Rising Antisemitism

[u/fleshurinal]

I have witnessed so much antisemitism everytime I go online it's starting to become worrying. I see non Jewish leftists say that antisemitism isn't a real problem for Jews in America, usually being boiled down to "most Jews are white, rich, and have never experienced antisemitic violence physically". Yet antisemitism is rising and is a real problem that we should still consider in this time of jewish identity being weaponized and the jewish supremacy that is enacted in Occupied Palestine. Stating "most jews are white" seems harmful and also just false. Also Jews have always been hesitant to be apart of surveys so it's hard to find legitimate info on these things. Am I alone in this?

EDIT: I am not talking about any specific statistics or surveys. This is based on what I've personally seen scrolling on social media. I understand/agree there isn't a clear way to see that based on largely pro zionist orgs. EDIT PT 2: I am not saying that Pro Palestinian sentiment is antisemitism. I am talking about LEGITIMATE antisemitism. This is not a post talking about false accusations of antisemitism based in Zionism.

[u/acacia_tree]

Nobody is saying that we as an entire community don’t deserve criticism for Zionism since the majority of the community is Zionist. This doesn’t negate the fact though that there is actual old fashioned Jew hatred being spread by opportunistic Neo-Nazis and white supremacists on the internet. A few weeks ago Neo-Nazis were spreading a conspiracy theory that Jewish FEMA administrators were misusing government money to send to Haitian immigrants, which is Great Replacement theory. This is a real problem. Six years ago Jewish people were massacred by a shooter who believed in Great Replacement theory. Antisemitism does exist outside of the context of Israel. Anti-zionist Jews should not be thrown under the bus because of Zionist Jews.

[u/mr-dr → u/acacia_tree]

Sure, and I would argue "who cares" since we are not in a position where antisemitism affects our material conditions. We do not get disproportionately shot by police, we do not get different hiring practices, we do not get redlined, we do not get systemically attacked the way other groups do. I don't see the issue of anti-zionist jews being thrown under the bus as a serious threat because that bus isnt even moving, theres just some crazy people trying to stuff themselves under its wheels and unless you're an idiot you're not going to end up like them. All you have to do as a jew to avoid supposed anti-semitism is show compassion for Palestinians and acknowledge that apartheid ethnostates are always bad. Nobody is out here asking for anything more.
If anti-semites can come up with conspiracy theories about us, surely some of us are also making up conspiracy theories about them, and its important for us to call that out rather than remaining silent otherwise things continue escalating.

[u/mr-dr → u/mr-dr]

Started typing this in response to a deleted comment by the time i was done, and wanted to keep it here:

I reject the idea that our fear and discomfort deserves more time and attention than the genocide happening in our name. The fact that there is so much Islamophobia and dehumanization of Palestinians in this country and we are still pissing ourselves over the potential for our body to be in even slight danger by some phantom menace is why I am to ashamed of us right now.

[u/acacia_tree → u/mr-dr]

Nobody but Zionists are saying that our fear and discomfort deserves more time and attention than a genocide is happening in our name. *Fighting Zionism and stopping the genocide, abolishing Israel is the number one priority.\* But pretending antisemitism doesn't exist is overcompensating for this fact and gives fuel to Zionists who say that we hate ourselves or that we excuse antisemitism to be "good jews"