It only happened a few times to me and my brother two years younger than me (I never heard my younger brothers experiencing anything like it). The thing was when it happened, we never understood it. It wasn't until my brother got pinged in the eye that either of us ever said anything to our parents. They explained it.
Fourth grade was the worse. Tests on High Holy days for which I received "0's", made to sit in the hallway during the Christmas party so I wouldn't be "offended", a classmate threatening to "shoot me in the face with a shotgun" for killing Christ, and an occasional swastika.
As you say, the talk of genocide is just BS and used to make Israel look more like a villain; the Nazi shit, well, that is plain old anti-Semitic crap. Some of the same people making the claims screeched like lobotomized, coked out macaques when Clinton made a comment about Putin making moves like Hitler. Any other Nazi comparisons are shouted down and "Godwin" is immediately invoked, but when it is Israel...oh they can't get enough.
Then again, it is also "charming" being told I don't know what anti-Semitism is and isn't, that someone in their family is a Jew (an acceptable form, for some reason, of "some of my best friends are..."
, or the idiotic, "Arabs are Semites, too!". Of course, there are also those who just can't accept a Jew talking about anti-Semitism or his/her experiences and the conversation MUST be directed into another arena. Since I don't "look Jewish," I also get to hear many things "good" people wouldn't normally say in public.
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