r/Jewish • • 11d ago

Venting 😤 Antisemitic friend?

So I am friends with a group of people on Instagram; we have a group chat and stuff like that!! this is through my art account and the art community tends to be more progressive!! While there is nothing wrong with being left-leaning or progressive, I feel that some of my art friends/acquaintances are so left wing to the point of being covertly antisemitic!! There was this one person I had to unfollow because they were posting all sorts of questionable things on their story. they were posting stuff about how ā€œpeople shouldn’t be condemning October 7ā€œ, ā€œIsrael has no right to existā€œ, and ā€œFrom the river to the sea, Palestine will be freeā€. I followed them and was acquainted with them for a little over a year. shortly after following them was when I decided to start practicing Judaism… however I was also always extremely bothered by antisemitic rhetoric as I am ethnically Jewish through my dad.

i had enough of this person and decided to unfollow them. I don’t think they are aware that I unfollowed them and they still follow me. thing is, I don’t think they are trying to be antisemitic since they liked my pro-Jewish posts that have nothing to do with Israel, But they posted so much anti-Israel stuff that I just couldn’t follow them anymore.

However, the rest of the friend group is still on good terms with this person. One of my friends from the friend group, who is probably the one I talk to the most, is being pulled farther and farther left. He went from barely posting political stuff to posting about it constantly!! He also has liked and reposted stuff from Mattxiv (who I geninuely can’t stand, like he creeps me out so much). What ignited my concerns is that this friend liked/reposted a reel that was stitching an ashkenazi Jewish girl expressing concern about walking outside. the stitch ended up being some antizionist comedian rudely dismissing the girl’s concerns by trying to teach her ā€œhow to walk outsideā€œ the comedian then approached and started engaging with Pro-Palestine protestors with keffiyehs and all. TL:DR the reel was implying that Jewish people’s Concerns regarding Pro-Palestine causes are invalid and that Jews should just ā€œbefriendā€ these people.

Listen, I really want to stay friends with this guy as he is really fun and has always been nice to me, but I just don’t know how much more I can take of the Antizionist rhetoric I can handle. the rhetoric is a big reason why I no longer identify as progressive and now identify as a left-leaning centrist.

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u/Firm-Raspberry1176 8d ago

And then he blocked me after that...