US anti-Muslim incidents rose about 70% in first half of 2024 amid Gaza war
US anti-Muslim incidents rose about 70% in first half of 2024 amid Gaza war
Human rights advocates have reported a global rise in Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian bias and anti-Semitism. Read more at straitstimes.com.
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/38339530
I'm glad this article calls out both Islamophobia and antisemitism... both have gone up and this is an issue where it's important not to separate that.
Agreed. And before someone chimes in with people just claiming criticism of Israel is antisemitism, no. It's things like this:
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/us/cincinnati-jewish-cemeteries-vandalism/index.html
That is not a criticism of Israel considering plenty of those people died in Ohio many, many years before Israel existed as a nation.
And before someone chimes in with people just claiming criticism of Israel is antisemitism, no. It's things like this:
I mean it's a little bit of column a, a little bit of column b. There's a significant increase in actual antisemitism, no doubt about that, but the numbers the media parrots are produced by organizations like the ADL and I believe I don't need to explain why that's a problem.
On many social media sites, people were openly calling for genocide. It was ridiculous
Lol reddit was completely on board with banning any anti Israel sentiment.
The contrast between a thread in world news on lemmy vs reddit was so high it almost felt like it was bots encouraging genocide.
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