r/JewsOfConscience • u/scarletswalk2002 • 18h ago
Vent wtf is up w all the “it’s the jews” rhetoric lately
has anyone noticed an exponential skyrocket in like groyper apologism, n*zi stuff, medieval peasant antisemitism among “leftists?” or just like vitriolic hatred toward “jews” and silencing any criticism of “it’s actually not leftist to say an ethnic group is inherently evil due to their innate nature” with “jews are just a religion” or “shut up about jewish feelings” (which is actually a reasonable request i agree with in other contexts, like speaking over palestinians and making things about our moral reckoning or prioritizing jewish scholars etc., but that’s not what this is being used as.)
recently bad empanada who was on the bad hasbara show last year so clearly didn’t have a problem with every single jew put out a crazy video abt how we are in fact evil and everyone agreed. rathbone who is followed by several people i respect is making “it’s the jews” memes too, and “ireallyhateyou” who is an ex israeli straight up posted that medieval blood libel really happened and that jews ritually abuse and drink the blood of children. and it’s not just online too.
i’m seeing a ton of it in offline spaces from hardcore activists to basically apolitical liberal people who think the genocide is bad. i think epstein may have been the tipping point? but it feels like you can’t exist even as a completely antizionist jew like fully supportive of the resistance and everything without people blaming you for columbus and the transatlantic slave trade, denying the holocaust, calling you inbred and ugly, and accusing your entire culture of some innate inherited predisposition toward evil.
i don’t know what to make of it. i think the abuse of antisemitism claims for zionist purposes was a bit of a boy who cried wolf because i have been in the movement since 2021 and i have never seen anything like this whatsoever. :(