I’m was watching a video about a Jewish custom, and the entire comment section was like this
It’s about anti Zionism my ass.
This is the case whenever a post has Hebrew/ Jewish symbols/ etc. it’s obviously not about Israel.
It’s been a while and this just happened again so here are the comments under a video about traditional clothing for orthodox Jewish men
Dozens of hateful antisemitic comments & so many “free Palestine”
Is this antisemitism? Yes.
But these people don't think they're being antisemitic, they think they're arguing for a group of people being oppressed by an apartheid regime, which they are. The main issue at play is that the genocide in Gaza fosters antisemitism in people who are not antisemitic, because Zionists are belligerently intent on inextricably tying Israel to Judaism.
When the Zionist propaganda says Jews = Israel, and the news shows us that Israel = genocide, people will inevitably think Jews = genocide.
The only way to fix this is to stop the genocide and teach people not to conflate the Jewish faith with the actions of the Israeli government.
I love how it's always the fault of those darn Zionists who are tricking the hapless masses into being antisemitic, so those same people never have to take respinbility for their own bigotry
I love how even in your mealy-mouthed lukewarm defense of Jews you can't conceive that the people accusing random Jews of killing children aren't actually trying to innocently criticize Israel, and they're not only being antisemitic by accident
newsflash, dumbfuck, the people who come onto a post about Jewish customs and ask them how many babies they've killed don't "think they're arguing for a group of people being oppressed by an apartheid regime." they think they're attacking Jews whom they view as responsible for Israel's actions, not because of "Zionist propaganda" but because they're racist assholes who are looking for simple explanations to the world's problems. same as always
Bigots always have a story about how they're in the right and their hatred is good and just and righteous. That's...part of the bigotry, in fact.
The fact that this person could say the sentence "fostered antisemitism in people who are not antisemitic" and still think that any of what they're saying makes sense is astonishing.
Psst.
It's because that person agrees and is making excuses.
it's because the people who say this kind of bullshit think that antisemitism is okay so long as it is directed at the "right kind" of Jew. So many people do this shit- say that they don't hate Jews, but they're happily spewing the most antisemitic bullshit you've ever seen, but it's FINE because it's not directed at Jews, it's directed at Zionists!
