Insane footage on Russian social media from Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region, where there have been several anti-Semitic protests this weekend.
— max seddon (@maxseddon) October 29, 2023
A crowd of people, some with Palestinian flags, broke into the airport in search of passengers on a flight from Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/MZxyvxi6T3
My alma mater @Cornell just posted this advising students to avoid the Kosher dining hall. pic.twitter.com/IVWGdRoYzy
— Jamie Weinstein (@Jamie_Weinstein) October 29, 2023
Berkley Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky - Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses nowI will not sign a letter that describes the barbarous Hamas pogrom - live streamed by the death squads as they hacked, dismembered, burned and shot civilians at close range - as a "military action." 🦁 https://t.co/Fq2nOBUayk
— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) October 29, 2023
I am a 70-year-old Jewish man, but never in my life have I seen or felt the antisemitism of the last few weeks....On Friday, someone in my school posted on Instagram a picture of me with the caption, “Erwin Chemerinsky has taken an indefinite sabbatical from Berkeley Law to join the I.D.F.” Two weeks ago, at a town hall, a student told me that what would make her feel safe in the law school would be “to get rid of the Zionists.” I have heard several times that I have been called “part of a Zionist conspiracy,” which echoes of antisemitic tropes that have been expressed for centuries.I was stunned when students across the country, including mine, immediately celebrated the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on Oct. 7. Students for Justice in Palestine called the terror attack a “historic win” for the “Palestinian resistance.” A Columbia professor called the Hamas massacre “awesome” and a “stunning victory.” A Yale professor tweeted, “It’s been such an extraordinary day!” while calling Israel a “murderous, genocidal settler state.” A Chicago art professor posted a note reading, “Israelis are pigs. Savages. Very very bad people. Irredeemable excrement…. May they all rot in hell.” A UC Davis professor tweeted, “Zionist journalists … have houses w addresses, kids in school,” adding “they can fear their bosses, but they should fear us more.” There are, sadly, countless other examples....if you listen to what is being said on college campuses now, some of the loudest voices are not advocating for a change in Israeli policies, but are calling for an end to Israel. Students regularly chant, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and “We don’t want no two states, we want all of 48,” referring to going back to 1948 before Israel existed.
Malcolm Nance - Ask Yourself, Are You Really for Palestine or Do You Just Hate Jews?MY LATEST: "Ask yourself, Are You Really for Palestine, or Do You Just hate Jews?"
— Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) October 29, 2023
The 10-7 HAMAS terror attack has revealed many Social Justice Warriors need to embrace their inner anti-semitism rather than hide it behind concern for dead children. We would respect you more if… pic.twitter.com/vUmWNpscBK
...I want to call attention to an issue that I see has been festering since October 7th. It is the sudden increase of support for the “Free Palestine” movement in the United States and Europe. It is undeniable that in the weeks after the massacre, Free Palestine-people power has dramatically flourished around the world. ......on its face, " Free Palestine! sounded like a good thing. The people of Palestine need some freedom and humanitarian champions. Their circumstances are terrible. They have had no representative governance or a way to exercise choice in elections for 17 years. The last government they elected was the HAMAS terrorist group. They stole all of the foreign aid to build tunnels, manufacture rockets, and deprive the people of an economy. Because of their terrorist attacks on Israel, Palestinians have had to live under virtual blockade by both Egypt to the south and Israel to the north and east. Non-governmental organizations such as the United Nations try to fill the gaps, but the terrorist group HAMAS determines what comes in and who gets what. So most Palestinian Gazans live in near abject poverty even though 50,000 Gazans worked daily in Israel. That is until the 10-7 massacre ended any future work prospects for Palestinians....However, when studying the phrase “Free Palestine” what it means is a Palestine free from, and of, the presence of Jews. Numerous terrorist groups from the original Palestinian Liberation Organization to the Syrian-back Palestine Freedom Movement have popularized this slogan. It is a phrase that has been used for decades to mean the geographic borders of Israel must be freed by an armed religious war, called Jihad against the Jews. The result should be a genocide—the HAMAS charter to eliminate any religious, linguistic, and cultural vestiges as well. In my entire life, I have never heard any Israeli, save one or two Zionist extremists, claim that all Palestinians must be eliminated for Israel to have sovereignty. And my job was to listen to them very closely. ...Unfortunately for everyone, the entire basis of the Free Palestine! movement is built on a foundation of hatred towards Jews, Judaism, and Zionism. To be honest, a lot of these people just hate Jews.
John Ibbitson - All of us could do with a check of the words we’re using
...Canada is changing, politically and demographically. Some who defend the rights of Palestinians use language that is plainly antisemitic. People are saying hateful things during pro-Palestinian demonstrations. For supporters of Israel and of Jews everywhere, the future darkens....People have taken to the streets in support of the rights of Palestinians. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But when demonstrators and others call Israel an apartheid state, call Jews “settlers” or chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – presumably of Jews – their actions cross the line.Then-prime minister Stephen Harper, a Conservative, put it well in his address to Israel’s Knesset in January, 2014. Calling Israel an apartheid state, he said, “is the face of the new antisemitism. It targets the Jewish people by targeting Israel and attempts to make the old bigotry acceptable for a new generation.”We can fault the actions of the Israeli government in the West Bank and Gaza; we must condemn Islamophobia every bit as fiercely as antisemitism. We can and should worry about innocent civilians put at risk by Israel’s determination to root out Hamas in Gaza, once and for all.But let’s not forget what the Jews have lived through and died from. The right to resist is their right as well. When we pray for peace, let that peace be for a safe and secure Israel as well as for Palestinians. And those who ask us to reflect on the words we use should reflect on their own words as well.
I'm not a Jew, but I know enough of history to know what it means to see not just one--but multiple--pogroms in Russia. I know enough that I can say, objectively, the force of this antisemitism is not something I have seen before; it is, however, something I have read before.
— Magdi Jacobs (@magi_jay) October 29, 2023
The antisemitic gaslight, in three steps:
— Yair Rosenberg (@Yair_Rosenberg) October 29, 2023
"It’s not happening. You're paranoid."
"It's fringe, stop pretending it's significant."
"Well, what did you expect? I may not like it but it's understandable."
There are other priorities in the current crisis. But we probably should abandon the pseudo-scientific and misleading late 19th century term, antisemitism, and use the older and more accurate term, Jew-hatred.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 29, 2023
