#not their religion
I wish antisemitic hate crimes weren’t categorized as religious hate crimes. Or at least, not always.
Because the people slashing Orthodox people’s tires aren’t doing it because those Jews don’t worship Jesus, they are doing it because they hate Jewish people for being not white and Orthodox people are the most recognizable.
Synagogue shooters aren’t marching into synagogues and killing Jews because they believe Judaism is the wrong religion, they are doing it because they hate Jewish people for being not white and synagogues are closed-in groups of Jewish people.
White supremacists at rallies aren’t shouting “Jews Will Not Replace Us” because of religious prejudice, they are doing it because they hate Jewish people for being not white and for “trying to destroy the white race.”
I’m not saying that religiously-based antisemitism and antisemitic hate crimes don’t exist- but white supremacists are not yelling at, attacking, and killing Jewish people because they hate us for our religion. They are yelling at, attacking and killing Jewish people because they hate us for being not white. They are racists and committing racially-charged hate crimes against Jewish people.
This also adds to why people think the Holocaust was about “white victims”- one, not all Jews are white-passing/white, and two, the Nazis did not hate us for praying to Hashem and not Jesus.
They killed 6 million of us for being not white.
When Jewish people first came to Europe, we looked Middle Eastern. We experienced horrific racism, r*pe, forced assimilation, etc. But we never stopped being treated as not white. Even today in America, Jewish white-passing privilege (when we have it, as not all do,) can be taken away when you are visibly Jewish. See: the Orthodox Jewish people. They are visibly Jewish, 24/7, and people hate them, because they are visibly from a not white group. People who are racist against Jewish people can easily target them (or anyone wearing a kippah, or tallit, or any other jewish item,) and attack them for being visibly not white.
TL;DR: White supremacists hate Jewish people for being not white. Nazis hated Jewish people for being not white. Many antisemites hate Jewish people for being not white. Religious bigotry is not the main cause of antisemitism, racism is.
