We should endanger it more btw
I'm genuinely afraid that redefining antisemitism as "not reflexively mentioning October 7th when another hospital in Gaza gets bombed" is enabling actual antisemites. I'm mostly talking about the fucking dire situation in Germany here, but there's a growing tendency to externalize antisemitism and portray it as an "imported" problem, to racialize it and integrate it into islamophobic discourses, and that can and does work as a cover for antisemitic narratives, blame shifting and historic revisionism. Before the last elections in Bavaria, conservative politician Hubert Aiwanger was aleged to have distributed a holocaust-celebrating pamphlet in his younger years, there was good evidence for that and that got completely handwaved while he portrayed muslim immigrants as the main source of antisemitism in the country today. He continues to be the vice president of the state.
Look no further than all the denunciations of campus protests, and the relative silence when open Nazis do a march. In the former they sponsored investigations into the identities of the protestors so they could blacklist them. But where is all that energy for the latter?
there's a growing tendency to externalize antisemitism and portray it as an "imported" problem
The grandchildren of SS officers are blaming us dastardly Muslims for the country famous for the Holocaust being antisemitic?
They seriously do. Germany has always had a deep-rooted wish to exonerate itself of its past and now that people have finally convinced themselves they can wash their hands clean with the blood of muslims, that they can rid themselves of guilt by virtue of being racist in the way that's been fully government-endorsed ever since 9/11, they go full hog on that opportunity. It's appalling. I am ashamed of, embarassed and angered by sharing a nationality with people like that literally every single day.
It’s really not. It’s making a massive resurgence. Agreed on making it more endangered though
