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"The head of the nation’s leading organization fighting #antisemitism questioned the #Trump administration’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of #Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying #American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views rather than their actions.
In pulling #student #visas and seeking to #deport #protesters who hold #greencards, the administration has failed to ensure due process that is central to America’s justice system, wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague [#ADL]."
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“Wilson said he was a founding patron of #Liberal Friends of Israel and had also helped list Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist organisations.
He said the #Coalition wanted a judicial inquir into #antisemitism on Australian university campuses and would make it clear that Australia was #IsraelAlly.”
A reminder #Politicians show flexible and ambiguous loyalty to their own country.
#AusPol <https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/victoria-s-hot-seats-live-updates-the-electorates-that-will-gauge-the-nation-s-mood-on-big-issues-during-the-2025-federal-election-20250330-p5lno1.html>
The Age · Victoria’s hot seats LIVE updates: Are you a Zionist?: Goldstein candidates grilled on Israel-Palestine conflict
#Trump Admin Set to Pause $510 Million for #BrownUniversity
The admin has now targeted 5 #schools’ federal #funding claiming it’s part of a pledge to combat what it has labeled #antisemitism, but what in actuality is #students exercising their #RightToProtest on #university campuses.
#law #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #extortion #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/trump-administration-brown-university-funding-pause.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=CE266166-B715-45A7-9A62-0A68EE55B1CD
The New York Times · Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University
Harvard sanctions pro-Palestinian group after anti-Israel protest
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-848809
Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity said the university is silencing pro-Palestinian voices.
The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com Harvard sanctions pro-Palestinian group after anti-Israel protestHarvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity said the university is silencing pro-Palestinian voices.
Today In Labor History April 3, 1950: Composer Kurt Weill died. Weill’s most famous song was Mack the Knife ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"), which became a schlock classic after Bobby Darin’s rendition. However, Weill wrote the song as part of Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera,” which was a socialist critique of the capitalist world. Weill was persecuted by the Nazis for his political views and his Jewish heritage. He fled to America, with his wife, singer Lotte Lenya. Some of Weill’s other well-known songs include: Alabama Song (covered by the Doors), Pirate Jenny (covered by Nina Simone), Mack the Knife (also covered by Louis Armstrong), Der Kleine des Lieben Gottes (covered by John Zorn).
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Insane? Perhaps, @anne_twain but not surprising.
The National Zionism that spawned Israel is a manipulative, bloodthirsty, ethno-supremacist ideology. They exploit the holocaust and even collaborated with the Nazis.
National Socialism and National Zionism are sibling ideologies. They evolved close together in time and place, but the Zionist form arose first.
In debasing antisemitism (and Judaism), while emulating Nazis, they're running true to form.
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@DropBear : same here in the Netherlands. Zionists orgs keep shouting about an explosion of antisemitism, but there isn't even an explosion of *antizionism* (which is deliberately confused with antisemitism by Zionists, thereby offending Jewish victims of the Holocaust).
I expect the Dutch Police to publish the number of antisemitic incidents reported to them for 2024 somewhere halfway April (2025).
The percentages of reports of antisemitic incidents to the Dutch Police i.r.t. all reports of racism in former years:
2019 14%
2020 8%
2021 10%
2022 8%
2023 10%
Most reports are for footbal hooligans shouting "kankerjood" to Police officers. Of course that *is* antisemitic, but how big is the impact?
PS my grandfather, born in 1900 who lived in Arnhem at the beginning of WWII, was a Jew. He survived that war because he was maried to a Dutch woman and was therefore sent to Nazi labour camps. His family was murdered by the Germans.
"... the current obsession with a definition of antisemitism is obscene. We are distracted from the horror by panic about an alleged explosion of antisemitism and concerns about Jewish safety – even though it’s been exposed as mostly bullshit.
My mother and grandmother survived the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, and I grew up hearing their stories. So, l think I know antisemitism when I see it. In fact, there has never been any antisemitism at our rallies, at universities or anywhere in Australia in my lifetime.
Saying “F**k Israel” or “F**k Zionism” is not antisemitic."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/peter-slezaks-speech-to-the-uts-rally-on-26-march/
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johnmenadue.comPeter Slezak's speech to the UTS rally on 26 MarchRemarks made by University of Technology Sydney academic Peter Slezak at a rally at UTS on 26 March, have attracted considerable negative coverage in the Murdoch media. [The Australian and The Daily Telegraph]
Pearls And Irritations is carrying the full text of the speech so that readers can make up their own minds.
"Although the contributions here were written before the events of October 7, it is impossible to read the book outside of the many conflicts that continue to divide the left on the question of Israel and Palestine. At times, the arguments here lack a sufficiently critical perspective on Israel, Zionism and the political economy of occupation. Antisemitism, indeed, exists. There are also antisemitic perspectives regarding the state of Israel and Zionism. In a treatment of the Initiative Socialist Forum (ISF), for example, Stoetzler relates some of the history regarding the anti-Zionism of the Stalinist and Maoist, German New Left (16-17). The politics of antisemitism, however, is also being instrumentalized by defenders of Israeli policy against those who express solidarity for occupied Palestine. Although one does find a differential account of the Frankfurt School’s varying political orientations in regarding Zionism here, too often the treatment of the Palestine question plays into equivocations regarding the politics of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in a manner that reduces all criticism of Israel to pathologized forms of anti-imperialism or anti-capitalism. The uncritical acceptance of an absolute identity of Israeli policy and Jewishness can also be a form of antisemitism, as Braune observes (165). Such equivocation preempts the possibility of enlightened, rational criticism of Israeli policies. Can such a critical perspective that grasps the concrete violence of Israel-Palestine be grasped in its mediation by capitalist society? At times it seems not. Still, the arguments presented here are far from monolithic, and should be considered."
marxandphilosophy.org.uk‘Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism’ by Marcel Stoetzler (ed) reviewed by Charles A PrusikThis volume, edited by Marcel Stoetzler, compiles essays from a range of authors in an effort to develop a critical theory of antisemitism. The book’s rallying cry is best encapsulated by August Bebel’s well-known phrase: ‘Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.’ Against liberal, conservative or traditionally socialist critiques of antisemitism, the authors intend to develop a ‘sustained critique of categories of thought and practice central to modern liberal, bourgeois, capitalist society’ (1). In other words, the contributors move beyond traditional liberal accounts that point to antisemitism as a mere symptom or defect in an otherwise humane and just society, and…
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@appassionato In view that the Palestinian people are also a semitic people, I've come to the conclusion that the most anti-semitic governement in the world is the Israeli government.
We see that Antisemitism is in the headlines again. We created a resource specifically for teaching about contemporary Antisemitism & its ties to white supremacy. The lesson uses recent, high profile examples from the US but the framework can be adapted for any country. Recommended for grades 9-12, higher ed & adult ed. Get it as part of our Schindler's List film guide or download it as a standalone lesson.
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@hannu_ikonen Thank you for sharing that; it’s an excellent piece and I hadn’t seen it.
“#Antisemitism in the U.S. is a real and dangerous phenomenon, most pressingly from the alt-right white-supremacist politics that have become alarmingly mainstream since 2016. To contend against these and other antisemitic forces with clarity and purpose, we must put aside all fabricated and weaponized charges of “antisemitism” that serve to silence criticism of #Israeli policy and its sponsors in the U.S.”
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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.
Algemeiner.com - The fastest growing Jewish newspaper in America. Your one stop source for all news and commentary from Israel and the Jewish world, Jewish art, Jewish culture, Jewish music, analysis, opinion, blogs and more... · Australian City Council Pulls Funding for Local Music Awards After Anti-Israel Song ‘River to Sea’ Wins Top Honor - Algemeiner.com Australian City Council Pulls Funding for Local Music Awards After Anti-Israel Song Wins Top Honor, Singer's Antisemitic Acceptance SpeechThe Brisbane City Council (BCC) in Australia pulled funding for the Queensland Music Awards (QMAs) on Thursday effective immediately in response to a controversial anti-Israel song titled "River to Sea" that won an award at the annual ceremony this week. The BCC also revoked funding for the QMAs after jazz pianist-composer Kellee Green, who won
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@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.
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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 .
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.
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.