#rightwing antisemitism

[jewish-vents]

"The left abandoned Jews as soon as we were inconvenient." Yes this is true and correct. "Given this, we cannot trust the left to have our backs." Also true. Good, you understand.

"Therefore we should trust the right."

Go back to square one, you have successfully missed the entire point.

Neither side is our friend and treating it like a binary "X was bad, therefore I should automatically support Y because if X is bad then that means Y is good" situation is naive at-best, dishonest at-worst, and just ends with another knife in your back as soon as we're inconvenient again.

It makes me genuinely angry how many people who have understandably felt betrayed by the left side of their country's political systems post-10/7 have somehow come to the conclusion that the real friends of the Jewish people are on the side of the political spectrum that has unflinchingly made itself home to antisemites longer than the term "antisemites" has existed.

Stop simping for people who'd be glad to see us dead just because they haven't stabbed us in the back quite as recently. The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend.

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[indecisiveavocado]

schrodinger's jew: jews are and are not white until an antisemite makes up their mind about which type of antisemite they want to be.

[notaplaceofhonour]

hmm yeah that’s a weird comment to leave on a post about leftwing antisemitism, I wonder what that’s…

okay already the vibes aren’t great but…

ah. yep. that’s what i thought you meant.

wait, what’s—

jesus h roosevelt christmas

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to be clear: right wing antisemitism has not gone down post 10/7, but left wing antisemitism has skyrocketed.

that does not make trump and co our allies, any more than it made persecuting Muslim rulers our allies because European Christian rulers were by and large worse.

[indecisiveavocado]

an incomplete list of hate crimes in the past fourteen (14) days against jews not in Israel, in no particular order

A shul was defaced with swastikas (Minneapolis, US)

A shul was firebombed (Montreal, Canada)

An ATM dispensed antisemitic banknotes, complete with 'Fuck Jews' (Sydney, Australia)

Swastikas at public high schools (Virginia, US)

Antisemitic stickers at the Boston University Campus ("spreading" from Harvard)

More antisemitic grafitti (Indiana, US)

(or maybe 12) 5 antisemitic attacks in Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland)

(or 13) Swastika grafitti in Pittsburgh, where I live (Pittsburgh, US)

(or 14) A car burned and grafitti sprayed in another antisemitic attack in Australia (Australia)

(or 15) That Melbourne arson attack (Melbourne, Australia)

(or 16) Jordan Acker's home was vandalized (Michigan)

(or 17) The San Francisco Hillel was vandalized with antisemitic grafitti (San Francisco, US)

(or 18) An Israeli in California was wounded after someone DROVE A FREAKING CAR INTO THEM (California, US)

(or 19) Someone intentionally cut off the peyot of a Jewish boy in New Jersey, akin to ripping the hijab off a Muslim woman, only it takes a while for her to get another hijab (New Jersey, US)

Mind you, as far as I know, this was a relatively typical two weeks. Goodness knows there were many more that went unreported. And many of these were basically unreported in the non-Jewish news, because no one really pays attention unless it's something big, like arson. Imagine if some tailor destroyed the hijab of a Muslim girl after saying not to, as her mother begged for him to stop. National news, right? But if it's a Jew - no one cares.

But tell me more about how antisemitism isn't a big problem and I shouldn't worry again.

[indecisiveavocado]

the world right now

human rights*

*void if Jewish

[jewish-vents]

We are at a point where right wing parties are nicer to us (just a little bit) and I feel so crushed. Like genuinely hopeless. People are rightfully pointing out that they just hate Muslims more and that they still hate us.

But I feel like most Jews haven’t realized that hey, these people still hate us and are STILL DOING A BETTER JOB THAN LEFTISTS. LEFTISTS HAVE GOTTEN SO CRUEL THAT THEY MAKE RIGHT WINGERS LOOK LIKE ANGELS.

Of course right wingers still have their policies against us. Of course they still suck and want all minorities rights gone.

somehow they are still nicer to us. And people take that as us working with them and hate us more. and the only people making decent callouts of leftist antisemitism are right wingers. and some jews scream that they are using us. of course they are. but those thinkpieces are still valuable because no one else wants to call out leftist antisemitism.

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[jewish-vents]

I hate the fact that I (American) have to vote for everything but protecting the Jewish people, because neither side cares about us or is willing to look out for us, they're all just using us as pawns. we're trapped between "very fine people on both sides" about Nazis screaming "Jews will not replace us!" and "they have a point" about terror supporters chanting "we are Hamas" and waving Hezbollah flags and calling for more Jewish death. fuck all of them tbh, but because I care about women's rights and healthcare and lgbtq+ people and the environment, I'm still stuck with the side coddling hamasniks. I'm tired.

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