The video clip of Eric Trump’s interview on Fox News is shocking. He says, George Soros is funding far-left prosecutors and judges around the world US to take down his father This is a well known far-right antisemitic rhetoric. Where are the GOP and Democratic politicians who are so concerned with the rise of #antisemitism that they want to constrain free speech academci freedom?
Woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A Maryland woman admitted to scheming with a neo-Nazi leader from Florida to destroy electrical substations surrounding Baltimore in an attack that she told a confidential FBI source would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”
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“…For students and faculty exercising their right to academic freedom including the freedom to protest? Or for those who require a militarized system of surveillance and policing in order to feel “comfortable” in maintaining a status quo that has continued for far too long?”
article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 [#Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]
Terrific and important op-ed. Campus protest crackdowns claim to be about antisemitism – but they’re part of a rightwing plan | Arielle Angel | The Guardian
Hey Nina, isn't it also just a little bit problematic when Jewish college students are harassed, and threatened, and subjected to calls for them to be deported or exterminated?
No? Not a problem? The whole thing is 100% just a big right-wing conspiracy? Okay.
Acknowledging the mutual will to #genocide between #likud and #hamas is not any kind of #antisemitism It is just demonstrable historical fact. I'm going to stand over here and insist on Israel's right to exist, and Palestine's right to exist. If that makes me an outsider to those who want to fight and see entire peoples erased from the Earth, I'll take it with great pride.
The counter-protestors at #UCLA included a large number of bona fide antisemites. Their only care for Jewish safety is how to exploit it for political gain.
What I witnessed that Tuesday night chilled me to the bone - one of the men named in this article screamed at me and my colleague that white supremacy will rule and white violence will come. We were standing on the sidelines as observers.
If you believe that everyone criticizing Israels genocidal attack on the Palestinian people are antisemitic and your enemy, you might easily also conclude that everyone who support everything Israel does must be against antisemitism and your friend.
This is very much not the case. Supporting the state of Israel can easily go hand in hand with antisemitism, either it's because of end time prophecies or wanting the Jews out
Thus the criticism = #antisemitism lie is doubly dangerous for all Jews!
A social media post expressing concern for Jews targeted in a pogrom is enough to qualify one as “Zionist.”
““This list, coupled with the many ways in which our authors have been targeted — review bombing, Jewish book event cancellations, online abuse and harassment, censorship — is deeply troubling, and is a part of our concerns about wider scale antisemitism in the literary world, and more generally,” she said.” #Antisemitism#Jews#Jewish#Books
Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.
"Criticism of the state of Israel, the #Israeli government, policies of the Israeli government, or #Zionist ideology is not—in and of itself—antisemitic" says letter
Noting the ugly antisemitism his own family has dealt with, Robert Reich writes that he's glad that President Biden has confronted, antisemitism, but:
"I also worry that by speaking out against antisemitism without acknowledging what has sparked the student protests across America, he is conflating those protests with antisemitism.
By and large, the protests are not motivated by antisemitism."
"such as the struggles for women’s rights, worker’s rights, civil rights, voting rights, free speech, and LGBTQ+ rights. And against the Vietnam War, apartheid in South Africa, and the Iraq War.
The oppression that Jewish people have experienced for hundreds if not thousands of years has taught Jews the necessity of standing up to injustice — whatever its form and whenever it appears."