The outsized fascination of the American political class with university campuses is indicative of a wider denigration of intellectual life and academic freedom in this country, which has come under assault.
March for Israel organizers claim to march against antisemitism but are embracing some of the most influential antisemitic Christian figures due to their support for Israel.
Jewish thinkers have long warned that Israel’s dependence on western Jews’ political support to gain impunity for its human rights abuses could contribute to antisemitism in the U.S. and even make Jews’ lives “precarious.”
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice are partnering with campus police to combat antisemitism on campuses across the United States. Advocates fear this will include Palestine solidarity activism.
The Israeli oppressors of Palestinians openly identify themselves as Jews with Jewish values. But Mohammed El-Kurd is not allowed to say so lest he get labeled antisemitic. And the same goes for those who say the Israel lobby is Jewish.
Palestinians are told the words we use dwarf the decades of violence enacted against us by the self-proclaimed Jewish State. A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable. No more.
ADL, you do not speak for “The Jewish People”. Organizations that deem Palestinians as inherently threatening to Jews, solely because of who they are as human beings, do not represent a growing number of Jews who cannot tolerate the disinformation surrounding the mythology of the State of Israel.
Asa Winstanley’s book shows how the Israel lobby facilitated the influence of a foreign government’s interests in dictating who gets to lead the Labour Party, causing the downfall of Jeremy Corbyn.
In 2021 two pro-Palestine protestors were accused of carrying out an antisemitic attack against Jewish diners in LA, but that’s not what actually happened.
The transition from a Jewish state to a democratic state of all its citizens will benefit Jews by ending Zionism’s conflation of Jewishness with a racist settler-colonial project.