Antisemitism is bad actually

I don't want to flood my main blog with examples of Jew hate, aka antisemitism. But I want to keep them for reference somewhere. So here they go. Not a comprehensive catalog of antisemitic shit that happens on Tumblr. Please don't follow me if it's going to contribute to anxiety, depression, etc. You can always bookmark my blog to visit when you're in the right headspace. That way you won't have antisemitism randomly appearing on your dash.

[examples-of-antisemitism]

What is antisemitism? Antisemitism refers to prejudice, discrimination or hostility directed at Jewish people. It is generally based on negative stereotypes, myths, or misinformation about Jews, Judaism or Jewish identity. Antisemitism can range from offensive or biased comments and behavior based on that person’s Jewish identity (or perceived identity), to language, rhetoric or actions that demonize, delegitimize or apply a double standard to the Jewish state, Zionism and Zionists. It can also include physical aggression or acts of vandalism targeting Jewish people or institutions. Antisemitism sometimes targets Jews not as individuals but as a collective – whether that is Jewish organizations, movements like Zionism or the Jewish State of Israel. A tool that can be helpful in understanding antisemitism is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance or IHRA definition. What is anti-Zionism? Zionism is the movement for self-determination and statehood of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel. By contrast, anti-Zionism rejects Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and downplays or negates the nearly 4,000-year Jewish connection to the land of Israel. Anti-Zionism is antisemitic, in intent or effect, and can take on several different forms, including:

• Targeting, vilifying or punishing Jews, Jewish institutions or others who feel a connection to Israel.  • Applying classic antisemitic tropes to the Jewish state. • Exploiting Jewish trauma by invoking the Holocaust in order to position Israel as akin to Nazis. • Rendering Jews less worthy of nationhood and self-determination than other peoples. Anti-Zionism is distinct from criticism of the policies or actions of the government of Israel in that it attacks the foundational legitimacy of Jewish self-determination and statehood. Some people may mistakenly use the term anti-Zionism to describe those who oppose specific policies of the Israeli government, but who still uphold and support Israel’s right to exist. Is criticism of Israeli policies antisemitic? In most cases, it is perfectly acceptable to criticize the policies and actions of the Israeli government, just as one can criticize the actions of the US or any other government. Israel is a country like any other, and much like all governments around the world, the Israeli government enacts policies that range from laudable to condemnable. There are a wide range of views regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and vigorous debate and activism on this complex situation is an important component of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas. And indeed, many Israelis and Jews around the world have at times expressed criticism of Israeli government policies yet do so as committed Zionists. At the same time, criticism of Israel can be antisemitic if the criticism includes anti-Jewish rhetoric, promotes views aimed at delegitimizing Israel and Jewish nationhood, or uses language or slogans that demonize the Jewish State and its supporters.

from https://www.adl.org/resources/tools-and-strategies/understanding-antisemitism-and-anti-zionism

Resources

Just a few resources I have found helpful. Not comprehensive. Feel free to suggest additions!

Internet

Guide to reporting hate speech and harassment on social media platforms: https://www.adl.org/online-hate-and-harassment-safety-guide

"Overt Antisemitic and Extreme Anti-Israel Rhetoric Continue to Spike After U.S. Strikes Iran Nuclear Sites": https://www.adl.org/resources/article/overt-antisemitic-and-extreme-anti-israel-rhetoric-continue-spike-after-us

Antisemitic Conflation: What Is the Impact of Conflating All Jews with the Actions and Policies of the Israeli Government? https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/antisemitic-conflation-what-impact-conflating-all-jews-actions-policies-israeli

Campus Antisemitism Report Card (annual, rates US secondary school campuses): https://www.adl.org/campus-antisemitism-report-card

Books

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

Tumblr

I reblog/create informational posts in my #about antisemitism tag.

[thatjewishteen]

mamdani says he won’t attend the israel day parade because he can’t support a state that prioritizes one religion over another and then turns around and attends a pakistani independence day event lmfao what a joke

[torix-gaming]

"It's ok when I do it" must be like, his favorite inner mantra.

[riflebrass]

Poor choice of words but do we expect jews to participate in muslim celebrations? Both sides hate each other with a passion.

[thatjewishteen]

if his identity as a muslim prevents him from supporting public secular jewish celebrations within his city, he has no business being mayor of the second most jewish city.

fundamentally, it’s the inconsistency for me. mamdani has no connection to pakistan—he is ethnically indian (gujurati??). he isn’t at the pakistani celebration for personal connections. he’s there because he’s making his values clear.

[gogogadgetgolem]

If I were the mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan - the only Muslim majority city in the US, You bet my Jewish ass would be attending their secular, cultural celebrations. That’s part of the gig. To actually engage with the community you serve.

Mamdani has been alienating his Jewish constituents since day one.

[dodgeandburnt]

Remember this map mamdanis administration put out that sparked outrage for ignoring little Italy? Well how the hell do you forget the humongous Jewish community in Williamsburg where most of the signs are in Hebrew?

[sole-e-acqua]

"He's got to be fair to everybody, and he is not fair to everybody. He is not fair to the Jewish people, which he makes everybody notice"

[chutzpahchesed]

it really doesn’t matter where someone is from, as we’ve seen/heard similar comments from people of varying races and nationalities all over the world - if someone’s reaction to meeting Jewish people is to say that “Hitler should have finished the job,” they shouldn’t pretend to be concerned about humanitarian issues anywhere. they are the Nazi. they are the one with genocidal desires. they might as well own it.

[chutzpahchesed]

P!nk has spoken proudly of her Jewish heritage, so even though she’s also posted thoughtfully multiple times about the plight of children in Gaza and her desire for peace in the region, the fact that she doesn’t renounce her identity nor cut off her other Jewish and Israeli friends makes her contaminated. the unwillingness to distinguish between those varying positions is the point. it’s funny because they’ll accuse Jews of conflating the Jewish community and the Israeli government when they actually are the central perpetrators of that.

[chutzpahchesed]

politicaljew:

You are being lied to by a bunch of populists who think you're stupid.

U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts | Council on Foreign Relations

Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military assistance. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny o

[redandcherrywined]

a canon event:

people: shooting kids in the head execution style is disgusting and immoral and wrong. starving people is wrong. carpet bombing a densely populated area is wrong. indiscriminate killing is wrong. rape is wrong.

zionists: that's antisemitic

really says more about what zionists believe jewish values are.

[thisaccountdestroysfascists]

Ah got it Oct 7 is justifiable because Jews are dogs! That's just like how they justified the Holocaust!

Sorry, Goebbels, but that's not how it works. Genocide is wrong, simple as, and if you can't condemn it then I don't believe you care about kids getting shot in the head like Hamas did on Oct 7, humans being starved to death like the hostages were by Hamas, carpet bombing densely populated areas like Hamas and Hezbollah has done on a near-daily basis for decades forcing Israel to invest billions into the iron dome system which still only gets 9/10 targets, indiscriminate killing like what Hamas and Hezbollah have done for decades to Israelis by carbet bombing and suicide bombing Israeli population centers, or rape like Hamas did on Oct 7 and to hostages for years afterwards.

You don't care about any of those things.

You just want to justify doing exactly all those things to Jews.

That's why you're an antisemite. Not because you believe those actions are wrong, but because believe those actions are completely acceptable if Jews are the targets.

Hope that helps, Goebbels!

[thisaccountdestroysfascists]

Lol

[chutzpahchesed]

When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:

Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."

First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.

On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."

Not one of the 18 is Jewish.

Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.

It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.

Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.

On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.

My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.

We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.

In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.

No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.

To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.

But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.

The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.

If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.

[mariacallous]

[pinemartendiaries]

context below:

this is the schedule for féile, an irish community arts festival.

misleading: the 1pm lecture, "ridding the land of pestilence," was not about israel/palestine, or jews, whatsoever.

not misleading: all of the other events seem to be exactly what one would imagine based on the titles, including "the weaponization of antisemitism." wieland hoban, the speaker, was giving a talk on his book (which shares names w/ the lecture itself). here's an excerpt from the google books description of the relevant book:

From German gentiles confidently charging Israeli Jewish expats with antisemitism, to the German state's decades-long project to stifle free speech under the guise of combating "antisemitism," to German officials mobilising their historical responsibility for one genocide to justify participating in another--Hoban guides us through the grotesqueries of German "memory culture" and shows their lethal consequences. As the chair of a German-Jewish peace group whose bank accounts were repeatedly frozen and whose members have been arrested on Gaza solidarity protests, Hoban is uniquely placed to expose the oddities and outrages of Germany's authoritarian turn. He also warns that what begins in Germany doesn't stay there. From sabotaging international support for a Gaza ceasefire, to deporting foreign nationals on political grounds, to spearheading censorship laws across the EU, Hoban's diagnosis of German pathologies demonstrates where the ideological weaponisation of "antisemitism" can lead.

[examples-of-antisemitism]

Why are there three lectures about non-art, non-community topics involving Jews and/or Gaza at an Irish community arts festival?

[nonbinaryjudean]

like im not pro-censorship but i think if the internet archive is going to host holocaust denial and antisemitic propaganda they should at least put a warning with resources on it

[nonbinaryjudean]

I need y’all to realize that it’s on there because of their anti censorship policies, not because they’re unable to to monitor. It comes up at the top of the page when you search “Jews”. You don’t have to look hard for it.

This was literally the 8th result:

this was the 13th result:

you only have to scroll to page 3 to get this:

this justin chatter guy has uploaded tons of unabashed holocaust denial and neonazi propaganda.

i should not have to say this but this is obviously dangerous and hateful content that could lead to radicalization.

Compare this to rateyourmusic, a website I have been using regularly for years. They are also very anti-censorship and include Nazi material on the site as it is meant to be an encyclopedia of all the music of all time. However, they put warnings on any page that contains Nazi material with a disclaimer that the site does not support that content and that it’s simply there for their mission of cataloging music. RYM also is made up of user input. If a user uploads something that isn’t tagged properly as containing Nazi material, their upload will be rejected. Other users vote on whether a submission is adequate.

Here's what RYM puts as a warning on their site:

I like the internet archive. I use it regularly. It’s an incredible resource and a fantastic organization. I just wish they would do more to keep Jewish people safe.

[judai-sm]

you really cannot say

“I hate Isreal so much it’s unreal”

without definitionally meaning

“I hate the sole place on earth made to be safe for Jews”

and

“I hate the country known for housing half the Jews on the planet”

which is easily understood to mean

“I hate Jews”

Especially when you talk about the country and its people using antisemitic language.

I hope this explains why you might be called antisemitic! If you disagree keep it to yourselves. It is not nonjews that get to say what isn’t antisemitism. Or more aptly. judenhass.

[lord-squiggletits]

People will really try to claim "Just because I hate the Jewish country doesn't mean I hate Jews who live outside of Israel," which is funny because when people say racist shit about Africans and African countries, I 100% assume that their comments on black Africans also reflect their views on black Americans. At best I expect to cringe when I hear their opinions on black Americans, at worst I expect them to be an outright white supremacist. Because it turns out that a lot of the critiques of Africa as a place full of destitute savages with no education getting free handouts from the world, are often bar-for-bar what people use to be racist to black Americans here in the US too 🤷‍♀️

Xenophobia and racism are pretty much intrinsically linked to each other, like... MAGA-type shit doesn't work so well because people hate all Mexicans for their nationality, for example, it works because to a MAGA believer, "Mexican" is short for "uneducated poor brown manual laborer who can't speak English" or "gang member that sells drugs and rapes women." No leftist/progressive in their right mind would ever try to argue that that sort of rhetoric is "only hating [Latin American country], not being racist." Everyone knows that the xenophobia is heavily racialized and heavily tied to ethnicity and culture via stereotypes related to language, education level, religion, and so on.

So yeah. Jew haters call things "spiritually Israeli" and defend it by going "I'm only insulting Israel," meanwhile one of the most common antisemitic insults/conspiracies is to claim that Jews are cultureless parasites that only steal everyone else's culture. No one with a brain is convinced either that 1. That's not still antisemitism, 2. That Jew haters don't know exactly what they're doing, or 3. That even if they don't know, their ignorance absolves them of responsibility.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Is the UN antisemitic for insisting that refugees should be allowed to right of return?

No, they are antisemitic for decades of ignoring attacks on Israeli civilians , being extremely biased and literally supporting terrorists . And i think you know that… do a google search or I don’t know, listen to Jews.

Anyways, Here are a few reasons:

-calling out Israel more than any other country, while there are countries in their board that are actual dictatorships with apartheid & genocide .

They’re fixated on Israel.

-only holding Israel for agreements made while ignoring the fact that other parties have been violating the terms (aka harming Israeli civilians, amassing an army& weapons , moving past certain borders, etc).

*Aka what’s happening with Hezbollah& Hamas over the last 20 years ,,,

-ignoring the events of October 7th for almost a year: kidnapping of civilians, mass murder and torture , women being raped as a weapon of war , etc.

The UN has a long history of being antisemitic and anti- Israel.

—

Instead of actually helping Palestinian refugees, the UN donated money and resources to literal terrorists. It perpetuates the narrative that they are refugees instead of actually resolving the issue.

Hell they let a terrorist organisation control the Gaza Strip for years. Said terrorists are higher ups in UNWRA…

Some reading:

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United Nations' Bigotry Towards Israel: UNRWA Anti-semitism Poisons Palestinian Youth

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Analysis: The United Nations and its antisemitism problem - i24NEWS

It is taken as fact by the overwhelming number of global Jewish organizations that the United Nations suffers from an antisemitic rot - Clic

[zaprowsdower27]

Also for having a different definition of "refugee" for Palestinians. Like, by consistent definitions, either a tiny minority of Palestinians are still refugees and the rest are (second class) citizens of where they were born elsewhere across the MENA region... or the majority of Israelis are equally still refugees awaiting return of citizenship and homes. The problem is the double standard.

[daughterofstories]

There's also the fact that they don't insist on a "right of return" for any other group of refugees.

For every other refugee population, the priority is finding them a stable place to live, not sending them back to the place they fled from or were driven out of.

Having a separate standard for Palestinians is both blatantly designed to harm Israel and extremely cruel to the Palestinian refugees, some of whom have been trapped in limbo for the better part of a century instead of having the option to have actual lives anywhere.

[chutzpahchesed]

from here (full disclosure - I don’t know who he is and did not vet this man’s whole account)

I’ve seen quite a bit of this in various places online for the last year or so, people incensed that Holocaust memorials exist in their countries despite them hardly having a Jewish population, and then suggesting it’s some sort of nefarious propaganda plot. they really don’t get it.

[thisgingerisareallybadwriter]

I’m sorry but this is so funny I can’t breathe it has to be parody it has to be

[chaosisorderao3]

"You could have lived on stolen land instead of living on stolen land that totally wasn't stolen from you and totally isn't your homeland"

the jokes write themselves

[nova-alien-jewposting]

this is so fucking funny as a diaspora jew living in NJ

[themodernmaccabee]

“How dare you live on that stolen land! You should live on this other stolen land!”

[zaprowsdower27]

As I did last time this passed my dash, gonna plug the actual native peoples of New Jersey, the Lenape

Specifically the Nanticoke Lenape, who still live in Lënapehòkink, because, having dared to not move to reservations in distant lands like their cousins in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Canada, they've been denied federal recognition

[cupreae]

People in huge campus rallies: Israel silences protesters

Peoples in the news: the Jews control the media

Mayors supporting antisemitism: aipac is using dark money to sow discord

[smegorl]

Celebrities: the Jews sabotage our careers for being pro-Palestine

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

I don't want to speculate too much about the psychology of those who send these kinds of messages (and this is Tumblr, after all) but I admit I have a morbid curiosity. How old is this person? Do they think they're right-wing or left? Why do they appear to be arguing with themselves, bringing up random talking points as if in dialogue? Like, not to pathologize but this is not well-adjusted behavior. Normal people, even antizionists, should be able to see Israel mentioned without involuntarily launching into a preprogrammed tirade. And I don't even mean this in the sense of "derangement syndrome" or whatever nonsense people on the internet cook up to invalidate each other: I mean, seriously, I do not think the mindset of someone who sends these kinds of anonymous messages is healthy, and honestly feel more concerned than anything else about this. I've gotten messages of this type from reactionaries of every stripe, on every platform, since I was a child. Most of the time I just find them vaguely amusing. This is just kind of sad though. I often say that the Palestine movement has sections that behave very much like a cult, and I mean, how much more culty and detached from reality does it get than imploring others to "grow a human soul" while also hoping for a nuclear holocaust?

[girlactionfigure]

“Out of nowhere, he started beating me viciously and bit my ear"

 “We have injuries all over our bodies, everything is swollen. We went through what felt like a terror attack. It was horrifying.”

An Israeli mother, 62, and her daughter, 23, were brutally beaten in Thailand by a French tourist.

“He started beating me viciously,” the mother said. “My daughter tried to protect me and was beaten too. We both fought him. I was hit in the head, and at some point I apparently lost consciousness.”

The two women were on the Thai island of Koh Phangan when they were approached by a French national asking where they were from. When they said Israel, he became irate and demanded a debate.

They told him they did not want to discuss Israel/Palestine, and he appeared to walk away, after stating he was "against violence." Then he launched himself at the mother and started biting her ear and punching her until she lost consciousness.

Attacking women on vacation will not help Palestinians. Everyone silent about this violence isn't helping anyone, either. 

All you are doing is harming innocent Jews.

@HenMazzig

[lord-squiggletits]

>"I'm against violence"

>tries to beat two strangers to death solely based on where they're from

Typical antizionist behavior lmao

[chutzpahchesed]

Antisemitic theories blaming Jews for European wildfires spreading | The Jerusalem Post

Cyberwell found that "nearly identical narratives" blaming Jews for wildfires in Norway, France, and Spain were spreading on X/Twitter in mu

Cyberwell has alerted X/Twitter of a new wave of antisemitic conspiracy theories blaming Jews for wildfires across Europe, the NGO announced in a statement on Monday.

The organization, whose goal is to combat online antisemitism, identified “nearly identical narratives” regarding recent wildfires in Norway, France, and Spain, reinforcing what Cyberwell describes as a “recurring pattern of event-driven antisemitism, in which major crises are exploited to spread hate toward Jews.”

Posts in English, French, and Spanish claiming that Jewish people deliberately sparked the fires or orchestrated them for political or financial gain were identified by the organization’s analysts.

Cyberwell found that content on the Norway wildfires surpassed 2 million views on X, “helping transform an isolated conspiracy into a broader wave of antisemitic content,” according to the company.

Meanwhile, content on Spain’s wildfires reached more than 69,100 users, according to Cyberwell’s numbers.

Antisemitic conspiracy theories also emerged following the Los Angeles wildfires in 2025 and the Patagonia wildfires earlier this year, the company said.

Other theories have emerged following the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting and the hantavirus outbreak.

“CyberWell found that bad actors and antisemites repeatedly inserted Jews into breaking news through familiar antisemitic tropes portraying them as secretly responsible for disasters or as profiting from human suffering,” the statement read.

“As false claims spread,” it noted, “posts increasingly incorporated dehumanizing language, calls to expel Jews, and well-known antisemitic imagery, including the ‘Happy Merchant’ caricature.”

The “Happy Merchant” depicts a Jewish man with exaggerated stereotypical facial features greedily rubbing his hands together, popular among white supremacists, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

Cyberwell CEO and Founder Tal-Or Cohen Montemayor said that “the same scapegoating stories, once popular in Nazi propaganda during the Third Reich, now trend on every major social media platform after a crisis. Any major event can become a vehicle for blaming Jews online.”

“Whether the story involves a wildfire, a disease outbreak, a shooting, or another international crisis, we repeatedly see the same conspiracy theories emerge within hours,” Montemayor explained.

“The details change, but the underlying message does not: Jews are maliciously portrayed as secretly orchestrating disasters or profiting from human suffering. This pattern demonstrates how antisemitism continuously adapts to the news cycle while recycling centuries-old myths.”

The content, according to Cyberwell, is reflective of “antisemitic conspiracy frameworks recognized under the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, which include collective accusations against Jews and conspiratorial claims of hidden Jewish control.”