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Denjin@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
While I agree with the sentiment that we should treat all incidents of religious or racial hate-crime similarly and we shouldn’t single out one particular group above another, the twitter commenter shown above is taking a ridiculous, vitriolic position not based in fact. Especially when Islamophobic hate-crime already has its own special category within hate crime legislation and the government publishes specific guidance around it in exactly the way this report wants for antisemitism:
gov.uk/…/a-definition-of-anti-muslim-hostility
This sort of relentless focus on anti-antisemitism studies and reports very much smacks of someone who themself can’t distinguish between anti-zionist/anti-israeli genocide campaigns and actually just hating Jewish people.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
What isn’t factual? Is there monitoring for Islamophobic bullying in schools?
Newsflash Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage exist and they’re publicly spewing vitrol about Muslims and nothing is done about it.
Denjin@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
That’s exactly what the government guidance I shared aims to encourage, just like this report into anti-semitism that hasn’t actually been published yet suggests. So there is no difference in how these two groups are treated in the eyes of the government except the islamophobic bullying guidance has been around for nearly 4 years whereas there is no such guidance currently for anti-semitism.
Nice whataboutism, just because there are awful people who hate Muslims, does that make it OK for there to be awful people who hate Jewish children?
I listened to a brief part of the link you shared and I don’t see how any of what was said, despite it being largely accurate, is at all relevant to the issue at hand which is antisemitic bullying of school children.
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
There’s no whataboutism there’s the obvious double standard being presented to you which you fully ignore.
Once again you can educate yourself with the words of Finkelstein speak for a while and you will suddenly understand what the title of this post refers to
Denjin@feddit.uk 7 hours ago
No, I specifically acknowledged it, you either chose to ignore it or simply failed to see it.
You are the one who hasn’t seen the double standard of there already being this same guidance for islamophobia for years. There have also been multiple investigations and studies into islamophobia in schools in the UK exactly like this study or antisemitism that seems to have angered you so much.
It’s either disgusting racism to attack a Muslim for their faith and also a Jewish person (or any other religion for that matter), or it isn’t for any of them. You’re merely showing Jewish exceptionalism in a negative way, which is just you being anti-semite because you’re only upset about one of them. In fact it seems you didn’t even know about the guidance put in place to protect the people you’re so vehemently white-knighting for.
I shall not be engaging with you any further on this, or any other topic.