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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm typically not personally/directly experiencing antisemitism in my everyday life. I'm not quiet about the fact that I'm Jewish and take opportunities to teach others about Judaism. I have a Jewish job, so anytime I'm talking about my work, it comes up. I give in Jewish amounts (multiples of 18) to end of school collections for teacher gifts, which most recently prompted a whole conversation with another parent about gematria (the number/letter system in Hebrew that ultimately leads to the idea that 18 = life). So, if someone is going to be antisemitic around me, I've established myself as someone who is going to teach something about Judaism when given the opportunity.

I see antisemitism not directed at me pretty regularly. There's a mom at my child's elementary school who [b]wears a keffiyah and a hat with the outline of Israel in a watermelon pattern [/b]at school pickup everyday. I don't know her and my kid doesn't know her kid, so I leave it alone (I do give her some side-eye when she's not looking). Similarly, there was a family at a small local music festival last week wearing t-shirts with bombs over a watermelon Israel who I side-eyed and then ignored (beyond knowing where they were in relation to my family in case they became a safety concern).

For a few months after October 7, I was seeing antisemitism masquerading as antizionism from some of my college friends online (stuff like "from the river to the sea" and calling the 10/7 attack "resistance"). They have mostly unfriended me at this point, which is fine. Don't read the comments from internet strangers, especially on Instagram; it's just a cesspool of antisemitic hate that will make you spiral and lose all faith in humanity.

Antisemitism in the news (like the DC shooting and the Boulder fire-bombing) is hard, because it's not something I'm experiencing personally or directly, but it feels like an attack on us anyway. I usually share some news on my social media about it to raise awareness among the people who know me that this stuff is happening to Jews. There's not really more that I can do.[/quote]

For what it's worth, I personally would not consider the bolded line to be an example of antisemitism, though I probably also wouldn't see much point in discussing my (complicated and largely extremely critical, but rooted in Judaism) opinions about Israel with this person.[/quote]

I don’t want to start another Israel post as there are many so may I ask why you use the word complicated? I only hear ‘it is complicated’ from Jewish friends when it comes to the depopulation agenda instituted by the Israeli government (with Israeli citizen support). What part is complicated? [/quote]

Since you are not Jewish you don’t understand how it is complicated. [/quote]

I don't think it's that complicated.

I think there are people who think it's possibly to completely separate their Jewish identity from Israel. And then there are people who think it's not possible to separate their Jewish identity from Israel. 
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This is a post about Jews talking about their experience of antisemitism. Not for you to come in and lecture that you understand all the nuance that Jewish people do not. [/quote]

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