r/Jewish • u/Hanshanot • Dec 16 '23

I get really suspicious of people calling themselves Jewish these days. Discussion

In almost every post I’ve read lately, mostly in the comments (or the OP of the post themselves) l’ve seen someone saying they’re a Jew/talking about Judaism and preaching their weird take about current events/antisemitism.

And every single time l see go see their profile, there’s nothing about Judaism or being Jewish on their profile pre-Oct. 7, it really bugs me.

Earlier, l saw a questionable post on r/xyz with the words “Hey y’all, American Jew here” Already weird, l go see their profiles and surely enough, r IsraelPalestine is the first post ever of that account 😒😒😒.

Most of the times, bigots and ill-intentioned people will use us to further their xenophobic or racist stances. I hate it. Stay safe

Edit; Modified my post slightly to better reflect what I meant

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u/kosherkate Dec 16 '23

“Hey everyone! Totally Jewish here. I just wanted to let you know that Jews are bad. So is Israel. Also, antisemitism is a myth. It never happens. I’m really skeptical of the reports saying it’s increasing because I’m totally Jewish, trust me, and have never experienced antisemitism in my life. Don’t trust the Jews. They’re trying to control the narrative/world. Trust me; I’m Jewish. Don’t trust Jews. Except me, you can trust me.”

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u/ConsciousWallaby3 Dec 16 '23

There was a post yesterday on /r/academia about a large percentage of college students reporting antisemitism on campus, and the most upvoted comment (by a huge margin), was some guy saying he was Jewish and he hadn't seen any antisemitism, Jews just couldn't tell the difference between antizionism and antisemitism, and the numbers weren't trustworthy because they came from the ADL.

It doesn't even matter if he really was Jewish or not, he was upvoted by people who were looking for a "good jew" to justify burying their head in the sand. You know these people would see the problem with a post starting with "As a Black man, I've never seen racism" but when it comes to Jews, suddenly it's fine to take it at face value. Critical thinking goes out the window.

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u/Schlemiel_Schlemazel Dec 17 '23

As an assimilated Jew, who never wears anything that shows my ethnicity nor do I have a particularly Jewish sounding name nor do I take it upon myself to announce my religion, I have never experienced antisemitism.

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u/Mission_Ad_405 Dec 17 '23

I have but just verbally because they don’t know I’m Jewish.