Why does the West have an increasing anti-semitism issue?

springtide

Its not anti-semitism, or anti Muslim, or anti Mexican, or ..., its anti foreigner.

It is also more complex than that, as its also the extremists of some groups to push their agenda, and infighting between these groups. Its usually the Far Right groups although the Far Left also have their day.

Also some people take having some sympathy/empathy for the Palestine situation that you are Anti-Semitic.

weaviemx5

This is definitely something that has taken more attention recently.  In another thread on here, people were being judged as anti-Semitic because they were calling for punishments for the Israeli army's use of tactical weaponry against unarmed Palestinians from 300yds away.  Corbyn is a prime example of this.  He's chosen to defend the Palestinians' situation and, rather than people looking at the issues he's raising, he's been judged as anti-Semitic.  Can't someone speak out against Israel for their actions without being judged as being against their primary religion?  Maybe people don't really care what religion someone is, but do care about their actions?

weaviemx5

Have they?  Surely that would suggest that they have it in their Party manifesto or directly encourage it at rallies etc?  Do you actually mean that some of their members (out of 554,000) have either shared memes/posts that are anti-Semitic and haven't been dealt with quickly enough, or Ken Livingstone raised his own suggestion and that's been published in media as the Party line?  

I assume, in the same generalised way, the Conservative Party are equally guilty of racism due to the actions of individual members (one of which is now the Secretary of State)?  This was just the first article I got back from a brief search but my point is that an entire Party shouldn't be judged on the actions of individual (human) members of it;

27 times the Tory party have had a racism problem

Bl4ckGryph0n

Yes they have. There was a good report from an academic on it explaining how they’ve done that.

Bl4ckGryph0n

Agreed, all I was saying is that they received that mandate.

springtide

Did that academic have an agenda?

weaviemx5

Have you got a link?  It would be interesting to read the proposal.  

What are your thoughts on the article I linked to above?  I realise it's from the Mirror so will have a left-leaning angle but of the 25 examples, there are some pretty damning ones in there, particularly from Boris Johnson strangely.

Skull n Bones

The actual on going re-definition of anti-semitism is one of the issues today troubling me as this article takes a look at.

Israel's Overplayed 'Anti-Semitism' Card | HuffPost

Bl4ckGryph0n

If you call standing up against anti-semitism an agenda then I guess yes definitely.

springtide

I mean an alternative agenda rather than anti-semitism, as in playing the card for political support for the Israel / Palestine issues, which is far from being a simple one sided affair.