• rhysA
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    4 hours ago

    I’d hope those are the ones who got arrested for supporting a proscribed group. Iirc folks wearing the Hamas logo and dressing up as terrorists at previous protests were arrested for that.

    It’s okay though, you can be as racist as you like towards Jews and it doesn’t matter. It’s the only form of racism that’s acceptable.

    I think we see enough racism toward other groups to accept that that second sentence isn’t true, but I agree with the first one. Tons of folks have at least a blind spot toward antisemitism and sometimes an active acceptance of it in a way that seems unique.

    I enjoyed Howard Jacobson’s piece in today’s Observer on one specific form of it that’s found a new prevalence. It’s difficult to find even limited acknowledgement of it in our discourse at the moment so I’m grateful to those like him daring to write about it.