{"id":544475,"date":"2021-05-28T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544475"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T19:06:23","slug":"seth-rogen-mocks-concerns-over-rise-in-online-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seth-rogen-mocks-concerns-over-rise-in-online-anti-semitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Rogen Mocks Concerns Over Rise In Online Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseth-rogen-mocks-concerns-over-rise-in-online-anti-semitism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/seth-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Actor Seth Rogen is in hot water over his recent mockery of concerns about rising anti-Semitism on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, Tablet writer Eve Barlow tweeted a link to her essay titled, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/the-social-media-pogrom\"><span>The Social Media Pogrom<\/span><\/a><span>.\u201d In it, she detailed evidence that online hate is increasing amid rising conflict in the Middle East:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22\">\n<p><span>The activity that Jews\u2014Zionist Jews in particular\u2014experienced all over the web was bizarre at best and invalidating, abusive, and dehumanizing at worst. Zionist Jews weren\u2019t just being unfollowed for advocating for themselves and their brothers and sisters in Israel and Palestine, we were also losing access to direct message and comment abilities, having posts removed for violating community guidelines (while blatant antisemitism online almost never receives the same treatment), and having our accounts threatened with temporary suspension or closure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The cherry on top, of course, was that we were simultaneously fighting off a barrage of thousands upon thousands of troll comments and hateful direct messages, which frequently included homophobic, misogynistic, and extremely violent language.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>As one example, Barlow referenced the grade-school name-calling she has endured, with critics littering her mentions with the moniker, \u201cEve Fartlow.\u201d She wondered if the attacks are an attempt at psychological warfare, a kind of \u201cdigital waterboarding aimed at forcing me to surrender, delete all my accounts, log out of all my devices, and commit digital suicide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rogen\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sethrogen\/status\/1397687121725460482?s=20\"><span>response<\/span><\/a><span> to these emotional revelations? He posted a puff of air emoji, which many took as a reference to passing gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The social media manager for the U.K.-based<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israeladvocacy.net\/about\/\"> <span>Israel Advocacy Movement<\/span><\/a><span> quickly<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/israel_advocacy\/status\/1397847173786636292?s=20\"> <span>replied<\/span><\/a><span> to the celebrity, \u201cThree days ago I was violently assaulted leaving a kosher restaurant because I was visibly Jewish. When a Jewish journalist spoke out against this violence\u2026 you humiliated her to your 9M followers. Would you humiliate people opposing anti-black racism? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rogen\u2019s ridicule comes as the Anti-Defamation League<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/news\/press-releases\/preliminary-adl-data-reveals-uptick-in-antisemitic-incidents-linked-to-recent?fbclid=IwAR224E5Oc55fhw8h5aCtRz_gM9gGKFf67py4pv62hJZek8Jlasa2AR31gtE\"> <span>reports<\/span><\/a><span> a massive uptick in online hate against Jews, including more than 17,000 tweets using the phrase \u201cHitler was right\u201d in the week between May 7 and May 14 alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rogen, who is Jewish by birth, has a history of disavowing Israel. As the Daily Wire <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/seth-rogen-i-was-fed-a-huge-amount-of-lies-about-israel\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span>, the actor said in July 2020 he was \u201cfed a huge amount of lies about Israel\u201d while he was growing up. \u201cThey never tell you that, \u2018Oh, by the way, there were people there,\u2019\u201d he said in reference to the Palestinian conflict. \u201cThey make it seem like it was just like sitting there, like the [fu**ing] door\u2019s open.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In an interview with fellow comedian Marc Maron, Rogen argued that he sees little reason for Israel to exist as a nation, saying, \u201cTo me it just seems an antiquated thought process. If it is for religious reasons, I don\u2019t agree with it, because I think religion is silly. If it is for truly the preservation of Jewish people, it makes no sense, because again, you don\u2019t keep something you\u2019re trying to preserve all in one place \u2014 especially when that place has proven to be pretty volatile, you know?\u201d He then added, \u2018I\u2019m trying to keep all these things safe, I\u2019m gonna put them in my blender and hope that that\u2019s the best place.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Seth Rogen is in hot water over his recent mockery of concerns about rising anti-Semitism on social media.On Wednesday, Tablet writer Eve Barlow tweeted a link to her essay &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313425,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/seth-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Seth Rogen Mocks Concerns Over Rise In Online Anti-Semitism","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/seth-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Seth Rogen Mocks Concerns Over Rise In Online Anti-Semitism","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}