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Anyway, the professor appreciated my comment but finished her response to my comment with a critique which was "...And of course, there's no such thing as left-wing antisemitism."

That's funny, I don't see you criticizing Russia the same way. I don't see you criticizing China the same way. Afghanistan. Syria. Yemen. Iraq. Iran. Turkmenistan. North Korea. The list goes on

That's funny, I don't see you criticizing Russia the same way. I don't see you criticizing China the same way. Afghanistan. Syria. Yemen. Iraq. Iran. Turkmenistan. North Korea. The list goes on

That's interesting as I'm russian myself, dumbass, tell me more about how we, russians, are firebombed at protests, blocked from student campuses, called baby killers, vermin, how russian neighborhoods are filled with people screaming for our blood, how random russians are blocked from cafes and stopped in the streets and harassed over Putin's war simply because they're russian.

Ну давай. Расскажи мне, русскому человеку, о притеснениях русских иммигрантов. Может ещё заведешь мне путинскую шарманку, про то, как русскоязычных везде притесняют и обижают, а? Ну так, если совсем мозгов нет. А судя по тебе мозгов реально нет и вряд ли когда-то были

That's funny, I don't see you criticizing Russia the same way. I don't see you criticizing China the same way. Afghanistan. Syria. Yemen. Iraq. Iran. Turkmenistan. North Korea. The list goes on

True, but you're calling Jews baby eaters.

But you're calling Jews genocidal in their dna.

But you're calling Jews globalists/aipac money, hungry for power people

But you're calling Jews pedophiles

But you're calling Jews vermin

This submission by a rare Arab atheist says something Western media almost never admits:

In Arabic, ordinary Arabs barely even discuss the “two-state solution.”

Not as a serious option. Not as a public debate. Not even as something to reject. It mostly exists in official speeches aimed at Western audiences.

I used to believe in that two state delusion too.

Then Israel offered, in the 2000s, almost everything Westerners keep saying the Palestinians want: all of Gaza, roughly 96% of the West Bank, a road connecting them under their control, and even parts of Jerusalem.

The answer was not peace.

The answer was the Second Intifada. Years of suicide bombings, shootings, buses exploding, cafés blown up, and Israeli civilians murdered in the streets.

At some point people need to ask the obvious question:

How can so many Westerners still be this detached from reality? Even after October 7?

And why is their media constantly lying to them about what Arab societies actually believe?

As someone who has dedicated their life to history and is actively pursuing becoming a professional historian, the way I have approached fighting antisemitism has always naturally taken a historical focus. Here is what I can tell you from my debate experiences:

No matter how much history and historical proof I shared, if an individual just hated Jews, there was no reasoning with them; nothing will change their mind. We could build a time machine and bring them back to the 11th century BCE to the Kingdom of Israel or the 6th century BCE to the building of the Second Temple, and they still will never admit to Jewish indigeneity and connection to the land. You can show them all the demographic information of the population of modern Israel, and they will still say everyone is a "European Settler". I can have a fruitful converstations and debates with people who recognizes our connection to the land, its history, and its importance to us, but who are opposed to the modern state. But someone who simply hates Jews or hates being Jewish (Because this is also unfortunately common), I have had to learn the hard way that I can not let it get to me when I can not reason with them. This is not to say we should stop trying, challenging these thoughts still has value if it exposes others listening or reading to knowledge. But I have had to remind myself that it is not that I am not doing enough, it's that hatred truly blinds people.