B’nai Brith is suing pro-Palestinian Rabbi David Mivasair and undermining the meaning of antisemitism by using it to describe any criticism of Israel, even rabbis who challenge their extremist view of who is a good Jew.
During a panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said it’s antisemitic when people tweet “Free Palestine” at him.
“In some places we are judged wrongly by what we do and how strategic we are.” Israel’s president Isaac Herzog tells American Jews to fight those “judgmental attitudes” and preserve “our only Jewish state in the world.”
A new report from the European Legal Support Center shows how the IHRA working definition of antisemitism is used to suppress Palestinian rights activism and silence criticism of Israel.
Roger Waters’s advocacy for Palestine shook the State Department briefing room, as a reporter questioned why a Biden aide has echoed the smear that Waters’s performance of “The Wall” is an example of Jew hatred, failing to see that it is in fact a denunciation of fascism akin to Charlie Chaplin’s portrayal of “the great dictator.”
The ADL and other pro-Israel groups praised the Biden administration’s highly-anticipated National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism, but it’s unlikely they’re completely satisfied as the White House declined to endorse the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
Recent attacks against Roger Waters are the latest example of false accusations of antisemitism being weaponized to defend Israeli apartheid.
At a time when the Palestinian freedom struggle is gaining steam and spreading internationally, Germany has made anti-Palestinian racism its new status quo.
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt attacked anti-Zionists in an address at the organization’s annual National Leadership Summit but barely mentioned far-right antisemitism.
“The antisemitism that these people who canceled my show are talking about is my continual, incessant criticism of the government of the state of Israel,” Roger Waters, says of Frankfurt canceling his show. “I’m so happy to be in the ring with these assholes.”