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!

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• 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!

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• 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!

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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!

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• 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.