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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”

againstpuns

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.

slyandthefamilybook

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

thebrightestwitchofherage

darkladynyara

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.

cassavanse

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.

hazel2468

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!

thebrightestwitchofherage

Exactly!!! Just because you replace the word “ Jews” with another word , doesn’t make it less antisemitic . Also, they’re always misinterpreting/ misusing “Zionist”.

Ps can I use the meme as a reaction here?

pagecommando

Everything before the "But" is invalidated by the paragraphs of justification after the "but" While the October 7 attacks were ongoing, governments and police around the world rallied to protect Jews and Jewish sites. Because they knew those attacks would spur more in the diaspora. And they were right. People celebrated it and targeted Jews. And people like this poster help them justify celebrating it and hating Jews by lying and excusing it. You don't need to rebut the rest of their morally and intellectually weak argument. You just need to see they "Yes, but" and watch them strip humanity away from Jews and agency away from non-jews because all things are justified for the Fandom-Cult omnicause running on decayed Nazi/Tsarist/Soviet software. Jews don't cause antisemitism. Israelis don't cause antisemitism. Losers like this person cause antisemitism because it's a loser ideology that lets you blame the same people you and your parents and grandparents always did, do no work on yourself, and never take meaningful responsibility for your failures to be a moral human being. This person will not form a human chain around a synagogue unless it is to harass or burn it, they will not shut their friends down when they spew conspiracist bullshit that makes Jews less safe. They will simply blame "the Bad Jews" and do nothing while patting themselves on the back and hoping that the panopticon-fandom they enable never comes for them.

ragnarokascendant

We didn't allow 'economic anxiety' or 'those mean woke leftists calling us a nazi so I'll just be one' be excuses for the right wing's racism, why the FUCK is it somehow acceptable to be an antisemite on the left 'because Israel'?!

(I know why. I know why and I'm fucking pissed off at the entirety of the left wing rocketing straight into this bullshit when it would be clearly and obviously wrong. We should've been better than this.)

carnelianfoxx

Piracy is a “victimless crime”? Idk i was kinda hoping there would be a victim. I want the mouse dead

assasinationbycarscoveredinhamrs

weirdtranssexual

“it is antisemitic to automatically assume a jew is a zionist”

it is antisemitic to automatically assume that being a zionist — defined as the belief that jews have a right to self determination in their ancestral homeland — makes someone a bad nasty evil genocidal bloodthirsty killer actually

hope this helps

sasheneskywalker

i made a guide to help with ao3 tagging :)

pipe-dream-of-a-tadpole

I live and die by the bit

That, on one hand, makes it extremely entertaining to watch people lose their minds over my actions.

On the other, if asked to choose between two funny things I may actually split like an atom and cause comparable amounts of destruction while popping like a glitter bomb.

rainformation

formative years? aren’t they all?

absolutejamer

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

luchigeon

expectations

ocekitameo

🐶🐱 hello

i-can-kazoo

I do think part of the problem is not knowing who to trust. The circle gets smaller, and so you circle your wagons, but there is going to be a nagging possibility that someone there, someone in your safe camp, wants you dead. They probably don't think of it that way, they don't think of you specifically as the enemy. But one day you will say something that marks you as the enemy, and the safe camp will not be safe anymore. So even safe, even among trustworthy allies, you walk on eggshells.

i-can-kazoo

the person who wants you dead will consider you a close friend, because they only see you when you tiptoe around the big topics — the ones that would mark you. You have a choice to make every time you interact with someone. Do you pretend that they are verifiably allied? Or do you test the waters? Testing can be dangerous, even if someone does not want you dead. They might be offended by the idea of being tested. They might leave, and your circle will be that much smaller.

redladypaige

Another anti-zionist L:

They discovered that a game publishing company is ran by the daughter of Larry Ellison, the CEO of oracle and a known supoorter of Israel (he's a shitty person but that's not the point here)

So OP really tries to find proof that the daughter is also a supporter of Israel.

And the only thing they find is her helping publisb a documentary about a terror attack in Israel.

Like they couldn't pick a nicer thing for her - helping to get the voices of terrorist victims heard - but for them it's condemnation.

BTW - later in the thread people post proof that unlike her father she is progressive anti-trumper. Not enough for them. Wonder why?

So now they either boycott some of the best games this decade (Outer Wilds, Neon White, What Remains Of Edith Finch are all amazing), or they encourage pirating them - because they're fine that those indie devs won't get paid if it means that someone who doesn't hate Israel doesn't get either.