r/JewsOfConscience • u/fleshurinal • Oct 28 '24
Discussion Rising Antisemitism
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.
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u/Cornexclamationpoint Ashkenazi Oct 29 '24
Bad Empanada made a video a couple weeks ago where he made those exact same points. Jews are rich and white, and therefore antisemitism isn't a real problem. I think this comes from the fact that he is a pretty big communist and is engaging in a straightforward argument reeking of class reductionism, so it was still an utterly shit take. He verbatim said that the worst thing most Jews in the US experience is a misspelled name on a starbucks cup. There were a couple people in the comments who tore him a new asshole (and these comments have seemingly since been removed), but the vast majority of people seemed to agree with him.