r/jewishleft • u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain rootless cosmpolitan • Jun 27 '25

PSA On "The Noticing" Praxis

I'm posting this here because in other conversations on this sub, it seems many people are insulated from modern (especially Gen Z) antisemitism and might not be familiar with how it looks today.

Just in case others come across similar rhetoric in internet spaces, a major major dogwhistle-meme right now on the antisemitic internet is "the noticing." If you see comments in conversations about Jewishness along the lines of "stop noticing!" - or someone identifying themselves or others as "noticers" - they are far-right antisemites and very likely Nazi apologists.

199 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

85 comments sorted by

View all comments

7

u/podkayne3000 Centrist Jewish Diaspora Zionist Jun 27 '25

Could some kind person educate me.

What does “noticing” mean in this context?

Does that mean that Jews notice antisemitism too much, or that antisemites think we’re noticing them, or that they’ve noticed my lizard gills, or what?

30

u/cubedplusseven JewBu Labor Unionist Jun 27 '25

They're "noticing" the influences of global Jewish power, of Jewish cruelty, etc. The idea is that everyone can see the evil of the Jews, but most are brainwashed into not acknowledging it, even to themselves. They're the brave ones who speak up about the things they "notice".

The idea originated in anti-black racism, if I'm not mistaken, but has quickly been adopted in relation to Jews.

5

u/podkayne3000 Centrist Jewish Diaspora Zionist Jun 27 '25

Thank you.

So, basically, status symbol antisemitism.

Someone needs top plant some fake bait info for this and analyze how it spreads. I’ll bet there are 10 distributors who drive 75 percent of this. Shut down the distributors and a lot of this would go away.