As someone firmly pro-Palestine, it’s disappointing and troubling to see stats like that. Antisemitism should play no role in any ideology, yet it has been running rampant at the extremes. It needs to be called out regardless of where it comes from.
Racism against Jews is one of the rare cases where it comes from both those claiming to be on the left and the right.
The left has issues from anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian sentiment going too far and conflating Israeli militarism with Zionism and with Judaism. There is also the growing African-American anti-Semitism centred around the Black Hebrew Israelite theory.
Meanwhile the right has always had some variation of the original Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the various Jewish domination tropes of the banks and media. Liberal use of names like Rothschild and Soros and blanket labelling of anyone in a position of power as Jewish.
While the article itself goes into detail about how *both* antisemitic and Islamaphobic offences are on the rise, the headline only focuses on the rise in antisemitism. Obviously, both are awful, but brings a bit more validity to the comment at the end if the article:
> “The government’s laissez-faire attitude to Islamophobia contrasts strongly with its no-tolerance approach to antisemitism. We are hopeful this will now change.”
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Is Judaism a religion or an ethnicity? Is Israel an ethno-state? These are exigent questions that need to addressed before any ‘antisemitism’ stats get reported. Having nebulous terms works well for those who want to always have the sleight of hand.
It’s crazy how much focus is placed on anti semitism but little to none is placed on islamaphobia.
No shit. Like 50% of Muslims in France support Hamas
Think it’s different here?
Can we stop saying these things so quietly. There’s obviously an issue and we’re all tiptoeing around it
Edit : my mistake guys. Only 45% of them thought that a terrorist attack on a festival and taking of hostages was chill
Boy aren’t I embarrassed!
The figures in this article were really hard to interpret! This is a perfect example of where displaying values in a chart and/or table can add tremendous value.
Antisemitism? It must be those far-right Nazis I’ve been hearing so much about. I’m sure antifa will be taking to the streets any day now to protest against these antisemites.
For the last 3 decades, any word against Israel is antisemitic.
It’s disturbing how many people were just waiting for an excuse to attack Jewish people and their religion.
The particularly sad thing is how so many of them don’t realise it and never questioned em whether or not it was justified.
Would be interesting to see the number that related to zionist Israeli and those that were blatant attacks on Jews
Reported antisemitism isn’t the same as actual antisemitism unfortunately
No breakdown of the antisemitic incidents into racists incidents vs political ones, so one can’t tell which are being reported. The conflation between the two that the Zionists have been encouraging for decades have made antisemitism unreportable since there is no way to determine if it refers to someone supporting Palestine (good antisemitism) or to someone victimising Jews (bad antisemitism).
Yet another Zionist crime.
I bet they manage to find the time to attend all those though.
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As someone firmly pro-Palestine, it’s disappointing and troubling to see stats like that. Antisemitism should play no role in any ideology, yet it has been running rampant at the extremes. It needs to be called out regardless of where it comes from.
Racism against Jews is one of the rare cases where it comes from both those claiming to be on the left and the right.
The left has issues from anti-Israeli, pro-Palestinian sentiment going too far and conflating Israeli militarism with Zionism and with Judaism. There is also the growing African-American anti-Semitism centred around the Black Hebrew Israelite theory.
Meanwhile the right has always had some variation of the original Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the various Jewish domination tropes of the banks and media. Liberal use of names like Rothschild and Soros and blanket labelling of anyone in a position of power as Jewish.
While the article itself goes into detail about how *both* antisemitic and Islamaphobic offences are on the rise, the headline only focuses on the rise in antisemitism. Obviously, both are awful, but brings a bit more validity to the comment at the end if the article:
> “The government’s laissez-faire attitude to Islamophobia contrasts strongly with its no-tolerance approach to antisemitism. We are hopeful this will now change.”
[removed]
Is Judaism a religion or an ethnicity? Is Israel an ethno-state? These are exigent questions that need to addressed before any ‘antisemitism’ stats get reported. Having nebulous terms works well for those who want to always have the sleight of hand.
It’s crazy how much focus is placed on anti semitism but little to none is placed on islamaphobia.
No shit. Like 50% of Muslims in France support Hamas
Think it’s different here?
Can we stop saying these things so quietly. There’s obviously an issue and we’re all tiptoeing around it
Edit : my mistake guys. Only 45% of them thought that a terrorist attack on a festival and taking of hostages was chill
Boy aren’t I embarrassed!
The figures in this article were really hard to interpret! This is a perfect example of where displaying values in a chart and/or table can add tremendous value.
Antisemitism? It must be those far-right Nazis I’ve been hearing so much about. I’m sure antifa will be taking to the streets any day now to protest against these antisemites.
For the last 3 decades, any word against Israel is antisemitic.
It’s disturbing how many people were just waiting for an excuse to attack Jewish people and their religion.
The particularly sad thing is how so many of them don’t realise it and never questioned em whether or not it was justified.
Would be interesting to see the number that related to zionist Israeli and those that were blatant attacks on Jews
Reported antisemitism isn’t the same as actual antisemitism unfortunately
No breakdown of the antisemitic incidents into racists incidents vs political ones, so one can’t tell which are being reported. The conflation between the two that the Zionists have been encouraging for decades have made antisemitism unreportable since there is no way to determine if it refers to someone supporting Palestine (good antisemitism) or to someone victimising Jews (bad antisemitism).
Yet another Zionist crime.
I bet they manage to find the time to attend all those though.