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How pervasive is antisemitism on US campuses? A look at the language of the protests
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Antizionism isn't antisemitism, The premise is false.
Could you expand on that?
Being against Zionism is not the same as being anti-Semitic, anti-Semitism is a type of racial/religious discrimination, and anti-Zionism is being against the Jewish fascist elite not because they are Jews but because they are fascists.
The American media is deliberately confusing the population with the term anti-Semitism referring to anti-Zionism. mainly because mentioning the term anti-Semitic has a strong reaction from the American audience. and because obviously the American elite and the Jewish elite are very good friends.
Netanyahu is the primary source of that, before it even gets to western media. He repeatedly uses antisemitism as a defense of any criticism of his actions, or the actions of the IDF, and he’s been doing it for a long time. I know many American Jews that resent him for it.
It is the way in which fascism has operated throughout history and even more so in modern times with the mass media, they tend to hide their regimes under facades to act as victims while being victimizers.
They have been using these types of strategies for decades, for example the name of Trump's social network, "Truth Social" is just another facade to organize fascist groups and their agenda as well as everything that ideology entails.
There are non-Zionist Jews.
There ya go. Expanded. Done. QED.
The existence of Israel as a state has an antisemitic history. Britain, created Israel so Jews would have a place to go. So Britain wouldn't have to take them. The reaction should not have been let's create a place where Jews can be expelled to. We should have ensured refugees of all kind had places to go no matter where they came from. We should have made societies that Jews could feel safe in. Instead we created a people without a land.
But doesn't this article also say that some Jewish people liked the idea of being near "their" holy land? I guess what I'm saying, wasn't this an option convenient for both sides? Britain doesn't want a lot/any Jewish people, but also, many Jewish people want to have their own land in current day Israel. Britain's reasons are antisemitic, but they also didn't force Jewish people to live in current day Israel. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not wrong, but that doesn't contradict what I said. Just because some Jews are willing to take anti-semetically motivated help doesn't make that help not anti-semetic. The added effect on diaspora Jews is destabilizing as well. Every antisemite can justify abuse by telling people just to go to Israel.
This is a tangent but, a common belief is that Jews needed an ethnically Jewish state in Palestine in order to live there. That is not true. Jewish folks have lived in that area continuously for millennia. In a lot of ways Zionism is a power grab. It's a way to grab land to get rich in a speculative land market. It's not dissimilar from how the genocide of indigenous peoples played out in the United States.