Let’s stop pretending antisemitism today is about “facts.” It’s not. It’s about identity, emotion, and belonging and that’s exactly why so many people refuse to listen.
As a Moroccan Muslim, I’m going to say something that many people are too afraid to admit publicly: Most people who spread antisemitism today are not doing it because they’ve studied history, law, or geopolitics. They’re doing it because it feels right within the identity they’ve adopted. And once something feels morally right, facts become irrelevant.
I’ve spent a lot of time watching how anti-Jewish narratives spread on social media, on campuses, even in intellectual spaces. What I’ve seen is not ignorance in the traditional sense. It’s something deeper. People are not just misinformed. They are emotionally invested.
Let me break it down clearly:
There’s the social media activist raised on short videos and algorithm-driven outrage. Confident, loud, emotionally charged, but often disconnected from reality. They believe they are defending victims. You won’t reach them with statistics. Only human stories can break through.
There are those raised into it people who didn’t arrive at antisemitism through thinking, but inherited it like a family tradition. You’re not arguing with opinions here. You’re confronting identity. That doesn’t change overnight.
Then you have the moral “saviors” the ones who see the world only through oppression narratives. To them, Jews or Israel must be cast as villains for their worldview to stay intact. Facts don’t matter if they disrupt that moral storyline.
The trend followers repeating slogans, joining protests, posting hashtags. Not because they understand, but because it gives them belonging. This is social currency disguised as activism.
The hardcore extremists the ones who openly hate Jews. No debate needed here. These are not people to persuade. These are ideologies to expose and isolate.
The political manipulators who weaponize antisemitism to gain power, distract, or mobilize crowds. They know exactly what they’re doing. This is strategy, not ignorance.
And finally, the intellectual justifiers hiding bias behind sophisticated language. They sound analytical, but scratch the surface and you’ll find selective outrage and moral double standards.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: People are not rejecting facts because they don’t know them. They reject facts because those facts threaten the identity they’ve built. And once a belief becomes part of your identity, questioning it feels like betrayal.
That’s why debates go nowhere. That’s why “educating people” often fails. That’s why you can present undeniable facts and still be ignored. Because you’re not fighting misinformation. You’re fighting emotional allegiance.
So what do we do? We stop wasting time thinking facts alone will fix this. Some people can only be reached through humanization showing real faces, real stories, real lives. Some can only be countered through exposure and accountability. And some will never change. And we need to be honest enough to accept that.
As a Moroccan Muslim, I refuse to stay silent while antisemitism is dressed up as justice, activism, or intellectualism. If we are serious about fighting hatred, we need to understand one thing: This is not a battle of information. This is a battle of narratives, identity, and emotion. And if you don’t understand that, you’ve already lost.
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Written by Mustapha Ezzarghani
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