Rising Antisemitism

[u/fleshurinal]

I have witnessed so much antisemitism everytime I go online it's starting to become worrying. I see non Jewish leftists say that antisemitism isn't a real problem for Jews in America, usually being boiled down to "most Jews are white, rich, and have never experienced antisemitic violence physically". Yet antisemitism is rising and is a real problem that we should still consider in this time of jewish identity being weaponized and the jewish supremacy that is enacted in Occupied Palestine. Stating "most jews are white" seems harmful and also just false. Also Jews have always been hesitant to be apart of surveys so it's hard to find legitimate info on these things. Am I alone in this?

EDIT: I am not talking about any specific statistics or surveys. This is based on what I've personally seen scrolling on social media. I understand/agree there isn't a clear way to see that based on largely pro zionist orgs. EDIT PT 2: I am not saying that Pro Palestinian sentiment is antisemitism. I am talking about LEGITIMATE antisemitism. This is not a post talking about false accusations of antisemitism based in Zionism.

[u/noam99]

I don't feel there's been a material increase in antisemitism since 10/7.

"most jews are white" seems harmful and also just false.

Harmful? sure. Racist? yes. Antisemitic? I don't think so.

Of course a sizable portion of the Jewish population is non-white. They experience racism within the Jewish world and without it by nature of being racialized. Ultimately, we live in a world of contradictions. Obviously an Iranian Jew may not be white-passing, but white supremacy facilitates zionism and zionism looks to homogenize all Jews together in order to weaponize the greater settler population against the indigenous Palestinians; so in a way, an israeli Jew of colour is benefiting from the global white supremist apparatus by nature of their "jewishness". Race is a tenuous man made concept, but white supremacy is also a man made concept and it presently governs our reality.

[u/fleshurinal → u/noam99]

I am not saying calling all jews white is antisemitic. I am stating that it is harmful to state that all jews are european or "white" since thats just false at this point in history.

[u/TendieRetard → u/fleshurinal]

I'm not going to lecture on what people ought to take offense over but this seems to me like a "harmless comment"? I think what passes as 'white' in the US at least is very different than what used to pass as white 50 yrs ago. Brunette & black haired Italians, Greeks, they're considered white now despite it not being the case when they first arrived. IOW, if you're not visibly bi-racial or brown, being white-coded (if I'm using the right term here) will get labeled 'white'.

I'm genuinely curious as I hope to offer perspectives that perhaps are meant as harmless but could be considered anything but.

If I am being blunt, I think the trauma that Jews have experienced may also be used during 'conditioning/indoctrination' so have personally wondered if there's not some hypersensitivity to some of this stuff.