Not even a month since this virtual reality game application has been circulating in Indonesia, Pokemon Go has been labeled with the meaning "I am Jewish". Pokemon taken from the word Pocket Monster (pocket monster), is interpreted as free as freely from the Old Syriac language. Even its icon, Pikachu, a yellow mouse monster, does not escape the perfunctory translation of “Be a Jew”.

Long before the Pokemon Go application was released, in 2001, when the Pokemon animation was broadcast, Pokemon was considered as Jewish propaganda to keep Muslim children away from their religion. Pokemon Go has even become a topic that needs to be legalized at the PBNU Plenary Session in Cirebon, in line with the discussion of the tax amnesty issue.

Pokemon Go is just one of hundreds of games both online and offline that feel the need to be labeled with the word "Jewish". Other games that have been painstakingly labeled the illuminati/devil/freemason/devil's follower/deviant sect/other Islamic insults have also filled the list. Call it Devil May Cry, Resident Evil, Clash of Clans, Prince of Persia, Counter Strike, Come on Dance, even Angry Birds cannot be separated from these frills.

This is certainly not something new. Of course, you can also get a pagan/Jewish/communist/liberal stamp for free. Not just one, but all at once.

While we are still busy with the narrow division between Jews and Gentiles, the rest of the world is busy pursuing world peace and space exploration. Meanwhile, every year we still struggle with the discourse of boycotting products that are considered to support Israel. The shadow of a big conspiracy carried out by the Jews continues to follow and enlarges the distance of the possibility of diplomatic relations with Indonesia.

But, what is not a Jewish conspiracy? Everything is the fault of the Jewish conspiracy. Economic failure is a Jewish conspiracy. After all, what escapes the Jewish frills? Coca Cola if it is twisted in such a way is Jewish. Jewish made Facebook. Like the painful PKI stamp, all Made in China products should be replaced with Jewish ones. What's with the Jews and us?

Anti-Judaism, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, and Why We Hate. What's different about the three? For us, it's all the same. Jews = Israel = Zionists. There is no need to differentiate. All three are the same. Those who believed in and condemned the negative prejudice against Islam in the American hemisphere are now proud to have the same hatred for Jews. What are the similarities between the two? Both consider people with certain characteristics to be hated (as much as they hate communists, liberals, and lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender/LGBT).

Why do we hate? Hatred of other groups makes the group and ourselves look good. We love to be good and work hard at it. Love for the group works not only when other groups are truly hated, but because of positive emotions such as pride, honor, sympathy, and trust in one's own group.

This we reproduce continuously to other groups. We give in to the temptation to make ourselves look bigger by belittling others. We then imagine big things that don't make sense to attach to the hatred that feeds our daily brains. Gordon Allport, in Anti-Semitism, A Social Disease (1946) called Judeophobia (negative prejudice against Jews) as a social disease that is contagious and is a complex crime.

Simmel then even interpreted it as a mass psychosis that spreads like a virus. Like a possessed individual, this thought is highly irrational, massive, structured, and is a futile defensive attempt to balance a perceived weak identity and affiliation with delusions of power. We use negative prejudices to control our free-falling self-esteem.

Unfortunately, our hatred doesn't stop there. We reproduce fears that are like snowballs, rolling and multiplying. We build a discourse in which the existence of the Jews will threaten our existence. To eliminate the thought of threat, we have an urgency to remove the source of the discomfort, by destroying others if we do not want to be destroyed by ourselves. The principle: “In order for us to breathe, you must be eliminated.”

Not to mention our fear of the Jews, online games push us into new troubles. Those of us who are technology stutterers are also rushing to respond to augmented reality-based games.

When did Islam as a religion emerge?
The writer Damhuri Muhammad articulated it beautifully in his opinion in Kompas (26/7/2016), that high technology which is now accessible to anyone has turned into a strange shock, addiction, and even hysteria. Although some of us understand that perhaps the discourses of fear of high-tech games are mere humor and satire, we must realize that this is happening not on the other side of the world, but in the headrooms themselves and is taken seriously.

Even that is driven by what has been echoed in our ears so far. We must become rigid by learning to study again and learn

We are taught that it is wrong to play and have fun (except watching Uttaran from day to night, or watching gossip shows of artist life). However I say that the most effective English lessons are not in boring classrooms. To me, it came in the form of a Harvest Moon game when I had to open a dictionary to look up the meaning of the word basketball which I thought at the time was ball.

And as an addict of online and offline games, I'll always be at the forefront of having fun, even if the consequences are “Being Jewish”.