All over the West, free speech is falling victim to pro-Israel supporters in government and institutions, and anything related to the Gaza genocide is being severely punished and suppressed with the blanket accusation of 'antisemitism'.
c: @5149jamesli on IG
In more "What the heck is going on in Australia?" news, it looks like a city council realized it had a problem on its hands when a song calling for the murder of Jews won a song contest, and the author of the song made antisemitic statements in her acceptance speech for the award.
The town has shut the context and the organization down, so that's good at least.
@EndIsraeliApartheid : they'd like everyone to think that condemning genocide is antisemitism.
However, they're confusing antisemitism with antizionism.
Antisemitism is prejudiced hatred of any Jew, regardless of what they did, their opinions or even their age (fsck any other made up definition).
THAT definition of antisemitism is what CAUSED the WWII genocide.
Zionism is what causes the genocide taking place in Palestine since 1948, intensified in Oct. 2023. Not of Jews, but of Palestinians.
Deliberately stating that antizionism is antisemitism implies Holocaust denial.
Actually twice: because of what I wrote above, and because of the "never again" message. We are repeatedly told to learn from the Holocaust, but apparently "never again" only applies to Jews - Zionists living in Israel in particular.
Apart from that, not all antisemtism is as bad as it seems (the picture below was transmitted often on Dutch TV - without the mitigating text).
It's a discrace for anyone with (partial) Jewish blood - like me.
I'm going to make this as simple and straightforward as I can make it.
You don't have to agree with Zionism
You don't have to believe that Zionism is Jewish civil rights.
You don't have to agree with the Zionist idea of Jewish self-determination.
But you do have to accept the following:
Holding all Zionists responsible for the actions of a few politicians in a minority government is not just wrong, it's a form of hate.
Zionism has been part of Jewish thought since were forcibly expelled from our homeland 2,000 years ago, and even in its modern form is older than Herzel and the European Zionist movement.
Saying Zionism is a hate group or hateful ideology is disgusting and inverting the meaning of hate.
70-80% of all Jews are Zionists, and Zionists live around the world.
Using minority viewpoints to say what is and isn't part of Judaism is gross and tokenizing.
Oh, I didn't signal the eye rolling/irony of my response - my fault, sorry.
Although there are lots of antizionists who are not antisemites, some of them are, and I suspect the Bannon tendency includes many who fall under that description. It's a return to one of the primal preoccupations of reactionary politics. I'm sure the fascination with Putin also plays a part, as does the association of many of that group with "Traditional Catholicism", a religious dish frequently served with a large dollop of Jew hatred.
I just hope these odious people don't muddy the waters when it comes to condemnation of that goon squad kidnapping in the video .
Columbia Expelled Me for My Palestine Activism, but I Won’t Be Silenced | @thenation
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/grant-miner-columbia-expelled-palestine/
> Twenty-two students, all of whom, like me, had been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, were either expelled, suspended for years, or had their hard-earned degrees revoked on the same day—all for allegedly occupying a building that has been occupied at least four times throughout Columbia’s history.
Pro-Palestine protester assaults activist against antisemitism in Berlin
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-848181
Preisler began public campaigning during the coronavirus but has been a regular feature of anti-antisemitism demonstrations in Berlin.
A short interview with Jason Stanley about the threats posed to Canada by Trump’s America and the targeting of democratic institutions within the U.S. He also discusses Trump’s “antisemitic attack on antisemitism” on university campuses, how it limits foreign students’ speech, and “puts Jews at the crosshairs of American politics.” https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-63-the-current/clip/16136747-why-yale-professor-jason-stanley-moving-canada #Universities #Democracy #FreeSpeech #Canada #51ststate #antisemitism
I agree with Bernie Sanders on many things, and I disagree with him on other things.
I think his actions during the hearing on Antisemitism on March 27th are "Complicated at best",.
I'm glad that he brought up the way that the right peddles and continues to peddle antisemitism.
I'm unhappy because he demanded sound byte answers from others while taking a very long time to speak, and the way he used his time was typically political.
And I'm furious that he used his time to give cover to campus antisemitism by way of selective contrived examples, rather than deepening the dialog.
Clear judgement from a US senate hearing of antisemitism experts board:
A Trump campaign email image with George Soros in it as the puppeteer of Biden is antisemitic.
https://youtube.con/watch?v=nBChON1Z9mo
#bernie #trump #maga #antisemitism
If #Jewish people are modern-day Pharisees, and #Christian people look unfavorably upon Pharisees, then what does that mean for #antisemitism? #religion #Judaism #Christianity (https://calebh.top/?p=171)
[Opinion] Just as sane people don’t need to embrace the insanity of the Trumpies, Heathens of positive intent don’t need to take on any of the awfulness of the neo-völkisch haters and their ilk. We can make empathy a central point of what we believe and what we practice.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/opinion-elon-musk-and-the-theology-of-empathy.html
Update. Here's a short and simple public statement that criticism of #Israel is not #antisemitic. I just signed and hope you will too.
https://civicshout.com/p/sign-if-you-agree-criticizing-israel-is-not-antisemitic
Europe's far-right is courting Israel in a 'tactical shift' to mask its origins.
When far-right leaders from Europe attended an anti-Semitism conference in Jerusalem this week, it made headlines.
Their parties have roots in Holocaust denial and Nazi collaboration – yet they were welcomed at an event aimed at fighting anti-Semitism.
Well said:
“Protesters, including #Jewish groups, say the Trump admin conflates their criticism of #Israel's assault on Gaza & their advocacy for Palestinian rights with #antisemitism & support for Hamas.”
#Trump & the other Islamophobes can’t seem to get their mind around the idea that a person can think that both what #Hamas did Oct7 was wrong AND what Netanyahu is doing to #Palestinians in #Gaza is wrong.
#RumeysaOzturk didn’t even mention Hamas in her op-ed.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-halts-deportation-turkish-student-tufts-2025-03-29/
Among other steps, #Columbia said it would have 36 campus safety officers w/ #arrest powers, a shift w/enormous resonance at a university that has a long history of campus #activism & fraught ties w/law enforcement.Columbia also said it would adopt a formal definition of #antisemitism, review its #admissions policies &, in a turn that was especially alarming to professors who cherish #academic #freedom, impose new #oversight of the university’s #MiddleEastern, #SouthAsian & #AfricanStudies Dept.
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.
Bernie Sanders masterfully cutting to the chase, getting experts to cut to the chase rather than equivocate.
It’s funny that Zionists hang George Soros out to dry, a man who survived not only the Nazis but Stalin. It’s really remarkable how they would rather see him chopped a bits by fascist hate than defend him.
כָלב 
