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#antisemitism

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The EU is the largest investor in Israel, nearly twice as big as the United States (US).

Despite Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and its unlawful occupation across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, the EU increased exports to Israel by €1 billion, standing at €25.5 billion in 2023 and €26.7 billion in 2024.

somo.nl/economic-sanctions-eu- @israel @eu

The #TrumpRegime justifies its attempted #deportation of #student #activists by claiming #antisemitism. However:

"[John Armstrong] conceded that his office, which plays a key role in revoking student visas, has been operating without a working definition of 'antisemitism.' In effect, this means that chants such as 'From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free,' or denouncing #Zionism, or calling for an arms embargo on #Israel, among other common activist demands, could be grounds for a revocation."

As far as the #Trump admin. is concerned the goal is to be achieved first; the justification will be constructed afterward. (If at all.)
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A Federal Trial Reveals the Sprawling Plan Behind Trump’s Attacks on Pro-Palestinian Students - archive.today/3slON

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#Harvard, citing deadlines for #grants, is pressing for a decision by early Sept. Judge Burroughs said she was mindful of that & that she had not “prejudged” the case.

As the hearing neared its end, she directed her attention to Velchik. She decried #antisemitism. The matter before her, she said, was not about whether anyone favored antisemitism.
“I think the issue is whether there’s a legitimate relationship between our distaste for discrimination & the approach the administration is taking.”

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And so I stepped away.

Volunteering with these folks has been fulfilling and fun but now I can’t/won’t do it anymore.

The #civilrights #coalition of which #Jews have been a mainstay is crumbling due to the #antisemitism
of the very people with whom we’ve allied for decades. The betrayal is bitter, but the implications are more bitter still.

If the far left continues to remain ignorant and myopic, insisting on purity tests and axiomatically excluding anyone they believe doesn’t pass, then #liberals as a whole are in serious trouble.

We can’t afford this bullshit, not now, when we’re faced with pure evil and the imminent demise of #democracy. We have a battle to win, perhaps the most important fight any of us will ever engage in.

When you’re sharing a foxhole you should be focusing on the enemy, not on the perceived flaws of your brother-in-arms. Shame on the far left for ignoring that rather obvious advice.

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Dealing today with the sad fact that an organization doing important work, with which I was volunteering several hours per week, turned out to be crawling with #antisemites.

There were clues, but I overlooked them because the need is so urgent. Coalition-building often means working with people with whom you agree in one area and disagree in others; that’s reality.

But they crossed a line when they refused to refer clients to another organization whom they believed (incorrectly, though not the point) to be “partnered with a heavily #Zionist organization”.

Yes: they literally denied assistance to their own, needy clients rather than refer them to a charitable #Jewish organization, unrelated to Zionism altogether, due to its imagined association with a third group (in this case, a Jewish Federation) to serve others in need.

What’s more, when I raised the issue, I was essentially cancelled. 1/

#Israel
#Palestine
#Gaza
#Genocide
#Antisemitism
#Colonialism

"Jedem, der sich nicht mit den Mythen des Zionismus auseinandersetzt, sollte klar sein, dass das westliche Vorgehen gegen etwas, das als „Antisemitismus“ bezeichnet wird, nicht nur nichts mit Antirassismus zu tun hat, sondern ein durch und durch rassistisches Unterfangen ist. Was die palästinensische Wissenschaftlerin Anna Younes den „Krieg gegen den Antisemitismus“ nennt , wird geführt, indem Migranten, Flüchtlinge und farbige Gemeinschaften – in erster Linie Palästinenser – kontrolliert, kriminalisiert und gezielt angegriffen werden. In ähnlicher Weise erinnert uns Dylan Rodríguez daran , dass der Begriff Antisemitismus selbst zu einem „Kriegsschauplatz“ geworden ist. Er bezeichnet den „lexikalischen Krieg“ als die „Neuorganisation und Neuausrichtung ganzer Konfliktschauplätze durch die Eroberung und Kolonisierung von Wörtern, Definitionen und Narrativen“.

in english below

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against

Senior counsel to Trump's assistant AG Leo Terrell discusses the Justice Department's new task force to combat antisemitism, which would have an obvious focus on pro-Palestine activism, on 'Fox News Live,' on February 8, 2025.
Mondoweiss · Against ‘Jewish Safety’Claims that “antisemitism” is being weaponized to support Israel miss that its function has always been to bolster European supremacy. Today, the chimera of “Jewish safety” is used to justify Western dominance through Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

#UVA “We have diverse…areas of expertise…We write united in extreme concern, as we witness…the term #antisemitism deployed in an effort to harass, expel, arrest, deport, dox and defame students, #faculty, staff…as part of a broader assault on…#education…we have heard the word “antisemitism” used more in the last 18 months than we did in the…aftermath of August…2017…when President Donald #Trump called the neo-Nazis who marched on our campus “very fine people.”

cavalierdaily.com/article/2025

A statement by 40 Jewish faculty and staff on antisemitism and DEI at U.Va. - The Cavalier Daily - University of Virginia's Student NewspaperA statement by 40 Jewish faculty and staff on antisemitism and DEI at U.Va.As scholars and teachers, we know that dissent and debate strengthen our intellectual commitments and moral judgments rather than threaten them. We reject any attempt to deny these basic truths. 

Heute vor 90 Jahren kam es im ostpreußischen Osterode zu antijüdischen Ausschreitungen – ein Beispiel für die Welle antisemitischer Gewalt im Deutschen Reich im Sommer 1935 bei:
▶ @michaelwildt, #Gewaltpolitik. Volksgemeinschaft und #Judenverfolgung in der deutschen Provinz 1932 bis 1935, #WerkstattGeschichte 35/2003, werkstattgeschichte.de/abstrac

@histodons @historikerinnen

WerkstattGeschichteNr. 35 | Michael Wildt - WerkstattGeschichte

Wow. Watch the footage in there. That's pretty fucking out there. 👀

"A #Jewish man was #assaulted on a #Dublin bus by an attacker shouting #antisemitic slurs and accusing #Israel of #genocide, amid rising tensions over #Irish legislation targeting #Israeli settlement goods and growing concern about #antisemitism in #Ireland"

My standard disclaimer that ynet sucks goes here.

ynetnews.com/jewish-world/arti

ynetnews · 'Jews are killers!': Jewish man assaulted on Dublin bus amid spike in antisemitic incidentsBy Itamar Eichner

Looking back from the other side of the Likud/IDF genocide in Gaza, and the aggressive wars they've launched against a number of neighbouring countries, it's hard to see this "post-mortem" of Corbynism as anything other than a hatchet job;

audioboom.com/posts/7480572-la

Running interference for the UK establishment's desire to keep UK foreign policy locked to that of the US. By smearing any and all criticism of Israel by the left as "antisemitism".