Some examples of anti-semitism in 2025 and beyond

• It IS antisemitic to refuse to denounce Hamas. Their charter and mission, still, calls for the elimination of Jewish people worldwide. They are not the same as the Palestinian people.

• It IS antisemitic to chant “From the river to the sea…”. It calls for the elimination of the state of Israel, a legally and justly recognized formal democracy.

• It IS antisemitic to call Israel “colonizers”. People cannot colonize land they are indigenous to. This has been happening for millennia through demonization and expulsion of Jews worldwide.

• It IS antisemitic to call Israel an apartheid state. There are more than 2 million Arabs peacefully living in Israel in all walks of life including doctors, teachers, lawyers, and politicians. There are no Jews or Israelis living in Gaza. Jordan, Qatar or Lebanon.

• It IS antisemitic to accuse Israel or Jews of ethnic cleansing. The Palestinian population in Gaza has approximately doubled in the last 15 years, and the Palestinian population in Israel has grown as well, although not in proportion to Jews because refugees from all over the world (see France, Ukraine) can only come to Israel for safety because they have nowhere else to go.

• It IS antisemitic to accuse Jews or Israel, the only Jewish state, of genocide. The term developed because the horrors of Jewish genocide needed an official word as it wasn’t recognized formally prior to the Jewish population being reduced by 30% worldwide. Turning this trauma back onto the only place where Jews have refuge from this exact crime, is demonizing and again calling for the only safe place for Jews worldwide to be punished. This has been happening for years through pure propaganda and jealousy.

• It IS antisemitic to write off Jews as having white privilege. We descend from what is now the Middle East. Our skin color is determined by where our forefathers went over the centuries when we were exiled. Ashkenazi Jews may be more white skinned, but there are also Sephardic, Ethiopian and other sects of Jewish people whose skin pigmentation is darker based on where they lived in the world. Being Jewish is an ethnicity, not a race. There are Jews of all skin color and from all corners of the world. While many of us are white passing and benefit from it, it only exists until we’re learned to be Jewish. This is called “conditional whiteness” and has been extensively studied. This has been happening for thousands of years through forced assimilation and self-preservation. (Bonus fact: US Green Cards were specifically developed to keep Jews from immigrating to the United States, because even though ~90% of American Jews are white, we still weren’t seen as white.)