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I blame the Israel/Palestine conflict heating up again. It made it more apparent how much antisemitism was lurking below the surface. Ecer since it seems like there's a significant divide even on communities that aren't news and politics focused.
Yeah, that's definitely what the conflict brought to light. Not the fact that people and most nations are happy to allow or even support literal genocide and ethnic cleansing as long as it's done by people they like against people they don't like.
There were 153/193 votes calling for a ceasefire for a UN resolution. It's not most nations that are happy with it
For me, it's the genocide thing. Like how the USA killed over a half million people in Iraq.
Maybe it’s the instances I frequent, but almost all of the “antisemitism” I’ve been seeing is actually anti-Zionism/non-Zionism, which are not antisemitism, despite Zionists’ unending efforts to conflate the them. In fact, Zionist antisemitism is a thing.
Most claims I see are saying it's just criticism of Israel, and then excusing literally anything hamas/Palestine does as totally legitimate, which is way more than being anti-zionist.
By the UN General Assembly, not only do the Palestinians have a right to armed struggle against their occupiers, but the occupiers do not have a right to defend themselves.
If Hamas started attacking Yemen or Lebanon or Syria we'd all join you in being cross with them, but so far they seem to be attacking Israel.
I also think it's the Israel/Palestine conflict but for the complete opposite reason lol.