I’m not talking “death to the IDF” or whatever Zionists consider antisemitism, I’m talking actual antisemitism that uses Happy Merchants and 👃✡️🧃 emojis.
What’s even more disturbing is that a lot of these posts are getting well over 10,000 likes, including from people I actually know in real life. This obviously has a lot to do with the Israeli government and Zionists portraying Judaism and Zionism as the same thing, but there are a concerning amount of actual Nazis and Holocaust denial on the site as well hijacking the Palestinian struggle in order to spread actual bigotry against Jewish people.
It’s upsetting to me because I actually am Jewish, I want nothing to do with the Israeli apartheid regime and yet I’m automatically associated with it thanks to both Zionist and Neo Nazi propaganda. Antisemitism is very real and is an issue in online spaces.
Sorry for another long vent, but at this point I feel like this site is the only real safe haven for me online as an anti-Zionist Jew. I wish I could delete Instagram but unfortunately that isn’t possible for me at this time. I have already deleted everything else that isn’t Lemmy and I’m better off for it.
Myself and people in my org have also reported that urban areas in Norway have been getting covered in “Nordic Resistance Movement” stickers saying shit like “LOVE NOT HATE”, where the O in LOVE is replaced with the rune-ligature that is the NRM’s logo, and the A in HATE is replaced with a Star of David. I’ve torn these down whenever I’ve seen them.
Instagram is of course already known to be a haven of bigoted nonsense, so it doesn’t surprise me to hear that this is an issue there.