Over the last couple of days, DU has been flooded with stories from all over USA, UK, and Europe re antisemitism ...

[Sympthsical]

2. Just stop

FFS.

Why is it so important that people dip into anti-Jewish tropes that we get this "nO i'M nooooT!!!!" freak out every time it's noted that antisemitism is really becoming a problem, where the horseshoe radicals find common cause?

Not being a bigot is super easy. Anyone can do it, I promise.

And yet some ideologically motivated people not only find it extremely difficult, they have little conniptions whenever they're told to knock it off. Just don't use ancient antisemitic tropes. That's it. I'm critical of Netanyahu and Israel without delving into racist tropes. It's honestly not a superpower. Don't explain why Jews are collectively guilty, demand they speak the words you want them to, deny that they're being attacked at all, and if so, talk about how it's really kind of understandable they're being harassed, assaulted, killed, etc. Don't use Zionist as a pejorative slur whenever anything slightly Jewish is involved or even if you just don't like someone.

These are some baseline boundaries that anyone who claims to be liberal or progressive should be able to manage without much trouble. But no! They can't!

It would be like anti-Black racists who see something happen and go, "Well, you have to understand how those people are."

Any of us would be able to spot that GIANT RED RACIST FLAG ten miles away. But anti-Jew hatred is somehow subtle and sneaky? It's not sneaky. The sun is up. We can see it.

People should stop telling on themselves in this way.