@tofugolem@mastodon.social it’s not that inconsistent. Jews more or less count as white people now, so most nazi groups are happy to use arabs as the scapegoat and target of genocidal fury. Then just do the occasional antisemitism to placate the more old fashioned nazis and you have one big happy nazi family. Keep in mind the biggest non-Jewish supporters of Israel- going back to Balfour - have been raging antisemites who want somewhere to send Jews from their own countries.
@ramshackle @tofugolem@mastodon.social Jews aren't more or less white. Racial violence is visited apon Jewish people all around the world.
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But more or less, in the west, antisemitism is considered unacceptable and attacks on Jews will be discouraged in polite society. Which is great, no minority group should ever be threatened. But I’d argue that is the case primarily because Jews are now in the whiteness club. And even the dumbest, most rabid nazis have realised they get more traction if they go after groups outside that club.
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Of course I’m referring to ashkenazim here which is what the majority of other white people will have in mind when they consider Jews.
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In the west, where the social construct that is whiteness applies and nazi movements are based, Islamophobic attacks are far more common. And more importantly they are far more socially acceptable. Because arabs and muslims in general are outside the umbrella of whiteness. They are held up as the barbaric other, the threat to white civilisation.
Whiteness is a social construct, so of course there are versions that don’t include Jews. Hell, there are versions that don’t include Italians or the Irish.