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submitted 10 months ago by yakultdrinkr@lemdro.id to c/world@lemmy.world
  • Global surge in antisemitic incidents following the conflict between Hamas and Israel, affecting Jewish communities in various countries.
  • Antisemitic acts range from verbal abuse to physical assaults, often justified by anger over the Gaza conflict.
  • In areas like the U.S., Britain, France, Germany, and South Africa, antisemitic incidents have increased several hundred percent compared to the same period last year.
  • Official responses vary, with Western authorities generally quick to support Jewish communities, while some countries like China have not taken steps to curtail antisemitic content online.

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[-] jet@hackertalks.com 55 points 10 months ago

Conflating the Israeli government, and the Israeli military, with the Jewish ethnicity, and the Jewish religion, is proving to be bad for overall PR when the government, and the military, are doing things that are vastly unpopular globally. Like apartheid

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 18 points 10 months ago

"Bad PR" doesn't even begin to cover it. Netanyahu never misses an opportunity to claim he represents all Jews, so of course when his government commits atrocities, a lot a gullible people are gonna blame Jews in general. It's so predictable I strongly suspect it's one of his goals, because there's nothing better for a far-right populist's political career than convincing his supporters they're under attack, and it's especially easy when they actually are under attack. All he had to do was paint a target on every Jew in the world, which is clearly a small price in his mind.

I hope one day he's remembered alongside Putin as one of the worst villains of the 21st century.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Considering the value that the government of Israel has by action showed it places on, not only the lives of human beings who are Palestinian, but even on the lives of the human beings who are Israeli and were kidnapped by Hamas, I very much doubt they lose any sleep when Jews are victims of anti-semitism abroad because Israel has purposefully conflated itself with the entire Jewish Religion (in order to hide behind it whilst commiting the most despicable of acts) and lots of people believe it.

They probably just see it as a way to further exploit that connection betwee Judaism and Israel that they've cultivated and spin the plight of those Jews to further portray the nation of Israel as a victim: in other words the State of Israel actually gains whenever a Jew out there is victimized in response to the actions of the State of Israel because the perpetrator believed the State of Israel's own deceitful portrayal of itself as being the same as all members of the Jewish Religion.

[-] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

People really shouldn't need PR to be treated right.

[-] Syntha@sh.itjust.works -5 points 10 months ago

Antisemitic attacks are not the result of "bad PR"

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