The abuse of antisemitism is nothing new, but we tend to forget that the Israel lobby is only able to get away with its baseless smears because of a deep-seated anti-Palestinianism.
In January Sheffield Hallam University suspended associate lecturer Shahd Abusalama following anonymous complaints related to false charges of antisemitism. By the beginning of February Abusalama had been reinstated following an international campaign in her support. “Popular pressure works and if we fight back, we can win,” Abusalama tells Mondoweiss’s Ramona Wadi.