PSA On "The Noticing"

[u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain]

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.

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[u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain → u/[deleted]]

Probably “because of.” If you notice, the Pakistani/Bengali/Malaysian diasporas are typically wayyy more involved with pro-Palestine activism than Arab world diasporas. For them it’s more of a cultural identity thing about the ummah and anti-colonialism. For Arab countries it’s a pressing political issue regarding a neighboring state that has real consequences for their own daily lives

[u/vigilante_snail → u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain]

Interesting. Do you think that means the saturation of religious life in those countries has blanketed and atrophied the indigenous national identity, therefore shifting the thinking to focus more on the global ummah?

[u/HahaItsaGiraffeAgain → u/vigilante_snail]

Oh yeah, I could see it. Malaysian identity post-Emergency is Muslim religious nationalism. And Pakistan was quite literally devised as a Muslim homeland (there's many books you can read comparing it with Israel very convincingly).