Americans Show Heightened Concern About Antisemitism

I'm much more concerned about unchecked Zionism...

I am Jewish and I am concerned, although the harassment I've gotten so far has not been much and only online. It is, at least in part, Israel's fault by suggesting that it's the only place for Jews despite the fact that fewer Jews live in Israel than Jews who don't live in Israel.

I do not support Israel's apartheid or genocide. I don't even really want to visit the place unless it was part of a Middle Eastern archaeology tour or something. And yet, more than once, at least once I can recall on Lemmy, I have had to not just justify that (in the same "but do you condemn Hamas" manner), my justification was not accepted.

One person here on Lemmy, a person who I'm fairly certain was not a Jew themselves, actually declared me not Jewish because I live in the U.S. Which is just another form of antisemitism.

Regardless, I'm not apparently allowed, by a significant number of people, to identify as a Jew and not support Israel. And that includes a significant number of Jews who I have to deal with as an internal problem. But at least they aren't also saying overtly antisemitic things.

Now... that said:

This goes way beyond Israel. A significant number of white people (by no means a majority) do not consider Jews white. Jews are an "other." You need look no further than Elon Musk's "you have said the actual truth" reply to the person saying that Jews oppressed white people. It's "the actual truth" because I'm not white to someone like Elon.

I'm white. I benefit from every bit of white privilege every other white American benefits from. No cop is ever going to pull me over on suspicion of being white. No hiring manager is going to turn me down because I have a name that doesn't sound white. My skin is practically lighter than Morticia Adams'. But to Elon, and others, I am not white.

And all of this concerns me. A lot. It didn't used to much. Then Charlottesville happened and I found out that "Jews will not replace us" was considered by a lot of people to be an acceptable thing to chant in America.

Are these concerns borne out by actual data on hate crimes?

Sharply more Americans than 20 years ago say antisemitism is a very serious problem, as Jewish Americans' reports of poor treatment exceed those of other faith groups.

This is very deeply concerning, especially since Jewish-Americans, statistically speaking, are more likely to be friendly to the Palestinian cause and critical of the Israeli government than non-Jewish Americans. It suggests that there's more than just the element of "CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTISEMITISM" peddled by Israeli simps.

Yeah well I was less scared when people weren’t openly hating my neighbors for being Jewish

Israel is committing savage war crimes but has anyone thought about the jews outside of the Israel?

Judeophobia (at least in the UK) is not systemic like racism against blacks is in the U.S.

Jews are more likely to own their homes than the general population (73% versus 64%).

People who identified as Jewish were more likely to report a Level 4 or above qualification as their highest level of qualification compared with the population of England and Wales (50.7% compared with 33.8%).

Overall, people who identified as Jewish on Census 2021 were less likely to live in overcrowded accommodation (6.7%) compared with the England and Wales population (8.4%).

In 2018, median hourly pay was highest among those who identified as Jewish, partly reflecting a greater likelihood among this group to be employed in high-skilled occupations and as managers

That being said, is any group immune from assault? Even individuals squarely in the power majority, like a heterosexual, native, white, male Englishman, are subject to random assault (verbal and physical), destruction of property etc. not as a result of his personal actions. It seems like Jews as a group have it pretty OK but they want the red carpet rolled out for them or something.

Perhaps it's one of those things that's actively measured against, leading to increased reporting? I know that Travellers and Chinese (as just two examples) don't have access to this kind of infrastructure, so reports against bias toward those groups might be under-represented.

To address Judeophobia we must address the elephant in the room- Zionistic Israel using Jews as human shields to protect themselves from any repercussions of their crimes against humanity. Israel supporters increase polarization between Jews and non-Jews, signaling that anyone against the actions of Israel is against Jews as a group, which is a blatant lie.

There are also "boy who cried wolf" incidents which dilute the severity of bigotry against Jews and are not helping our cause, but those are minimal compared to, for example, organizing an "Antisemitism Awareness Rally" which is just a front for Israeli PR so they can continue their genocide against the Palestinians a little bit longer without losing too much public support.

Not to downplay the fact that some people do discriminate against Jews and that is wrong, but this antisemitism hyper-vigilance against the backdrop of Israel's actions reeks of McCarthyism, especially considering Israeli hasbara.

Nearly half of Americans now rate it “very serious,”

Americans are significantly less likely to view prejudice against Muslim people as a very serious problem (33%) than to say prejudice against Jewish people is.
Half of Democrats, compared with 18% of Republicans, say anti-Muslim prejudice is a very serious problem in the U.S., as do 30% of independents.

I'm a raised-catholic-agnostic democrat of mixed European heritage residing in an American east coast city. I barely have an opinion about Jewish people (see below). I have many Jewish friends which means nothing outside of a few weeks in December. I have never in my 45+ years witnessed anti-semitism. What I have observed in the past year is a strong opposition to the Israeli government and its support by the United States (finally). After 9/11, the anti-Muslim sentiment in this country was so immense that you could taste it in the air. Not to argue this is inaccurate but I just don't feel that I live in the same reality as what's being reported here.

The thing I've always considered odd about the Jewish population is the strong connection to a place and people and time whom most have never engaged with. It is what it is and I accept it but it's unfamiliar to me. And it has absolutely no impact on my perception or opinion of any Jewish persons.

The tribalism and skewed perspectives we're all capable of needs to be tempered.