silencing | #TranslateHate
silencing
theme \ 'sīlənsiNG \
: prohibit or prevent from speaking
WHEN IT’S ANTISEMITIC:
One of the longest standing antisemitic attacks leveled against Jews is the “silencing” of their opponents. The false claim that Jews deem any criticism of Israel or the Jewish people as antisemitic, and wield the power of the antisemitic label to silence the opposition, is offensive and dangerous for productive discourse. The idea of “silencing” speech plays into the commonly used trope of “Jewish control” with the false accusation that all discourse that criticizes the policies of Israel should cease to exist in order for the State of Israel to remain powerful.
Another form of “silencing” of Jews happens when critics claim Jews are not a minority group, despite comprising barely 2% of the U.S. population, and 0.2% of the entire global population.
It is yet another example of the nonsensical way in which Jews are both blamed for silencing their critics and accused of perpetrating hateful rhetoric by speaking out against them in order to gain sympathy.
