Thread by @sfrantzman

One of the largest types of antisemitism is people who constantly call on an entire minority diaspora community to do this or that regarding Israel's actions. They do this to NO OTHER community...their's no call for other minorities abroad to be responsible for some other country

This happens often, it's not like "every once in a while"...people from prestigious institutions...politicians, will make these demands of minority Jewish communities...and they never make these demands of any other community.

This kind of antisemitism is very deep...it's part of a systematic antisemitism going back many generations where people are raised to believe an entire community is responsible for either the action of one...or the action of the same community somewhere else.

And you can test this fact by noting that the people who do this don't do this to any other community...people from the UK, for instance, will not tweet demanding other minorities in the UK be responsible for the acts of Iraq, Pakistan, India, China, Armenia, Russia, etc...

Like if you will ask these people...do you think your neighbor who is of Greek background and has lived in this country for generations should be demanded to hold "their" government...in Greece...accountable for some policy you don't like in Greece...they will say "of course not"

They would think it ridiculous to even consider that if they object to Greece policies on immigration...tweeting "members of the Greek community in the UK must ask their government"....but they won't think twice about doing the same when it comes to antisemitism.

That is what defines antisemitism, the tendency of people, in the West and sometimes other places, to see themselves as individuals and other communities as individuals, but to see the actions of Israel or any member of the Jewish diaspora community as somehow linked.

And it's not just because they are bigots against every minority...they often, in fact almost always, can segment out the difference between a person of Russian descent living in the US...and the actions of Putin...it's only when it comes to Israel, their knee-jerk reaction

And this is a subconscious reaction often, because it is their go-to...they sometimes recognize the error later and delete their tweet or retract their comment...but we don't interrogate enough why their mentality has this "go-to"...and that's worth asking.

Because the cycle of "oh whoops, I didn't mean that" happens way too often. When people have an initial racist or bigoted response to something...and then later say "oh I didn't mean that"...the fact is that we need to see the initial response as reflecting wider patterns.

What education systems or mass media or systematic discriminatory concepts are out there that seep into people and make them target one community with sweeping generalizations and collective demands...that they would never do to another.