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What is anti-semitism? In many cases anti-semitism is a word like conspiracy theory to block serious conversation. I see this as breaking free from mind and speech blockages more than concerning actual individuals/semites on the personal level.

#Antisemitism is hatred towards Jews as a group. The antisemite is convinced that every individual Jew is evil simply because he is part of, what the antisemite recognized as, the Jewish collective. Antisemitism isn't always obvious or put forth right away in a conversation. For example when some one points out that a politician he doesn't like is Jewish and hints, or out right says, that this politician is part of the "Jewish conspiracy", well that is antisemitism. He is assuming that all Jews support this politician. He is using one Jewish individual actions as a represention of all Jews. It is true that Jews can get touchy about the subject. Some times they hear blame when no blame was intended. Sadly, online, the opposite is more common. Is pointing out antisemitism a block for free speech? Not at all. Let's take the president of Mexico. My personal point of view is that she is damaging Mexico. We can discuss that. Does her Jewish heritage have something to do with her left leaning? We can discuss why so many Jews found hope in socialism. And why Jews spearheaded socialism in many European countries. But once you start hinting that there was a conspiracy involving murder to put a representative of the Jewish people as the president of Mexico. Now that smells of antisemitism. Am I making sense?

You are making sense. So semites include much more than jews. There is protection in groups. So the thing is. An individual is mostly not responsible for an abstract group action. At the same time we are responsible to hold our own group responsible. So indirectly every individual not speaking up is responsible. We tend to criticise the other groups instead of our own groups, so we can talk about "them bad" vs us good, which is never the truth. We comfort ourselves in lies as it feels unsave to call out our own group that is supposed to guarantee our safety.

Smites, as a scientific term, referes to people who speak in a semitic language. Antisemitism, as a cultural term, referes tk Jew hating. No one calls someone who hatsles Syrians an antisemite. Even though Syrians are semites. People need to speak up against evil regardless of who commits the evil. Al Joliani, the president of Syria, is slaughtering Druz, we should condem it. The president of Mexico is destroying her country, we should condem that too. As a Jew I don't think I need to condem the President of Mexico more the The president of Syria just because the former happens tk be Jewish.