This raises some critical issues for us to be thinking about. I doubt that Rosenberg and I are in *complete* agreement: if you're a Palestinian American, it can a blurry line between targeting someone BECAUSE THEY'RE VISIBLY DISPLAYING THEY ARE A JEW (his Star of David necklace example) and targeting someone because they're visibly aligning themselves, in time of war, with The Jewish State™ that just slaughtered your entire family. Israel in fact DELIBERATELY & EXPLICITLY LEVERAGES those blurry lines in WEAPONIZING ACCUSATIONS OF antisemitism so they can exploit polling data like this by rendering it more difficult to tease out such distinctions. But Rosenberg explicitly acknowledges there's nuance, so even there we may be closer than I'm assuming.

And the more important point to recognize is that there are malign actors ON THE OTHER SIDE who are ALSO exploiting that blurry line, using #IsraelAtWarCrimes and its #genocide of Palestinians TO RENDER THEIR ANTISEMITISM MORE SOCIALLY PALATABLE. I'm finding it increasingly necessary to caution pro-Palestinian folks against embracing the critiques of Israel that we're starting to hear from #MAGAts like Candace Owen's and Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson, because they've been famously antisemitic for years, and tarnish our cause when we appear to welcome them: some 'allies' aren't worth having.

And that brings us back to Rosenberg's central theme: there IS rising antisemitism in America right now for reasons that have more to do with the resurgence OF FASCISM than they do with The Jewish State™ committing genocide. The Nazis would like to peel us away from the coalition against them by pretending to be our allies--but as the Qur'an warns us, such people are allies only to one another. On the Last Day, the true Ummah of Prophet Moses is going to enter alongside those of Jesus and Muhammad into the gates of paradise, and we must guard against the devil's attempts to leverage ANY issue to turn #AbrahamsChildren against each other when we need to be uniting AGAINST HIM. #JummahMusings

https://bowdoinorient.com/2025/10/24/yair-rosenberg-outlines-reasons-behind-rising-antisemitism/

Verily, this brotherhood of yours is a single brotherhood, and I am your Lord and Cherisher: therefore serve Me (and no other).

But (later generations) cut off their affair (of unity), one from another: (yet) will they all return to Us.

(Qur'an 21:92-93)

This was where my Qur'an 'daily readings' app pointed me this morning--and it seems especially apt during this (largely dysfunctional) meeting of the United Nations, as it's addressed by the author of a horrific #genocide, while failing to do anything at all about our society's destruction of our global #environment or its human impacts.

We can interpret this on all sorts of levels: the Islamic brotherhood; the Abrahamic brotherhood; the brotherhood of mankind--even the brotherhood of all creation to whom Allah gave free will (i.e., adding jinn). But wherever we choose to focus, the message is clear: we are all in this TOGETHER, and we will return, all together, to be called to account--for our actions as individuals; for how we have taken care of our brothers and sisters; for how we have performed as stewards of Allah's creation.

And right now, I'd warrant, we're doing pretty dismally ON ALL THREE COUNTS--which I suspect is what these ayat are warning us about! #Astagfirullah #JummahMusings