Worldwide antisemitism surge — jewishinsider.com/2023/10/dail

Has nothing to do with #Israel & #Gaza. #Jews around the world are not & do not speak for the government of Israel. #Antisemitism is antisemitism. It is not a legitimate protest against actions of a government with which one disagrees, not an exercise of #FreeSpeech. It is #HateSpeech & #hate directed against #Jewish people. Innocent civilians were targeted by #Hamas on October 7, not military targets. Don't conflate the two. No "but..."

@RunRichRun Opposing a regime that's actively committing war crimes is not antisemitism.

@LouisIngenthron Please reread my post. Before the inexcusable and barbaric attacks of October 7, many Jews and Jewish organizations on the left were among the harshest critics of the government assembled by Netanyahu after the last election. Criticizing that government is not what I referred to throughout the post. The antisemitism described across the US, here: jta.org/2023/10/30/politics/wh and around the world, here: jewishinsider.com/2023/10/dail is antisemitism, not criticism of a particular government.

@LouisIngenthron There is no excuse for antisemitism any more than there is for Islamophobia. Both are abhorrent. Attacking people for who they are is not the same as peaceful protest against any government anywhere. The former is hate and hatespeech. The latter -- again, peaceful protest -- is protected speech (in this country as well as many others).

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Uh, hate to break it to you, but if you're in the US, then yes, hate speech *is* protected speech.

Also, isn't most of the reported "antisemitism" in college campuses really just them showing support for Palestine? I agree that hatred based on one's identity is always wrong, but I also think that label is currently being applied too broadly.

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