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Antisemitic incidents in the United States rose by about 400% in slightly over two weeks since war broke out in the Middle East after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, advocacy group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Wednesday. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Curious how that compares to the rise in anti-Muslim hate incidents.

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

Let me guess, they define antisemitism as anything outside of fully supporting Israel’s genocide?

+1 I guess.

[-] MudMan@kbin.social 64 points 1 year ago

Kinda.

Among examples cited by ADL were alleged physical assault; violent online messages, especially on messaging platform Telegram; and rallies where "ADL found explicit or strong implicit support for Hamas and/or violence against Jews in Israel."

I guess if you're going to count every rally protesting the siege of Gaza as "implicit support for Hamas", the spike would correlate pretty closely with... you know, the siege of Gaza.

But I do not doubt that genuine attacks are also on the rise. This issue is assholes all the way down, honestly.

[-] hightrix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed. There are no good guys here.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

There’s a lot of innocent people involved… they may not be bad guys?

But yeah. None of the belligerents and their supports are good.

[-] Grumpy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

An insane stat I came to learn is that majority of population in Gaza is under the age of 18. Lot of innocent seems like an understatement.

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[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 49 points 1 year ago

Given the shit they're counting as "antisemitism" it's surprising this number isn't higher.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

They’re definitely turning into the boy who cried wolf here.

What scares me is that, people are going to stop paying attention and dismissing actual antisemitism and hate crimes.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah I can't even look at that word without asking myself 'well whose definition are you using?' It's alreay a deflated term, too much more and it will mean about as much as the word 'woke' does these days.

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

What scares me is that, people are going to stop paying attention and dismissing actual antisemitism and hate crimes.

Israel is probably more concerned with moving it's ethnic cleansing of Gaza/West Bank forward than protecting Jewish people in the USA.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hell, the Islraeli government doesn't seem too concerned about protecting Jewish folks in Israel.

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[-] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

It's akin to US politicians passing some draconian/authoritarian law "for the children" and then accusing anyone who speaks against it as someone who hates children, is a predator, or someone who supports child trafficking. Like them uttering their magic phrase suddenly makes any opposition indefensible.

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

One thing I’ve learned in the last two weeks is just what a dishonest actor the ADL is. They have almost no credibility as far as I’m concerned anymore. What a disservice to Jewish people.

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[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Islamophobia remains unchanged because that stat was maxed out years ago

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Oh Jesus I shouldn't laugh but goddamn.

You're right.

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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

ADL

Aaaaaaaaand disqualified.

Literally anything even kinda not zionist is anti-semitic to those psychopaths.

Gimme a stat that doesn't include any time a college student so much as thought that the nakba was a dick move.

[-] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They literally got a Palestinian advocacy group at my uni shut down. Those students were advocating for peaceful protests.

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Eli Valley made a great comic on the threat of Israel to Judaism. One of the most important Jewish anti-zionists of our time.

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