This is really helpful, and also makes me realize I really don't understand the situation as well as I thought I did.
I get you probably mean this as a joke but Syria as a state is extremely antisemitic.
Jews in Syria have a special mark on their identity cards, and are forbidden from owning businesses, having government jobs, or leaving the country without permission, none of which applies to any other ethnic or religious group. And the Syrian government regularly does shit like inviting western neonazis for state visits to do rallies and receive medals, and publishing new editions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
So this kind of just comes off as anti-semitism.
Unironically, as an Arab, Assad must go. It's just that the Arab Spring was doomed to fail.
Sure, I've written a few effort posts on this before, I think this is the latest one.
Here's one with a few more sources.
I get there are very few Jews in Syria now, but the reason for that is the decades of state harassment and from memory, an eventual offer to any remaining jews to let them leave the country so long as they forfeited all their property and renounced any claim to Israeli citizenship.
