DropBear, 4 hours ago to Israel

"Here in Australia, as in a number of other countries, a misleading campaign has been led by unelected and unrepresentative organisations claiming to represent the Jewish community. Most of these organisations are uncritical defenders of successive Israeli governments with close connections to Israeli intelligence agencies.

The key claim of these unrepresentative organisations has been that the opposition and protests against the Israeli army’s war in Gaza is led by ‘antisemites’, and that many of the students and other participants in the protests are ‘antisemitic’."

"I was ... deeply surprised and deeply disturbed when I heard that Australian vice-chancellors were going to follow in the footsteps of heads of American universities in calling the police to dismantle student encampments at Australian universities.

The justification for this dismantling is the false cry about ‘antisemitism’."
https://johnmenadue.com/a-message-to-university-vice-chancellors-from-a-child-of-holocaust-survivors/
#Israel
#Palestine
#genocide
#protest
#antisemitism
#hasbara

wdlindsy, 11 hours ago to random

Paul Waldman asks how the Republican party is getting away with presenting itself as the enemy of antisemitism, when:

1. "It is wholly committed to fostering a conspiratorial worldview that inevitably arrives at antisemitism."

2. "It seeks to create an international alliance of far-right authoritarians."

3. "Both substantively and rhetorically, it echoes the fascists of the past who sought to wipe Jews from the earth."

#Republicans #antisemitism
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-is-the-gop-getting-away-with