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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can honestly say that I'm less upset by Trayon's White's comments/actions than by the repetitive attempts here to say that they "aren't that bad."

I actually don't care what happens with Trayon White as an individual. What I would like is recognition that anti-semitism among people of color is on the rise, with the cause of the Palestinians a convenient cover for those accusations. For American Jews, it increasingly feels like (mostly mild, "all Jews are like this") anti-semitism is ok on the left and the right. It's alarming.

When you combine it with the rise in real anti-Jewish hate crimes here and around the world, Jews aren't sure what to think. It certainly feels like Jews are the last group anyone wants to defend ...[/quote]

Could you provide proof of your assertion before asking for any sort of recognition ?[/quote]

CBS News: Anti-Semitic incidents spike 57 percent in 2017, report says -- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-semitic-incidents-spike-57-percent-in-2017-report-says/
The Independent (UK): Antisemitic hate crimes hit record high as violent assaults increase by more than a third in a year -- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/antisemitic-hate-crimes-record-high-violent-assaults-community-security-trust-cst-a8187941.html
JTA: Number of anti-Semitic hate crimes edged up last year, FBI reports -- https://www.jta.org/2017/11/13/news-opinion/united-states/number-of-anti-semitic-hate-crimes-edged-up-last-year-fbi-reports

Lots more if you Google. I chose these three because they came up early in the search and are reputable news sources.[/quote]
The problem with your statistics - and I'm in agreement with you - is that liberals will blame overt  antisemtitic attacks assaults all on Trump, while they concurrently send the message that antisemtitic attitudes, as opposed to outright vandalism, isn't that big a deal. What they fail to realize is that the tacit acceptance of antisemtitic attitudes - including the apparently pervasive messaging that anti-Semtitic attitudes aren't all that bad as long as you're not vandalizing Jewish property - is playing into it.

As an American Jew, I don't know where to turn. There is an extreme fringe group of antisemties on the right, and a more subtle but more pervasive form of antisemitism on the left. [/quote]

This is exactly right. Surely we are hypersensitive because the Holocaust happened in living memory, in Europe (and facilitated by the same sort of "no big deal," "not my problem" folks in the US), and yet everyone keeps acting like nothing bad could ever happen to a relatively wealthy, well-educated, assimilated population of white people who happen to be Jewish ...

When you start to feel like you've lost all of your allies, it's a frightening feeling.[/quote]

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