@axeshun when I hear antisemitism is somehow due to some particular event in time (current Gaza war, May 21, etc etc) or somehow the fault of some particularly bad Jew (Madoff, Netanyahu, etc etc) I roll my eyes. It just isn't accurate.
Antisemitism is caused by antisemites. Everything else is a distraction. It isn't new. It's cyclical. It's transhistoric. It's conspiracy based. It's adaptable to changing circumstances.
That isn't a critique of the protests. The Judenhass we see in the protests is indicative of the criteria I just listed not due to some shit Israel did. And while I believe it's endemic on the left and right it also isn't the main reason people are protesting.
So it's important to be able to make these crisp distinctions in analysis and not dissappear them in a false narrative even if it's neat and convenient.
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