Surely you can. Here are some examples. Only, to tell you to shape up.
The first misunderstanding is that all Antisemites worked in Auschwitz or would have liked to work there. A better term would be anti-Jewish bigots or anti-Jewish racists because Antisemitism is often seen only as gassing Jews. Sexism isn't always rape; Antisemitism isn't always genocide.
An easy-to-remember rule is that when you compare the deeds of Israel to the Holocaust, that's Antisemitism.
If you believe the stories and pictures from the mainstream (Antisemitic), you very well may be running some anti-Jewish sentiment. Because even if you would think that Jews are just as bad and good as everyone else, you wouldn't believe the baseless slander, even if everyone around you would.
It doesn't need to be that you see Jews or Israelis as pure monsters. More refined, you show a lack of respect for Jews when you think you need to preach morality to them. Or even more subtly, when you say that in their place, the massacre would have made you lose all reason, so therefore, you want to help Israelis regain sanity. [Israel took some ten days before it started the ground operations. Collateral damage in an urban area of 1:1 (1 human shield to each terrorist) is unprecedentedly low, showing super-human self-restraint.] All the 'helpfulness' is camouflaged disrespect that underlies a lack of love that lies at the core of Jew-hatred.
In our time of unprecedented popular fake news, many fascistoid leaders call leaders of democratic countries Nazis. This may confuse some people. The dictators didn't fool themselves. They knowingly try to trick the public.
When I call the pogrom of October 7 worse than the Nazis, that's not a hollow cry. While lesser in scope and duration, it was worse in intensity, sadism, open pride, and in the number of war crime types committed.
To some people, Antisemitism sounds not as hateful but as good. If you're fair or loving, you should hate Jews. They see allies of Jews as monsters.
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