Anti-Semitism is on the rise, and not just among high-profile figures

Subduction Zone said:

Which is why many view the Palestinians as victims that were caught in the middle.

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But in that case it is not anti-Semitism....right?

Estro Felino said:

The juridical definition of Anti-Semitism is whenever someone targets the entire Jewry as a monolith and discriminates against them. Or worse.
That is absolutely condemnable. And morally inacceptable.

But what I am scared the most is the notion that sees Jews as a monolith.
It is not. Like in every religion, there are good people (the majority) and bad people (tiny minority).
There are good Catholics and bad Catholics.

It is anti-juridical to consider one single Jew representing an entire race/religion.
It is not a monolith.

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I would disagree with that. It works on the individual level too. If one attacks a person because he was thought to be a Jew that would be anti-Semitism. One does not have to go after everyone in the Jewish faith. And one's victim need not even be a Jew. Think of it this way, if you were Jewish and someone mistook your neighbor as a Jew and attacked him would that make you feel any safer? The threat to you as a Jew would still exist.

Estro Felino said:

But in that case it is not anti-Semitism....right?

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Who? The Palestinians? No, they would still qualify as bein anti-Semitic in their activities even if they are a victim. One can be both,

Subduction Zone said:

I would disagree with that. It works on the individual level too. If one attacks a person because he was thought to be a Jew that would be anti-Semitism. One does not have to go after everyone in the Jewish faith. And one's victim need not even be a Jew. Think of it this way, if you were Jewish and someone mistook your neighbor as a Jew and attacked him would that make you feel any safer? The threat to you as a Jew would still exist.

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You misread me, I am sorry.
That was not my point.
My point was that there are good people and bad people in every religion. Do you agree with this statement?

Subduction Zone said:

Who? The Palestinians? No, they would still qualify as bein anti-Semitic in their activities even if they are a victim. One can be both,

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That's a very sensible approach.

Subduction Zone said:

Which is why many view the Palestinians as victims that were caught in the middle.

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Yes, understandable. Yet, it seems the Palestinians are more victims of and have been used as pawns by those Arab nations which propagate hate and terrorism toward Israel, seeking her annihilation.

Estro Felino said:

You misread me, I am sorry.
That was not my point.
My point was that there are good people and bad people in every religion. Do you agree with this statement?

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Yes, no doubt. Being a member of any religion does not mean that one is not a total donkeyhat or that one is an angel. They all run the gamut.

Subduction Zone said:

Yes, no doubt. Being a member of any religion does not mean that one is not a total donkeyhat or that one is an angel. They all run the gamut.

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My point was that the great majority, the overwhelming majority is good people.

Anti-Semitists are those who target the entire religion, all of them.

Estro Felino said:

My point was that the great majority, the overwhelming majority is good people.

Anti-Semitists are those who target the entire religion, all of them.

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Okay, I think that we both agree on principle, we are just expressing that thought in different ways. I have no problem with your definition .

InChrist said:

I’m sure I can’t come up with a viable solution, either. I have wondered though why the surroundings Arab countries with so much land mass, (compared to tiny Israel) have never offered land to the Palestinians. After all, the Palestinians are of Arab descent.

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That's by design.

Subduction Zone said:

Fighting back with humor can help.

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Whom?

Humor can have some cathartic value within targeted communities -- Richard Prior comes to mind -- but it can also serve to deflect and/or trivialize. Ridiculing antisemitic tropes is clearly better than silence, but I'm not sure that such a throwaway should be confused with "fighting back."

sun rise said:

Some politicians such as MTG have been openly anti-Semitic ("Jewish space laserts" etc) and have been reelected and are going to get their platforms back courtesy of the Republicans taking back the House. I expect more hate from her.

Anti-Semitism is on the rise, and not just among high-profile figures

According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2021 was the highest year on record for documented reports of harassment, vandalism and violence directed against Jews. The watchdog group has tracked these incidents since 1979, and it says 2022 will look a lot like last year.

These record breaking numbers present as part of a consistent, five year upswing in the number of antisemitic incidents, unprecedented in the ADL's three plus decades of data collection. The organization says it's more commonly tracked isolated spikes in a given year, as seen in 1994 and 1981.
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Hate crimes more broadly have also been on the rise over the past few years. Experts sometimes refer to antisemitism as a "canary in the coal mine" for hate generally. Whenever a minority group is blamed for some real or perceived harm, such narratives almost always find ways to also attack Jews based on centuries-old myths about Jewish control and disloyalty.

For those who are upset about Black people demonstrating against racism, or blame a pandemic on anyone who looks Asian, or are angry about the visibility of transgender people or queer culture, Snider says it's a short leap to conspiracist thinking.

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What I have noticed over many years, is the term anti-semitism is a dog whistle used to end all discussion. Unless you are totally with the program, you will be called anti-semitic, thereby not only ending discussion, but making you a stereotypical bad guy. There is no middle ground or room for discussion, since the goal is to end all discussion. It a type of censorship based on shame, guilt and fear.

The political Left has observed how effectively this technique works. They realized they could use this technique to stop discussions, by making people feel guilty and thereby have to walk on eggshells out of fear. The Left has tried to develop similar buzz words to end all discussions, in terms of digging into their questionable social engineering projects; sensitivity police.

All the censorship on Twitter, up to the present, against the Political Right, used this template; hate speech if you disagree with the agenda. This technique is also why censorship was always so one sided. For example, if you did not accept manmade climate change, you were a denier or anti-science even if you were a scientist. If you did not swallow what the Left is preaching in terms of human sexuality, you have a phobia and are a hater. Notice the pattern similarity? You become the bad guy for daring to point anything out; so walk lightly or you will be censored or worse, since we have labeled you as a criminal and a deviant, so evil against you now becomes Leftist righteousness.

Usually when the Left starts the blame game of Anti-semitism, it usually means they are priming the game pump template, so they can shut down discussions, less someone talks openly or points out problems. Twitter is no longer a police censorship force for this, so they are preparing to use the game, to get people to avoid truth, since eggs will be broken and shells may be crunched.

Also notice how this discussion is also trying to point the finger of anti-semitism to the Right even though Trump and the Right were able to find a peace solution in the Middle East. Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize before he starting a war in the middle east; Benghazi and the Arab Spring. Trump created peace between Israel and some of the Arab counties and was award a prize, but the Nobel prize was denied, by the Left. I guess the Nobel Peace Prize is now code for messing things up with scams you cannot talk about.

My guess is with Elan Musk pointing out the one sided censorship on the original Twitter, the Left feels a need to reinforce the anti-semitism technique, to cover their tracks. They know the people on the Right are good god fearing people and these people will try to prove they are good and may unknowing give the Left new room for their scams. My advice is preserve free speech, since all the data is needed to draw the best conclusions. Do not fall for any scam that limit the data, since this is how bad people draw bad curves.

Twilight Hue said:

The sudden shift to pro Palestinian support are among the most notable, admist the ever increasing vilification of Israel's Jews painted as the real villains in the new modern mindset as being the new enemy.

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Well....if Israel stopped being such a villain,
it would lessen the animosity.

Sedim Haba said:

That's by design.

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Are you interested in elaborating your thoughts on the subject?

sun rise said:

Some politicians such as MTG have been openly anti-Semitic ("Jewish space laserts" etc) and have been reelected and are going to get their platforms back courtesy of the Republicans taking back the House. I expect more hate from her.

Anti-Semitism is on the rise, and not just among high-profile figures

According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2021 was the highest year on record for documented reports of harassment, vandalism and violence directed against Jews. The watchdog group has tracked these incidents since 1979, and it says 2022 will look a lot like last year.

These record breaking numbers present as part of a consistent, five year upswing in the number of antisemitic incidents, unprecedented in the ADL's three plus decades of data collection. The organization says it's more commonly tracked isolated spikes in a given year, as seen in 1994 and 1981.
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Hate crimes more broadly have also been on the rise over the past few years. Experts sometimes refer to antisemitism as a "canary in the coal mine" for hate generally. Whenever a minority group is blamed for some real or perceived harm, such narratives almost always find ways to also attack Jews based on centuries-old myths about Jewish control and disloyalty.

For those who are upset about Black people demonstrating against racism, or blame a pandemic on anyone who looks Asian, or are angry about the visibility of transgender people or queer culture, Snider says it's a short leap to conspiracist thinking.

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Why do some people hate Jews so much?