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Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 23: People with signs demonstrate near Columbia University on May 23, 2024 in New York City. Demonstrators gathered to protest against New York Mayor Eric Adams’s association with wealthy business owners and investors calling for they city's student protest encampments to be disbanded. Several of New York's prominent business owners reportedly offered political donations to Mayor Adams in an effort to influence public opinion towards Israel, while others suggested payments for private investigators to aid the NYPD in handling the student protesters, according to a Washington Post investigation of conversations made via on-line chats. According to City Hall, the NYPD did not use any donations in their handling of the protesters. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

The plan was not announced in any direct communications from the university. Rather, it was reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The Israel Lobby in America and AIPAC do their work behind closed doors to shut down America’s brightest minds. The threat of losing $$ talks and has the tail wag the dog.

Numerous participants in the antisemitism task force, including its three co-chairs — Columbia faculty members, many of whom are outspoken Israel supporters — openly discussed the not-yet published report with the newspaper before any such information was shared with the university’s community, or even their colleagues.

Source: Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

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Antisemitism and Antizionism: A Dangerous Conflation

Antisemitism is making the headlines. The Israeli Prime Minister describes as antisemitic the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and even American students who are calling for a ceasefire. What Israel is doing does in fact provoke antisemitic acts against synagogues, Jewish schools and even individual Jews. It is therefore important to understand what antisemitism is, what it is not, and how it can be distinguished from anti-Zionism.

Source: Antisemitism and Antizionism: A Dangerous Conflation

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Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community – CounterPunch.org

As we go forward, it is worthwhile to recall a truism about struggle often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi: First they ignore you; then they laugh at you; then they fight you; then you win. We have reached Stage 3. They are fighting us. As unpleasant as it is, remember this: The vehemence of the vituperation aimed at us is directly related to how close we are to winning.

Source: Why They Hate Us: Anti-Zionism in the Jewish Community – CounterPunch.org

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Sorry, Anti-Zionism Still Doesn’t Equal Antisemitism

Sorry, Anti-Zionism Still Doesn’t Equal Antisemitism

The struggle against Israeli apartheid has nothing to do with antisemitism — and everything to do with winning liberation for colonized Palestinians.

Sorry, Anti-Zionism Still Doesn’t Equal Antisemitism
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Let’s be honest about Britain’s obsession with “anti-Semitism” | The Electronic Intifada

There are many religious practices that are reactionary, medieval and barbaric. Opposition to them is not racist.

The same is true with the Jewish community. Although there is no doubt that most Jews in Britain are more liberal than the Jewish leaders and the Board of Deputies, there is no doubt that the majority are supporters of Zionism. It is also arguable that a majority of Jews do not realize the extent of Israeli racism and how Zionism mandates a form of apartheid.

However it is a fact that a Jewish ethno-nationalist state in Israel cannot be other than a racist apartheid state. The argument that it is anti-Semitic to oppose an identity that is itself based on support for racism is untenable.

If indeed the majority of Jews do support a Zionism that mandates the demolition of Palestinian villages such as Umm al-Hiran in order to build Jewish towns in their place, then that is clearly a racist identity. If the majority of British Jews support a state where the chief rabbi of Safed issues an edict that non-Jews cannot rent property from Jews, then how is that not racist?

The idea that opposition to religious identity is, in itself, a form of racism is a type of blackmail.

via Let’s be honest about Britain’s obsession with “anti-Semitism” | The Electronic Intifada

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Jews for Justice for Palestine: On Face Book


More of the same rhetoric… This graphic is not satire, it is actually how “HonestReporting” just redefined “anti-Semitism” to include all criticism of Israeli policy. We won’t be using their definition thanks very much!