I found this post on Reddit that was taken down and the account was banned for being antisemitic according to the mods.
Is this antisemitism or a criticism of the argument that Israel belongs to the Jews because apparently it is their ancestral home? And why or why not?
Post:
“What’s up with the people who say that the Jews are native to Israel?
Are the Jews native to anywhere? I thought that they were just a tribe of desert dwellers that were wreaking havoc in biblical times committing genocide after genocide in the name of their sky daddy until somewhere is history they ended up in Europe and parts of Africa.
Can someone shine light to where are the Jews even from?”
It’s a “just asking questions” type of comment where the answers are pretty easy to find. It’s, at best, a poorly worded comment that could legitimately be seen as offensive and reads like a troll. I don’t see it as an effective criticism of Zionism because it lays out incorrect assumptions, asks bad questions, and mocks Judaism (e.g. “sky daddy”). I don’t think all of that necessarily qualifies as antisemitism, but there’s no inherent value in the comment to defend. I’d be curious which subreddit the user was banned from and it’s also possible this comment doesn’t exist in a vacuum and there could be a pattern of behavior that was considered.
Part of the problem is probably in the use of the word ‘Jew’. Many Jewish people prefer to being called Jewish over being called a Jew, as it can be derogatory.
I thought it was just an abbreviation without any derogatory implications.
