Hebrew media touts “antisemitic incidents” quite a bit recently, most of them being ordinary anti-genocide rallies/protests/sayings. So I’m not talking about these, obviously.
I do wanna talk about the rest of them: vandalism, physical or verbal attacks directed towards Jews that regard merely their religion/ethnicity and not their views of the genocide.
Have you or your first circle experienced more hostility since Oct 7th? How often do people assume you’re a Zionist after they find out you’re Jewish, and does it happen more often now?
I kinda hope to hear it’s all overblown 🥴 חג שמח!
There has always been antisemitism. Especially from the far right. But now that protesting for Palestine goes against the western narrative, our governments suddenly care about it. The whole ‘antisemitism is on the rise’ is nothing but a smoke screen to target pro Palestinian voices. Otherwise antisemitism would have been taken much more seriously for the last few years or even decades. There is no ‘sudden increase’ as much as there is a reason to lable anything remotely going against the status quo as antisemitism. All the while actual antisemitism gets downplayed as ‘freedom of speech’.
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