House to vote on antisemitism bill amid unrest on college campusesThe bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling to add a more specific definition of antisemitism than what exists in the Civil Rights Act.
Ken Stern, the person who wrote the definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, testified against a basically identical version of the bill in a previous Congress. He basically said it was meant to help governments collect data on antisemitism and was never intended to be enshrined in law since some of the examples in the definition aren’t automatically antisemitism. He was concerned making the Dept. of Education use it would chill legitimate speech on college campuses.
Unfortunately, chilling legitimate speech on college campuses is the true goal of the bill so here we are.
Exactly. People, all people, hate being labeled something they aren’t. By calling everything that isn’t 100% Pro-Israeli Genocide “Anti-Semitic”, you get people who have positive to neutral feelings about Jews slowly get more and more angry with the term and actually cause the antisemitism.
There was a similar backlash in the US against gay/trans people. And black people. And everything. When you adopt a policy of 100% for or against, binary only, you leave your 99% ally behind along with your 0%-support enemy.
Yes, this. I remember Cenk saying this multiple times in recent weeks/months and I think he’s right (as are you). The actions of Israel are going to do more harm long-term to Jews everywhere as well as the short-term harm to Palestinians they are carrying out right now. It just adds more fuel to the fire and more ammo for those trying to whip up actual antisemitic hate…
Extra irony points that the same people that make apologies for the “Jews will not replace us” bunch are the same ones that have undying support for Israel, no matter what Israel does. Often cynically so because of their eschatological fantasies about Israel…
The definition includes denying Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the State of Israel is a racist state and drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
America is the land of the fucked. Israel is a racist state committing genocide against a peoples just like the Nazis did.
Israel DOESN’T dictate American domestic policy, evangelical Christians do. They believe that the existence of the state of Israel is a necessary step to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus, so they’re all in and absolutely nothing can sway them.
An all-powerful, omniscient creator of literally spacetime itself, and he needs an anthill–one that is, on his scale, far smaller than a subatomic particle–to defend his honor against other anthills within the same infinitesimally small particle and to keep defending their anthill by some arbitrary and tiny point in this spacetime so they can have an everlasting party together outside of his pet spacetime, of which that anthill is, itself, constituted.
It is extremely cheap and easy to purchase politicians in the U.S. Neoliberals (like Biden) and conservatives like Bitch McConnell have accepted money from Jewish funds like AIPAC for decades.
Unless they are progressives, you should assume every politician you see is purchased.
A special thank you to the media that helped launder the politics of those parties involved in undermining this fundemental human right. Fox, CNN, NPR, NY Times etc. your efforts have finally paid off for good.
Man it’s amazing to see how fast they can set aside their differences to pass things that are universally terrible. Really makes you believe in the institutions
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