Empathy Is Not Enough

May 26

If you’re sick of hearing about antisemitism, I assure you—I’m sick of talking about it.
The despair and disillusionment are thick. This is not how I want to spend my time, and I wish I could return to life as usual. But I have to speak, because silence is deadly.

A dear non-Jewish friend recently said, “Sometimes I think my empathy isn’t enough.”
It sparked deep reflection—and the conclusion I came to is: it isn’t.
Empathy alone is no longer sufficient.
Rigorous activism and real allyship are needed now.

Like any virus, antisemitism is easier to confront when we understand its structure, its mutations, and the conditions that allow it to thrive. I hope you will take some time out of your busy lives to read about antisemitism, allyship and internalized antisemitism. May it inspire true safety and belonging for us all.

Understanding Antisemitism, Internalized Antisemitism and Allyship: A Comprehensive Framework

Who This Is For

This guide is for social justice advocates, educators, community organizers, faith communities, and anyone who:

Has a Jewish person in their life they care about
Is engaged in consciousness work, understanding privilege or imbalances of power
Has benefited from Jewish innovations in technology, science, or medicine (literally everyone)
Has been enriched by Jewish art, music, literature or comedy
Has been uplifted and supported by Jewish led advocacy and initiatives
Profits from Jewish businesses, services, or labor
Works in healthcare or mental health, and vowed to protect all their patients without bias or exception
Believes in collective liberation and wants to ensure no marginalized group is left behind

Global Escalation

Antisemitism is not about or because of Israel/Palestine, however the conflict is being weaponized and exploited to proliferate rampant antisemitism. (Have you noticed your empathy for Jewish people eroding over the past 18 months—or a growing suspicion towards their words and intentions?) In a moment when antisemitism is escalating globally—both subtly and violently—being an ally to Jewish people means standing up in real, tangible ways. It’s not performative. It’s not conditional. It’s not complicated. Here’s what true allyship looks like:

No equivocation. No whataboutism. No “at the same time.” No “it’s complicated.” No excuses.
Antisemitism is hate. Full stop.
Do not minimize, rationalize, or justify it—whether it's coming from the right, the left, celebrities, activists, institutions, or anywhere else. There is never a valid reason for Jew hatred. If you hear it, name it. If you see it, stop it. Don't explain it away.
Believe Jews when we say we are afraid.
If your Jewish friends, colleagues, or neighbors tell you they feel unsafe—listen. Don’t gaslight. Don’t “both sides” it. Don’t accuse us of weaponizing antisemitism. Don’t ask us to prove it. Just like with any oppressed group, believe us.
Educate yourself.
Learn the history of antisemitism—from expulsions to pogroms to the Holocaust to anti-Jewish tropes that show up in leftist and right-wing spaces alike. Understand how it mutates across time and ideology. Don’t wait for Jews to do this labor for you.
Speak up—even when it's uncomfortable.
Don’t stay silent when antisemitic jokes, memes, or conspiracies surface. Even (especially) in progressive spaces. Your voice carries more weight with your peers than ours sometimes does. Use it.
Challenge purity politics and litmus tests that erase Jews.
Allyship is not about ideological purity. It’s about human dignity. If your activism or community has room for every marginalized group except Jews, it’s time to examine that. Antisemitism often hides behind the language of liberation and social justice. Don’t let it.
Make space for Jewish grief and rage.
Jewish trauma is real. Generational. Still very much ongoing. You don’t have to fully understand it to hold space for it. You just have to care.
Support visibly Jewish people.
When synagogues are vandalized, when Jewish institutions need costly extra security, when people are attacked for wearing a yarmulke or Star of David—show up. Offer protection, solidarity, and public presence. Let it be known that Jews are not alone.
Resist the impulse to “balance” Jewish pain with someone else’s.
If your first instinct when hearing about antisemitism is to pivot the conversation to another group’s suffering—pause. You don’t have to center someone else’s oppression in order to take Jewish pain seriously. Solidarity isn’t a zero-sum game.
Resist vague universalism.
When Jewish pain, fear, and concern for safety are met with “all people deserve safety” language, it can feel like a form of erasure. We don’t meet anti-trans harm with euphemisms, or respond to anti-Asian violence with vague universals and careless abstractions. We honor specificity. Jewish experience, too, deserves to be named—clearly, fully, without dilution or deflection.
Make your support public.
Don’t just whisper to your Jewish friend, “I’m with you.” Say it out loud. Online. At work. In your community. Let your Jewish friends, and your other non-Jewish friends, see your values in action.
Remember: Jews are a marginalized people. Even if some have privilege.
Don't confuse individual success with collective safety. Antisemitism is not about wealth, power, or control. It is the opposite of that. It is the persistent targeting of Jews as a scapegoat across history—especially during volatile and tumultuous times.
If you’re sharing decontextualized, meme-sized sound bites about Israel/Palestine that portray Israel as uniquely evil—and you're not a truly qualified expert on the conflict—you are contributing to the global spread of lethal antisemitism. If your information comes from online echo chambers rather than studied, nuanced sources: STOP.

Ask yourself:

Have I done my due diligence at any point, or do I have an automatic, internalized bias against the only Jewish-majority country in the world?

Antisemitism 101–A Crash Course In Jew Hatred

Antisemitism is a specific, adaptable form of bigotry that targets Jews through paradoxical accusations and mythologies. It differs from other types of racism or hatred in that it simultaneously casts Jews as both subhuman and dangerously all powerful. It often hides in plain sight, coded in tropes, canards, aesthetics, and political language. Antisemitism constantly resurfaces in new and different forms. It turns Jews into the symbol of whatever a given society considers most morally deplorable—from communists to capitalists, from victims to oppressors, from stateless to sovereign statehood.)

It includes:

Blood libel: A medieval myth accusing Jews of murdering Christian children for ritual purposes. Today, this resurfaces as conspiracy theories accusing Jews of harvesting organs, hoarding vaccines, and being indifferent to or delighting in children’s deaths in conflict.
Deicide: The charge that Jews killed Jesus. This underpinned centuries of Christian violence.
Dual loyalty: The suspicion that Jews are loyal only to Israel, or to each other, not their home countries. This is why accusations of “Zionist control” or “Jewish lobbies” are so potent—they play into this ancient slander.
Conspiratorial control: The idea that Jews control global systems including finance, media, governments, cultural trends, and the weather. Even the idea of a “Jewish cabal” orchestrating events behind the scenes.
Holocaust denial/inversion: Either denying the Holocaust happened or accusing Jews of committing Holocaust-like atrocities today—particularly in the context of Israel. This erases Jewish trauma and weaponizes it.
Demonization of Israel: While valid critique of state policy is necessary, it becomes antisemitic when it includes:

Singling Israel out as a uniquely evil bad actor (ignoring similar or worse abuses elsewhere in the world)
Using Holocaust symbols or “genocide” language to describe Jews—thereby turning their own suffering against them
Denying the Jewish right to self-determination

The 3 Ds of Antisemitism

Delegitimization – Denying Jews the right to self-determination or to have a homeland. Example: Claiming Israel has no right to exist while defending statehood for all other groups, even the most vicious and vile.
Demonization – Using language or imagery that portrays Jews or the Jewish state as inherently evil. Example: Comparing Israelis to Nazis, claiming Jews enjoy war, or sharing memes of Jews drinking blood.
Double Standards – Holding Israel to standards not applied to any other country or conflict. Example: Demanding Israel be “perfect” in war while ignoring worse actions by other nations. Calling for the demilitarization of Israel without calling for the demilitarization of any other country or nation state.

Criticism of Israeli policies is not antisemitic. But when critique crosses into any of the 3 Ds, it invokes centuries-old tropes that dehumanize Jews—contributing to real-world harm.

And one more D: Displacement.

This is the most insidious of all.

It’s when Jews are expected to be displaced—geographically, spiritually, culturally, or emotionally—for others to feel at home.

This shows up as:

Erasing Jewish indigeneity to the land of Israel
Telling Jews to stop centering their own grief
Asking Jews to abandon their traditions or Zionism to be welcome in progressive spaces
Punishing Jewish people for needing a place to be safe

Displacement is not allyship.
It is assimilation with a new costume.
And it’s still a form of ethnic erasure.

Semitic-Semantics

One insidious form of deflection is fixating on the technicality that “Semitic” refers to a broad group of peoples, in order to deny or dilute the specific meaning of antisemitism. This rhetorical move distorts a term with a well-established historical context and weaponizes semantics to gaslight and derail necessary conversations about anti-Jewish hate.

Nicknames for Antisemitism

Antisemitism is known by many names—each one revealing something about how it operates and when it tends to surface.

The Oldest Hatred - A widely acknowledged term highlighting antisemitism's ancient origins and persistent presence throughout history.

The Canary in the Coal Mine  - Rising antisemitism serves as an early warning sign of broader societal issues and moral decay—it starts with Jews, but it never ends there.

The Light Sleeper - Antisemitism is never truly gone—even in times of seeming peace, it stirs just beneath the surface, waiting for the right social, political, or economic trigger to re-emerge.

The Politics of the Pointing Finger - A projection mechanism for collective discontent—this tactic of blame scapegoats Jews, distracts the masses from true bad actors, and unites unlikely groups through shared hatred of Jews.

Media, Social Media and The Misinformation Machine

Disproportionately Slanted Media Coverage
In 2014 Mati Friedman wrote An Insider’s Guide to the Most Important Story on Earth. He explained how mainstream media often distorts the Israel–Palestine conflict in ways that reinforce antisemitic tropes. He demonstrates that Western coverage is not just biased but curated to frame Jews in roles that align with familiar prejudices. He warns this isn’t about fringe extremists—it's about political motivations embedded in editorial decisions that shape public perception and incite hostility toward Jews.

A recent and tragic example underscores this concern. Early last week a UN report garnered headlines around the world. This was a completely lying, untrue report—from Tom Fletcher, the UN under secretary general for humanitarian affairs—that 14,000 Gazan babies were likely to die in the next 48 hours unless aid reached them. His claim ignored every reality on the ground. His report portrayed Israel in a highly negative light. International media outlets cried genocide. Their reporting spread like wildfire. Keyboard warriors, including celebrities with large platforms, amplified their message with self righteous abandon.

The UN subsequently retracted its own report, but not until after that lie made its way around the world. The retraction barely made the news. Last Wednesday, a young, about-to-be-engaged, Jewish couple, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were gunned down outside a Jewish Museum in DC where they were attending a peace-themed event, in the name of a free Palestine.

This sequence of events illustrates how media complicity—through the amplification of unverified or biased information and the inadequate dissemination of corrections—can exacerbate tensions and lead to real-world consequences, including acts of violence against Jewish individuals and communities.

TikTok and Wikipedia
The intentional spread of disinformation is perpetuating lethal antisemitism. For example, the TikTok algorithm heavily skews content, showing 54 pro-Hamas/pro-Palestine posts for every single pro-Israel post. There is also a coordinated effort to manipulate public opinion through the amplification of antisemitic narratives and anti-Israel bias. Wikipedia has seen over 2 million edits across 10,000 pages that spread misleading information and outright lies. These distortions pose real risks to Jews.

Symbols of Inversion
A particularly cruel form of Holocaust inversion is the use of imagery that merges the Star of David with a swastika—visually suggesting that Jews have become the very Nazis who tried to exterminate them. This grotesque comparison is not critique; it’s propaganda designed to dehumanize and morally invert. It relies on shock and shame to delegitimize Jewish suffering and existence.

Artificial Intelligence
I asked ChatGPT if and how antisemitism is being proliferated online by bad actors and this is what it said:

“Antisemites are using AI to mass-produce propaganda, distort history, flood platforms with disinformation, and hijack language to confuse and derail public discourse. They create fake personas, deepfakes, and algorithmically amplified hate, making antisemitism appear widespread and “organic.”

There are some checks in place—platform moderation tools, watchdog groups like ISGAP and CyberWell, and emerging legislation—but these systems are often outpaced by the speed and scale of digital hate.

The battlefield has shifted. Truth is being diluted by volume, not just by argument.”

The Face of Antisemitism

“Perhaps you’ve never thought about the aesthetic commonalities of the witches, goblins, vampires, and demons you grew up fearing. That’s okay. That’s how demonization works. Maybe you never linked the Wicked Witch or Nosferatu to Nazi-era caricatures of Jews. That’s also understandable. That’s how centuries of propaganda and scapegoating function. When societies need a scapegoat, the image is always the same: nefarious, subhuman creatures who supposedly drink the blood of babies and must be hunted or burned alive. They have hooked noses, grabby fingers, dark wild hair, dark eyes, and suspicious posture. Sometimes they even have horns and tails. This is why ancient visual propaganda still impacts how people feel about Jews, whether they recognize it or not.” [Source: Zoë Buckman via Instagram]

The Slipperiest Slope

It’s hard to even open this door.  The word Zionism is so emotionally and politically charged that many people flinch the moment they hear it. For some, it conjures up images of power, domination, and even genocide. For others, it evokes ancestral longing, survival, and return.

This is not just a controversial topic—it’s a moral minefield.

And yet, if we’re going to talk honestly about modern mutations of antisemitism, we can’t avoid it.  Because in today’s world, antisemitism doesn’t always march down the street in jackboots.  It often arrives cloaked in concern for human rights, speaking the language of justice while smuggling in some very old and very deadly ideas about Jews.  It’s hate in progressive drag.

What Zion Actually Means

The word Zion (Tzion, צִיּוֹן) first referred to a specific hill in ancient Jerusalem—the site of King David’s city, and later the Temple Mount. Over time, it became shorthand for Jerusalem itself, and eventually, a symbol for the entire Land of Israel in both a physical and spiritual sense.

Zion is not a modern invention. It’s a sacred, poetic, and ancient name—woven through Jewish scripture, song, and prayer for thousands of years.

So when Jews say “Zion,” they are not speaking in code.  They are naming home.  They are invoking a place of origin, longing, and return.

Zionism = The Jewish Land Back Movement

Zionism, in its original and simplest form, means this:

The belief that Jews, like all peoples, have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland.

That’s it.

Zionism is not a synonym for nationalism, racism, imperialism, or domination.  It is, in fact, the only successful indigenous land back movement in modern history.

But over time, the word “Zionism” has been stripped of its meaning, weaponized, and distorted—turned into a slur, and a stand-in for everything people hate about power and the West.  In many activist spaces today, to be called a “Zionist” is to be accused, not described.

This is not a coincidence.  It’s part of how antisemitism mutates—changing its face to suit the cultural mood, always finding new language to express the same ancient contempt.

Why I’m Writing This

This isn’t a post about Israeli policy.  It’s a framework for understanding how antisemitism has evolved, how it hides in plain sight, and how it continues to endanger Jews—even in movements that claim to stand for justice.

I know this is murky, uncomfortable, and emotionally charged.  But that’s the point.

The murkiness is part of the mechanism. It’s how the virus spreads—by making it harder to name.

So let me say this clearly:

“Anti-Zionism” rhetoric is not about liberation.

 Its main objective is to slowly erode your compassion and empathy for Jews.

 To make Jewish self-determination seem uniquely suspect, and to recast the indigenous return of a historically brutalized people as colonization.

So if you’ve found yourself believing the worst things about Israel, Jews and Zionism without ever checking your sources or listening to Jewish voices outside your ideological bubble, that’s not justice. That’s bias.

When criticism of Israel becomes so unmoored from fact, so contentious in tone, so singular in its outrage - that’s when it stops being about justice, and starts being about Jews.

Internalized Antisemitism (What It Is and What to Do About It)

For Jewish people, internalized antisemitism is the unconscious acceptance of the harmful messages society has long projected onto us—messages that say our pain is exaggerated, our identity is suspect, our power is illegitimate, and our traditions are outdated or irrelevant. It is a direct consequence of centuries of colonization, forced assimilation, religious erasure, and inter-generational trauma, including the shadow of the Holocaust.

Some of the ways it shows up include:

Apologizing for or minimizing Jewish grief and trauma
Staying silent to avoid rocking the boat or being labeled “difficult”
Believing you’re “too sensitive,” “too political,” or “overreacting” when calling out antisemitism
Distancing oneself from Jews who are visibly or culturally “more Jewish” (more religious, more political, more vocal)
Hiding or downplaying Jewish identity, especially in spaces where it might not be recognized or welcomed
Prioritizing justice for other groups while neglecting or ignoring Jewish struggles
Internalizing feelings of shame, illegitimacy, or self-hatred about Jewish history, culture, and identity
Distancing yourself from Jewish community or history
Accepting or echoing antisemitic stereotypes unconsciously
Advocating for the safety of every marginalized group but your own
Glorifying or fully embracing another religious or spiritual tradition while rejecting your Jewish roots or denying the profound spiritual and mystical dimensions of Judaism

🎶 Why deny this lineage? It’s why I am alive… 🎶

Some Jews have a blind spot to their own suffering. We are not immune to absorbing the hatred directed at us. This internalized oppression isolates individuals and fragments collective Jewish strength and resilience. It often functions as a survival mechanism in a world where open Jew hatred can be deadly.

Healing internalized antisemitism is a radical act of reclaiming our wholeness. It involves reconnecting with:

Our ancestors, who endured and resisted
Our sacred traditions and spiritual practices
Our inherent dignity and worth as Jews
Our undeniable right to live safely, fully, and unapologetically as ourselves

More than ever, Jews need to stand together as one unified people, which cannot happen when some distance themselves from Jews and Judaism as an unconscious form of self-protection or self-hatred.

Tangible Ways to Practice Real Allyship with Jewish People

Acknowledge the Reality and Uniqueness of Antisemitism

Antisemitism is real, ongoing, and distinct from—but often entangled with—white supremacy.
It adapts like a virus, mutating in insidious ways.
Reject all forms of Jew hatred, even those that don’t “look” like your idea of antisemitism.

Learn Jewish History and Identity Beyond Stereotypes

Study the full spectrum of Jewish history—beyond the Holocaust—to include persecution, resilience, and global contributions.
Explore Sephardic, Mizrahi, Ashkenazi, and other lineages.
Understand Jewish diversity: Jews of color, LGBTQIA+ Jews, converts, secular and observant Jews.

Let Jews Define Their Own Oppression

Don’t define antisemitism for Jews or assume you know more.
Listen deeply without defensiveness, interruption, or redirection.

Include Jews in Conversations on Power and Marginalization

Make sure Jews are visible in intersectional justice work.
Don’t flatten Jewish identity or use Jews as a wedge in progressive spaces.
Push back when movements exclude Jewish voices.

Name and Confront Antisemitism—Even When It’s Uncomfortable

Speak out when you see antisemitism in memes, jokes, movements, or conversations—even if no Jews are around.
Challenge conspiracy theories and coded language in your communities.
Call out antisemitism among your peers, even if it’s framed as “just joking.”

Respect and Make Space for Jewish Grief and Trauma

Don’t only acknowledge Jewish grief when it serves your politics.
Ask why Jewish pain might not move you.
Reflect on your reactions to Jewish grief, fear, or self-defense.
Honor Jewish trauma without minimizing or redirecting it.

Amplify and Support Jewish Voices in Social Justice

Actively include Jewish perspectives in anti-racism and equity work.
Ensure your social justice spaces account for antisemitism alongside other oppressions.
Amplify Jewish concerns and leadership in justice movements.

Educate Yourself—Don’t Rely on Jews to Do the Work for You

Learn about antisemitism, its history, and its current forms and mutations.
Understand the difference between fair critique and harmful demonization.
Do your own research and stay engaged in learning.

Support Jewish-Led Initiatives and Organizations

Donate to, volunteer with, and promote Jewish efforts to combat antisemitism and foster inclusion.

Use Your Platform and Relationships Responsibly

If you have a platform—social media, Substack, podcast, radio show—use it to name and educate about antisemitism.
Stay in relationship with Jewish communities, even when it’s challenging.
Listen more than you speak. Remain open, accountable, and committed.
Ask yourself if your posts are promoting peace or spreading hate.

Engage in Honest Self-Reflection and Accountability

If you rally for every other marginalized group but remain silent about antisemitism, ask yourself why.
If you dismiss or distrust your Jewish friends when they bring up antisemitism, reflect on that defensiveness.
If you accept anti-Israel narratives uncritically while distrusting media in all other sectors, examine that double standard.
If you hyper-fixate on Israel/Palestine while ignoring other global human rights crises, recognize that as a form of antisemitism.
Learn about Jewish solidarity and sacrifice in civil rights history—like Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marching with Dr. King, or the murders of Jewish civil rights workers Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner.

People to Learn From

Dara Horn – Author of People Love Dead Jews, explores how society prefers Jewish suffering in the past tense over Jewish reality in the present.
Douglas Murray – Political analyst and prolific author addressing antisemitism from multiple ideological angles.
Mosab Hassan Yousef – Palestinian, Son of Hamas founder, speaks out about antisemitism and the threat posed by radical Jihadist extremism
Ritchie Torres – Bronx congressman, queer and Afro-Latino, who speaks out against antisemitism especially within progressive spaces.
Michal Cotler-Wunsh – Israeli legal expert working on antisemitism and international law.
Ateret Shmuel (Indigenous Bridges) – Jewish educator and advocate building connections between Indigenous and Jewish communities, offering sharp insights into activist blind spots.
Haviv Rettig Gur – Israeli journalist, Israel/Palestine expert, and podcaster who serves as the political correspondent and senior analyst for The Times of Israel.
Ruth Wisse – Prolific author, and scholar of Yiddish literature and Jewish history and culture.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali – Human rights lawyer and activist known for speaking out on antisemitism, extremism, and issues of religious freedom and women's rights.
ISGAP – The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy
ADL – Anti Defamation League

A Critical Moment and A Call to Action

We are living through a critical moment - a precarious, 1930s Germany kind of moment.

Antisemitism is rising globally in both insidious and violent forms, and it is being mainstreamed. The normalization of targeting Jews in the name of justice is a modern mutation of lethal antisemitism.

On May 28, 2025, Canadian senator Leo Housakos declared: “Jews are no longer safe in our country. It’s not that they feel unsafe; they are unsafe.”

You can blame the war in Gaza if you want. But how many Russians in the diaspora have been beaten and boycotted since Putin invaded Ukraine unprovoked? How many Chinese people have been firebombed or gunned down in the streets in response to the Uyghur genocide? In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to think of another diaspora group made to pay for the actions of a foreign government. So when Jews around the globe are held collectively responsible for, and harassed, fired, silenced, assaulted or murdered over the actions of Israel, you have to wonder:

Was it ever really about Palestine or Netanyahu?

Or was it always just the oldest hatred in contemporary clothing?

Jew-hatred is unique in that it is exterminationist. Unlike many forms of prejudice that seek exclusion, assimilation, or domination, antisemitism seeks annihilation. Hitler called it the “Final Solution.” Today, jihadists and their sympathizers chant: “There is only one solution...” Both slogans carry the same chilling implication: total elimination.

This genocidal rhetoric is not accidental, it is intentional. The language used today mirrors past calls for destruction, and the goal remains the same: a world without Jews, or without the only Jewish state.

For thousands of years, antisemitism has been fueled by lies - from blood libels and conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial and the modern claim that Jews are foreign occupiers with no indigenous connection to Israel. These falsehoods all serve a single, insidious narrative: that antisemitism is justified because Jews are inherently evil and have no right to exist.

For everyone who ever said they didn’t understand how good, normal people could have let Jews be mass murdered by the millions during the Holocaust—or who swore that had they lived during that time, they would have acted differently—just know: this is that moment. That question is no longer theoretical. It’s yours to ask, and it’s yours to answer.

In an excellent conversation with Jonathan Silver and Doulas Murray, Ruth Wisse said, “Jews are a tiny minority and we must have the defense of others when we are under attack.” Well… we are under attack.

At this point silence and inaction are complicity. Empathy is a starting point but it’s not enough. We need unwavering commitment, education, and meaningful action from allies who will stand shoulder to shoulder with Jewish communities, not just in words, but in deeds.

This framework is not about guilt. It’s about clarity, accountability, and action. If you've made it this far: thank you. If this stirred discomfort, may it sharpen your compassion. If it brought recognition, may it encourage your solidarity and inspire your action.

Note: I wrote this for myself, for the Jewish and interfaith couples I’ve married, for my nieces and nephews and their children, and for the generations to come. I wrote it for my global Jewish community—now in crisis—and for my non-Jewish friends and allies, to help illuminate the nuance and severity of the tsunami of antisemitism we’re facing. This was painstaking to organize and compile. I don’t get paid for my writing, and my platform is small. But I believe deeply in the power of words to spark change. Please, share this widely. My hope is that it inspires a movement of solidarity, understanding, and care for the Jews of the world, and helps uproot this dangerous, persistent hatred.

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