WATCH: Meghan McCain speaks with Eve Barlow about the rise in antisemitic hate crimes

WATCH: Music journalist Eve Barlow speaks with Meghan McCain about rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes

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Katie Daviscourt Seattle WA
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Los Angeles music journalist Eve Barlow joined The View's Meghan McCain on Wednesday to discuss increasing anti-Semitic hate crimes in America as well as the discrimination she has received from the LGBTQ community for being a "proud Jew and Zionist."

Barlow began to use her platform to speak-out against the increase in antisemitism throughout the country during the recent escalation between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. As a result, Barlow said she lost work, friends, and was uninvited to social events.

"I don't really want to concentrate on making it about me," Barlow said to McCain. "Jewish hate has become publicly acceptable and it's been given permission to fester."

"I have been sharing my experience of my own social exclusions as a sort of side to the bigger picture at large, which is Jews being attacked in the street. Jews being banned from certain events under the premise of anti-Zionism and this apparent method of people being able to replace the word Jews with the word Zionists and then being allowed to exclude Jews wholeheartedly without consequence or ramification," Barlow continued.

Barlow said the prejudice against Jews from mainstream media, celebrities, and influencers "granted permission" for others to engage in anti-Semitic attacks.

"We can't ignore the fact that during the conflict…between Israel and Hamas…so many false narratives were being shared online and there was a direct link, for me, to the uptick in anti-Semitism that we saw in the streets that then wasn't getting enough attention on mainstream media. Because, if there are false narratives and prejudice is being spread about Jewish people online every day, and thousands upon thousands of tweets and retweets and impressions by people who are deemed trustworthy because they have huge platforms, they're social media influencers, they're celebrities. They have authority to voices even if it's the mainstream media that's promoting bias and one-sided narratives. Then of course, those people who are waiting for permission to be hateful towards Jewish people have just been granted it," Barlow added, firing back against false-narratives.

The View co-host Meghan McCain asked Barlow how she responds to progressives that are attempting to redefine the definition of Zionism.

"There is so much misinformation about what Zionism actually means," Barlow said.

"Zionism is truly just defined by the right for Jewish people to self-determine their ancestral Homeland. And that's all it means. It's not about where the Israeli government currently is at. It's not about current politics. It's just the belief that the state of Israel should exist."

"This has allowed for Jewish people to be attacked in the street in the name of anti-Zionism. The people who are attacking Jews, they're not asking those Jewish people if they're Zionists before they're attacking them. They're identifying them as Jews," Barlow added.

The music journalist went on to detail the discrimination she has received from the LGBTQ community for being an outspoken Zionist, a community where she used to feel loved and accepted.

"I just don't feel as safe or comfortable in queer spaces anymore because of the amount of anti-Zionism that's allowed to exist. And it's so cruelly ironic given, I was sharing the other day, the incredible images from the streets of Tel-Aviv over the past weekend, hosted the biggest pride celebration yet to occur in 2021. I think there were over a hundred thousand people in the streets and Tel Aviv. In a city where the slogan is 'love is love' and the LGBTQ plus community is completely accepted and celebrated in one of the most incredible Pride displays every single year."

"So for me, it's ironic and strange to feel like in a country like America, I'm pushed out of queer spaces because I'm a proud Jew and a Zionist," Barlow expressed, detailing discrimination she has received after rising tensions between Israel and Palestine.

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