Antisemitism Against Palestinians
Updated 2024-08-24
2024-04-23 House GOP Plays Politics With Campus Antisemitism While Enabling Islamophobia The House education committee has not made any efforts to investigate the targeting of Muslim and Palestinian students despite the fact that it keeps happening with sometimes violent consequences.
The spirit of Joseph McCarthy is alive and well in the halls of Congress. For proof, look no further than the Republican-controlled House education committee’s latest hearing focused on investigating allegations of antisemitism at American colleges and universities.
During this week’s widely covered hearing, many committee members followed a predictable playbook: mischaracterize any pro-Palestinian student activism as antisemitic, ask incendiary “gotcha” questions about imaginary incidents of antisemitism, and then pressure college leaders to silence young people who advocate for Palestinian human rights.
House committee members like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) have mastered this artform, which gives them an opportunity to go viral in right-wing media, smear pro-Palestinian students, and virtue signal that they oppose any form of bigotry even as their political party enables nearly every form of bigotry. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/house-gop-campus-antisemitism
2024-04-20 The Palestinians Are the Latest Victims of Empire to Be Dehumanized as ‘Others’ Throughout history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of “The Others.” The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit by supporting their empire’s predatory policies with slanted coverage. Such is the case with the U.S. global and the Israeli regional empires. The U.S. federal government and the mainstream media often move in lockstep.
Apart from a massively greater overall civilian toll inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza—the vast undercount stands at 34,000 Palestinian deaths compared to the deaths of 1,139 Israeli civilians, soldiers, and foreign workers. This staggering ratio—over 14,000 Palestinian children (with many thousands under the rubble) compared to 30 Israeli children—escapes proper reporting. “The Others” don’t get accurate coverage as was also the case with huge Iraqi losses during the Bush/Cheney criminal war.
Palestinian Arabs are denied the description of armed-force antisemitism by the Israeli war machine. Arabs are Semites and have long been the victims of violent, racist, hate-filled antisemitism by brutal Israeli leaders. (See the “ Antisemitism Against Arab and Jewish Americans” speech by Jim Zogby and DebatingTaboos.org).
“The Others” are always described with less charitable words. In a meticulous content analysis by The Intercept of the Los Angeles Times, TheNew York Times, and TheWashington Post between October 7 and November 24, the use of the words “slaughtered,” “horrific,” and “massacre” in relation to Israeli and Palestinians killed was 218 to 9! https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/palestinians-victims-empire-others
2012-06-21 Anti-Semitism Against Arab and Jewish Americans At the Center for Study of Responsive Law’s fourth “Debating Taboos” series, panelists debated responses to anti-Semitism against Arab and Jewish Americans. https://www.c-span.org/video/?306718-1/anti-semitism-arab-jewish-americans
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