They're going to learn that you can't just say antisemite to shut people up or make them scared. Words have meaning and if you disregard their meaning and use them too aggressively, they lose their meaning, as well as the power associated with them.

Back in the day, antisemite was an awful accusation which made someone look awful, literally equating them to a nazi. Nowadays it's anyone who supports palestine. So if someone calls me an antisemite these days for being against genocide and occupation of Palestine, I'm just going to laugh at them because they're a chud who can't be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i hope they learn! :( it’s my understanding that israel and pro-israel media are very aware that they are galvanizing further antisemitism on purpose to some degree, because it lends credence to the idea that a zionist state must exist.

[–] homura1650 5 points 4 days ago

I think it's even simpler than that. A lot of the people conflating anti-Israel sentiment with anti Jewish sentiment are ethno nationalists. On the Israeli side, those would be Jewish nationalists; but here in the US, the sentiment is disproportionately coming from Christian nationalists. Incidentally, these people also tend to be the same people who conflate anti-current-governing-coalition-and-policy-of-Isreal sentiment with anti Israel sentiment more generally, because that conflation is part of fascist ideology, and ethno nationalism tends to be a fascist ideology.

The reason we see pro-Zionist media ferment anti semitism is simply that the Zionist movement is ideologically aligned with most anti-semetic movements.

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