[Ska'dForLife-WBA]

Well said, Ska'd, but the victims you mention are not "offended", but have been deeply affected because of persecution and hatred.

Unfortunately, your argument also tells us why some Islamists hate Christians, some blacks hate whites, and so on. The world is, and always was, a deeply divided place and, despite my innate positivity, I see no sign of change in the future.

Well, yes. Human beings are tribal by nature, and one of the remarkable things about the modern world is that we manage to channel most of our tribal instincts into things that are relatively harmless; music, football, etc. Of course, that's not enough for some, and there's no shortage of blinkered idiots who spend their time grinding axes against this group or that, which is all the more reason to show solidarity whenever bigotry rears its head. And there have, thankfully, been plenty of non-Jews speaking up about this issue, including many Muslims.

I do fear that antisemitism in particular is grossly misunderstood by a large part of the general public, who learn about the Holocaust as some kind of uniquely German or fascist phenomenon, without recognizing the thousand years of prejudice and persecution that led to it, which permeated all nations and all sides of the political spectrum. Antisemitism was the first and the greatest of all conspiracy theories, and sadly, it's no surprise that in an age when so many people are buying into low-level tinfoil-hat shit about "the media" and "the elites" controlling their lives, it's making a roaring comeback.