Biden administration unveils new actions to combat antisemitism on college campuses
Biden administration unveils new actions to combat antisemitism on college campuses
Among other actions, the federal government will partner with campus law enforcement agencies to track hate-related threats.
They conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism & anti-crimes against humanity in order to trample on people’s first amendment rights to speech & assembly.
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Imagine being a Jewish student and having to be asked like 5x a day about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict as of you have anything to do with it.
Yeah that’s gotta suck, but also imagine being a Jewish student protesting Zionism and genocide and being called antisemitic for partaking in a Jewish political stance that predates the modern nation of Israel.
We absolutely need to be fighting antisemitism, I’m very scared for my Jewish friends and loved ones. But we can’t do it by conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism. And we especially can’t do it by conflating calls for Israel to display military restraint with antisemitism. Israel is not Judaism, it is not the international community of Jewish people, and it doesn’t hold authority over either group.
And I also worry about Arabic and Muslim students and citizens. Much like our Jewish neighbors they too don’t have a say in this conflict and deserve and need protection. And I’m not seeing any similar fights from the government for them and that concerns me.
ETA: this position was influenced by some recent conversations with Jewish friends who are very concerned with the silencing of Jewish calls for peace.
The ultimate irony: zionism was the product of antisemitism.
See: "Der Judenstaat" and the life of Theodor Herzl.
Yeah many antisemites love Israel because they don’t want Jewish folks in their communities. I respect the concept behind Israel and if people hadn’t already been there I’d be all for them building a country where they feel safe. In the understatement of forever, us goyim haven’t always been good neighbors to them. But I feel no desire for the Jewish people in my country or community to leave. They, and their Judaism, have a positive impact on these places and communities. And even if they didn’t, so fucking what, they’re here, they’re members of our communities, why would I be mad about this trait of theirs.
That doesn’t sound fun, and I imagine I’d be pretty pissed off at Zionists right now.