That last post

People are asking if that last post was a joke.

I don’t think so.

But even if it was, it wasn’t. It’s nothing I haven’t seen before, many times, either as hate mail that came in on the FAQ line over at neilgaiman.com, or in other corners of the web – the saddest of which was a letter from a young, female Iranian fan, who loved my books all the way from Iran and wanted to warn me about Jews, because they were all over America, and they came from Israel and ran America secretly, and I needed to be warned to watch out for them. The funniest-scariest was a link I was sent to a Holocaust-denying site that also had a grand list of Jews in Showbiz on it, so they would know who to send to the gas-chambers Next Time (and yes, my name was on it).

The Holocaust was not that long ago. Not really - I have relatives still living who were Holocaust survivors. Six million people were murdered by people who had the beliefs and attitudes of that last questioner. And while I wish that those attitudes had ended along with World War 2, they didn’t.

Anyway. Here’s something inspirational, to take the nasty taste away.

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When someone is a Christian they are not constantly asked their position on the holocaust, the transatlantic slave trade, the extermination of Native Americans or any of the thousands of atrocities committed by Christians. So why do Muslims get asked about terrorism and Jews about Israel and are grouped in with specific bad people while Christians are not required to explain themselves.

Now, there’s a thought.

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Why So Many People Still Don’t Understand Anti-Semitism

www.theatlantic.com|Yair Rosenberg

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The notion that such a minuscule and unmanageable minority secretly controls the world is comical, which may be why so many responsible people still do not take the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory seriously, or even understand how it works. In the moments after the Texas crisis, the FBI made an official statement declaring that the assailant was “particularly focused on one issue, and it was not specifically related to the Jewish community.” Of course, the gunman did not travel thousands of miles to terrorize some Mormons. He sought out a synagogue and took it hostage over his grievances, believing that Jews alone could resolve them. That’s targeting Jews, and there’s a word for that.

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“Anti-Semitism has real impact beyond just hate crimes,” the civil-rights activist Eric Ward once told me. “It distorts our understanding of how the actual world works. It isolates us. It alienates us from our communities, from our neighbors, and from participating in governance. It kills, but it also kills our society.”

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“Anti-Semitism isn’t just bigotry toward the Jewish community,” Ward explains. “It is actually utilizing bigotry toward the Jewish community in order to deconstruct democratic practices, and it does so by framing democracy as a conspiracy rather than a tool of empowerment or a functional tool of governance.” In other words, the more people buy into anti-Semitism and its understanding of the world, the more they lose faith in democracy.

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