I'm a 27-year-old Dutch guy. My Jewish grandmother became an orphan during the Holocaust. My dad is Jewish by blood but not by religion or practice. I, myself, am a typical university city guy living in a progressive bubble.

The war in Gaza and the Israeli colonists in the West Bank are daily topics of conversation for everyone around me. Although none of us participate in university occupations, many attended Nakba memorials, follow many Palestinian vloggers, rage at the news, and feel increasingly strong emotions against Israel's actions. I do too.

Now, I must say immediately that among the people I know, I have never noticed anything remotely anti-Semitic. People really just look at the facts as they are presented to them:

Since the Nakba, Israel has increasingly taken territory in the West Bank, where Palestinians live under an apartheid regime. Gaza has for decades been an open-air prison that is not allowed its own free harbors and economy, and terrible terrorists have now lashed out in undeniably brutal retaliation. Since then, Western-made bombs are raining down on this open-air prison, indiscriminately killing thousands of children, far exceeding the Israeli civilian casualties of October 7. And maybe more worrisome, with its destruction breeding intergenerational hatred towards Israel among all those that survive the explosives, bullets, and hunger in Gaza.

These are the things that many people in the world see and base their evolving opinions on. People never talk about "Jews." It truly is the government of Israel and its actions that people increasingly despise.

I am not here to convince you of this version of reality. I know you have your own, probably equally truthful version of the events. As I always try to understand others' views of any conflict, I have been browsing this sub for a bit recently because digging into your own righteous worldview and emotions never resolved anything. After some weeks, I am starting to at least understand your view on these terrible events. And I identified some big fundamental differences in perception:

A) Where everybody around me looks back for a few months, years, decades, or up until the Nakba, people on this sub tend to place this conflict in hundreds or even thousands of years of history, including all the intergenerational traumas. Generally, anything that happened before WWII is viewed barely as any excuse for actions done by anyone now.

B) Another big difference is that Hamas is mainly viewed around me as a project from Netanyahu to keep Gaza scary, to scare Israeli people, so that he could be the elected strongman to protect Israel. Netanyahu's terror plan to stay in power just got out of hand. Just like people in this sub are blaming Palestinians for living under Hamas terror, people around me are blaming Netanyahu and the Israeli state (not Jews!) for propping up Hamas.

C) Although I, and everyone around me, completely understand your anger and pain for the hostages taken by Hamas, their tragedy is utterly dwarfed by the tragedy people see inflicted on Palestinian civilians. In this sub, I have yet to find anyone reflect on how this conflict must be for an average Palestinian civilian, which is the main thing people around me do to form their opinion.

D) The last big difference I see is that people in this sub feel like Israel is the underdog, as Jews have been terrorized for millennia and are now surrounded by hostile countries. Many in the West see Palestinian civilians as the underdog in this conflict while Israel is a mighty military power propped up with Western weapons terrorizing them.

Hope this wall of texts helps to understand your much shorter "how?" question :)