A Definitive Guide to What is Anti-Semitic and Not Anti-Semitic
At long last!
Calling for the liberation of the Palestinian people:
NOT ANTI-SEMITIC!
Spray painting that on a synagogue:
ANTI-SEMITIC!
Criticizing Netanyahu and the Israeli military’s response to the 10/7 attack:
NOT ANTI-SEMITIC!
Arguing the attack of 10/7 was justified because the victims and hostages are responsible for the actions of Netanyahu’s regime:
ANTI-SEMITIC!
The phrase “From the river to the sea.”
NOT ANTI-SEMITIC!
Shouting “From the river to the sea” at hassidic Jews walking to worship in Crown Heights.
ANTI-SEMITIC!
Calling me a bad Jew for not changing my profile picture to an Israeli flag:
EXTRA-SEMITIC??????
Calling me a dirty Jew on Instagram for posting a picture of Shabbat candles:
ANTI-SEMITIC
Calling attention to the killing of Palestinian children:
NOT ANTI-SEMITIC!
Tearing down a hostage poster of an Israeli child:
ANTI-SEMITIC! ALSO COME ON, OLIVIA. YOU WERE GOING TO BE MY SON’S COUNSELOR AT THE AFTER SCHOOL NATURE PROGRAM IN THE PARK AND NOW I CAN’T ACCESS THEIR WEBSITE BECAUSE YOU TOOK YOUR SARAH LAWRENCE DEGREE AND DECIDED THAT THE KIDS TAKEN FROM THEIR BEDS BY TERRORISTS DESERVE IT? OK, SEPTUM PIERCING. GO OFF. OK.
Referring to someone as a Zionist for supporting Israel’s right to exist as a homeland for the Jewish people:
NOT ANTI-SEMITIC.
Casually swapping “Zionist” for “Jewish” in referring to an entire ethnicity and religious group:
UH OH!
Casting Kathryn Hahn as Joan Rivers in her biopic:
NO BUT OBVIOUSLY JOAN WOULD HAVE WANTED SCARLETT JOHANSSON.
Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein Prosthetic:
That’s a Jewish poster you can tear down.
Yes. This is perfect. Thank you.
The clearest, most accurate parsing of the issues I've seen yet.
You really should be on X/Twitter, if only to sanely counter the moron who posted, of the ripping down of hostage posters, "Those hostages aren't even in Manhattan." As someone who is counted on by her subscribers to think clearly, your observations would be a breath of fresh air on that once-mediocre platform.
Finally: I would really like to wear an Israeli flag t-shirt around my neighborhood but I'm concerned that people will think I approve of Netanyahu. How's that for parsing?