The DC assassin is not a religious nutcase. Not a maladjusted outcast. Not a low-down vigilante.

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131. I stopped posting about it a while ago.

I ended up deleting my most recent post, which was shortly after the Hamas attack. I got really sick of being told I'm antisemitic, and decided to just get rid of the whole thing.

All I said was that a clear distinction can be made between Judaism and the modern nation-state of Israel. That's literally all I said.

I was addressing people claiming that Israel somehow "deserved" the attacks. This is clearly wrong, and Hamas absolutely triggered the current period of violence. I said so very explicitly. But I also pointed out that criticism of Israel doesn't amount to antisemitism. I suppose emotions might have been high at the time, which might have led some respondents to react more defensively than they otherwise might.

The most offensive comments were those who accused me of being the kind of bigot who claims they can't be racist because they have black friends when I pointed out that my wife and her entire family are Jewish, and that we're raising our daughter in the Jewish tradition. I was told to "stop gentile-splaining" the meaning of antisemitism, as though I'm somehow incapable of recognizing antisemitism when I see it.

I flagged a couple of comments for violating DU standards - in particular, those that directly questioned my integrity - but nothing was done about it. I almost left DU because of this.

Like I said, I deleted the whole conversation. And I really haven't posted about the subject since.