#Even with the complexity added to the Ferengi- notably by Shimerman and other DS9 cast members- its still an ambivalent depiction
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bijoumikhawal · 9 months ago
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Hm. I have dealt with antisemitic star trek fans, but given the times we live in and the recency of this post, as well as me not hearing of any recent major events about antisemitism in Trek fandom, let me check OPs blog real quick
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Ah.
Anyway- DS9 intentionally paralleled the Occupation of Bajor with both the Holocaust and the Nakba, among other things, and one of the cast members who remarked on the similarity of Bajorans to Palestinians was Armin Shimerman, who is himself Jewish.
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