They were attending an event focused on Israeli Palestinian cooperation to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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142. Who is being naive?

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I see antisemitism in the US and other countries being transformed from right wing fringe to mainstream left wing trend. Palestinians are once again a tool in promoting this trend, not the cause.

It is the incendiary rhetoric like what I see in your post and totally ignoring radical Islamist militants and what they have done to Israel and Gaza that drives the trend, but once again, the trend started before Gaza. Antisemitism was already entrenched in the rhetoric of the extreme left, and Hamas deliberately started the war to exploit it. Their leaders said so, and kept bragging about it, considering it a tremendous victory. They bragged about "martyring" Gazans and wanting more of the same. The only grave error that Israel committed is, they took the bait, to the utter delight of Hamas and Iranian strategists. And it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that all the talk about apartheid, land grab and ethnic cleansing is a heap of BS: Israel returned two thirds of its territory, including Gaza, to Egypt and the Palestinians as a consequence of peace treaties (actually, Gaza was handed over to the Palestinians for nothing in return. In this respect, the only definitive ethnic cleansing that ever happened in Gaza was the forcible removal by Israel of Jewish settlers from its territory prior to Israel's withdrawal)

So we are swimming in the aforementioned heap of rhetorical BS not as a consequence of the war in Gaza. It was the incessant repetition and promotion of this BS in the social media prior to the war, aided in great measure by Russian and Iranian bot farms as well as committed antisemites on the right and the left alike (which goes to show you that antisemitism has nothing to do with ideology) that is directly related to the horrific rise in antisemitism.

And just to show you how faulty your argument is: if you are correct, why is it that the war in Gaza led to the horrific rise of openly antisemitic incidents and attacks on "Zionists" (which, given the horrific incidents you are referring to, we can no longer deny stands for "Jews" ), and didn't lead, as logic would demand, to showing solidarity with and support for the secular Israelis who regularly demonstrate against the Netanyahu regime on the streets of Tel Aviv?

The answer is self-evident: to an antisemite, there is no distinction between Jew, Zionist, Israeli and Netanyahu. And if you can't see this, it only goes to show you how normalized antisemitism has become.