Sorry, but when you equate antisemitism with opposition to the apartheid state of Israel, this is what you get. Yes, the neo-Nazis and crypto-fash are responsible for this, so is a shit education system and general apathy, but when saying "actually, no, Isreal should stop kicking Palestinians out of their homes" is called antisemitism, the word starts to lose its meaning.
The irony of course is that Israel has a border wall, extremely strict immigration policy, and those few allowed to immigrate have to prove their ethnicity. It's an alt-right heaven.
Sorry, but when you equate antisemitism with opposition to the apartheid state of Israel, this is what you get
While I'm sure that may account for some small portion of the misinformation/denialism, I doubt it's that much of an impact. Like do you really expect that the average person has a nuanced understanding of Israel/Palestine? No way. Many of the people interviewed probably don't even know that the conflict is about land control or based around religion.
I think people know that "antisemitism" has become a political cudgel, and most people are so alienated from and apathetic to politics they've begun to tune it out.
First of all, I was specifically calling out the apathy to the term "antisemitism", nothing to do with the holocaust.
Second of all, these false accusations of antisemitism levied against anyone who says boo about Isreal aren't mainly coming from Israelis. This is only tangentially about Isreal, and more about the Bari Weisses of the world saying anyone who disagrees with them is an antisemite. If you want to get mad at me for calling it out, so be it.
Everyone I know is terminally online, so you're probably right. I just know that whenever I hear "antisemitism" now, I have to do a deep dive on who is saying it to whom and why.
Sorry, but when you equate antisemitism with opposition to the apartheid state of Israel, this is what you get. Yes, the neo-Nazis and crypto-fash are responsible for this, so is a shit education system and general apathy, but when saying "actually, no, Isreal should stop kicking Palestinians out of their homes" is called antisemitism, the word starts to lose its meaning.
The irony of course is that Israel has a border wall, extremely strict immigration policy, and those few allowed to immigrate have to prove their ethnicity. It's an alt-right heaven.
The aware fash wishes their countries were more like israel. They just also want to.. ya know
While I'm sure that may account for some small portion of the misinformation/denialism, I doubt it's that much of an impact. Like do you really expect that the average person has a nuanced understanding of Israel/Palestine? No way. Many of the people interviewed probably don't even know that the conflict is about land control or based around religion.
I think people know that "antisemitism" has become a political cudgel, and most people are so alienated from and apathetic to politics they've begun to tune it out.
Yeah that's probably true, maybe especially the UK's political/media class VS pro-Palestine Labour. Meanwhile actual anti-semitism is ignored.
Definitely in the UK with the Corbyn smearing.
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First of all, I was specifically calling out the apathy to the term "antisemitism", nothing to do with the holocaust.
Second of all, these false accusations of antisemitism levied against anyone who says boo about Isreal aren't mainly coming from Israelis. This is only tangentially about Isreal, and more about the Bari Weisses of the world saying anyone who disagrees with them is an antisemite. If you want to get mad at me for calling it out, so be it.
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Everyone I know is terminally online, so you're probably right. I just know that whenever I hear "antisemitism" now, I have to do a deep dive on who is saying it to whom and why.
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It's all good :comfy-cool: