Anti-Semitism in the Pagan Community

I think the Pagan community as a whole has to learn how to educate ourselves on respecting cultural boundaries, and not participating (knowingly or not) in the oppression of other cultures, or appropriating those cultures. Which is why I posted this because I'd never heard of it before, and Im sure Im not the only one who hadnt.

On that note though, how do people get Ishtar out of Easter? I just...sometimes you hear the weirdest things.

(Just going to say though I personally dont find Ray Buckland to be a very accurate resource about much. )

another thing that is important for polytheists to remember: i've heard quite a few jewish people talk about how incredibly uncomfortable they get when people talk about abrahamic or monotheistic religions, when they really mean just christianity. it tends to happen with complete ignorance of what judaism actually is, and thus lead to casual anti-semitism. not that there aren't occasionally times when those broader terms are accurate, just that they tend to get way over used in western religious discourse, so we should be really mindful of when we use them.

There's a saying about us - 'two Jews, three opinions'. For this it's the same. There are those who feel that witch hats are antisemitic, and others who don't care. I'm of the former category, personally, but it's ultimately up to the individual person.