Thinking about that time I expressed concern about the rise in antisemitism and got hit with "yeah but there's also a rise in islamophobia". Don't get me wrong, there absolutely is and it's horrible. But the reason I'm terrified of the rise in antisemitism in particular (besides the fact that I'm a Jew so it affects me) is because it's happening among the left. Yeah, no shit right-wing assholes are using this conflict as an excuse to be islamophobic. When have they not. But the left? The fact people who pride themselves on being inclusive and progressive are all of a sudden refusing to listen to Jews and expressing support for an inherently antisemitic terrorist group is definitely alarming. You people are giving antisemites and Nazis an easy disguise and allowing them to worm their way into your movement without doing anything about it. And no, simply stating you don't want them there and going "punch a nazi" doesn't count as cleaning up your movement when it so clearly doesn't drive them away. Whenever Jews call you out on your bullshit and try to educate you, instead of actually listening and learning how to avoid antisemitism in your activism, your solution is to try and define antisemitism yourself or to go "yeah but I don't have time to not be antisemitic because there are bigger issues to address" (because oh how could you possibly tackle more than one issue at once??). Instead of addressing the rising antisemitism on your side of the political spectrum, you'd simply rather point fingers and only address issues you aren't complicit in. I thought being a leftist was about learning to self-criticize groups you belong to. To know that if history makes you feel happy and proud, it's propaganda. But now I see that for so many of you, that self-criticism only serves to make you feel like "one of the good ones", rather than actually correcting and bettering yourselves. Feeling guilty for existing doesn't make you a good person, feeling guilty over your mistakes does.
