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Good news: I’m seeing actual vocal support for Palestinians and acknowledgement of the genocide from average people. Bad News: I’m hearing actual anti-semitism now (hexbear.net)

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Not some 300th degree of abstraction where you have to trace constellations to land on some vague anti-semitic idea.

I’ve had several instances in the past few weeks in which I’ve spoken to otherwise politically oblivious people and heard actual condemnation of the genocide. Followed up with the conflation of Israel with Jews, ascribing all the awful shit the piece of shit country to Jews in general.

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

israel has really fucked Jewish people's reputation globally, I don't think there's any point in denying or downplaying that. The conflation of jewish identity with israel has been horrifically successful in some circles.

To me, this is one of the main values of highlighting the existence and activity of jewish antizionists.

EDIT: just to be clear, I'm not endorsing zionist-style claims of a wave of antisemitism threatening jewish safety, just saying that a lot of people who used to be more positive or neutral towards jewish people now have much more negative attitudes than before.