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- 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-
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Pre-Christian anti-Judaism in Ancient Greece and Rome which was primarily ethnic in nature
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Christian antisemitism in antiquity and the Middle Ages which was religious in nature and has extended into modern times
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Muslim antisemitism which was—at least in its classical form—nuanced, in that Jews were a protected class
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Political, social and economic antisemitism during the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment Europe which laid the groundwork for racial antisemitism
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Racial antisemitism that arose in the 19th century and culminated in Nazism
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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.
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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.
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.
Realistically until we can move past religions its not going to stop. When you create constant in groups and out groups you are going to have conflict and blame wars. Until we can view each other as equals and for that to happen either everyone has to be under the same religion or we accept religions were a terrible form of government that need to be abandoned. And then we might just see rampant racism at that point if education is not properly funded and supported following the fall of religions. Then it would be nationalism until we can globally unite, and then still we will run into small groups of uneducated people who will be easily swayed allowing these bullshit issues to propagate again but hopefully not at the same level. Not that it’s reassuring but we have massive issues that need to be addressed for this shit to end and as billionaires profit from uneducated laborers, until we get to post scarcity for our species I don’t know if it will end.
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gods chosen people is how they refer to themselves
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No, “Chosen people” as a concept is unique to Judaism. You can read about it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chosen_people
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Yeah but it is quite integral to Judaism and is what the term “Chosen people” is typically referring to. Here is more in depth info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_as_the_chosen_people
It’s a very common thing said amongst jews. While some other religions may have similar concepts, it is quite integral to Judaism to a degree that it isn’t in other religions.
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”.
What the fuck is with these comments.
What comments? Are you trying to manufacture outrage again?
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
Conflating the Israeli government, and the Israeli military, with the Jewish ethnicity, and the Jewish religion, is proving to be bad for overall PR when the government, and the military, are doing things that are vastly unpopular globally. Like apartheid
“Bad PR” doesn’t even begin to cover it. Netanyahu never misses an opportunity to claim he represents all Jews, so of course when his government commits atrocities, a lot a gullible people are gonna blame Jews in general. It’s so predictable I strongly suspect it’s one of his goals, because there’s nothing better for a far-right populist’s political career than convincing his supporters they’re under attack, and it’s especially easy when they actually are under attack. All he had to do was paint a target on every Jew in the world, which is clearly a small price in his mind.
I hope one day he’s remembered alongside Putin as one of the worst villains of the 21st century.
Considering the value that the government of Israel has by action showed it places on, not only the lives of human beings who are Palestinian, but even on the lives of the human beings who are Israeli and were kidnapped by Hamas, I very much doubt they lose any sleep when Jews are victims of anti-semitism abroad because Israel has purposefully conflated itself with the entire Jewish Religion (in order to hide behind it whilst commiting the most despicable of acts) and lots of people believe it.
They probably just see it as a way to further exploit that connection betwee Judaism and Israel that they’ve cultivated and spin the plight of those Jews to further portray the nation of Israel as a victim: in other words the State of Israel actually gains whenever a Jew out there is victimized in response to the actions of the State of Israel because the perpetrator believed the State of Israel’s own deceitful portrayal of itself as being the same as all members of the Jewish Religion.
People really shouldn’t need PR to be treated right.
Antisemitic attacks are not the result of “bad PR”
I don’t get why people hate that particular religion so much.
Me, I would do away with all religions, I think they’re all nonsense invented to control people or as a way to escape from reality, but that doesn’t mean I’d ever hate a religion or go to wild lengths to genocide it’s followers.
People who think there’s a magical man in the sky are a bit batty, but people who persecute others just for believing in magical sky men are truly off their rockers.
My experience is that the hate is for the ethnic group, not necessarily the religion.
To the people downvoting you: Do you think islamophobes distinguish between Arab Muslims or Arab Atheists when they provoke a scene? Or that antisemites distinguish between practicing Jews and non-believing Jews (who stay in the community for various reasons)?
Ethnicity and religion is intertwined in this case though, in a way that is quite unique. And which is probably significantly influenced by the way Jewish people were treated.
A lot of it is an instinctual response.
Hearing ‘jews this, jews that’ since birth causes people to want to ‘fit in’ and go along with what everyone else is doing even if they don’t understand it.
I was surprised by how much anti-Semitism existed when I went to high school, because I never experienced it before outside of South Park. For everyone else, it was just normal and understood (even if they didn’t support it.) It really cemented the idea in my mind that most people do things without thinking just to fit in with others.
A lot of people who are ethnically Jewish and identify as Jews don’t practice or believe in Judaism.
I come from Jewish parents. I’m an atheist, but I still consider myself Jewish.
My daughter is half-Jewish and I have advised her to tell no one in school because she will get treated differently, especially since this is Indiana.
One year in elementary school, one of her teachers assumed she was Jewish after meeting me (I look as stereotypically Jewish as Woody Allen) and singled her out for it multiple times. She thought she was singling her out for it in a good way, to teach the other kids something for example, but it just made my daughter feel embarrassed and othered.
Most, in fact, they’re one of the least religious ethnic groups globally (something like 75% are agnostic or atheist iirc)
It seems pretty clear a large percentage of the human race associates the actions of any members within an ethnic group as an action by the entire ethnic group. Not 100% culpable, but maybe 60% to 30% depending on age and gender.
Yeah, people don’t seem to realize that culture in Western countries generally is less racist than the global norm (and there is quite a bit of prejudice in Western countries!)
It’s the difference of coming from large multi-ethnic empires. Racism is a serious threat to social cohesion and the functioning of the state.
This is why everyone should stop identifying as a part of a community, and instead identify as an individual
But that doesn’t solve the problem of others identifying you as part of a community and blaming you for it
It stops you from spreading the culture of that yourself though
It also seems that some people embrace violent solutions and feel every other reaction to a problem is not extreme enough.
Antisemitism sucks. So does relentless zionism. Stop accusing all jewish people of being militaristic zionists. Stop comparing Israel to jews. Israel doesn’t represent all jews. Saudi Arabia doesn’t represent all muslims. Russia doesn’t represent all orthodox christians. Being anti Israel doesn’t make you antisemitic. Being antisemitic doesn’t make you anti Israel. Don’t confuse the two. One can cherish jewish people, culture, history and be anti Israel to whatever extent. I’m partly jewish and don’t support Israel for example.
Stop accusing all jewish people of being militaristic zionists.
The UK has been openly hostile towards its Jewish residents for centuries. Some of its highest ranking political leaders are openly anti-semitic. Much of the Zionism of the 19th century was a direct consequence of British state and popular leaders villainizing Jewish residents and businesses in the exact same manner as the Germans did a decade or two later.
Meanwhile, state media wants to tie all Jewish people to the Israeli cause, even going so far as to accuse anti-Israeli jewish people and groups as being anti-semitic themselves and hounding any kind of Palestinian peace activists for being “terrorist sympathizers” by default.
So its sort of a rock-and-hard-place for UK Jews (particularly Hasidic Jews, who categorically reject Zionism) who have had to deal with this kind of state-sanctioned harassment and violence their entire lives, to disassociate from Zionism. Both the anti-Semitic bigots and the pro-Israeli flaks seem intent on tying you to the mast-head of this sinking ship.
Saudi Arabia doesn’t represent all muslims. Russia doesn’t represent all orthodox christians.
That’s been another kind-of annoying habit of mass media. Every Muslim from Minnesota to Mecca gets treated like the most radical orthodox Wahhabist. We’ve got US Senators and British PMs alike waxing poetic about “Radical Islamic Extremism” and demanding every practitioner of the faith make formal public apologizes for whatever nonsense MBS or Ayatollah Khomeini is on about this week.
Similarly, god forbid you know a bit of Cyrillic. People lose their fucking minds over the Russia-Ukraine shit if you’re not on the “right” side (which, at least in American politics, varies entirely based on your domestic ideological leaning).
One can cherish jewish people, culture, history and be anti Israel to whatever extent.
Not according to the western press. You need to pick a fucking side. And then it becomes a competition to be the most rabid and deranged in your support of that side. Otherwise, you’re no better than a traitor.
This is yet another reason why why ANY theocracy, of any denomination, is incompatible with modernity.
Not only does it limit the citizenry’s representation in terms of beliefs and cultural shifts incompatible with the faith within, it creates a common enemy for idiotic, ancient deity dick measuring squabbles from the outside.
I respect a person’s right to pray to whatever pokemon they want. Charizard, Mr. Mime, whoever speaks to your soul or whatever. I don’t respect any person’s right to use the pokemon they pray to as a rational to limit the rights of anyone else for any reason, ok you super serious Pokemon Masters?
Israel isn’t some great line of defense for the Jews, it’s a massive, singular target for the other idiot theocracies in the region that they hate and hate them back to attack, great choice of location by the way if you wanted to feel safe.
Israel is basically the geopolitical equivalent of what John Mclain was coerced to do in Harlem in Die Hard 3, only for Israel it was a choice.
With this line of thinking you could also say it’s the Palestinians choice to be there. Why don’t just make Palestine somewhere else?
Way to easy to paint any criticism about Israel as hatred towards Jews. Lobby groups with big money define the limits of the discourse.
This article is about Jews who aren’t Israeli. Stop derailing the conversation.
It is also about conflating legitimate antisemitic hatred with anti-Zionist sentiments. look at how EU countries are banning Pro Palestine Protest under the pretext that those protesting are systematically anti-Jews. look at how UK’s Suella Braveman is trying to quash any criticism of Israel actions under the banner of antisemitism and is working on passing lopsided authoritarian laws to imprison any critics of Israel’s genocidal records.
can you point out where the article is about the things youre saying its about
saying “anti-Semitism is on the rise” is not equal to saying “anti zionism is anti-semitism”, and recognising that anti-semitism is on the rise says nothing about someones stance on israel, palestine or the genocide going on there
Yes, but we’re the comments made while they were protesting with regard to these events? We’re they actually anti-semitic, or anti-zionist or anti-Israeli? Those are all different things. Israel would say anyone who expresses the latter two opinions is the former, but that just isn’t the case.
Literally saw a comment here the other day saying that Jews think it’s their turn to commit genocide because of the holocaust
You just painted any hatred towards Jews as criticism of Israel and blamed rich lobbyists.
Let’s not make the same mistake, but in reverse.
Antisemitism was never gone but just hidden away.
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This is despicable in every way. Not surprising, but despicable. There’s absolutely no rationale for being anti-semitic in any way shape or form. NONE. I’ve even asked on every forum, what the hell is behind anti-semitism, and why do people wallow in such muck? And I never get any good answer. Because there is none that doesn’t reveal the inane childish bigotry of the responder. There is no more corrupt evil than the sick hatred of other human beings for any reason. That is as low, perverse, and filthy as humans can possibly get.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In countries where figures are available from police or civil society groups, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and South Africa, the pattern is clear: the number of antisemitic incidents has gone up since Oct. 7 by several hundred percent compared with the same period last year.
In the case of the antisemitic incidents, most consist of verbal abuse, online slurs or threats, graffiti, and defacing of Jewish properties, businesses or sites of religious significance.
One common thread is that anger over the deaths of thousands of Palestinians as a result of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is invoked as justification for verbal or physical aggression towards Jews in general, often accompanied by the use of slurs and tropes rooted in the long history of antisemitism.
The most chilling antisemitic incident globally was the storming of an airport in Russia’s Dagestan region on Sunday by an enraged crowd looking for Jews to harm after a flight arrived from Tel Aviv.
Shneor Segal, the chief Ashkenazi rabbi of Azerbaijan, said the incident showed that “antisemites will use any excuse - the current Middle East crisis being just the latest - to terrorise the dwindling numbers of us that still remain” in the Caucasus.
In the United States and Western Europe, authorities have mostly been quick to express strong support for Jewish communities, denounce antisemitism and in some cases reinforce security at relevant locations.
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[All of you leftists calling us Nazis is why we’re acting like Nazis]
It was dumb then, it’s dumb now.
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I mean hating Jews was pretty high up in the Nazi’s priorities.
They are monsters but not sure Nazis makes sense.
I do not think Nazis means specifically them, nazis is just a word that describes nationalists extremists. But i might be wrong.
No it’s not. We have words for them. It’s “nationalist extremists”
It’s literally Nazis. Racist, fascist scum.
I did look it up and i stand corrected.
The Arab citizens of Israel enjoy equal rights and have representation in the parliament. When you admit that “you are not too deep” into this, maybe you should first educate yourself before you start throwing accusations of nazism in Israel? Start with Wikipedia, read the history.
Secular equal representation and theocracy are incompatible. There should be no religious states in modernity, of any denomination. Worship how you like in a nation where a a Buddhist, Muslim, Jew, Christian, atheist, Satanist, and Child of Thanos all get an equal vote in the nation they live in.
They do not have equal rights, that is just objectively false. Here’s an example: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-knesset-passes-law-barring-palestinian-spouses-2022-03-10/
The Knesset often passes laws that disproportionately affect Arab Israelis in a negative way.
That law is about naturalization of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, who are not Israeli citizens.
I think we both agree that the West Bank is not the legal territory of Israel, right?
Naturalisation, by definition, involves people who are not Israeli citizens.
It’s about Arab Israelis who are married to a Palestinian, which is the only group of people not allowed to naturalise to, and I quote, “preserve the Jewishness of Israel”. And of course, Arab Israelis happen to be the one group in Israel who marry Palestinians.
It’s a law designed to prevent the Arab Israelis from naturalising their family members, which is a privilege afforded to the Jewish majority. It’s designed to keep the Arab Israelis a minority. And that’s not speculation, it’s literally claimed to be so by the lawmakers who drafted the law.
Well they sure are trying to concentrate lots of people into sections of the city they can feel free to camp in.
They at least kill their innocents with missiles instead of Zykon
Antisemitism isn’t and was never exclusive to Nazis
Yeah, but if we don’t boil it down to the simplest and most violent response, how do we rile people up emotionally so they stop thinking and only impulsively react?
Lol, we are calling Israelis Nazis now? And I thought calling Zelenski a Nazi was ridiculous.
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Yeah, the anti-semitism didn’t come from WW2 nazis.
There was plenty of anti-semitism outside of Germany at that time. Its one of the big tragedies, and part of the reason that Israel became the defacto “place for Jews”. Because hardly anyone wanted Jewish refugees.
URSS wasn’t perfect
I couldn’t imagine hating someone because they belong to a certain group, a lot of the Jew hate and Palestinian hate I see is just another example of humans being terrible to each other and the justification from both parties just keeps going in circles, both parties justifying violence in a never ending cycle
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