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Beastly Boy

(12,043 posts)
58. I worry.
Thu Apr 24, 2025, 06:26 PM
6 hrs ago

I worry that two thousand years of unabated antisemitism does not bode well for the notion of transitory sentiment based on recent events. I am reluctant to stake my well-being on that.

I am more concerned about the pro-Palestine/anti Israel protests which contained antisemitic incidents than those that did not. Actually, I am rather neutral on the latter, in the same way as the ADL report in question is. It exempted the dickhead-free protests from being counted as antisemitic. I am also concerned because I am not aware of a single protest in which the aforementioned dickheads were called out on their hatred by the other protesters.

What ADL did was count a few antisemitic dickheads being antisemitic in each protest as a single antisemitic incident, and leave the dickhead-free protests out of their count.

The methodology is all there, spelled out in the report.

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It's rife in our political system ck4829 Tuesday #1
You can also be pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel and not be antisemitic. Eko Tuesday #2
Also true. Beastly Boy Tuesday #3
I dont see how it shows that. Eko Tuesday #4
Surely you are jesting! Beastly Boy Tuesday #7
I think you are missing the big picture. Eko Tuesday #9
I think you are missing the point. The pellucidly obvious one. Beastly Boy Tuesday #12
Huh. Eko Tuesday #16
No, this is what you are saying about what I am saying. Beastly Boy Tuesday #19
That is not what you said at all. Eko Tuesday #21
Oh goody, tell me more about what I said! Beastly Boy Tuesday #24
I did, it was pretty easy. Eko Tuesday #26
Here, Ill make it easier. Eko Tuesday #23
I will make it even simpler. Beastly Boy Tuesday #29
It doesnt. Eko Tuesday #30
They're up because of the genocide HereForTheParty Tuesday #5
Absolutely right, they count anti-Semitic signs and chants as anti-Semitic incidents, they don't make excuses for them. tritsofme Tuesday #6
What is interesting is that poster's failure to see what they actually admitted to. Behind the Aegis Tuesday #14
Anti-semitism IS up due to the genocide (at least according to the IRHA definition used by ADL). AloeVera 4 hrs ago #59
Anti-Semitism is up to due to anti-Semites. Behind the Aegis 4 hrs ago #60
Anti-Semitism is... AloeVera 4 hrs ago #61
Anti-Semitism doesn't need to be 'splained to a Jew. Behind the Aegis 41 min ago #62
Only antisemitic signs and chants. Beastly Boy Tuesday #8
Exactly. The ADL report is questionable. AloeVera 16 hrs ago #35
Not surprising that the extreme left Jewish Currents has an issue with the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Beastly Boy 12 hrs ago #42
Probably lumping in criticism of Israel as automatically antisemitic alarimer Tuesday #10
Probably not. Beastly Boy Tuesday #13
Agree Meowmee Tuesday #11
I don't really consider the ADL to be a credible source like I used to AZProgressive Tuesday #15
They have the numbers. You have suspicions. Beastly Boy Tuesday #17
Not sure about their ablilty to see antisemitism. Eko Tuesday #18
They've been doing it for over 100 years. Beastly Boy Tuesday #20
The exact amount of time it takes to see someone do a nazi salute and read the ADL said it was a awkward gesture. Eko Tuesday #22
A couple of seconds and a tweet vs over 100 years. Beastly Boy Tuesday #25
Do you think their judgement on that was correct? Eko Tuesday #27
People change. Eko Tuesday #28
They are doing exactly that. AloeVera 16 hrs ago #32
According to your opinionated extreme left source Beastly Boy 11 hrs ago #53
Further... AloeVera 16 hrs ago #34
In doing what? Accepting the most authoritative definitionof antisemitism? Beastly Boy 10 hrs ago #55
Anti-Israeli government is NOT anti-Semitic. Just ask some Israelis who live there. Jit423 Tuesday #31
Not approving of the actions and policies SocialDemocrat61 16 hrs ago #33
It is not, and clearly, it did not figure into ADL report in any way. Beastly Boy 15 hrs ago #36
Having seen several interviews SocialDemocrat61 13 hrs ago #37
Having seen the ADL report which is the subject of this thread, Beastly Boy 13 hrs ago #38
You're free to believe SocialDemocrat61 12 hrs ago #40
Ditto. Regardless of the conclusive statistics included in the ADL report. Beastly Boy 12 hrs ago #41
Again SocialDemocrat61 12 hrs ago #43
Again, my belief or yours has no bearing on the math in the ADL report. Beastly Boy 12 hrs ago #44
Whatever you say SocialDemocrat61 12 hrs ago #45
I say it doesn't matter what I say. Beastly Boy 12 hrs ago #46
I'm just saying SocialDemocrat61 12 hrs ago #47
Totally unrelated to this thread then, right? Beastly Boy 11 hrs ago #48
You don't need anyone's SocialDemocrat61 11 hrs ago #50
I still appreciate it, especially as it has nothing to do with this thread. Beastly Boy 11 hrs ago #51
No need to appreciate anything SocialDemocrat61 11 hrs ago #52
I understand this, but I can't help it. It's not every day that I am reminded, for no particular reason, Beastly Boy 11 hrs ago #54
Good SocialDemocrat61 10 hrs ago #56
A lot of defending antisemitism in this thread Mountainguy 12 hrs ago #39
Disappointing but no longer surprising. DavidDvorkin 11 hrs ago #49
Don't worry- Trump will put an end to anti-semitism Redleg 7 hrs ago #57
I worry. Beastly Boy 6 hrs ago #58
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