Undoubtedly, antisemitism and fascism are on the rise, but was antisemitism a major concern before mid October? Violence and discrimination against Jews has been considerably low when compared to other religious and ethnic groups, but minorities like native Americans don't have a platform to express their abuses and genocides.

Perhaps American-Jews have been relatively safe for the last few decades, but American-Arab Muslims and Indian Sikh's wearing hijabs and Dumallas endured countless violent attacks for decades. There has been something fundamentally wrong.

The Israeli government insists on using Judaism and the Holocaust to justify its actions in Palestine, but Jews aren't responsible for Israeli's political and military decisions. Unfortunately, not everyone understands this, but at what point is it not antisemitic to consider a Judaist theocracy's belligerent government?

Declaring a religious, ethnic, or nationality a canary of freedom is sanctimonious and naive. Humans aren't saints, and everyone is corruptible.

We live in world dominated by militarily and economically empowered aristocrats who subordinate societies, and no one but the rich benefit. Perhaps this is the cause of our fundamental problems. We are loyal to ideologies that spur global conflicts and domestic fears to maintain wealth and power for demigods. How depressing.