Why are people so antisemitic these days?

[Jaaanellie]

Everything seems to be blamed on the Jews. Like 9/11, covid, or any tragedy. It’s completely unsubstantiated. There’s also so many stereotypes surrounding Jewish people. They say we’re sneaky, manipulative, money obsessed, greedy pigs.
We’re just normal people.

The left calls us fascist capitalists. They say we’re what’s wrong with the world. The right calls us greedy mind controlling illuminati members. They say we’re what’s wrong with the world.

BLM has turned anti-Semitic even. The UN targets Israel in an unfair way turning a back to real humanitarian crises. Politicians make up lies about Jews and Israel. None of it is constructive criticism. There’s just so much lies and hate. No one cares too much when we’re victims of hate crimes. Our fear and suffering is ignored despite the fact that we’re a massive minority. Outside of Israel we can’t fight back due to our small numbers. Being a Jew in a place where I only know 2 other Jews, I really get targeted when it comes to harassment and racist comments.

I can’t help that my family is Ashkenazi. It’s in my DNA and it is my heritage.

[Bluemax]

I'm not Jewish myself. I have several friends who are. Most don't experience much antisemitism in their daily lives. But I believe you live in new Zealand, whereas I'm from the states.

I for one very much support Israel, as it is a vibrant democracy in an area of the world that doesn't have many. All the people I know personally who criticize Israel don't do it for antisemitic reasons. They do it because they think Israel is in the wrong.

You are Ashkenazi? Cool. Highest IQs of any ethnic group on the planet.

[RealMarek]

My impression is that at least in the US the level of anti-semitism was much higher in the late 1800s and early 1900s. There were some horrible anti-Jewish publications that were widely circulated back then and there were restrictions imposed on Jews for membership in clubs, schools, etc. I think any group that is culturally distinct and financially outperforms the broader population on an average basis risks being the target of resentment. This is true of the Chinese in Malaysia and other parts of southeast Asia, for example. It’s not fair and not right, but it is a recurring pattern. One thing that complicates the situation in the US is that the racially motivated crimes against Jews are committed disproportionately by another minority group, and nobody feels comfortable addressing this.

[Brokenheartedx]

Only jews suffer... Only jews know how horrible the world is, everyones out to get them, everyone hates them- according to jews, in the real world nobody actually gives a shit.

Nobody lies about isreal we all have eyes we see what isreal is doin funded by germanys tax payers, hey when is that cash cow ending or we still on generations of suffering.

[tartaarsaus]

Lmao Jews remain one of the biggest targets of hate crimes in Western countries.

The idea this is all due to Israel is a) idiotic and b) blaming Jews outside Israel for actions of Israel is antisemitic

[tartaarsaus]

And as for Germany funding Israeli military, for a large part this is literally because Germany funded Iraq launching chemical weapons at Israel.

[tartaarsaus]

For example, the FBI quite literally said Jews are most targeted in hate crimes, whoch is similar to high rates of hate crime in plenty of European countries. Then we also have 20% of the UK blaming Jews for covid 🤷🏽

[Brokenheartedx]

@tartaarsaus funnily enough I've not heard 1 person where i live blame a jew nor go jew bashing... We generally do not talk about religion here

[Jaaanellie]

You’re an anti-Semite

[tartaarsaus]

@Brokenheartedx

So what? Personal experience is not relevant in discrediting actual research

[willyham2021]

Your personal anecdotal experience has no baring on the objective data you imbecile

[willyham2021]

@tartaarsaus Ha!! 🤪 I'm here to say EXACTLY this!!

[Anonymous]

Why is there any form of bigotry these days? Because people are uneducated and always looking for someone to blame when things go wrong. Chances are if you’re a minority group anywhere, you’re going to face bigotry and discrimination because it’s easy to pick on a minority. It’s not right, but it happens everywhere unfortunately.

[Jaaanellie]

I guess. However, Jews have always been a massive target.

[Opinion Owner]

That’s true, and you can argue that with lots of minority groups also. The Africans/African Americans were victims and survivors of slavery they were dehumanized because of their skin colour and to this day racism against them is still a huge problem that hasn’t gone anywhere, and then there’s recent cases where minority groups have been targeted such as the racism the East Asian community faced due to the coronavirus, now several groups have been blamed for the coronavirus, Chinese, Jews, Muslims, Indians- but I think that we can all agree that the people who got the worst end of the stick were Chinese/East Asian people who were literally beaten in the streets as a result of the coronavirus, then there’s also Islamophobia in which you won’t see any other group nowadays being targeted and discriminated against the way Muslims are.

Now that’s not to say that antisemitism is any less, or that we won’t see Jews being targeted and discriminated against a way in which no other group is- but my point is that many minority groups face discrimination and I think we should be the change we seek and work together to stop the discriminatory BS, because a lot of us share the same or similar struggles.

Like for example, I haven’t heard of cases antisemitism in BLM and that’s most likely a result of my ignorance- but people who support the BLM movement and who are antisemitic is just ridiculous because how can you fight against oppression of one people while being part of oppression of another? It’s just hypocrisy.

[Jaaanellie]

BLM is hypercritical. They were supposed to fight for human right but became politicised.

Also Jews got blamed more for covid than Asians actually. Just wasn’t reported on the news because they tend to be anti-Jewish a lot of time. Only 15% of people in the UK blame the Chinese GOVERNMENT while 20% blame the Jews. There have been more hate crimes against Jews than Asians due to covid.

[Jaaanellie]

At the moment jews are by far the most victimised in the western world. We’re a tiny minority group. Only 2% of the US is Jewish. Yet, 2.5 times more likely to be victims of violent hate crimes.

[Opinion Owner]

While I agree that Jews are incredibly victimized in the Western world- to say the most today compared to other minority groups? That’s debatable.

For example, while Jews are immense victims of violent hate crimes, at least these hate crimes get taken seriously, and are recorded as hate crimes so we can come to be aware of that statistic.

In the US, if we look at the amount of cops that disproportionately kill and assault black people, most of the cops aren’t even convicted murderers for their crimes and they’re currently walking free as if nothing happened. That’s not classed or recorded as a hate crime.

And even then, if you look beyond the US like to the UK for example- the second most popular party in the UK was investigated for antisemitism and the report concluded that there were about 3 prosecutable cases of antisemitism in the Labour Party and the media completely slated the party for the accusations of antisemitism as we should be harsh on parties that have bigotry problems- that being said, the most popular party in the UK has a huge Islamophobia problem, the PM of the UK made Islamophobic comments about Muslim women- nor a full investigation has taken place about Islamophobia in the Conservative Party nor has the PM apologized for his comments, nor was the media as harsh on The Conservative Party for accusations of Islamophobia as they were on Labour for accusations of antisemitism and in fact despite having accusations of Islamophobia the British public voted for the Conservative Party and almost 50% of Conservative Party members see Islam as a “threat to the British way of Life.”

It’s a lot more complex than just looking at a few statistics and claiming one group of people is the most victimized because of those statistics the reality is hate and bigotry goes far beyond statistics.

[Opinion Owner]

And you say Jews got blamed more than Asians- but you had Trump literally calling this the “Chinese Virus” there were several videos of Asians getting assaulted due to being blamed for the virus. Again, one statistic does not show the whole picture.

[MCheetah]

I couldn't care less about the most powerful and rich people in the Western world. Yes, the Holocaust was horrible. But it was 80 years ago. Stop using it to bitch about your life in 2021 as a Jew (anyone this applies to, not OP). Chairman Mao did far worse than what Hitler did, and yet Chinese-Americans don't get a "Get Out of Accountability" card for Mao growing the rice too close. It's like, so many Jews want to bitch about "anti-Semitic" when they're multi-millionaires and control huge sectors of Western society. Modern day Jews whining about anti-Semitic were the first SJW's to use their victim status to get rich. And as I said, I couldn't care enough about Jews (or anyone else) to be anti-Semitic.

[Lottifan]

Unfortunately the world needs a scapegoat. The Jewish people have been the worlds scapegoats since the beginning of time.
We are meant to be gods chosen people. What have we been chosen for. Only to suffer.

[PurpleDrank69]

>we got kicked out of 109 countries but it’s because we’re oppressed not not because we did bad things guise

[Jaaanellie]

The fact that 3 people disliked your answer really shows how toxic the world is

[Lottifan]

That’s true.
Well you know where they can go

[Jaaanellie]

@PurpleDrank69 literally tell me one bad thing the Jewish people did? Because it all seems like Hitler got a bit jealous of the fact that Jewish people had success businesses.

[tartaarsaus]

Well, large parts of the world have been historically quite antisemitic. Jewish history in Europe is marked by constant persecution, frequent pogroms, segregation, forced conversion and genocide.


The time where antisemitism visibly decreased was mostly after the second world war. That said, it never really disappeared and the same reasons why people were antisemitic 200 years ago constantly return now.


It’s not so much that people are comparably very antisemitic these days. It’s more that antisemitism is less of a taboo these days. I mean, you have the second biggest party of the UK being accused of interfering with investigations of antisemitism, 20% of rhe UK blaming covid on Jews, Jews becoming one of the biggest targets of hate crimes in Europe.

[ChrisMaster69]

In the UK it’s mainly the far left and the far right, everyone else does not really care and is just normal.
The problem is, the extremists are given far to much free reign to say shit.

[Jaaanellie]

It’s everywhere. The US, all of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and especially in the Middle East.

[SnakeBoop]

You know, I've heard gays cause floods and disasters and the same about black people. But never Jews.

[tartaarsaus]

For the record, it does certaimly occur. Jews remain one of the biggest targets of hate crimes in Europe and the USA. The big recent example was this study by Oxford University researchers saying that about 20% of the British population blame covid on Jews

[SnakeBoop]

Oh, I'm sure it does. It's just almost kind of weird because I've never heard them be blamed for anything before

[Jaaanellie]

Then you haven’t been paying my attention. High profile Congress people are blaming Jews for 9/11 and shit. One said that Jews eat babies. It’s all on their twitters. Also nows it’s 1 in 4 English people who blame Jews for covid.

[SnakeBoop]

Ah maybe thats why. I avoid the trash fire that is twitter for one.
I'm also uk based so tend to not be interested in usa or politics in general so don't follow it

[Anonymous]

Israel is an Apartheid state.

Israel was built on Jewish supremacism.

Israelis actively oppress the Palestinians.

Israel is the most racist country according to the Durban Conference.

Check your #JewishPrivilege and start understanding that #PalestinianLivesMatter

[TonyV]

I haven't heard anyone blame the Jews for anything.

[Jaaanellie]

You didn’t even notice the people storming the capitol.

[TonyV]

I noticed, I dodnt pay close attention cause it was bunch of idiots "storming" and a bunch of chicken shits inside scared over nothing, so both sides were to idiotic for me to pay it any attention.
That being said I never heard anything about jews mentioned in the ordeal.
Sure I've heard insensitive jew jokes, just like you here about any race but I've never heard anyone legit blame jews.

[Jaaanellie]

The people who stormed the capitol were wearing shirts that said “6 million wasn’t enough” and “Jews will not replace us”. QANON in general is anti-Semitic in its beliefs.

[Ms_Vanderquack]

These days? Good thing you weren't around in the 1940s.

[Jaaanellie]

My family was

[No_biryani]

People are anti everything these days... Stop paying attention and be one of the good ones

[Jaaanellie]

We are literally in danger

[willyham2021]

This has been an ongoing thing throughout all of human history. Even Mark Twain wrote a paper on his thoughts as to why this ocurrs and explores some of the causes.

[Anonymous]

If you compare with other targeted groups, it's not much. Everyone can experience a little bit of exclusion to understand other worse groups

[Jaaanellie]

What do you mean? Jew make up 0.2% of the worlds population. In America we face the most hate. We’re more likely than other other group to be victims of hate crimes.

[Jaaanellie]

Anti-semitetic crime has increased by 74% since 2019. In 2019, jews were 2.5 X more like to be victims of hate crimes than blacks or Arabs. 3 times more likely than Asians. Now give that a 74% increase. Look it up yourself? BLM is fucked and will belittle the struggling of any other group to win the oppression olympics but have nothing to back up their claims. Crime statistics say other things. I was with them until they started name calling zionists, supporting the communist Fidel Castro, and tweeting that anti-Semitic mural.

I’m not oppressed I’m literally scared. There are people with swastika tattoos just causally walking around and the government won’t do anything about it. We have massive gangs that have governmental power with the slogan “sieg heil”. Guess what? They’re not WHITE supremacists. They’re indigenous people who hate Jews.

[BokieLoc]

911 was a hoax done by the Zionists. It doesn't mean all Jews are being blamed just those elite families.

[Jaaanellie]

Zionists? America is Israel’s biggest ally. 9/11 was done by the Taliban.

[OddBeMe]

There are antisemites. But there are also anti-Israeli politics. Not the same thing.

[Jaaanellie]

A lot of anti-Israel stuff has become highly anti-Semitic. Especially since most of the complaints are built on lies.

[OddBeMe]

No doubt. But the right wing Israeli govt and their occupation of Palestinians deserve much criticism.

[ThatNoUVAtYourEyes]

I don't know.
Guys who spilled oil on the motorway in Germany so I crash are maybe jewish?

[Jaaanellie]

Wtf aye

[ThatNoUVAtYourEyes]

Like I said, can't be certain of it, but the hotel they dropped me off at has jewish names listed as owners.
And it is obvious the only business in town is causing crashes for people driving nearby.
Just car shops. It's crazy.

[Jaaanellie]

Yeah nah it’s wasn’t the Jews

[ThatNoUVAtYourEyes]

I don't know and, frankly, my dear, I don't care

[SalvatoreCordileone]

I blame the elite, like the free masons and their agenda 21 ideas

[Bklynbadboy12]

Don't feel bad I don't think anyone trust anyone these days

[karaspara]

Because they are allowed to be unfortunately

[rachel776]

this has been true through all of history

[crmoore]

I rarely see remarks like that

[Jaaanellie]

There’s literally famous people spreading these things. Whole groups. Even the Palestinian Authority. There are people in the comment section saying the same shit.

[crmoore]

I'm sure some things are more common in some regions than they are in others. But in the most prominent regions, I don't believe it's common rhetoric.

[Jaaanellie]

Yet, it is. I’m Jewish and I experience anti-semitism all the time.

[crmoore]

Maybe you're right. If so, it seems like a very odd coincidence. It seems like the world is so abundant with racism and sexism it just never happens to occur in front of people who aren't victims of it. That, or perspective/bias may be the culprit, here. Either that, or we are talking about two different things, here. I don't know where you live, But when I said "prominent" regions, I meant places like the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, and places like that. You mentioned Palestinians, perhaps that place is much different than the places I'm familiar with.

[Anonymous]

the left wants Israel destroyed

[msc545]

Jews are always blamed for almost everything.

[msc545]

@livingnightmare well no, we do not. we wish we did but we don't, sorry.

[FunkyMonkee]

They are?

[HairyPoppins]

I don't see it.