I’m Jewish and nobody’s ever threatened me because of it. The worst I’ve ever been subjected to is ignorant comments about Jews from people I knew.
Have you walked into a synogaugue with armed security or gone to a foreign country where they tell you not to identify your religion? Ever go to Israel and they’ll ask if they can stamp your passport - because if they do, there’s other places you can’t go?
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Is that just for Jews or anyone who travels to Israel?
As I said above, all places of worship here have police protection. A friend of my daughter’s was an armed guard at a Catholic church that also had uniformed officers; he was not otherwise in law enforcement but did this duty for this church as extra security.
Everything You Need To Know About Entering and Exiting Israel - The Points Guy indicates that Israel entry control no longer stamps passports in most cases.
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Unless things have changed in the past few years (since covid…) they stamp a piece of paper that you can keep inside your passport, and is given when both entering and leaving the country. This icee of paper is fully removable.
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If there is anything this thread DOESN’T need, it’s any side digression about or mention of tfg. Please kindly post that stuff elsewhere. If BB didn’t wear the pin (don’t know if he did or didn’t ) it has nothing to do with his alma mater or it’s president, least of all tfg.
Please. You’re free to not read.
I started this thread for a reason. That was NOT it. It’s a Jewish holiday so most of us will be busy with other things.
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Yes we are busy. Not sure who was seen as antisemitic and where. Please stop with the eye roll.
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To those observing Happy Passover and peace, health and happiness to all😀
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Back to the point of the thread, after seeing just one ad once, I think it is nice. If it gets a few people to be kind, then it works. It doesn’t hurt to point out that some people are hurt by words/actions/inaction and it helps if you help out, say a kind word, or in the case of the ad, fix something that you can fix that really helps out another person.
A number of years ago an online friend was on a ‘blood diamond’ awareness campaign. She simply asked us to support her cause. I hadn’t really known a lot about it before she asked and just her pointing out the issues made me more thoughtful about my actions.
The more people know about issues, the better choices they will make
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A must-read for everyone. For Jews. For non-Jews. This is so on the nose. Every word.
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Behind a paywall
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/is-holocaust-education-making-anti-semitism-worse/ar-AA19ptuX
Try this. I’m reading it on MSN. It didn’t require a subscription. Sorry. Didn’t work. I checked it after I posted it.
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Good article. I think part of the reason we have seen an increase in anti-semitism is that social media makes it possible for like minded people to communicate in little social bubbles. In the past the KKK would have to get together to socialize and their propaganda was much more public. Today via cell phone people can congregate electronically with little awareness. I think social media has made it easier for people so inclined to radicalized. This is true for both sides of issues. It also makes it easier for people to be included socially in radical groups while not having radical opinions. It has created a situation where every opinion becomes radical to someone and discourse stops.
The blue square is not bad. It is however, competing with a technology which seems to be used to divide rather than unite. Most will ignore it, many will embrace it, and some will use it as a rallying point to further their anti-semitism.
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I just hope the campaign platform focuses on young people rather than the geriatric audiences on cable news.