"Antisemitism is bad, but is it the worst thing? To me, right now, it's not."

Eight million views on this New York Times video of Robby Hoffman, the Emmy-nominated co-star of Hacks. Let me tell you what "not the worst thing" has looked like since October 7th.

A little Jewish girl, Matilda, at the beach on the first night of Hanukkah. She must have been counting the days. Then she was shot dead, with so many others, because she was a Jew at a Jewish event. Do you think that wasn't the worst thing that happened to her? Or Yaron and Sarah, a young couple madly in love, leaving an event about getting more aid into Gaza. They were Jews leaving a Jewish event, so a man shot them, and when Sarah tried to crawl away he walked closer and shot her again. Do you think either of them had a worse day than that? Melvin and Adrian, Jews walking to synagogue on Yom Kippur, killed in front of a Jewish building on a Jewish holiday. Karen Diamond, 82, set on fire at a walk for the hostages. She died of her burns. Not the worst, do you think?

And that's not even half of the Jews murdered by antisemitism since then.

Being offended isn't the worst thing. She's right about that. But nobody was asking about being offended. Antisemitism isn't an insult at a comedy show. It's the oldest conspiracy theory on earth, and it has never once stopped at words. My grandparents learned that in Baghdad in 1941, when their neighbors turned on the Jews of Iraq in two days of slaughter. They weren’t offended. They were running for their life.

And here's the part that actually scares me. When someone with a huge platform shrugs and asks "is it the worst thing?", eight million people learn that Jewish blood is a rounding error. Mobs come later. It starts with shrugs.

You don't have to rank your neighbors' pain to care about it. Everyone deserves care. But you don't have to abandon your own community to the wolves to prove it. And let's be honest, you said it to appeal to a particular crowd, didn't you, Robby?

What is it about the most untalented Jewish celebrities all selling out their community for clout?