Why antisemitism is surging in China

[ThunderCat]

@MH.Yang @REhorror

 

[aziqbal]

Russia and China are the future

EU will be soon be overrun by Muslims who are going to be in power in the next generation

this war has basically signed Europeans own death warrant and speed up the islamisation of Europe by at least a generation

that leaves the US on its own

I think UK and France and Spain will be easy to take over and actually UK will be the easiest

then Spain and then France

the only hard one is Germany the Zionists have a very strong grip on the leaders there

Italains will be a walk in the park

US is way to strong to fight so the fall will come from within but they have tight borders

 

[tower9]

Russia and China are the future

EU will be soon be overrun by Muslims who are going to be in power in the next generation

this war has basically signed Europeans own death warrant and speed up the islamisation of Europe by at least a generation

that leaves the US on its own

I think UK and France and Spain will be easy to take over and actually UK will be the easiest

then Spain and then France

the only hard one is Germany the Zionists have a very strong grip on the leaders there

Italains will be a walk in the park

US is way to strong to fight so the fall will come from within but they have tight borders

I thought the Muslim population in Western Europe is only in the single digits? How are you taking over in a generation?

Although I agree that europe is basically fucked anyways

 

[_killuminati_]

either way both jew and chinese like killing muslim

Why don't they kill Hui, the dominant Muslim group in China?

 

[serenity]

They are utmost narcissists. They think they can hit at others and cause pain and there should be no repercussions. And when others strike back to defend themselves, they scream out in pain and call themselves victims while they are striking you.

after this war nothing will be the same again

this is going to cause a generational change

and they have only speed up their own decline

talk about singing your own death warrant

I think you guys are wrong. You underestimate power of western and Zionist media. I suspect most people esp wealthy country people will forget in time about all this.

And overall this thread is too dividing peoples into groups and ignoring how similar humanity is. Then we'd realise how history rhymes and the nature of our violence and base of division. Jew, Muslim, Zionist, Palestinian, and so on.

But Identity politics and group division on PDF is core with most members lol. Few sane conversations here can exist in domains of politics, religion, even race and ethnicity. Even between very close peoples in DNA or culture. Basically PDF and many members tend to amplify difference and hatred. It isn't a good nuanced take on reality or whats happening in the world.

 

[dani92]

Russia and China are the future

EU will be soon be overrun by Muslims who are going to be in power in the next generation

this war has basically signed Europeans own death warrant and speed up the islamisation of Europe by at least a generation

that leaves the US on its own

I think UK and France and Spain will be easy to take over and actually UK will be the easiest

then Spain and then France

the only hard one is Germany the Zionists have a very strong grip on the leaders there

Italains will be a walk in the park

US is way to strong to fight so the fall will come from within but they have tight borders

Good luck with trying to make Europe a Muslim content that’s if they don’t make another crusades , inquisitions or Holocaust against them first.

 

[fitpOsitive]

Why antisemitism is surging in China​

Israel is angry and dismayed at what it perceives as Beijing’s inaction over a rise in online antisemitism in Chinese cyberspace

By MARY JANE AINSLIE
NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (left) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping after a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 14, 2023. Photo: Twitter Screengrab /
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During the conflict between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, many nations have tried to maintain a neutral stance by not explicitly supporting either side. But despite attempts at balanced commentaries at the top of business and politics, there has been evidence of rising antisemitism in many countries. One of these has been China.

This has come as a surprise. Since 2010, China’s political and economic ties with Israel have grown substantially. This includes a dramatic increase in Chinese tourism to Israel, academic links and investment in Israeli science and technology from large Chinese companies such as Baidu, Alibaba and Ping An.

Israel is also important to the Belt and Road Initiative, the massive Chinese overseas investment scheme that has funded construction in the Israeli port of Haifa.

But now – at a government level – there is friction between Beijing and Jerusalem over China’s refusal to condemn Hamas’s actions and formally declare it to be a terrorist organization. Israel is also angry and dismayed at what it perceives as Beijing’s inaction over a rise in online antisemitism in Chinese cyberspace.

But this growth of antisemitism is not connected to China’s official position on the war between Hamas and Israel, which is entirely consistent with China’s international relations under Xi. Beijing has tended to avoid formally taking sides in conflicts, instead preferring to play the “honest broker” – albeit offering solutions that differ to those of the West.

Examples include China’s immediate invitation to the new Taliban rulers in Afghanistan to visit China and talk about the country’s involvement in the Belt and Road Initiative after the US withdrawal in 2021. Likewise, China’s emphasis upon impartiality over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and its proposal of a 12-point peace plan.

But in the Israel-Palestine situation, China took a very pro-Palestinian position from the late 1940s to the 1980s. Since then, it has continued to favor a two-state solution despite its warmer relations with Israel from 2010.

Western and Asian antisemitism compared​

Antisemitism in China and East Asia is different to how it is generally understood in Europe. In Europe, antisemitism is a unique discourse of hatred against Jewish people. It draws upon a long history of persecution and was heavily embedded within Christianity, culminating in the Holocaust.

Jewish people were “othered” as troublemakers and disrupters. Antisemitic tropes further positioned them as plotting world domination and engaging in cultist practices.

In contrast in East Asia, Jews and Israel have tended to be attached to a positive image of Western modernity and achievement. This results in a widespread form of positive stereotyping known as “philosemitism.”

Philosemitism, the opposite of antisemitism, is the attachment of desirable and admirable characteristics to Jewish people and Israel. Chinese philosemitism includes positive notions of Jewish political governance, national identity, moral refinement, advanced civilization and a will to survive.

These beliefs go back to the arrival of Jewish traders and investors in China in the 19th century. Today, such beliefs are transferred to a collective quality admired in Jews and the state of Israel. This culminates in an embodied image of heightened intelligence, wealth and a strong focus upon the family, with Israel being regarded as brave and innovative.

Philosemitism has been able to prosper in East Asia and operates as a convenient platform for Israeli international relations. It’s a form of soft power that is often referenced (and welcomed) by both Israeli and East Asian political actors in high-level diplomatic interactions.

Falling out of friendship​

But stereotypes can very quickly switch between xenophilia and xenophobia as a result of sudden changes in the wider context. The antisemitism we see in China now is largely an inversion of philosemitism. This change was triggered when philosemitic stereotypes began to be threatening rather than useful to Chinese nationalism.

Specifically, the current Gaza conflict affirmed Israel’s connection to the US. This positioned the country as part of a perceived Western “plot” to undermine China and promote US dominance. To many in China, Israel and Jewish people became part of a cluster of behaviors and beliefs associated with conspiratorial discourse about a threatening Western axis.

This links to other nationalist conspiratorial beliefs in China, attached to issues as diverse as constructing Covid-19 as part of a US plot against China, and the Russia-Ukraine war being a US-instigated conflict designed to threaten China and Russia. In cyberspace, these have easily become mixed up with older, European-style antisemitic tropes, and grown substantially.

Conspiracies tend to become more salient during times of increased social instability, with their appeal connected to an individual’s perceived lack of control. These sorts of discussion have risen in Chinese cyberspace during a time when the country’s economy is potentially undergoing a downturn – a situation uncomfortably similar to the rise of antisemitism in 1920s and 1930s Europe during the Great Depression.

While the Chinese internet is tightly controlled, issues discussed online tend only to be addressed if they are in some way threatening the authority of the Chinese Communist Party, or could potentially cause social unrest.

With very few Jewish people to directly persecute, antisemitism does not pose an immediate threat to Chinese society. The wider conspiratorial discourses it is part of are also generally in support of nationalist ideology. For both of these reasons, the Chinese state has not intervened to prevent this antisemitism.

It’s important to rethink how we understand antisemitism in the Asian context. In the West, it is typically seen as a unique discourse of hatred in Europe rather than a form of racial stereotyping, as it is in Asia. The latter reflects a general lack of awareness about the dangers of positive stereotypes and how easily these can be upended.

Together with other scholars, I have warned that encouraging philosemitic discourse in East Asia is dangerous. So, the “surge” in antisemitism in Chinese cyberspace hasn’t come as a surprise to those of us who study this phenomenon in Asia.

Jewish stereotypes have been growing over the past decade in China, but largely as philosemitism, so were not seen as a concern. This is now changing.

Why antisemitism is surging in China - Asia Times

During the conflict between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, many nations have tried to maintain a neutral stance by not explicitly supporting either side. But

asiatimes.com

If media was free, I bet there would have not even a single Jew left on the face of earth. They are actively destroying USA. They destroyed the complete European civilization. And I am amazed how Europe supports Jews.
But their time is near.

 

[dani92]

If media was free, I bet there would have not even a single Jew left on the face of earth. They are actively destroying USA. They destroyed the complete European civilization. And I am amazed how Europe supports Jews.
But their time is near.

They support them because they wanted to get rid of them and send them to Palestine that’s why Poland even though it was tolerant towards them they supported their efforts to establish a state in Palestine because they didn’t want them.