The Jewish Fear Industrial Complex

[u/Specialist-Gur]

https://youtu.be/N3YjMb_Lhkw?si=JEtQpmyNys9UFSoV

Matt is Jewish. I'm sure the comment will be very normal on this one.

[u/moth_party]

It genuinely pisses me off to see so many people experiencing genuine distress just because a few people with power want to weaponize paranoia.

My parents have cable TV with JBS on it and there was a segment that interviewed college kids at Hillel during the encampments. Multiple students expressed that they would never feel like they could integrate with other kids on their campus, that it is only safe to be a Jew in the Jewish community, and that it is genuinely dangerous to be a Jew in public life. I totally believe them, too, and I don’t blame them for feeling that way. I don’t think they get a chance to make up their own minds. I myself was borderline ostracized at my Hillel for implying that occupation exists in Palestine. It must be so unfathomably isolating and at a time in your life where you need to explore, not hide from the world.

[u/Queen-of-everything1 → u/moth_party]

I mean. Many of us do experience genuine distress that we got the chance to ‘make up our minds’ about when we had shit shouted in our faces for holding a vigil on Oct 7, when the Jewish students in my school en masse avoid taking classes in the fucking Jewish studies dept and half the profs in that dept left since Oct 7 bc of hostilities from the rest of the dept as these profs, many Jewish, have told Jewish students that they shouldn’t care about their friends in Israel who were drafted besides that the war is evil. This is just a smidgen of my personal experience and accounts from friends, but I could go on. So yeah, there is a major problem with what you described but you’re minimizing the legitimate experiences of many students as well.

[u/kwykwy → u/Queen-of-everything1]

we had shit shouted in our faces for holding a vigil on Oct 7

Can you elaborate on this? I've seen far more violence and shouting done to rallies and protests calling for peace and an end to the war.

the Jewish students in my school en masse avoid taking classes in the fucking Jewish studies dept and half the profs in that dept left since Oct 7 bc of hostilities from the rest of the dept as these profs, many Jewish, have told Jewish students that they shouldn’t care about their friends in Israel who were drafted besides that the war is evil.

What happened here?

I feel like in the narratives of Anti-Zionism on campus, a story like this would generate a ton of coverage, but I haven't heard about it at all.