antisemitism on campus
antisemitism on campus
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But right wing protestors chanting "Jews will not replace us!"? That, apparently, is fine.
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But that's not antisemitism. They're clearly stating that Jews are not going to replace them, acknowledging that they aren't to be feared. Like if you told someone immigrants aren't going to take their job. /s
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According to my boss yes because they got a permit. I try argue we shouldn't allow nazi to get fucking permit to protest he disagrees. It's fucking serial.
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It's fucking
serialcerealFTFY
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No, you see, it's only antisemitism when you oppose genocide.
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The US is more concerned about antisemitism on college campuses than being complicit in the 670,000+ individuals starving in Gaza.
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By US I assume you mean the media, powerful business leaders and politicians behind the scenes that are making the decision to release police on what is clearly a peaceful protest. Because as a person who is American and against what is happening to Palestinians right now, this is not condoned by many folks over here. It is the 1% with the loudest voices that are making this a persistent problem for protests.
Look up who runs the police for the city shown and make the local politicians scared of public backlash. They do this because no one knows who they are and so they will not be held responsible.
Accountability wilts fascism.
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I can add my voice to this. The very topic we're all commenting on here supports this. The are protests and millions of dissenting voices to the disgusting atrocities taking place against the Palestinian people.
This isn't new, either. Countless Americans have opposed Israel for many, many years. They've been openly killing civilians for a very long time now.
It needs to stop, but the United States government is in an open state of distress right now. We're fighting over here to keep an actual tyrant from gaining power, and unilaterally destabilizing the entire world. Trump has threatened to pull us out of NATO, abandon support for Ukraine, and send even more aid to Israel. He's also a big reason Iran as a country is pissed off, since he pulled us out of the Iran Nuclear deal.
There are layers of bullshit and politics to navigate, and without money and agency most of us are struggling just to pay our rent, and buy groceries.
Meanwhile, we get people all the time conflating the US government with the US people. They are not the same thing. We are in many ways captives of our society. Those not from the US: look into what happens when we come down with a severe illness. Spoiler: we can easily lose fucking everything.
Things aren't good, everyone. Things aren't good. We can fix them, but holy shit is it not a good time for the world.
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And yet you see comment after comment after comment and post after post after post here, telling you that opposing Bidens and the Democrats involvement with the genocide and violent supression of protests, would be shilling for Trump.
From an external perspective most of the US are either in support or indifferent to murdering women and children, torturing and abusing people, as long as it is not them.
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I remember after a student at my college was run over and killed by an Israeli bulldozer for protesting on behalf of Palestinians the zionist backlash on campus for talking about it was immense and even got the school newspaper shut down for a while for, you guessed it: antisemitism.
*edit: I should add this was nearly 20 years ago.
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Was it Rachel Corrie?
Edit: there's a foundation in her name
https://rachelcorriefoundation.org/event/movies-that-matter-occupation-101
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Yep.
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And yet when an Israeli student threatened to "krav maga" me "into next week" for simply pointing out I was Palestinian while she was on some rant about how palestinians are all terrorists, that's just free speech and we need to think about a slippery slope into tyranny if we do anything about it less permissive than asking nicely for an apology.
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Hasbara is on overtime with their sophisticated and useful job of calling everyone anti-Semite for calling out genocide on Palestinians!
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What the fuck man. Is this a real photograph?
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Looks more like semi-anti-ism
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If you think that that what “antisemitism” complains are about, then you are clearly in some kind of distorted reality.
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I haven’t seen antisemitic comments anywhere, but maybe they just get deleted.
Unless you think being anti-Israel is antisemitic? But if that were so, being anti-Russia would be anti-christian and being anti-Saudi would be Islamophobic, etc. I don’t think so. Some nation states are horrible and the only logical response is to be “against them” in their current configuration. (For example, since only 8% of the world’s countries are full democracies, you can assume I’m against the others.) If Saudi or Israel changed their ways, then I would be “for them” whatever that means. Keep in mind, countries are made up nonsense anyway, so we can only criticize their organization and administration.
Lastly, religion is a hideous evil. Perhaps this accurate observation itself is considered somehow antisemitic. Not sure.
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It's exactly what it's about. Criticism of Israel is included in the official definition of Anti-Semitism in many countries and organizations.
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Which leads to the crazy situation of jews for peace being called antisemitic
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I really don’t have much respect for “official definitions”
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Of course, and rightly so. But calls like “from the river to the sea” are not criticism of Israel, but a call for genocide. That’s as antisemitic as it can get. Violation of safety of Jewish student (not Israeli, but Americans with Jewish religion) also has zero relationship with Israeli criticism and 100% relationship with antisemitism.
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Yeah, the "antisemitism" complains are because of antizionism, and stupid people regularly conflate antizionism (criticism of Israel) with antisemitism (attacking jewish people or judaism.
Speaking of stupid people, Israel and the right are going hard to the paint to make this very same conflation.
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Strange how they never managed this back when all the neo-nazis was marching for Trump back in 2016...
This is pretty much the only thing "peaceful protest" will ever get you.
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
I might note that both Israel and the neo-nazis support the republicans almost exclusively over democrats. I'm sure there's no connection there.
Netanyahu, not Israel.
Idk about neo-Nazis but that's not true of Israel.
Republicans are often armed when they’re protesting.
Right-wingers don't protest - they congregate to terrorize.
And have the police on their side anyway.
Left wing people really do need to get better about casually standing around with a rifle in their hands. The cops won't be so happy to terrorize them if they do.