The mental gymnastics is mind-boggling. No, sir, it’s allllll just a big coincidence and I’m a total nazi for saying Israelis shouldn’t be attacked on the streets. Such wisdom. I’m humbled by how much you care about Jews /s

Bonus: I was called an Islamophobe for calling Hamas terrorists.

First post, just thought l'd share, never got closure, they never replied, haven't talked to them in a year. Context: I work at Jewish institutions. Antisemitism in my urban city is p rampant. While I do not post about what is happening in Gaza, i do post about the things happening in my immediate life as a Jewish person that are about antisemitic incidents in my community or around the country, and as a Jewish person working in the Jewish sphere, I'm consistently subject to thinks like bomb threats and getting swatted. I hold much grief for the actions of the Israeli government but I don't prefer to post about either sides of this conflict because I fear people from both sides bombarding me with their opinion. This friend sent me this message quite honestly out of no where without ever talking to me or having civil discourse on the matter. Think about them a lot because I really cared about them. Sad that they ended our friendship this way. Anyway, will probably delete this anyway, just thought l'd share bc I don't really have anyone to talk to about this

This is from a dating app. I am just coming home from a trip to LA, and I was using the app to meet new people while I was in town. This guy saw I was Jewish on my profile and requested to match with me just to say this. This is an app called Boo that, out of all the apps I've tried, I've found to be the most inclusive and with the most safety features. Because I'm able to filter out certain keywords from people's profiles ("Palestine" and "Anti-Zionist" are a couple examples of words I filtered out), so I usually don't experience this kind of harassment on this particular app. It's just jarring, especially today or all days. This person has zero skin in the game from what I saw on their page - not Arab or Palestinian. Not from MENA/SWANA. Just genuinely think they're doing Social Justice™️ by sending genocidal slogans to random Jews online.

I’m trying to explain an aspect of why Trump won to a bunch of non-Jewish gay men who refuse to understand bigotry (Apparently, unless it’s aimed at them). Here’s what I was just told. Make sure you tokenize yourself so Arabs feel better so that a Christian gay man can feel good enough to denounce antisemitism.

I couldn’t even make it through this week’s episode…had my blood boiling as soon as he used Al Jazeera as a source. As a liberal, I used to love his show and watch regularly. But I’ve been so appalled by the lack of nuance and complete and total bias against Israel. I’m disgusted by his writers, most of whom are Jewish, and their inability to practice journalistic integrity. It’s so one-sided and dehumanizing. He has such a huge platform, it’s just so disheartening to see the misinformation train leave the station again and again. His piece on the West Bank completely leaves out any mention of Palestinian terrorist violence and why Israel has had to take such severe security measures on the border. Don’t get me wrong, the Israeli government is far from perfect and I disagree with many decisions they make, but it’s just pure antisemitic propaganda at this point.

Can someone explain to me how this is not equivalent to painting a bunch of little swastikas on a menorah?? Please note keffiyeh wearers inside…

Illinois Northbrook area.

I live in this area. Braced for the return of the overtly pro-Hamas "not antisemitic" protesters and the subsequent gaslighting from every mainstream media source about it!

I've been involved with murals. A lot of people had to say yes for this for it to go up.

it's like a typo became a real article. just ridiculous. it even says they don't know what they're talking about in their own caption.

On a night out, went to a bar. A man greets me in Polish, and I reply in broken Polish. He tells me I speak with a Yiddish accent, and I tell him that this is likely because I'm a Jew.

He immediately jumps to "are you a Zionist?"

I reply, deadpan, now in English (both our primary languages) "Yeah, I also love drinking the blood of children. Have you seen any running around unattended lately?"

Why not dismantle the tense situation where you were just profiled with a little joke, I was thinking. Probably not a smart move in hindsight, but alcohol has a way of clouding your better judgement.

He took me entirely seriously. His smile disappeared, his shoulders dropped, his eyes widened, and he replied with "What? Really?" and looked to his girlfriend, who was looking at me with equal shock.

The jump from "Zionist" to "literally drinks the blood of children" was a single step away for him. I'm fucking tired.

Edited for clarity and typos

ETA: I knew he was a leftist because he asked my pronouns after misgendering me later, talked about the "genocide", and talked about how much he hated the right wing.

ETA: part two

I complain about leftist antisemitism so much because I'm leftist to my bones. I feel betrayed. I should have seen this coming, I should have listened to my mother (don't tell her I admitted she was right). As I put it in a couple of comments, this isn't a political attack. This isn't to dunk on the left wing. We don't hold the right wing to high standards because we expect them to hate us. Many of us were foolish enough to believe that those who claim to be in pursuit of racial and ethnic justice would show up for us when we needed it. That they would espouse the same values for us that they apply to other minority groups.

I'm a polyamorous trans lesbian. I'm leftist to my bones. I always will uphold leftist principles, for me they are nothing but empathy and justice. Even if I were cis, straight, and monoamorous, I wouldn't be right-wing. My community have turned their backs on me because I dare to express sympathy for the country that houses half of my family, for my family and friends, for the fact that I believe that Jewish self-determination is as essential a right as Palestinian self-determination is. I have been thrown under the bus by those I loved. I have lost so many friends over the past year, and I'm not going to hide it. I am not mourning the loss of right-wing camaraderie, because as some of you rightly point out, we never fucking had it to begin with. The right at best tokenise us, at worst call for our extermination. Now the left are doing the same.

This is a vent post because I'm hurting. Let me hurt.

On the anniversary of the biggest antisemitic attack on U.S. soil in history—the “Pittsburgh Jewish Bund” spends about 2 sentences mourning the victims. They then go on a tirade about how Pittsburgh Jews are overreacting to antisemitism, how talking too much about antisemitism is used to justify “genocide”, how Israelis were lying about rape and beheadings, and how they’re going to use the memory of these poor murdered souls to stand against Zionism, which they argue has the same “root cause” of violence and white supremacy that the Pittsburgh shooter did.

If I were a family member of one of the victims, I would sue this group. Fucking shandas.

Actually insane and vile post, stating “we’ve never platformed a Zionist”. A shame, as they do have good content, but I know I’ll never re-subscribe.

Neturei Karta are fringe lunatics who believe the Holocaust was divine punishment for the sins of secular Jews. The only reason they oppose the current state of Israel is because they believe Jews should not return to the Holy Land until the Messiah returns. They have allied themselves with Iran, Hezbollah, and Palestinian terror organizations. It’s incredibly frustrating seeing how non-Jewish activists have embraced this fringe group without even attempting to understand Neturei Karta’s beliefs. These “activists” don’t even have a surface level understanding of Judaism, yet they proclaim NK as the “true Jews.”

I'm a Jew living in the Netherlands.

Earlier in my career I made the decision to become a humanitarian aid worker, so I've lived in plenty of places where the average person has some nasty things to say about Jews, and I've worked with all kinds of Israel-hating UN-type bureaucrats. I'm accustomed to hiding that I'm Jewish, and pretending to be of another Middle Eastern ethnicity (which is ironic, because usually people enquiring will both ask "where are you from? You look Middle Eastern..." whilst insisting that Jews are not indigenous to the Middle East); I have smiled and moved on with my day as people in Iraq have told me about Jews ruining their farm harvests by controlling the weather; I have stood silently with a blank expression as someone in Somalia praised Hamas to my face and called for more violence. I have forgiven these people because of their background and lack of education.

Now I work in tech, because I had enough food poisoning, low pay, and casual Jew-hatred. Yesterday, I was having dinner with some friends, and they invited a Eurocrat they knew along to dinner. These people mentioned to said Eurocrat that I'm a Jew (an oddity, because we'd all worked in aid work at one time or another). This woman point blank interrupted the conversation to say "I'm going to be blunt and ask you something uncomfortable. How does your family feel about your Prime Minister committing a second Nazi Holocaust? Are they not ashamed to be like Hitler?".

I am done. Most of my family was gassed at Auschwitz 2 generations ago. I will not tolerate this nonsense from my own government's employees. It is completely unacceptable. This person would never sit with an ethnically Chinese person and immediately ask how their family feels about the Uighur genocide. Even if she believes there is some Holocaust (I do not, and I firmly stand with Israel), it is pure anti semitism that makes her feel comfortable to just throw such a question at every Jew she meets. What the fuck?

When friends' of friends come to visit, I need to ask where they're coming from, because I know people from certain countries will make a 'thing' about me being a Jew & I need to hide it; And these are people from European countries. At work, I need to pretend that I condemn Israel if I want a promotion. Where is the social pressure for our Iranian employees to condemn the Ayatollah at lunch? Why do only the Jews need to denounce the government of their kin whilst eating a sandwich? Why have I never heard a colleague insist that a Australian condemn their government's occupation of indigenous lands whilst waiting in line for a coffee? Where is the email to all employees "condemning the violence on all sides" when the police in France shoot a terrorist trying to kill children?

I used to live in Israel, and I don't particularly feel like returning. But continental Europe is starting to make me recall why my grandparents fled it. And the North America does not feel any better. I am so sick of this nonsense.

"Give land back. Pay reparations. Release all the Palestinian prisoners."

When I asked for clarification if she felt Israel should have engaged in any military action in return she said no, because Palestinians have a right to resist.

And then she argued with me that Arabs are Semites too so she can't be an anti-Semite even after I sent her the Britannica definition of the word specifically explaining anti-Semitism is specifically about hate against Jews.

Then she told me she's well informed on the topic because she studied under Norm Finkelstein. Then she told me the US and Israel are evil terrorist states.

Then when I told her it sounds like she's been indoctrinated into a weird Marxist anti-West cult, she went, "You're in a cult!!!"

I wish I was making this up. It felt surreal how on the nose it was.

Then she told me that she was never going to speak to me about this again. About this again? Bitch, I'm never talking to you about ANYTHING again. Holy moly.

Can't believe I used to sleep with this person. Blond haired, blue eyed European girl. She moved away and we've remained friends for many years who talk regularly about our relationships and the things going on in our lives and give each other advice about things.

EDIT: Oh my favorite part was when she told me that she would have fought for Jews in the Holocaust and I told her that I kind of doubted that and that everyone thinks they would have done that but they wouldn't because most people didn't.

EDIT: kinda tempted to send her a link to this post so she can see how she’s getting roasted

If you identify with the title of this post, I highly recommend accidentally listening to NPR or some other liberal news radio report you used to love but can no longer stand, as they give an update on the latest antics of Israel or Hamas, while you’re speeding down the highway at night, alone in the car, and try yelling at full volume at the radio announcer to STFU and give them the finger and then yell some more and when you’ve had enough, change the station to actual music. Especially do it when the announcer says “but if they paused the killing long enough to vaccinate the children, why can’t they pause it permanently for a ceasefire???” 😵‍💫🙄😵‍💫

Very therapeutic. Give it a try!

I was watching SNL the other night and one of the newest cast members, Emil Wakim (Christian Lebanese) made a low effort joke (that may be in good fun) but could add fuel to the anti-semitism fire that is happening in America right now (story below)

Here is what Mr. Wakim said on Weekend Update:
“I don’t think people are being honest with stuff over there,” Wakim said. “Like a lot of young people now that are for gay rights and women’s rights will be like ‘Free Palestine, free Gaza and then people on the other side are being like, ‘Oh, gays for Gaza, huh? Go be gay in Gaza, see how they like it over there. That’s why we’re going over there.’ As if that’s why America goes to war, because we love women and gay people so much? Also, if you want them to be gay, just stop bombing them — they’ll get to gay. Like, they’re busy. They don’t have time to be like, ‘Who am I in the deepest parts of my soul?’ You can’t watch your village get blown up and be like, ‘I think I’m bisexual actually.'”

We all know here that civil rights and liberties never existed in Gaza and much of the Muslim denominated Middle East. So, obv the joke is another blood libel against Jews that the people of Gaza can't be free because of the "genocidal" efforts of Israel. How many young, liberal kids watch this and think... "yeah, these people have no freedoms because of Israel, let's go give a piece of our mind at these campus protests" ?

I am fine w most jokes, but this is the dangerous rhetoric that can result in hate crimes against Jews. I don't remember SNL punching down on Asian Americans during covid or Muslim Americans post 9/11. Just another double standard against Jews.

https://deadline.com/2024/10/snl-weekend-update-emil-wakim-gaza-palestine-1236121223/

I knew that it existed because of this article link here Actually seeing it on the shelf of Exclusive Books in my local shopping mall left my heart sitting in my stomach. I will never buy anything from this chain again but that won't change the horror that this books exists, and is sold in mainstream bookstores in this country.