups worldwide (something like 75% are agnostic or atheist iirc) though
“Your people killed Jesus.”
But wasn’t it the Romans who did that?
Yes, but it’s been a long-standing precedent to blame the Jews anyway.
Why though? Why perpetuate such an obvious lie?
Because Judaism is simultaneously an ethnicity, a race, and a culture, and a religion, they have avoided assimilation into the larger cultures in the places they have lived. This causes resentment between the cultures. Look at how so many people view immigrants today. Now stretch that attitude out over 2000 years. With Jews always being in the minority, they become an easy target for hatred and scapegoating. They’re very obviously culturally different from other people where they live, by choice, so they’re an easy target for that kind of xenophobic propaganda.
Some of the negative associations were earned, like the “Jews and money” stereotypes. That comes from a long time ago when all abrahamic religions followed the moral code that charging interest on loaned money was immoral. The Jews believed this too, but because they are God’s chosen people and everyone else is not, they decided there was no moral problem with charging non-Jews interest. They would give out loans a lot more aggressively because there was a profit motive and risky loans could still be profitable. They became associated with money because they proliferated as bankers due to what was considered at the time to be unscrupulous banking.
None of that background justifies any modern antisemitism; hate is always wrong. Just answering where some of it came from historically.
What would it take to resolve the issue and make it stop, do you think?
If people could stop being xenophobic assholes, the world would be a better place. We’ve been unable to accomplish that at scale since humans have existed though, so I’ve got nothing. All I can do is to try and be a good person myself.
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I feel like there needs to be more discussion of how people can be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic. There are elements of many faiths that people can object to without being considered antagonistic of that faith. People might not hate all people who are Jewish, but also might not be too enthusiastic about the Israeli State and all of its actions, which does not make them antisemitic.
There’s also lack of understanding that when saying “anti-Zionist” you’re calling for the non-existence of the state of Israel, not for Israel to not be an apartheid state. Rabin was a Labour Zionist: He would have liked to live in peace and social democracy with Palestinians. He was killed by a Religious Zionist, people who have a long history massacring Palestinians, the kind of people who prop up Netanyahu and settle the West Bank. On the flipside there’s plenty of anti-Zionist Jews around, for secular or religious reasons (“trying to force the third temple prophecy”). Broadly speaking “Zionist” simply means “patriot of Israel” and there’s also plenty of those out there helping Palestinians with their olive harvest so that settlers don’t come over and gun them down (because shooting Israelis, even leftists, would have consequences).
The Israeli right-wing of course doesn’t care, if a Jew says something they’d accuse others of antisemitism for they’re switching to “self-hating Jew”.
You’re conveniently ignoring though that Israel has over the last decades made themselves basically synonymous with Jews worldwide and have been quick to hide their atrocities behind the word “antisemitism”.
I’m not saying it’s okay, but it’s not far-fetched.
Just because the Israeli government tells you this, you abandon critical thinking skills? I get that there may be a casual link here, but damn, people need to actually think.
Yes, but it’s only consistent to reject that false framing and clearly delineate between supporters and opponents of Israel. Everything else just serves Israel by mudding the water.
theyre not conveniently ignoring it, it just wasnt relevant to the comment
the israeli government absolutely carries massive responsibility for the conflation of jews and israelis, and that absolutely does not have any effect on the amount of responsibility jewish folks carry when it comes to the actions of israel
What comments? Are you trying to manufacture outrage again?