63% of US Jews Encountered Anti-Semitism Over Last 5 Years

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Unfortunately not surprising. I know research in the UK shows that about 30% of people have at least one antisemitic belief, and the UK generally comes out pretty well in international comparisons. The US sometimes does even better, but not so much so that I wouldn't expect there to be an awful lot of antisemitism floating around.

In recent years both left and right have felt more emboldened in their antisemitism (although most antisemites are not political extremists). You don't hear much about antisemitism on the American left compared to the UK and France, perhaps because Bernie Sanders is Jewish, but it is there - Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have both invoked antisemitic canards against their opponents.

I wonder what would that kind of statistics look like for other minorities. And the majority, too, for comparison.
Preferably, over time for the last few decades.
That would give us broader picture.

Ilhan Omar nor Rashida Tlaib did no such thing and for you to suggest so is you invoking Islamaphobic canards against the only 2 Muslim women congresswomen

Depressing but unsurprising. Conspiracy theories are on the rise, especially on the right, and almost all conspiracy theories are dressed-up ways of saying Jews control the world from the shadows.

I'll buy the nonsense that both sides contribute equally to this when the 'perfectly fine' people waving swastikas around and chanting 'Jews will not replace us' start voting democrat. There's more people on the right blaming Jews for socialism than people on the left blaming Jews for capitalism.

Anti-Semitism is a bigotry outlier. Most bigotry such as racism believe the other races are inferior. Most anti semitic beliefs center on supposed Jewish superpowers. They posit that minute amount of the population is able to control the world via money and hoodwinking goyim.

The white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory is a version of that. Even if she only meant Israel or pro Israeli lobbyists Congresswoman Omar with her Israel hypnotizing the world and it’s just the Benjiman’s baby
remarks managed to inveigh both the Jewish financial and manipulative superpower themes.

What is really "depressing but unsurprising" is the people on this thread who take the words of the ADL at face value.

What's uplifting is seeing an independent minded person like you who wakes up and is starting to not be bamboozled by the chicanery of the biased media. Well done and I wish there were more people like you when I was on WP back in the day

I don’t care what anybody says....we Jews have to be vigilant when it come to anti-Semitism—just like Second Amendment advocates feel they have to feel vigilant about keeping their guns.

Just like Asian have to be vigilant about the potential for them to be attacked because they, supposedly, caused COVID to happen (which is total BS).

The Holocaust was for real!

I am independent-minded—and get flak for it.

Personally all vulnerable minorities need to arm themselves and be vigilant to avoid being wiped out by an intolerant and aggressive majority, and this isn't referring to whites necessarily; in any land where a minority is precariously walking a tight rope between survival and annihilation, being armed is the only solution. Jews, Muslims, and gays being the most vulnerable to shootings and attacks by angry racists, should be more armed to protect themselves better

Why does raising awareness about an issue of corruption involving Israeli PACs and lobbyists necessarily have to imply anti-Semitism just because they just happen to be Jewish and by coincidence it harkens to canards and tropes of Jewish money manipulation? Saying blacks are 13% of the population yet commit 50% of the murders evokes the super predator stereotype and trope that has maligned blacks as hyper aggressive thugs since the founding of this country, yet as much as that statement coincides with racist tropes it is still nonetheless a true DOJ statistic under Obama appointed secretary Eric Holder, thus showing that even when the head of a department is black, his manager is black, and the regime is liberal, a statistic that paints blacks in a way that evokes racist stereotypes nonetheless is no less true because facts are facts.

Im a Palestinian so I'll even be fair and call out my own group. In most Europe there is a massive crisis of sexual assaults and rapes against European natives by Middle Eastern immigrants, among them Palestinian men. Many right wing and far right groups throughout Europe are rightfully pointing out the disparity in rape and sexual assault statistics whose perpetrators happen to be Muslim/Middle Eastern men. Now, is it really racist and Islamaphobic to point out - not paint with a broad brush, not label all Muslim/Middle Easterners are rapists, not incite hatred - but merely point out the disparity in statistics, is it really islampahobia and racism to point out a true statistic and phenomenon just because the statement that there is an issue with migrants from the Middle East raping white women happens to harken back to stereotypes and tropes of the lascivious Saracen and Moor stealing the virgin white woman, a trope that goes back to even Shakespeare's "Othello" and with the Ottoman incursion into Europe and concomitant mass enslavement of white women concubines, does it somehow lessen the veracity of a contention if there are parallels with unsavory stereotypes that could be used to insidiously push more pernicious forms of racism?

If there are enough reasonable facts and research to show that Israeli lobbyists, AIPAC and other Zionist donors slant the American position skewed towards Israel in many ways, if there is research from books like "The Israeli Lobby" to "They Dare to Speak Out" showing that Israeli lobbies are aggressively pushing America towards a more biased support of Israel than can't be reasonably explained only on account of shared values and alliance, then I dont see what's so anti-Semitic about what Ilhan Omar said. If coincidences with stereotypes is the only basis of deeming something bigoted then are we to deny all inconvenient facts or truth if there is even a tenuous connection to a stereotype?

Should the statement "blacks are 13% of the population but commit 50% of the murders", "Middle Eastern grooming gangs are raping European women" and other true statements, are we to deny them too because they happen to be uncomfortable and stereotypical?