Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ | Bernie Sanders | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/bernie-sanders-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-gaza-war “No Mr Netanyahu, it is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that, in a little over six months, your extremist government has killed over 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 78,000, 70% of whom are women and children,” Sanders said.
Videos posted on social media have depicted anti-Israel protesters shouting “go back to Poland” and “go back to Belarus”, apparently at Jewish students. A congressional hearing earlier in April into a reported upsurge of antisemitism at Columbia heard allegations that Jewish students had been subjected to taunts of “F the Jews”.
@Hyolobrika
> Does anyone have any copies of these videos?
Firstly, it's irresponsible to make claims like this without presenting the evidence yourself. Otherwise it's like me claiming you raid the graves of dead children and eat their organs, then asking if anyone has video.
Second, nobody is claiming anti-semitism doesn't exist. Of course anti-semites are going to jump on the Palestine solidarity bandwagon and try to twist anti-Zionism into anti-semitism. We do need to push back firmly and decisively against this.
But as @adiz says, that doesn't change the fact that what the crypto-fascists in charge of Israel are doing is totally beyond acceptable, and must be stopped.
I wish Corbyn had front-footed the Palestine issue like this when the pseudo-liberals in UK Labour - and newspapers like the Guardian - were using similarly trumped up accusations of anti-semitism to knobble his leadership.
If he had, maybe he'd still be Labour leader Maybe the UK would have the option to vote in its first economically progressive government since Thatcher?
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