Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the quantity and virulence of antisemitic content on China’s tightly controlled internet — especially on its social media — have skyrocketed. This unprecedented surge in antisemitism online in China could be possible only with the blessing of the Chinese government, which appears to be using anti-Jewish hate as a tool of its anti-U.S. and anti-Western diplomacy.

Comments comparing Jews to Nazis are pervasive on videos relating to the Israel-Gaza war on one of China’s largest video-sharing platforms, Weibo. State-controlled media outlets have been spreading conspiracy theories about the American Jewish community online as well, including the idea that a small number of Jewish Americans control the vast majority of power and wealth in the United States. A false statistic along those lines, originally posted on Oct. 10 by state broadcaster China Central Television, went viral online, becoming a Weibo trending “hot topic.”

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    10 months ago

    Good thing Israel is making that a very easy task. They themselves LOVE mixing anti-Zionism with anti-semitism.

    They are a gross, immoral “ally” actively committing a genocide. All Jews should stand up against that regime, but alas, religion is the epitomy of denying reality. They are well prepared to hold yet another double standard.

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        10 months ago

        and those in Jerusalem? Israel? Those mocking Palestinians on TV?

        Religion is not solving this problem. It’s creating it.