I was at a pro-Palestine campus protest and there were times where I was instinctively uncomfortable because they were really hammering in the whole bit about reported 'antisemitic action on campus' being a non-issue and I had to remind myself that they aren't talking about people acting against Jews, they're talking about people acting against Israel.

It's my most personal and privileged grievance against Israel. I no longer know if a supposed threat to my safety is a bullshit bludgeon to silence pro-Palestine voices or if the yank reich is actually in town and I need to commute for the rest of the week.

I'll never forgive them for it. I'll never forgive them for a lot of things, but this is the most personal grievance I have, and since I'm born and raised a cracker suburbanite, it's the only one I truly, directly feel in my personal life.

I don't want this to override, you know, the actually important grievances that are at stake for Palestine here, and I don't want to make myself the center of this issue when I'm very much not at all, but I guess I've just been stewing in this for a bit, and I want to uncap it before it somehow causes me to become a weird crank through lack of addressing the root of the issue and it festering into my belief system shrug-outta-hecks

  • Trustmeitsnotabailou [none/use name]
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    8 months ago

    Just had this exact discussion in the bulletin thread.

    Anti semetism means nothing any more. It's a been used as a weapon for decades now and i think we are at the point where it just doesn't hold weight.

    • huf [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      nah, it still has its old (real) meaning. and i think europe's gonna remind the world what real antisemitism looks like soonish. when the collapse really starts to hurt their fascists, they'll rediscover their roots.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        the Ukrainians for example are real anti-semites

        also we've had anti semitism in Europe ever since the romans decided that anyone who won't worship the roman gods is also unfilial and plotting against roman society it's not going away easy

        • huf [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          yep. as i like to say, antisemitism is an older "pillar" of european culture than christianity.