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The fundamental issue at stake in 2026 is this: what does it mean to be a Jew in a global context wherein there is a sovereign Jewish nation-state in Eretz Yisrael?

ariannarosieb:

Historical facts will not cover for Jew hatred.

I do not know who either of these men are, but. :|

Interviewer: “your problem with Jews is what? that they are using the music industry in a way to profit from it, and they’re controlling, but someone’s buying.”

Guest: “my problem with the Jewish community - and mainly, of course, not every Jewish person, but organized Jewry, as a whole. they understand that there is a problem racially in this country, that there’s always gonna be a difference between Blacks and whites. and I think historically, the last hundred years, they have used the racial conditions of this country in order to gain more and more power.”

uclajewishmusic:

We are excited to partner with Hughie Stone Fish in producing another of his brilliant songs. This one is a love letter to all of the Jewish songwriters who have created and continue to create the music we love.

mostly wholesome comments on this for once!

my favorite genre of response are the people just listing names:

Yeah, this is what really kills me when I look up things like the Hebron & Safed Massacre of 1517, 1834, and 1929, or the Jaffa Riots of 1921, Arab Riots of 1936-9, the Tiberias Massacre of 1938, the Farhud of 1941, etc.

I've spoken with multiple Muslims from the Middle East who earnestly tried to explain (in what I think is good faith) that their "loss of land" in 1948 was super traumatic, and wouldn't you do the same in their shoes?

But when I pointed out things like the Hebron & Safed Massacre or the Farhud, they quickly scoffed and brushed it off, like, "Ugh, that again? Why do Jews keep using the Farhud? / When will Jews get over it?"

And I genuinely, earnestly, not snarkily, 100% sincerely believe that a lot of Middle Eastern Muslims are culturally used to attacking and killing Jews whenever the whim suited them, and then brushing it under the rug and pretending it never happened afterwards; and they're simply not used to Jews fighting back or holding them to account, and they genuinely think it's super unfair that Jews keep winning or bringing it up now.

They think, "Ugh, you're still on about that?" because they've gotten over it, so why haven't we?

They've never had to put themselves in someone else's shoes and walk around in it, so they can't put themselves in the Mizrahi Jewish dhimmi's shoes when on the receiving end of a pogrom.

To borrow the Leftist term, "To those accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

but now jews have actual agency in the world and we have the power to retaliate, retaliate hard even, and that simply doesn't register to the islamist mind. it doesn't compute.

Pretty much this. Under the Pact of Umar, Jews were not allowed to own weapons or raise a hand to strike a Muslim under any circumstances (not even in self-defense), so massacring Jews was SUPER EASY because Jews were, by design, an easy target.

This all changed under the British Mandate, when Jews were allowed to own weapons and build militias, and suddenly Jews who embraced British colonial changes (like the end of Muslim dhimmi status) were no longer easy targets.

The guy who coined the term "The Nakba" completely railed against Arabs who talked big about crushing the "Zionist" opposition, but then quickly turned heel and fled the second the enemy started to fight back, embarrassing them all.

The thing is, in 1948 the British and Americans imposed an Embargo against the baby-state of Israel when the seven surrounding Arab nations (Egypt, Gaza, West Bank, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon) attacked in 1948, so Jews had to smuggle weapons from Czechoslovakia. The second Jews were able to fight back, the Arabs who were used to to slaughtering defenseless dhimmi whenever they felt like it were unprepared and quickly fled when their own lives were in danger.

I think Jews being able to own weapons or raise an army or para-militia is a fairly recent development in Middle Eastern history, ever since the British Mandate taken from 400+ year Ottoman rule, so I think a lot of Israel's enemies are stuck in the 1300+ year mindset of, "Jews are weak and easy targets," and then they're shocked, appalled, and flabbergasted that Jews can hit back... and think it's super unfair to them when we do.

Don't worry everyone they are in great company

and it all makes sense because wikipedia thankfully explains it via a footnote:

Thank you, Jewishgay4il! Now I can have a nickname for you that'll be easier to say on the regular: Jewishgay4il, Queen Regnant of the Moon. Queen of the Moon for short.

Anyway, yeah, this is ridiculous.

I'm not a confirmed editor on the English Wikipedia and thus can't have a voice in this conversation. As a matter of fact, talking about it on a Social Media site is probably also disqualifying.

What's their culture? What the fuck are you talking about? Canaanite died hundreds of years before Arabic was spoken. Hebrew existed before Arabic. Why do Palestinians speak Arabic if they're indigenous? What was their original language?

Since apparently they're an original indigenous group? What group is it? What is it called? Name it for me. Show me relics from these people, show me historical sites from these people. Bonus points if it isn't just like, built on top of a synagogue lmao.

i’d like to preface the rest of this by saying that i’m white, i did however pay attention in my history class, and do believe in freedom, respect, and dignity for all

when you guys hear about Supriya leaving, or Shabana not being in the show in the same way (which many took as leaving outright) and you blame Noah Wyle, claiming he made these decisions unilaterally, you are implying he has ultimate control or power over the show and its decisions (which, by the way, is ostensibly false).

i beg for you to consider what that says. what you’re saying is that a Jewish man (because despite how white you believe he is, he is Jewish) holds total control, the puppeteer of the production. you are directly feeding into that antisemitic trope.

this only gets worse when you deem he has a racist, misogynistic vendetta. again, what you are saying, when stripped of the morally righteous facade, is that a Jewish man with a secret plan is controlling your show to enact said plan.

this is not only word for word historical antisemitic tropes seen in nazi propaganda, but it is also the same rhetoric seen in contemporary antisemitism which claims that Jewish people, in particular Jewish men, control the media.

you are, whether intentional or unintentional, well intended or ill intended, consciously or unconsciously, spewing the very same antisemitic dog whistles.

and when Jewish folk call you out on it, or the women of colour who work with Noah Wyle speak positively of him, you ignore it. you cover your ears and keep talking.

or you switch gears and label him a zionist. why? because he’s Jewish, and he’s proud of his Jewish identity, so he must be.. right? (sarcasm) while completely ignoring the hundreds of thousands of anti zionist Jewish people, or the complex nuanced relationships that Jewish diaspora have with the state of israel and its crimes due to propaganda. or, again, you ignore the fact that many people he works with, who speak positively of him and who he speaks positively of as well, have aligned themselves with the pro palestinian movement.

it is also just straight up antisemitic to hear a person is Jewish and immediately assume they must be a zionist.

i’m not here to tell you that you have to love him, you don’t, but we all have a responsibility to not spread hateful, violent, dangerous rhetoric, even when we don’t mean to.

for those who are interested in understanding this more, i want to direct you to, first just listen to Jewish members of the fandom

and also

@club-medical who has labelled themselves as a resource for historical antisemitism as well as antisemitic tropes/conspiracies

two good starting places are HERE and HERE

and

@shakedownstreet73 whose posts (and fic) highlight the multifaceted elements of modern Jewry and Judaism

a great starting post is HERE

i’d like to preface the rest of this by saying that i’m white, i did however pay attention in my history class, and do believe in freedom, respect, and dignity for all

when you guys hear about Supriya leaving, or Shabana not being in the show in the same way (which many took as leaving outright) and you blame Noah Wyle, claiming he made these decisions unilaterally, you are implying he has ultimate control or power over the show and its decisions (which, by the way, is ostensibly false).

i beg for you to consider what that says. what you’re saying is that a Jewish man (because despite how white you believe he is, he is Jewish) holds total control, the puppeteer of the production. you are directly feeding into that antisemitic trope.

this only gets worse when you deem he has a racist, misogynistic vendetta. again, what you are saying, when stripped of the morally righteous facade, is that a Jewish man with a secret plan is controlling your show to enact said plan.

this is not only word for word historical antisemitic tropes seen in nazi propaganda, but it is also the same rhetoric seen in contemporary antisemitism which claims that Jewish people, in particular Jewish men, control the media.

you are, whether intentional or unintentional, well intended or ill intended, consciously or unconsciously, spewing the very same antisemitic dog whistles.

and when Jewish folk call you out on it, or the women of colour who work with Noah Wyle speak positively of him, you ignore it. you cover your ears and keep talking.

or you switch gears and label him a zionist. why? because he’s Jewish, and he’s proud of his Jewish identity, so he must be.. right? (sarcasm) while completely ignoring the hundreds of thousands of anti zionist Jewish people, or the complex nuanced relationships that Jewish diaspora have with the state of israel and its crimes due to propaganda. or, again, you ignore the fact that many people he works with, who speak positively of him and who he speaks positively of as well, have aligned themselves with the pro palestinian movement.

it is also just straight up antisemitic to hear a person is Jewish and immediately assume they must be a zionist.

i’m not here to tell you that you have to love him, you don’t, but we all have a responsibility to not spread hateful, violent, dangerous rhetoric, even when we don’t mean to.

for those who are interested in understanding this more, i want to direct you to, first just listen to Jewish members of the fandom

and also

@club-medical who has labelled themselves as a resource for historical antisemitism as well as antisemitic tropes/conspiracies

two good starting places are HERE and HERE

and

@shakedownstreet73 whose posts (and fic) highlight the multifaceted elements of modern Jewry and Judaism

a great starting post is HERE

“the complex nuanced relationships that Jewish diaspora have with the state of israel and its crimes due to propaganda”

Implying that only Jews are propagandized or manipulated about this is just inaccurate. I say this as a Jewish fan of this show, so I hope the ask to listen to us is in fact genuine. The antisemitic tropes correctly described above are the evidence of propaganda and manipulation. It’s not a jump that those same people could be manipulated about their perception of the only Jewish country in the world and all the people who live there.

Perhaps everyone should reflect on whether they have been propagandized about this: for falling into antisemitic tropes and thinking long systemic in the world, AND if they are subject to antizionist propaganda as well.

The very definition of Zionism bandied about so easily is not even the term used by most that identify with it.

I'm a thief. I steal. I break the rules. Sometimes I break the rules because the rules let people get hurt. No. The rules say it's okay to hurt people. To be cruel. And it's not. People need to be kind. And if they're not kind, I will steal their stuff and Eliot will punch them in the face until they are kind. But the main to do this my way is...it's our way. And doing this lets us be us. And that's enough.

Beth Riesgraf as Parker in season 3 of Leverage: Redemption (2021-2025) created by John Rogers and Chris Downey

This one just about kneecapped me, though.

For context: I'm researching a list of every pogrom and massacre and anti-Jewish riot in the past 200 years.

It's already just annual mass murders peppered with, "At the time, this country had limited Jews to only 6 years of school, and school exams were purposely held on Shabbat, and also they were just getting beat up in the streets all the time?"

And yet, one bullet point still managed to jump out and sucker-punch me a lil bit.

Those examples I just gave were ALL from Syria.

Now, first of all: In 1947, Syria had a 2,500-year-old Jewish community.

This painting of Moses parting the Red Sea is from the Dura-Europos synagogue in Syria that was in use about 1,800 years ago.

Then the United Nations voted to create Israel and Palestine. And Aleppo rioted against its own Jews.

Rioters killed at least 75 Jews; set ten synagogues, five Jewish schools, a Jewish orphanage, a Jewish youth club, several Jewish shops, and 150 Jewish homes ablaze, destroying them. Thousands of Jews illegally fled Syria, including half of those living in Aleppo.

The Aleppo Codex, also called the Crown of Aleppo, disappeared for a decade. It was the earliest known Hebrew manuscript comprising the full text of the Torah. And, as the Israel Museum puts it, it was also "the most authoritative, accurate, and sacred source document, both for the biblical text and for its vocalization, cantillation and Masorah (literally, 'transmission' of the Bible, the oral and written tradition by which the Holy Scriptures have been preserved and passed on from generation to generation).... It was probably the manuscript used by Maimonides when he set down the exact rules for writing scrolls of the Torah."

When it resurfaced, 40% of its pages were missing.

But that's nothing.

You see, Arab Palestine was plagued by a godawful fascist the Brits had installed as a leader in 1921 -- before anyone knew what a Nazi war criminal was, much less that this guy would become one.

His name was Amin al-Husseini. And instead of having Palestine declare independence alongside Israel in 1948, he got all the surrounding countries to invade en masse and try to destroy it. To reclaim the land for the Arab world. Including Syria.

Syria was not a hard sell. It was voluntarily harboring a major Nazi war criminal: SS captain Alois Brunner, who rounded up and deported the Jews of occupied Austria, Greece, Macedonia, France, and Slovakia.

In fact, Syria was SO on board with al-Husseini's plan that it ALSO introduced a whole bunch of new laws for Syrian Jews!

It stripped them of Syrian citizenship. It shut down Jewish schools. They couldn't have driver's licenses. Or passports. Or buy real estate.

In 1949, it seized Jewish bank accounts. The following year, it banned them from working in agriculture too.

They had to be inside by 10 pm. They couldn't work in public service, in public institutions or in banks. People who worked in the government/military were forbidden from buying anything in Jewish shops.

And Jews were very much forbidden to leave Syria.

They could travel for business or health... if they received permission from the Mukhabarat (secret police), left family members behind to essentially serve as hostages, and left a deposit of $6,000 with the government.

Many people managed to flee the country anyway.

If your kids managed to flee, the Mukhabarat would torture you, and possibly imprison you for several years. Some people died from torture long before it got to that point.

There were repeated instances of Jews getting caught escaping the country and being not only murdered, but dismembered.

(In 1958, when Egypt and Syria briefly joined forces, the curfew became even worse. Now it was at 7 pm. And the Mukhabarat would arrest and torture any Jews who didn't make it home.)

You might wonder why Syria kept them there if it hated them so much. The answer is twofold.

First, along with the rest of the Arab League, it had invaded Israel in an attempt to reclaim the land for the Arab world, and failed. It didn't want its Jews to go strengthen Israel.

And second: for a while, it was more profitable to keep them there and exploit them.

In 1953, and again in 1958, Syria temporarily allowed Jews to emigrate.

But only as long as they handed over all their property to the Syrian government first.

(See?)

All of this mirrored not only what other Arab countries were doing, but much of what the Nazis had done in the 1930s. They stripped Jews of their citizenship, their businesses, their jobs, their bank accounts, and forced them to leave their money and property for the Nazi government if they managed to flee.

In 1964, Jews were prohibited from going further than 3 km (less than 2 miles) from their homes without getting special permits from the Mukhabarat.

In 1973, Jews were forbidden to own radios or telephones, or to maintain postal contact with outside world.

Plus, there was constant intense violence against them.

One Syrian Jew described going to the funeral for a neighbor who had been shot, point-blank, by a random Arab man who just knocked on his door and immediately killed him. (And also described having been aggressively questioned by secret police at that same funeral.)

There were many, many murders of Jews which went unremarked and uninvestigated.

But what got me was one last twist.

When Jews died, their property was confiscated by the Syrian government. If their heirs could afford to lease their homes from the government, they were allowed to.

If they couldn't, the property was handed over to the Palestinian refugees in Syria.

So just to summarize:

The Syrian government, along with every other surrounding country (plus Iraq) invaded Israel to reclaim the land for the Arab world. It failed.

It took revenge on the Syrian Jews, who by definition weren't in Israel.

The Syrian government targeted a Jewish population that had been there for at least 2,500 years.

There was widespread, extremely violent antisemitism. Intense restrictions on who could buy from Jewish shops. On what jobs Jews could have.

Jews were demonized. Deliberately forced into poverty and out of their family homes. They were isolated from the world. They were killed for everything from leaving the country to answering the door.

And once they left their homes, left the country, or were killed, it gave their homes to Palestinian refugees.

There were as many as 35,000 Jews in Syria and Lebanon in 1928 - almost entirely in Syria. The population dropped rapidly when the persecution started: by 1957 there were 5,400. In 1989, only 4,000 were left: 90% had fled. Today, there are somewhere between 4 and 100, depending on whose guess you go with. Syria has successfully ethnically cleansed over 99% of its Jews.

But here's the thing about that plot twist.

At most, 75,000 of the Palestinian refugees went to Syria. The numbers are impossible to fully track; there's great research about how many people left, but not so much on where they each ended up. It could have been significantly lower.

In fact - setting aside, for the moment, the fact that at least four other countries had invaded with it, and at least - hang on, let me count -

at least 10 other countries Acting Like This who hadn't even been involved in the 1948 war -

Basically, Syria started a war to yeet the Jews that displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. And then it turned around and yeeted and attacked its own Jews, confiscated their homes, and gave those to Palestinians.

You can kind of see this as compensation. Maybe. If you squint real hard, tilt your head 39 degrees to the right, and see the presence of Jews as the sole actual problem here.

This is why the social media version of this history is such a successful mindfuck.

It's so far off from the truth, and leaves out such an incredible amount of what happened, that it's almost impossible to counter.

People confidently claim that the Zionists invaded in 1948; that the Zionists attacked in 1948; or that Britain gave Jews the land as some kind of pity gift for the Holocaust.

Nobody has any idea that Britain watched every other country on earth agree that the Jews were about to get killed off if someone didn't take in Jewish refugees - someone else, not any of them - and then turned around and effectively banned Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1939. That it even made boats full of Holocaust refugees turn around and go back to Europe. That sometimes, it just unloaded them and put everyone in its own detention camps.

That if it had followed the League of Nations Mandate for this little chunk of former Ottoman Empire land, and encouraged Jewish immigration, it could have taken in all the 6,000,000 Jews who were instead slaughtered.

Yes, fine, that would have quadrupled the population of the entire country, caused immediate food rationing and massive refugee camps, and terminally pissed off Amin al-Husseini, but it would also have saved six million lives.

Nobody knows, somehow, that Palestine was supposed to be, mandated to be, a place where both Arabs and Jews lived in equality and shared in governing. Or that (if you prefer a two-state solution) it was supposed to be partitioned into Israel and Palestine in 1947. After al-Husseini attacked enough people that Britain gave up on the Mandate.

Nobody knows or wants to believe that no, there wasn't a good fucking reason for all these countries to invade. That THIS was where colonialism and imperialism came in.

When 1,300 years of empire ends, and people who have been marginalized under it get rights, there is an inevitable backlash.

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“The Elders of Zion […] rule the world and do not like Hitler and are doing all they can to overthrow him.”

this just sounds like:

and all the other AIPAC/Zios/Mossad/elites/insert dog whistle here conspiracies running rampant right now.

you would think that facts and logic would prevail through the record of history. there were no Elders of Zion controlling anything. (((they))) did not stop Hitler and the industrial murder machine of the Holocaust. there’s no secret (((cabal))) puppeteering the world, no ZOG, no Jewish space lasers or genies or secretly engineered spy pigeons. facts and logic would seemingly make this easy to understand.

this hatred is not about Medinat Yisrael. yes, there are many problems there, from corrupt/criminal politicians to growing radicalism to violence to societal unrest to ptsd, etc, and those need to be addressed, which is true of most countries on this earth, but those aren’t the reasons for the hatred and the disinformation and the historical revisionism and the cultural erasure. the domestic issues of a nation roughly the size of New Jersey, or even of the conduct, casualties, and destruction as consequences of a terrible war, are not the reason that every comment section on every social media site (sometimes on posts that have nothing to do with Jews!) are brimming with judenhass. they are not the reason that Jews in cities across the world are afraid to openly wear Stars of David and are accosted on the street. that’s just the convenient excuse. the diaspora is sick with antisemitism. it is sick with extremism and the vaunting of demagoguery.

people online celebrating and justifying wholesale slaughter, be that on a kibbutz or a beach in Australia, use political jargon as a cover, thinking it masks the rot underneath the helpful buzzwords. it doesn’t, it’s the same hatred it’s always been.

Several countries can claim some credit for the tentative memorandum of understanding to end the war between Iran and the United States, which officials from both countries plan to sign later this week. Pakistan had for some time led negotiations. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Oman were involved in elements of the talks. But to hear Donald Trump tell the story, the whole deal might not have materialized without the intervention of a crucial friend in the neighborhood. “Working with Qatar and the people of Qatar was really a pleasure,” Trump reflected today as he met with the Qatari emir on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian, France. “They were tough; they were strong. You know, they are the closest to Iran physically. So with other countries, I noticed they had to travel about 45 minutes to get there. With you, you could walk right across the border.” Not quite. A roughly 100-mile stretch of the Persian Gulf separates Qatar from Iran. The Qataris are skilled negotiators, but they do not walk on water. That water, in fact, is essential. What’s underneath it forms the basis of Qatar’s unique relationship with Iran: the single largest deposit of natural gas on the planet, which extends into each country’s territory. And the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has effectively controlled for the past four months of war, is the sole transit point for the liquefied natural gas that fuels Qatar’s economy and has helped make its tiny population among the richest per capita in the world. Perhaps no country was better suited than Qatar to open a channel of communication between Iran and the United States. Qatar hosts the largest American military base in the Middle East, and for three decades, Washington has been its most important global ally. Before the war began, Qatari officials were in Tehran trying to broker meetings with the Trump administration to preempt the conflict. “I do have to say, you fought and you helped us and with great bravery,” Trump told the emir, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who sat impassively, dressed in a sober gray suit. “So I just want to compliment you on that, and, uh, you’ll always be my friend.” It was not hard to imagine the screams emanating from Jerusalem and Riyadh. Qatar’s regional rivals have long seen Doha as a political and financial enabler of Iran-backed extremism throughout the Middle East. Qatar characterizes its ties to Tehran as a relationship of necessity, based on geography and shared economic interests, but its neighbors see something far more cynical and sinister. What Doha calls neutrality in its foreign policy, they call hedging bets and buying influence, particularly through lobbying spending in Washington that is out of proportion for a country of only about 300,000 citizens. Qatar’s gift to Trump of a luxury jetliner last year was such an ostentatious display of influence that it chagrined even some Qatari officials. (The country insists that it always intended to sell the plane, valued at about $400 million, to the Defense Department.) Qatar’s diplomatic and cultural ties to Iran, as well as its decision to host the political offices of Hamas, make it a unique troublemaker in Israel’s eyes. Allies of the plucky peninsula acknowledge that it plays all sides, but they also say that Qatar does this better than anyone. “The Qataris are the best diplomats in the region,” one U.S. official told my colleague Vivian Salama. Qatar’s credibility with the Trump administration gave it leverage in Tehran: “By empowering them, the people in Iran who wanted to make a deal took them seriously,” the official said.

Pink goes good with green. Goes "well" with green.

she has every right to criticize and object to the Israeli government and the war, as do we all, but I think I’m just…really sad and exhausted, because this is how she chose to respond to being called a “Zionist bitch” on the street - not by saying that it’s wrong and that the global antisemitism is out of control, but by appeasing the people who are inflaming and encouraging it, right down to playing into Holocaust inversion. I’m just sad that nobody has the fortitude to address what’s happening and that allies discard the Jewish community so easily.

specifically:

“The evil forces, they arise everywhere, don’t they? Even in a country like Israel where you think, ‘My God, this is what happened to you as a people. How can you possibly repeat the actions of what was done to you as a people to another people?’”

war crimes have most assuredly happened and that is condemnable, but “repeat the actions” suggests parity with the Shoah.

“Genghis Khan. Why is he remembered in history? Because with incredible brutality and unbelievable cruelty, he took land. And so, it devastates me. That’s what I mean. The evil is always lurking, waiting to take over, even in a place like Israel,’ she added.

“You know, I played Golda Meir….and that was the idealistic Israel… I always thought, Israel is a country that will never do wrong. But, of course, they were doing wrong even then. All I can say is I believe in Shakespeare. That’s all I can say.”

Shakespeare believed in antisemitism too, Helen, what does this even mean?

what gets me is she does address it, but in the way that doesn’t at all condemn it:

Mirren acknowledged there had been a rise in anti-semitism in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks by Hamas on Southern Israel and resulting devastating Israeli military campaign in Gaza.

“The rise of anti Semitism is so easy. What the government in Israel has done is so destructive to Israel and to our understanding and our potential love for Israel. It’s so awful, so destructive,” she said.

I agree that the current government has been destructive to Israelis and Palestinians alike, and destructive to the good of Israel, but she doesn’t outright say how terrible and wrong the resultant antisemitism is. she says it’s “easy” and then blames it on the Israeli government rather than on the violent antisemites attacking people, even in her own home country. no one ever calls out the bigots who are actually committing these acts and directing their vengeance, vitriol, and prejudice against random Jews and Jewish places like synagogues and Holocaust museums. she’s deflecting all of it because she doesn’t want the blowback, she doesn’t have the courage to stand firm. it’s basically saying, “yes, sure, the antisemitism has happened, but it’s their own fault.”

she even with “self-irony” recounted that she “has many Jewish friends” and Jewish exes, and there’s such a fundamental disconnect and misunderstanding of how antisemitism works and why people should be brave enough to acknowledge that it’s unacceptable.