My ass is on the line because my ass personally experienced the effects of both casual and malignant antisemitism on a regular basis. And that was before the multifold increase in documented antisemitic incidents of the past couple of years. I was certain that, in light of this damning statistic, the reasons for my concerns regarding the future of my ass would be self evident. Are you asking me to justify to you why I fear for my safety when I see antisemitism being rapidly normalized on a global scale? Are Jews exempt from responding to clear and present threats as anyone else would?
I am not referring to the past here, it is happening now, with a definite prospect of getting far worse in the near future. With this prospect being ignored and dismissed, I find your reference to perpetual victimhood quite insulting. How perpetual is antisemitism? Well, that’s how perpetual the response to it you should expect. Duh!
And your rather strange request brings me to my next objection: belittling and normalizing antisemitism. A few phrases in your post above illustrate this trend, and I take objection to them.
Having established, hopefully to your satisfaction, my right to fear for the safety of my ass like any other human being would, let’s move on. I already explained how the slanderous, entirely unfounded in both the semantics and the law, accusations of genocide being consistently leveled against Israel play into normalizing antisemitic narratives, so I will not go into it again.
I will, however, point out additional instances of normalized antisemitism present in your post. Referring to “Jews” as justifying “their” actions is one. What actions are you talking about, and how are these actions applicable to “Jews”?
Conflating the current Israeli government with all Israelis, then indiscriminately conflating all Israelis with Israel, and then indiscriminately conflating Israel with all Jews, and finally accusing Jews of the genocide that has not happened is as antisemitic as it gets, yet it hadn’t occurred to you to even stop for a second and consider what you just uttered.
Being so persistently critical of the genocide that is a product of your speculation while having only the faintest clue and barely making a mention of instances of genocide that actually happened is yet another. I could go on, but why waste my time?
There are several actual recognized instances of genocide, not just “a couple of” them that one can cite, and what they all have in common is that they were all recognized as such after careful examination of evidence which was found to fit the legal definition of genocide by authorized international bodies of experts. Genuine concerns by humanitarians, let alone pronouncements by partial onlookers, played no role in this process. The adherence to this process, and not expressions of concern, is what makes a distinction between genocide and not genocide.
So how would I describe what is currently happening in Gaza? I would describe it the same way people have been describing it for millennia. It is called war. And it is ugly.
You said antisemitism is not fake..
For gawds sake, listen to yourself talk!
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