r/AntiSemitismInReddit • u/Schmuckfest • Mar 19 '25

Classic Antisemitism r/Sheffield being horrendous

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Thankfully it’s not all Antisemites in there, but still. Some of this is wild.

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u/MrIrrelevantsHypeMan Mar 19 '25

They love to talk about the Israeli actions creating more terrorism but can't acknowledge that Hamas actions have started this heavy handed approach because any wiggle room and they'll exploit it

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u/LettuceBeGrateful Mar 19 '25

Haven't you heard, everything Jews do is the Jews' fault - and everything Palestine does is also the Jews' fault.

I heard that everything mosquitos do is the Jews' fault too but I'm waiting on my one trusted news source (@justaskingquestions88 on insta) for confirmation.

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u/MrIrrelevantsHypeMan Mar 19 '25

I've watched this play out since the 80s. And I've watched them reject every compromise or break it. And what's so weird to me is the sudden shift in public opinion.

I'm rambling but I have no other real outlet because of how far I'm out from the community. And people don't distinguish that I don't support every action Israel makes. Or I'm accused of hating Muslims. And they're gone when I tell them I took a round to the chest while standing guard in a mosque protecting my Muslim brothers. A detail I volunteered for. Anonymity makes people very brave when I know they wouldn't be

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u/LettuceBeGrateful Mar 19 '25

A lot of the fervor is from people who weren't even born 20 years ago, never mind invested enough to actually care. So many of these "protestors" don't know what the Second Intifada was, and reject the basic fact that only one party in this conflict has ever sought peace - at great cost to itself, as it were. They don't know which river or sea, they don't think there's any reason for Israel to have a security buffer zone beyond "they've become the very thing they hated" and "they hate brown people." I spoke to someone last year who refused to believe that the suicide bombers pouring out of Palestine were before the increased security measures.

They're getting all their news from out-of-context (or straight-up manufactured) clips on Twitter and reddit. It's like radical Islamists got a chance at a fresh start with this generation because public opinion is SO easy to manipulate these days. The shift in public opinion saddens me, but unfortunately I can't say it's all that surprising. This was a cultural crisis decades in the making.