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.
It is an unfortunate but an expected (maybe even planned?) consequence of Israel’s actions. Everyone called that if Israel is willing to weaponize accusations of anti-Semitism to silence dissent against its ongoing genocide it will trivialize and normalize actual anti-Semitism, especially in West where anti-Semitism has been mostly driven outside social acceptability institutionally if not completely societally as a concentrated effort since WW2. Israel was willing and perhaps depending on this taking place when they started calling university students protesting blood libel and frankly milquetoast articles criticizing Western weapons sales to Israel as anti-Semitic.
I don’t know what is the solution to this, a lot of people lack nuance even with good intentions when they have to discern overlapping problems, hence for example people highlighting the issues in Palestine about LGBT rights or whatever as if killing them solves that even when not being cynical about such.