I'm comfortable saying a lot of Jewish communities have an islamophobia problem

OKAY! I know the title is inflammatory, so I'm going to preface my writeup with a few things.

1: If anything I say here is offensive, tell me. Just like how I hope you will trust me (as someone who was raised Muslim and is culturally Muslim) to spot and point out islamophobia, I trust you to spot and point out antisemitism.

2: I am speaking solely from my experience a cultural Muslim and religious pagan who hangs around with Jewish people a lot. I live in a coastal city, I have no choice in that matter, and even if I did I wouldn't avoid Jewish people because Jewish people are (for lack of a better word) cool.

3: This isn't meant to call out anyone specifically, just a broad trend. If you personally think I'm talking about you, I'm not.

So, what do I mean? Well, as I'm sure you all know; being a minority is very hard. As you grow up and interact with more and more people both in and out of your circle you begin to recognize certain things as being offensive or bigoted, intentionally or not. For me, this was something I had to pick up on very fast. Islamophobia has only kept getting worse since 2001, and growing up on the internet exposed me to many, many different strands of islamophobic bigotry and rhetoric. Often, the line of argumentation is that Muslims are dangerous, foreign, and violent, and want to kill nonbelievers and white people or "replace" them. Islamophobes point to things like Ottoman slavery, modern-era terror, and, most recently, Palestinians.

Now, Oct 7th is self evidently bad. I feel the need to say this before anyone asks me to condemn it. Hamas is self evidently bad, and islamic terrorists are also self evidently bad, but obviously not everyone agrees with this. If they did, Hamas would not exist.

However, I see the existence of Muslims who support Hamas used as a bludgeon to club Palestinians or Muslims as a whole, used to reinforce the belief that Muslims are dangerous extremists until proven otherwise. I see this most worryingly in Jewish spaces. I see the smile fade from my newly met Jewish acquaintance's face when I tell them my religious background. I see one of many uncomfortable questions form in their throat before it even leaves their lips, I see how their demeanor turns tense and cold as ice. I dread it every time.

Now, I'm not stupid, I know why this is the case. Muslim communities do have a very real antisemitism problem, but all too often I see this used as an excuse to continue living in perpetual fear of Muslims. I see rhetoric about Muslims not condemning Oct 7th on this sub, and I report it when I see it; but the fact that it even shows up here at all is indicative of a larger issue in my opinion.

I'm curious to see if any of you think there's an islamophobia problem in some Jewish spaces or not, I want this to start a productive dialogue.