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/newgoliath]

Tl;Dr: it's rising in the imperial core due to stresses on capitalist neoliberlism and the capitalist's response to these stresses in the use of their attack dog, fascism.

Antisemitism, and petty chauvinisms of all kinds, are structural characteristics of class society. They are inseparable and necessary for the existence of class society. They are exacerbated by members of the capitalist class when their position is threatened, either by members of their own class, or rising class conflict.

The ruling class of all historical class societies have significantly invested in, invented, promulgated, and rewarded these chauvinisms in order to exploit oppressed classes against the other. The billions of dollars the Biden administration has invested in policing the US populace is this structural imperative at work.

As Trump as US president felt free to trade in Jewish stereotypes and casual anti-Jewish hate speech, his followers and those unwillingly influenced by him were emboldened and became wrapped up in it. That's how we get mainstream news barely and blandly apologizing for anti-Jewish propaganda, reproducing the "research" of the likes of the ADL.

But how have things changed? Where is the anti-Jewish genocide?

Anti-Jewish ideas depict Jews these days less as sub-human, as were primarily depicted in the 20th and prior centuries, but rather as equal and dangerous "anti-humans.". This gives Zionism its special place in the capitalist imperialist world order. It's an important aspect of the justification for the colonization of Palestine for regional domination and, "as a treat," Christian eschatological cataclysm. In this perverse and malignant ideology, the power of the anti-human Jew is directed by the Christian world against the sub-human brown hordes of West Asia. Some in the West assert that they are seduced or blackmailed into this, others say it's a willing plan. In any case these are a group of ideas frequently reproduced in Western society.

Why less in the Arab world?

As West Asian (not just Arab) nations resisted US-led Imperialism to various levels and measures of success in the 1970s, the tool of these petty chauvinisms as part of the imperialist toolbox became well understood and debunked by the intellectual leadership. It was mostly short-lived, but the social impact of anti-chauvanism in West Asia can still be measured today. Witness the China-assisted rapprochement of Iran and Saudi.