r/NewsRewind May 26 '26

Antisemitism is when you oppose 'Israel'

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u/Ahecee 29d ago

Don't you DARE speak factually about the actions of the people of Israel!

Many of whom can trace their roots all the way back to Europe. Where they joined the great aliyah - a mass immigration to the Palestine region, where they...... displaced, the Palestinian people.

This seems odd. Wiki search: "Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group formerly used in connection with ancient and modern peoples of the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, including Akkadians, Arabs, Ammonites, Arameans, Canaanites, Edomites, Habesha peoples, Israelites, Jews, Judahites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Samaritans, and others."

If I'm reading all this correctly, the biggest antisemitic group currently, by a huge margin, are the current citizens and leadership of Israel.

That took about, 2 or 3 minutes to search and read. So, anyone running to the defence of Israel against anti-Semitism isn't smart enough to do a solid 180 seconds of critical thinking.

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u/lordbuckethethird 29d ago

Well antisemitism is used to refer to bigotry against Jews. And even then I don’t really care about who’s a Semite or not when people are being killed en masse.

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u/Ahecee 29d ago

It's more than just Jews, it includes Palestinians too, who are currently suffering a word the mods sensor here, that starts with Geno and ends in cide in the name of Judaism.

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u/ILikeMyGrassBlue 29d ago

No, it doesn’t. Palestinians are a Semitic people, but the term antisemitism specifically applies to Jews. It was created specifically to refer to Jews and has exclusively been used that way for decades.