"I've never condoned Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. What I'm doing is trying to understand why it's considered worse than everywhere else, like in the attempted rule at that law school, among other things. Neither you nor anyone else (except Blackhawks) has even attempted to answer the question as to why there are no rules codified against, for example, pro-Putin speakers on campus, only Israel. So, why is that the case, again? P - Why is there no BDS movement against China, whose human rights violations make Israel's seem like child play? I guess stuff at Walmart is more important than concern about human rights violations there. P - You don't answer these questions by simply stating that I'm "wrongheaded" repeatedly."
I almost gave you one like this earlier, then thought surely you must understand why there is seemingly, in some quarters, more activity directed against Israel and Jews. I don't think anyone here sees you as condoning "Israel's oppression of the Palestinians." My original beef with you, you remember, was simply that you said you didn't understand why human right violations of other countries was not always also included in every article about human rights violations in Israel. That's what i thought you were wrongheaded about. Your insistence that was needed for context. Don't attribute other things which i never said were wrongheaded to that particular comment of mine. I honestly believed you surely must have understood, although you're right i read you suggested you didn't, why Israel seemed to take a larger share of flak than others. Anyway, i really thought you must understand...
Antisemitism is often referred to as the oldest hatred, spanning nearly 2,000 years. Antisemitic hate groups seek to racialize Jewish people and vilify them as the manipulative puppet masters behind an economic, political and social scheme to undermine white people. Antisemitism also undergirds much of the far right, unifying adherents across various extremist ideologies around efforts to subvert and misconstrue the collective suffering of Jewish people in the Holocaust and cast them as conniving opportunists.
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In 2020, the SPLC first began designating hate groups under antisemitism as a subcategory within our General Hate category. Due to the number of active antisemitic groups, the distinctiveness of their ideology and the virtual omnipresence of antisemitism across the far right, 2021 is the first year that those groups are being featured as a standalone ideology.
Made up largely of hate groups that deny and obscure facts about the Holocaust and chapters of the Nation of Islam, the number of antisemitic hate groups dropped from 74 in 2020 to 61 in 2021. However, a decline in the number of active hate chapters should not be misconstrued as evidence of a drop in the prevalence of antisemitism in the United States.
The number of active Holocaust Denial hate groups has fluctuated only slightly over the past decade, with the SPLC documenting anywhere from seven to 11 active groups since 2009.
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As in years past, antisemitic hate groups that specifically focus Holocaust denial remained relatively stagnant in 2021.
The number of active Nation of Islam chapters dropped significantly in 2021, most likely due to fewer in-person gatherings during the COVID-19 pandemic. With its history of antisemitism, the Nation of Islam makes up the majority of active hate groups in this category.
The online spread of debunked conspiracies and misinformation related to the Holocaust of Jewish persons should not be addressed separately from the offline impacts of antisemitism. Recently, notable figures on the right have fallaciously invoked the imagery and the history of the Holocaust to build a narrative of victimization around COVID-19 vaccine campaigns and mask mandates. While the U.S. government has not mandated vaccines for Americans, that has not stopped some from undermining the gravity and lasting impact of the Holocaust by comparing the genocide of 6 million Jewish people with efforts to protect fellow citizens from the COVID-19 virus and its variants. Jewish persons and houses of worship continue to be targeted with harassment, hate crimes and acts of terrorism.
What's ahead
Hate groups that deny and obscure the historical facts of the Holocaust will most likely remain relatively static in 2022. Further significant changes in the number of active Nation of Islam chapters are also not expected in the coming year.
The importance of dismantling antisemitism along with racism
The thought just popped in that possibly many Chinese might feel about reportage and activity around China and the Uighurs as you feel about reportage and activity Israel and the Palestinians. Even some Chinese living in America.