If you greet a random Jew passing you in the subway station who isn't even looking at you with “Free Palestine”, I'm going to assume it wasn't a principled political statement.
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Nah they just want to kill Jews. They don’t give a shit when Palestinians are endangered by anyone else. Or all the other atrocities in the world. When Israel hasn’t made the news that week, they shift back to well, the Jews control the world. 
I don't think my passing commenter remotely entertained thoughts of violence; the tone was too lackadaisical for that. It's a weak attempt to shake up some random stranger with a phrase they think, thanks to the news, is likely to faze them. It's crass bully behaviour, hardly a hateful act.
Yeah, could be. ‘Not hateful’ might not be the right way to put it; more like ‘opportunistic, aimless hate’, like the jerks who try to scare me with sudden yells from passing cars...
And to be clear, I'm not speaking in hypotheticals. This is my experience from 5 minutes ago at Pioneer University Station in Toronto, at the exit adjacent to YorkU.
I'm OK!
I just wished that this time (I rarely need to attend class in person) I could say like I often do: campus antisemitism is mostly Zionist overreaction to anti-Israel sentiment (and I know this is true sometimes).
Today, I can't say it, and YorkU fails this grade, & hopefully only this time.
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Not remotely scary but disappointing.
I just wished that this time (I rarely need to attend class in person) I could say like I often do: campus antisemitism is mostly Zionist overreaction to anti-Israel sentiment (and I know this is true sometimes).
Today, I can't say it, and YorkU fails this grade, & hopefully only this time.