Do you really think that no one gets to decide what oppression or harm looks like when they are victimized by it? Where do you think dictionaries get definitions? Do they spring up from the ground and grow on trees? Dictionaries never have and never will be fixed, nor will they be divorced from cultural context. Oppression and all of its concomitant "isms" and "phobias" (sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, xenophobia, Islamophobia, albeism, antisemitism, fatphobia, etc) is systemic and thus those who are on the receiving end of harm (aka victims) are the ones who identify and ultimately define what the harm looks like that they have been forced to endure. Men aren't the ones who get to decide what sexism systemically looks like any more than a rich person can decide what classism looks like. To think that whoever is in charge (to the point, no less, where they have enough English degrees and other fancy titles to the point that they get to control the great colonial dictionaries! lmao) inherently DESERVES to be the arbiter of some fixed definition of oppression is absolute lunacy, my friend.

By the way, even dictionaries change. Twitter terms have entered the official lexicon in the last few years because... guess what! Culture changes and so does language along with it.

And so, my friend, if you have come here to proudly type the *hIgHlY tHeOrEtiCaL* words "i'm an antisemite" on an article written by a Jewish person, congratulations.

By the way, I stand in solidarity with Palestinian people who have been killed and harmed throughout the conflict. If you bothered to read the article or interact with any kind of content that challenges your incredibly binary thinking on the world, you would see that I mentioned repeatedly in this and my last article that IT IS NOT ANTISEMITIC TO CRITICIZE ISRAEL. Periodt.