Antisemitism

Antisemitism is the hatred of Jews and Jewish communities. I personally know some Jewish people, and I find no reason to discriminate against them and many of them don't even fit their stereotypes. The Jewish people I know don't have any "Jewish" characteristics in the way that theres nothing bad about them that antisemitism blames them of doing.

Antisemitism might only be thought to happen during the Holocaust, but sadly it still continues today. Some might think Antisemitism only occurs in extremist groups such as the KKK and the Taliban, but in fact even some governments have shown that they are antisemitic. It is antisemitic to even think the Holocaust didn't occur.

For example, in Iran the president said that the Holocaust didn't even happen and he suggested that Israel, a mainly Jewish country, be wiped off the map. One might dismiss this because Iran and Israel are hostile to each other, but even the Venezuelan president accused Israel of killing Palestinian people in cold blood because they are against Jews.  



"In February 2007, a Jewish memorial to the Holocaust was defaced and nearly 300 Jewish graves desecrated in Odessa in southern Ukraine." —Photo courtesy European Jewish Press


Above is a picture taken in Ukraine where Jewish graves were imprinted with the Swastika, the symbol of the Nazis who persecuted the Jews in the Holocaust. It is disgusting that this only happened three years ago.


Source: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/

-Samar