Prominent Jewish figures boycott Israel antisemitism event
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgng1l0m7mo

Having antisemites at an "antisemitism event" says everything that needs to be said about the movement and about Israel.

Isn't America great or what?

It is not hypocrisy, it is protecting the right of the chosen people to commit genocide to defend themselves.

And if you dare exposing their crimes, you are an antisemite.

#US #Antisemitism #ColombiaUniversity #Freespeech #Antisemitism #USPol #Politics #Genocide #Dumbfuckistan
@palestine @israel

Controverse la prima conferință privind combaterea #antisemitism‎ului a guvernului #Netanyahu.
Lideri proeminenți ai comunității evreiești au refuzat să participe din cauza prezenței unor politicieni de extremă dreapta.
#AUR (#AlianțaPentruUnireaRomânilor), reprezentat de europarlamentara Maria-Georgiana Teodorescu.

https://wp.me/p9KpFA-4gZM

#Trump & #MarcoRubio claiming the #student #deportations are because they are fighting #antisemitism in the US, is like #Putin saying he’s fighting #Nazis in #Ukraine.

Bullshit.

Especially because Trump is happy to defend #FreeSpeech in favor of #WhiteSupremacy, even if the people spouting it are violent criminals, like the #ProudBoys or #OathKeepers.

Quoting Hanin Majadli: Eva Illouz was a mouthpiece for right-wing propaganda, and in response received a slap

Majadli discusses how Israel's Education Minister Yoav Kish disqualified Professor Eva Illouz from receiving the Israel Prize due to what he called her "anti-Israeli ideology." The reason cited was her 2021 participation in a petition to the International Criminal Court in The Hague requesting an investigation into whether Israel committed war crimes in the West Bank.

In response to this disqualification, Illouz stated to Haaretz: "During the last 18 months, I dedicated my energy to writing for the international press with the aspiration to defend Israel. In the most prestigious newspapers in Spain, France, and Germany, I never stopped clarifying that Hamas is a terrorist organization, that Israel had the right to respond to a ground invasion of its territory, that anti-Zionism is an expression of antisemitism, and that the accusations of genocide against it are nothing but a continuation of antisemitic discourse."

Majadli criticizes Illouz for having been a "loyal mouthpiece for the most right-wing Israeli propaganda" for a year and a half, only to be rejected by the state she defended. Majadli argues that there is little difference between Illouz's response to the war and that of any standard Zionist leftist in Israel.

She says that Illouz and other Zionist intellectuals who identify as leftists were focusing on "deciphering esoteric shades of antisemitism in the global left" while diverting attention from the violence being carried out in Gaza. She suggests that Illouz could have gained more respect by refusing any prize from a state that killed tens of thousands civilians in Gaza.

Majadli wonders when will the academic community understand that the "Israel Prize" is not a badge of honor but a mark of disgrace, and characterizes Illouz as symbolizing "the ongoing failure of the Zionist left to understand the State of Israel as it truly is, and not as they would like it to be."​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-03-27/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000195-d323-da7e-adb7-fbbbef440000 or https://archive.is/QDjkq

Hanin Majadli is a Palestinian Israeli journalist, publicist, and editor at #Haaretz.

@palestine
@israel
@academicchatter
#GazaGenocide
#Zionism #EvaIllouz
#antisemitism #WeaponizedAntisemitism

#WallStreetJournal: #UniversitateaColumbia își însușește o lecție dificilă.
Universitatea își va încorpora în regulament definiția #antisemitism‎ului.

https://wp.me/p9KpFA-4gkF

Victims of UCLA Mob Attack Sue to “Hold the Aggressors Accountable”

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in #LosAngeles Superior Court, comes as the federal government deploys all of its might to restrict speech on #Palestine in the name of eradicating #antisemitism on college campuses.

The #Trump administration has begun arresting and revoking the visas of students and scholars over their advocacy for Palestine.

The redefinition of #antisemitism isn’t simply a policy shift – it’s part of a deeper transformation of American democracy, restricting free speech, shaping civil rights protections and even influencing the classification of hate crimes in state criminal codes.

Trump’s January 2025 executive order to "combat antisemitism” marks a dangerous escalation in this trend. Columbia has consented in an extraordinary surrender of its academic freedom.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/23/antisemitism-redefinition-jewish-safety-christian-nationalism-democracy

"Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection. ...

Something unprecedented – and deeply unsettling – is unfolding: under the guise of a legal redefinition of antisemitism, the basic architecture of American public life is being radically transformed."

~ Itamar Mann and Lihi Yona

#antisemitism #Republicans #FreeSpeech #WhiteChristianNationalism #universities
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/23/antisemitism-redefinition-jewish-safety-christian-nationalism-democracy

"People demonstrate against Israel’s genocidal atrocities? That’s antisemitism — those protesters need to be silenced, arrested, and deported. People object to blatant Zionist influence in their governments? Antisemitic conspiracy theories; we need more hate speech laws and internet censorship. Palestinians take up armed resistance against their oppressors? Israel is the victim of unprovoked attacks from Jew-hating Arabs.

Even real anti-Jewish prejudice benefits the Zionists, because it strengthens the narrative about an urgent crisis of antisemitism which must be crushed by any amount of force necessary, as well as the narrative that Jews need a nation of their own where they can feel safe. So Israel can openly mass murder children while Israeli officials make overt statements of genocidal intent, and if someone blames all Jews for this because they see a state committing atrocities under the banner of the Star of David while claiming to represent all Jews, it only benefits Israel and its supporters.

(As an aside, this is why it’s so important not to blame this on “the Jews”. It’s not just that it’s inaccurate — not all Jews are Zionists, the majority of Zionists are non-Jews, and some of the most effective anti-Zionists in the world happen to be Jewish — it’s that you’re doing exactly what the Zionists and the empire propagandists want you to do. You’re doing their job for them. Don’t be a pro bono Israel propagandist. Make them work for that shit.)"

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-exists-simultaneously-as-the