Stop Antisemitism

To return to the above-quoted excerpt, it is patently apparent that Slow Factory is presenting a false narrative. There is antisemitism in the Levant. While some of it could be traced to the influence of Christian missionaries, much of it is rooted in the Quran and accompanying Islamic literature. There are attacks on Jews by Muslims chanting itbah al-Yahud (“slaughter the Jews”) from Baghdad’s Farhud in 1941 to the massacre by Hamas in the Western Negev in 2023. Moreover, 31 years following the signing of the Oslo Accords, no democracy has developed in the Palestinian Authority; instead, it is a continuation and deepening of an authoritarian societal rule.

The “movement” indeed singles out Jews. It prevents them from crossing encampment lines. It attacks Jewish objects—whether people, institutions, places of business or customers at cafes. It seeks out the doors of Jewish students in dormitories. It lays siege to synagogues, hospitals named “Jewish” and Jewish schools. As for their vision of a democratic state, it is a movement that heralds the most undemocratic societies, whether in Gaza or Ramallah, Hebron or Shechem.

(full article online)


 
Others chimed in, including from Seattle:
The kosher section of two stores I've been to in my area have disappeared. I'm in Seattle and when I went to QFC it was just gone. I asked where it was because the aisle it used to be in changed the whole row so thought maybe it had just been shifted. The workers seemed evasive and said "maybe it's with the other things" from the old aisle. It wasn't. I found the remains of the section on the clearance rack. It's just gone :(
Another said:
The kosher sections have disappeared from a Fred Meyer and my QFC in Seattle. I was heartbroken.
This does not feel like a widespread problem, yet. The Seattle QFC being discussed appears to be in an area that is heavily "progressive," other QFCs in the Seattle area have full kosher sections including meats and sushi.

Nevertheless, it is definitely concerning that some stores either want to boycott kosher products themselves - or feel that making kosher products visible would result in their being attacked.

Needless to say, this is antisemitism, not "anti-Zionism." And it shows how the wave of protests affects the daily lives of ordinary Jews.

(full article online)

 
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