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After Oct. 7, Antisemitism in China Reached Shocking Levels

(Ha'aretz) Ayelett Shani - Yuval Weinreb, an expert on Chinese culture, said in an interview, "Before the [Oct. 7] massacre, China was one of the safest places to say that you're an Israeli. A Jew. The response to every Israeli who spoke Chinese and explained that they're from Israel was always, 'Wow, you're Jewish, you're the smartest in the world.' That's something the Chinese learn from infancy. They think we have some sort of superpower. There are books that teach people about how smart the Jews are. I call that 'positive antisemitism.'" "After Oct. 7, that 'positive' antisemitism became negative antisemitism, and at the most shocking levels imaginable. There were comments like, 'If there are eight million Jews in Israel, we can open a really big soap factory there,' or 'Too bad Hitler didn't finish the job.' The government will not support this officially, but the fact that they allow anyone who wants to spread these messages to proceed, effectively says it all." "The government of China has a clear strategy: the elimination of American global hegemony and creation of a new world order. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict... affords them a lot of popularity, without risking a thing. The Muslim and Arab street is with China, and other countries in the global south, which China purports to lead, identify with it."
2024-06-18 00:00:00
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