Is antisemitism on the rise?

I don't know if it's on the rise. It might be. I don't think it ever went away.

Or to put it another way, a few years ago I heard a man in my local supermarket complain out loud to the woman he was with that the rise in the cost of bread was all the fault of the "f***ing Jews". You would not have picked him out of a crowd. You don't have to look very far these days to find some very, very unpleasant opinions; if anything has changed recently, it might simply be that things that were always around us have moved into the open.

I agree that anti-everything is on the rise or maybe it is just perceived to be so due to new technologies. In olden times if you lived in a village with a population of three your resentments are going to go largely unnoticed but nowadays anyone, even in that small village, has access to a phone or the internet and is able to give full vent to all their bigotry.

There are all sorts of prejudices feeding off each other in the virtual cesspool. I have never felt so hated in my life even though I don't meddle with anyone and have tried to live my life behaving reasonably well towards others.

There has been the ongoing story of it being an issue in the Labour Party - possibly because people of Jeremy Corbyn's political stance would likely favour Palestine over Israel.

It would be ironic if one of Corbyn's politically correct cronies was done for racism in this way.

Depends what they say...! No, I agree, just wondered about the way the question was posed.

I'm not Jewish, but it's fairly obvious that somebody complaining out loud in the Co-Op that the cost of a sliced loaf is the fault of the "f***in Jews" - the example I cited - is being anti-semitic. You don't have to be Jewish to recognise anti-semitism. There's plenty of everyday racism out there, and you don't have to be a member of the minority group it targets to see it - and the fact that too many members of the white majority choose not to see it is part of the problem.

Corbyn's fault

Think that one might be me, apart from the Labour party bit

Oh God. I'm clearly not saying that people can't recognise racism that's not directed at them personally. I just wondered whether people who don't experience a particular kind of racism are really qualified to say whether or not it's on the increase. Because that judgement does seem to be down to personal experience.

Fascinating. I never knew till your post and then Google brought me this article

www.timesofisrael.com/anti-semitic-roald-dahl-kept-off-uk-commemorative-coins/

Antisemintism is an issue that is ingrained and believe has existed below the surface at a consistent level, British history is littered with the persecution of the Jewish community culminating but not ending with the edict of expulsion in 1290. The only difference now is the bigots feel more empowered to make their feelings known.

I have always been intrigued how the sense of Jewish community continues to survive and thrive through/despite their treatment through history, many nations have been and gone through whilst the Jewish community continues to thrive.

The internal conflict I have Is the inability to differentiate support for Palestinians as being automatically anti-Semitic, I am equally opinionated of any Nation which uses their power to persecute. My bugbear is the unnecessary loss of innocent lives, I do not have any hierarchy in the perpetrators and feel the same way for Palestinians as I do for the Rohingya persecution in Myanmar, the current situation in Yemen, and countless others around the World.

Even mentioning the Palestinian angle makes me feel uncomfortable, the threat of being considered anti-Semitic is always there and had to think deeply about contributing to this thread.

There is a difference between Antisemitism and Jewish jokes or in this politically correct society are those jokes now considered none PC. The Jewish comedians have always been very self mocking so I'd hope no-one has decided they are offended for them.

I think anti disability is also on the rise. As a disabled person that is worrying