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Displays of #antisemitism have increased because of current events in Israel and Gaza. Let’s look at one example of it from recent days.
#ThisWeekInAS
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This exchange took place on X.
A little bit of context: both individuals are somewhat public figures, but not by much. The first individual (i.e. Blue) used “you” in his first tweet to address the general population.
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![A discussion that took place on X.
Person Blue: I am again reminding you [the general population] that Hamas started the war, by gang-raping x murdering 1,400 people (and beheading babies), and the bog-standard military response is not a "genocide."
Person Orange: So hamas opened up a planned parenthood after breaking thru the iron dome in a paraglider? Dude ur doing a genocide just admit it
Person Blue: Nope. The terrorist group Hamas, which you are defending because you like Jews about as much as you like Barack Obama, just actually did the things they are accused of.
War is not "genocide," and watching this is deeply sad but unsurprising and hilarious.
Person Orange: Without us you guys are just 7 million gay drug addicts surrounded by dudes who’s houses you stole. You may wanna start being a little nicer to the “goy”](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/111/309/845/157/590/253/original/1e0d586b3dabfefa.png "A discussion that took place on X.
Person Blue: I am again reminding you [the general population] that Hamas started the war, by gang-raping x murdering 1,400 people (and beheading babies), and the bog-standard military response is not a \"genocide.\"
Person Orange: So hamas opened up a planned parenthood after breaking thru the iron dome in a paraglider? Dude ur doing a genocide just admit it
Person Blue: Nope. The terrorist group Hamas, which you are defending because you like Jews about as much as you like Barack Obama, just actually did the things they are accused of.
War is not \"genocide,\" and watching this is deeply sad but unsurprising and hilarious.
Person Orange: Without us you guys are just 7 million gay drug addicts surrounded by dudes who’s houses you stole. You may wanna start being a little nicer to the “goy”")
So Blue is stating that the military actions done by Israel don’t amount to genocide, which is true. You and I can be critical of their tactics and policies, but here is why no one should label it as such: https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/allegation-israel-commits-acts-genocide
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Both of these men live in America, as stated in their X profiles. Blue has never claimed to be Jewish, let alone Israeli, yet Orange apparently assumes that Blue is Israeli. Orange also tosses in an abortion reference, equating it to genocide.
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Finally, Orange seems to reference the population of Israel as being gay and addicted to drugs. The final sentence comes across as a threat to Jews, even though Blue is not one.
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I can’t unpack everything that is going on here. In a nutshell, Orange is clearly equating a handful of right-wing hot topics with Israel, and he quickly makes the false assumption that Blue is Jewish for making a comment that quite frankly barely passes as pro-Israel.
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This is an example of how right-wing antisemitism is willing to ride the coattails of left-wing antisemitism. For individuals who are on the left; it would serve you well to learn more about left-wing antisemitism, because at this moment it is feeding the right’s antisemitism.
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@ThisWeekInAS “Finally” - so you’re just going to skip over the whole “who’s”/“whose” thing?
@colinrosenthal What you are criticizing is not clear to me. Is it something pertaining to the quoted X conversation? Or are you looking for a general statement from me about the war and the people? (If the latter, I didn't bring it up in this thread because I've expounded on it previously.)