A young Jewish man was stabbed early Saturday morning near the Chabad movement’s headquarters in New York City by a man yelling “Free Palestine,” according to a local rabbi who said he knows the victim, as well as CCTV footage of the incident published online.
Yaacov Behrman tweeted that during Shabbat, the young male attacker asked the man: “Do you want to die?” He then stabbed him.
The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, Behrman said.
I don’t disagree with you at all that Israel has definitely fanned the flames of antisemitism, but having been on the receiving end from people who even like Israel (many evangelicals Christians want people like me forcibly exiled to Israel so Jesus can come back), it’s not just Israel.
People hate Jews for all sorts of reasons. A lot of evangelicals hate me because my ancestors apparently killed Jesus, even though it was the Romans, and that’s my fault. People like Elon Musk and his ilk hate me because I apparently control the banks and Hollywood. People like Nick Fuentes hate me because Hitler hated people like me and he loves Hitler. I’m sure some people hate me just because I’m slightly different from them.
And I don’t mean to restrict this to just Jews. What I saw happen to my Muslim brothers and sisters after 9/11 was disgusting, and even these days you have people essentially claiming all Muslims are terrorists. And both Jews and Muslims in America are essentially considered foreigners in our own country. I’m from Indiana, but that doesn’t matter even though I guarantee you that I have more in common with a Palestinian American born in Montana than either of us have with a Jew in Israel or a Muslim in Palestine.
There is so much hate in this world.
It’s not surprising and kinda dovetails with the point I was making: prejudice kept being cultivated throught the XX and XXI century in a different form, making the field just as fertile for traditional racism as it was making it for the (supposedly) “benevolent” racism fashionable in this era.
Whenever somebody says “ethnicity are victims” and “we should do this special thing for them we do not do for other people”, what’s being passed right besides the supposedly benevolent message is another, far less nice, message: “people of ethnicity are different from other people and should be treated differently from people of other ethnicities”.
It didn’t help that (not just in terms of ethnicity) many with the “right” “ism” went far beyond the (rightful and totally just) fight for Equality Of Treatment and took advantage of the “benevolent” prejudice for Personal Gain whilst hiding behind the group, which indirectly caused discomfort in others who saw it as unfair.
So both the supposedly anti-Racists and the Racists kept the Architecture Of Prejudice going not just in speech but even in action, and it seems to me that Jews are suffering the most from it now because the traditional anti-semites kept being assholes, and now, because of the actions of Israel, many of the people who previously believed the “positive” kind of message about Jews I listed above (which can only be believed by believing the Principles of Prejudice underlying it) flipped from a “positive” predesposition towards the ethnicity to a “negative” predesposition, whilst continuing to believe the foundation of Prejudice - i.e. they turned from being what we were told by poiticians was anti-Racism into traditional Racists.
Not only is there, as you say, so much hate in this World, but the sleazy slimy disgusting manipulation in this domain of the masses for personal gain by politicians and just greedy people hiding behind “the group” that pushed “positive” discrimination, made it immenselly easy to turn favourable opinions of group held by simpletions into unfavourable opinions of group, turning them into people unfairly hating an entire group of people for the hateful actions of a few people in that group, i.e. into traditional racists.
The real opposite of Racism is the thinking that people should only be judged on their actual actions and character and that thinking that a person’s ethnicity (gender, sexual orientation or so on) makes them be in a special group and dictates their character is as moronic as thinking that the color of their eyes or the size of their feet makes them be in a special group and dictates their character.
(This is actually the kind of thinking I’ve had since long before all that’s happenning now and going back to learning from the Dutch their posture when it comes to things like homosexuallity which is pretty much “it’s all normal so I’m not going to judge people for it” - as much as possible I try to apply that to any form of prejudice on things people were born with)
That was the official catholic church doctrine until 1965 as well.
I’ve found it funny that historically Christians hate Jews so much. They worship one, after all.
That, and- didn’t Jesus have to die for everyone’s sins?
Shouldn’t they be thanking me for my service?