Hi guys, this is my first time posting on reddit (and probably my last) but recently in the past 2 years I feel like everything has been kind of crashing down and I’m sure that im not the only one. For context im a 20Y Male and my family moved from Israel when I was younger to Southeast Asia.
Although I have experienced some very harsh forms of anti-semitism and bullying when I was younger for being jewish, I feel like recently everyone and everything just dont see us as human anymore and that generally how people feel inside is being exposed more and more. Looking at the news every day or even just scrolling through memes on instagram has become such a drag since the comments are always relating to anti-semitism even when the post or reel literally has nothing to do with Jews or Judaism at all, and I swear I have been experiencing this exact same thing ever since the war broke out and I feel like every month that goes by, things just get worse and worse. I have friends that aren’t jewish and they stopped talking to me since the war started while other people refuse to even sit down and eat next to me since I am Israeli and Jewish.
I feel like wherever I go I am just constantly reminded of the fact that the war is going on and that I’m different compared to everyone else. Heck, I have even heard of conspiracy theories online about jews which I never even knew about (seriously what the heck does an adrenochrome have to do with me being Jewish, I’m not even rich). I feel like it has gotten even harder to get into relationships as well as in my country right now the Jewish community is pretty small and there is no one who is the same age as me and of the opposite gender but even if I try to search outside the moment someone hears the word “Jew” come out of my mouth it’s either how messed up whatever my people are doing is or they just tuck their tails between their legs and run which has honestly led to me giving up on finding relationships as a whole for now.
Honestly, I just want to know how other people who are staying in countries outside of Israel are dealing with all the negativity and press that we receive because it has started to take its toll and honestly other than my own family there is no Jewish community I can approach and this is something that I have been curious about for awhile because things have been bad the past 2 years in Israel but antisemitism overseas is also starting to become horrible.
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