@serge The label antisemitism has recently been used to address topics that I'd not see as antisemitism like asking for a ceasefire in Gaza, like MSF , Oxfam and the UN do.

This inflationary use of the term means to me that the term looses its meaning to me.

When you say widespread antisemitism in the Fediverse, I personally have not seen a lot of antisemitic posts from the people I follow.

If you consider Oxfam and MSF as antisemitic, then I would say this term is politically used.

@serge @herdsoft The original poster is talking about real antisemitism. And there is a lot of it.

But then lots of accounts here also claim there’s no racism. Maybe listen to people on the other end.

@JamesRhodes @serge Your post is the only only answer to mine that is not just hatred without content.

I understand antisemitism as rejection of jews just because they are jews, not for what a concrete person has done.

I have seen enough antisemitism in my life. From my grandma, from friends, from pupils writing graffiti...

Yesterday evening when following new posts I mindfully scanned for antisemitism and I didn't even see a single post I'd consider antisemitic.

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@JamesRhodes @serge There was a post about police violence against the students protesting in the U.S. I'm convinced there are severe antisemites among the protesters, but there are also jews protesting.

There was a post about Lily Greenberg Call resigning because she sees the way the Biden administration treats the Gaza conflict as contributing to genocide. But she is a jew.

There was a post showing an image of thousands of people in Tel Aviv demonstrating against the Netanjahu government.2/x

@JamesRhodes @serge So either

* We don't talk about the same posts or
* We don't talk about the same thing or
* I'm not able to detect the antisemitism you see in some posts.

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@JamesRhodes @serge Most likely we are not discussing the same posts. It heavily depends upon whom you are following, since mastodon does not use a timeline algorithm to feed very "successfull" post from unfollowed people to me.

My mastodon instance is that of the green party, only accessible to members of the green party. Aggegated feeds like https://gruene.social/explore contain little antisemitism.

I'm sure I could find antisemitism in the fediverse if I'd actively search for it.

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