OMNI
Antisemitism Anthology #1
MAY 22, 2026
Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, Democracy
What’s at Stake: Legitimate
criticism in the US of Israel’s behavior is being causally linked to anti-Semitic
violence and used to criminalize pro-Palestinian speech.
CONTENTS
CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS NOT ANTI-SEMITISM
Caitlin
Johnston. “Dissecting an ‘Antisemitic’
Psyop.”
David Spero. “Contrived charges of antisemitism are the new ‘Red Scare’.”
Lifting
the Curtain on Antisemitism. PRA
Jonathan Kuttab. Antisemitic Bigotry in Us.
Robert Cohen. Importance of Definitions:
Ditch the IHRA Definition.
Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crises Network v. IHRA Definition.
Michael Felson. Guidelines to End
Weaponization of “Antisemitism.”
Eric Alterman. Distinguish Between Jews
and Israelis.
Johnstone. The alleged Epidemic of Antisemitism
is False.
GLOBAL HISTORY
Alex Ryvchin. (book) The
7 Deadly Myths of Antisemism.
Magda Teter. (Book) Blood Libel Antis.
Myth.
Robert Inlakeshv. ADL Definition of Antis.
Johnstone. Questions the Alleged Antis.
Crisis on the Left.
Henry Reynolds. “West Believes
Antisemitism Is a More Egregious Problem Than Genocide.”
CCR Defends Free Speech of American Studies Association.
Rabbi Waskow Supports College Protests v. War on Gaza in “Trumpocene” era.
Faisal Kutty. “When Condemning
Antisemitism Becomes a Pretext to Criminalize Palestinian Speech.”
Jonathan Cook. “The Antisemitic Industry
Speaks for Western Elites.”
Jonathan Cook. “How the Fight against
Antisemitism Became a Shield for Israeli Genocide.”
INFORMATION CONTROL
Alan MacLeod. V. Allegations that Middle
Eastern funding of US Universities fuels Antisemitism.
Cockburn and St. Clair, eds. (Book) The
Politics of Anti-Semitism. How a Term
for a Virulent Evil Was Transformed to Bludgeon the Victims.
Arun Kundnani. (Book) What Is Racism?
Asa Winstanley. (Book) Weaponizing Anti-Semitism. (About UK).
Wieland Hoban. (Book). German’s Jewish Problem.
Jan Gross. (Book) Fear. (About Poland).
CHIEF THEMES: 1) OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL MUST BE DISTINGUISHED
FROM ANTISEMISM, 2) HOW CHARGES OF ANTISEMITISM HAVE BEEN USED TO SUPPRESS
DISSENT V. ISRAEL AND ITS ALLIES AROUND THE WORLD.
TEXTS
“Dissecting An ‘Antisemitism’ Psyop” by Caitlin Johnstone (May
03, 2026).
Reading by Tim Foley:
I recently watched a Sky News segment on
the need to ban pro-Palestine marches which nicely illustrates the way the mass
media have been working to manipulate the public into believing these
demonstrations are causing antisemitic attacks.
Reporting on British prime minister Keir
Starmer’s recent assertion that
the “repeat nature” and “cumulative effect” of pro-Palestine marches may
necessitate a ban on some protests following the Golders Green stabbing,
reporter Mollie Malone repeatedly told the audience of Sky News that the
marches are happening in the “context” of antisemitic incidents and “against
the backdrop” of attacks on Jewish people.
There is no evidence whatsoever for the claim
that pro-Palestine marches have anything at all to do with antisemitic attacks.
But watch how this Sky News propagandist marries the two in the minds of her
viewers by repeatedly mentioning them in the same breath and connecting them
with words like “context” and “backdrop”.
“The prime minister has gone somewhat further
than he has previously in discussing and commenting on how to approach and
manage these protests which we’ve seen for a long time now, but clearly they
now come against the backdrop of increased attacks on our Jewish communities,
most recently of course on Wednesday where two Jewish men were stabbed in
Golders Green,” Malone said.
Sir Keir Starmer has suggested some pro-Palestine marches
could be stopped because of their impact on the UK's Jewish community. Sky's @Mollie_Malone1
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Malone made the obligatory appeal to emotion
by talking about the feelings of British Jews by saying that antisemitic
attacks are “adding to fears among Jewish people,” and then said “it’s in that
context that these pro-Palestine marches are being discussed.”
I could make the exact same type of argument
to suggest that the faint humming sound from my refrigerator is causing the
pain in my ankle. I could say I’m experiencing ankle soreness and the soreness
is making my feelings feel very upset, and it is in this context and against
this backdrop that the buzzing from the refrigerator is happening. At no point
am I actually presenting evidence that the soreness in my ankle has anything to
do with the faint buzzing sound; I’m just using fallacious associations and appeals
to emotion to get you to think of them as having a causal relationship.
Malone uncritically quoted the UK’s
Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation Jonathan Hall asserting on no
basis whatsoever that pro-Palestine marches “incubate antisemitism,” then
repeated the bogus hasbara talking point that the phrase “globalise the
intifada” is “seen to incite violence towards Jewish people.”
“The context here is everything,” Malone
concluded after a few moments of pro-Palestine activist rebuttals to provide
the illusion of impartiality.
As the British political/media class have been
doing for days when discussing the Golders Green stabbings, Malone neglects to
mention that a third man who was not Jewish was also
attacked in the same incident, and that the assailant had recently
emerged from the care of a psychiatric hospital. You might think the
perpetrator’s extensive history of mental health struggles combined with the
fact that he did not solely target Jewish people would dissuade serious news
reporters from framing this as an act motivated by hateful ideology, but
British news media employees are not serious news reporters. They are
propagandists.
This frenzied propaganda push to stomp out
pro-Palestine protests across the western world has nothing to do with
protecting Jewish people from antisemitic attacks. It’s about protecting the
interests of Israel and the murderous western governments with whom it is
aligned, and nothing else.
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David
Spero. “Contrived charges of antisemitism are the
new ‘Red Scare’.” Editor.
mronline.org (9-8-24).
How an evidence-free smear is being used to suppress those
fighting for justice in Palestine.
Originally published: Mondoweiss on September 5, 2024 by David Spero (more
by Mondoweiss).(Posted Sep 07, 2024).
Inequality, Movements, State Repression, StrategyAmericas, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, United StatesNewswire1946-57), Antisemitism, Red Scare, U.S.
Senator Joe McCarthy (R – WI
U.S. Senator Joe
McCarthy (R—WI, 1946-57) would
have been proud. In the 1950s, McCarthy led a series of hearings
and shadowy ‘investigations, attacking supporters of labor and progressive causes as
‘Communists.’ Evidence of wrongdoing was not provided and not needed, only
allegations. People lost their jobs and their careers, faced hostile grilling
by Congressional committees, and were sent to prison after being accused of
Communism by McCarthy and his allies.
The “Red Scare,” as it
was called, came to resemble the witch hunts in 17th-century New England. Now,
supporters of Israel have resurrected McCarthy’s tactics, condemning all who
call for peace in Palestine or an end to U.S. military aid to Israel as
‘antisemites.’
The new McCarthyites
smear as Jew-haters anyone who calls for a ceasefire in Gaza or says “Free
Palestine.” They have attacked universities, labor unions, and school districts
around the country. Current targets include professors, doctors, students, and
staff at my former employer, the University of California at San Francisco
(UCSF) Medical Center. . . . MORE
Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism. PRA (8-24-25).
Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism is a six-part
miniseries brought to you by Political Research Associates and Diaspora Alliance. We explore how to understand
antisemitism and its weaponization and to fight for collective liberation. Amidst
rising authoritarianism and Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the stakes are higher
than ever.
Alleging “Antisemitism” is a feature of authoritarianism and White
Christian nationalism. And as Israel’s destruction of Gaza continues to unfold,
its defenders use cynical charges of antisemitism to repress grassroots
movements demanding an end to the devastation. This not only distracts from the
urgent work of winning justice for Palestinians, but it also makes
understanding and fighting antisemitism significantly harder. We need a
rigorous analysis of how authoritarians use antisemitism and its weaponization
as tools to repress progressive movements and to dismantle democracy itself.
Featuring
wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and incisive conversations with leading
experts —from journalists and scholars to organizers and policy analysts—co-hosts
Shoshana Brown and Ben Lorber explore what antisemitism is, how it’s
weaponized, and ultimately how we can fight it, in the service of liberation
for all.
Jonathan Kuttab. “Antisemitism Is Sin. Period.” FOSNA: Friends of Sabeel North America friends@fosna.org (1-20-22).The attack this past week on the synagogue in Texas, following other recent
attacks on synagogues and Jewish establishments, is an important reminder that
the scourge of antisemitism is alive and well in the United States.
We at FOSNA, as
adherents to Sabeel Liberation Theology, have always been clear that such
antisemitism, alongside all forms of racism and discrimination, are not
only condemnable but are a grave sin and an affront to the concept of a
universal God who created and loves all people. Given the history of
antisemitism in the West and the despicable practice of churches and theologies
to justify and in some cases mandate such cruelty, it is important that our
critique be theologically grounded and expressed both in teachings and
practices that confront and unequivocally reject antisemitism. The dehumanization
inherent to such bigotry appeals to the basest elements in human nature,
collectively scapegoats vulnerable groups for the ills of society, and
masks the political-economic interests of those in power. While true that it
might be no longer acceptable to openly espouse antisemitic views and hatred
for Jews, the sentiment still exists under the surface, often appearing in the
form of “Christian Nationalism” and manifesting itself in open discrimination
and hatred against other groups as well.
Those involved in the
fight for justice for Palestinians must resist any possible temptation to blame
all Jews for the sins of Zionism and the state of Israel and must distance
themselves from those, particularly on the right, who would pretend to champion
the Palestinian cause merely to hide their own racism and antisemitism—which
can just as easily turn against Arabs, Muslims, immigrants, and people of
color. Such antisemites are no allies or partners in the struggle for justice
and equality.
It is also disturbing
to find those supporters of Israel and Zionism who are willing to “give a pass”
to known antisemites, so long as they profess support for Israel and its policies.
At the same time, we
must be conscious and critical of those who are quick to label any criticism of
Israel and any support for Palestinians as antisemitism. This was recently
illustrated by the former Israeli ambassador’s attack on actress Emma Watson (of Harry Potter
fame). He accused her of antisemitism for no reason other than that she shared
a pro-Palestinian tweet, simply stating: “solidarity is verb.” This is just one
high-profile example of the long-standing policy to use the charge of
antisemitism to silence and intimidate any and all calls for justice and
equality in Palestine.
The only way to combat
this phenomenon is to be clear on the theological and moral grounds for our
rejection of antisemitism and bigotry. . . .
“We
need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism.” Mronline.org (3-13-21)
MR
Online MR Online
We need to decolonize our understanding
of antisemitism as a matter of urgency. And that means ditching the IHRA
definition of antisemitism. We need to decolonize our understanding
of antisemitism first appeared on MR Online. | more…
Originally published: Patheos on March 6, 2021 by
Robert A. H. Cohen (more by Patheos)(Posted Mar
12, 2021). Culture,
Ideology, Inequality, RaceGlobalNewswireAntisemitism, Campus, IHRA, Israel, Jews, Palestine, racism, Union of Jewish
Students of Britain and Ireland (UJS), Zionism
I don’t want
antisemitism to be misunderstood. I don’t want Jews, Zionism and Israel to be
conflated. I don’t want to be perceived as supporting an oppressive and
undemocratic State, just because I’m Jewish. I don’t want to be associated with
a one-dimensional interpretation of Zionism which denies another people their
history and identity. I don’t want the definition of racism against me to mean
another people cannot protest the racism against them.
But if I support
the IHRA definition of
antisemitism, all of this is exactly what I’m signing up to. That’s
why we need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism as a matter of
urgency. And that means ditching the IHRA. . . .
“Call to Refuse the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism.” Forwarded
by Joanie Connors May 26, 2025 .
Those who are academics may wish to consider signing this Call to
Senior University Administrators to Refuse the IHRA (International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance) Definition of Antisemitism:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZxGhOjFVyTvTKgTnByNGDwszDcRSAj1-uFyphwqMtNCTPFA/viewform
“Call to Senior University Administrators to
Refuse the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism”
We, the Genocide and
Holocaust Studies Crisis Network
and allies, are a group of scholars with expertise in histories of
antisemitism, genocide, the Holocaust, the history and sociology of fascism,
and hate speech. We come from diverse backgrounds and carry diverse religious,
social, and political identities. Based on our extensive research, we urge
all universities to refuse to adopt the problematic and confusing International
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance [IHRA] Working Definition of Antisemitism. We
urge university administrators across a broad spectrum to join in asserting
that protest and criticism of state violence constitute protected speech on
campuses.
Conceived as a legally
non-binding definition of antisemitism in 2016, the IHRA definition is now in
the process of being adopted into law by our states, the federal government,
and our universities. By accepting the IHRA’s conflation of criticism of Zionism,
Israeli state policies, and violence against Palestinians with antisemitism
(i.e. anti-Jewish prejudice), university administrations have harmed students,
faculty, and community members -- many of them Jews -- who rightfully protest
Israel’s destructive assault on Gaza. Citing its chilling effect, even its
co-author, Kenneth Stern, has repudiated the IHRA definition’s current uses.
The IHRA definition
constitutes an attack on constitutional rights to free expression and has
functioned to discipline, detain, expel, and deport students and scholars.
University administrators have the power to come together and assert that the
actions of Mahmoud Khalil, Badar Khan Suri, Rümeysa Öztürk, and others
wrongfully arrested simply for expressing their political views, are not
antisemitic.
We request that you
use your authority as university administrators to reject the misperceptions
that impede free inquiry into the complexities of Jewish and Palestinian
histories. Labeling anti-Zionist Jews as antisemitic, for example, encourages
the erasure of a long history of Jewish anti-Zionist organizations and
political parties. By generating a false understanding of antisemitism,
universities allow attacks on anti-Zionist Jews for the way they identify as
Jews. This very real antisemitism puts Jews in danger. The IHRA definition of
antisemitism also sanctions Palestinians for merely describing the reality of
systemic Israeli racism that they face, and it thus silences, excludes, erases, defames and/or
dehumanizes Palestinians and their narratives. Finally, the adoption
of the IHRA definition risks curtailing faculty members’ freedom to teach these
histories that have been studied and documented extensively, including by
Jewish and Israeli scholars.
Universities should be
safe and welcoming environments for all students. We believe that it is the
university’s responsibility both to prevent and respond appropriately to
discrimination and racism of all kinds, to protect Native people, Muslims,
Jews, Arabs, Black people, Asians, Latinos, people with disabilities, and
LGBTQI+ people. That responsibility also includes recognizing the right of
students to take part in peaceful protest.
We hope that you share
our vision for a university where academic freedom, political expression, and
the protection of marginalized students and faculty are paramount. It is time
to work towards restoring universities as spaces where complex histories can be
studied freely and all legitimate scholarly and political opinions can be
heard. We request that you work together across universities to realize this
vision, which institutions articulate but have not done enough to protect.
Rejecting the IHRA definition is one concrete and powerful step towards making
this goal a reality.
“How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission” by Michael Felsen (May 19, 2025). Portside Snapshot (May 21-25).Hatred of Jews because they are Jews is anathema wherever it rears
its ugly head, it should be called out. But anti-Israel statements should not
presumptively be equated with antisemitism, nor pro- Israeli statements imply
an absence of antisemitism. Felsen
provides five principles for moving forward.
Eric Alterman.
“Shut Up About the Jews Already….”
The Nation (Oct. 22, 2012).
This
past reflection on the deliberate confusion of the phrase “anti-Semitism”
applies to the ferocious conflict between Israel and Gaza in 2023. If thinking is to be clear and not only a
weapon for domination, we must distinguish between Jews and Israelis
. Criticism of Israel or Israeli leaders
or policy is not a criticism of Jews; that would be anti-Semitism. Today critics of Israel’s assault on Gaza
are accused of being anti-Semites, a ploy to divert the world from the
horrendous crimes by Netanyahu’s government.
Alterman calls such misdirection a familiar type of McCarthyism
that turns victims into perpetrators.
“As Israel gets more murderous, we’ll be
hearing even more about ‘Antisemitism’” by Caitlin A. Johnstone. Mronline.org (9-28-24).
The very first time you get accused of hating Jews for
voicing legitimate criticisms of Israel’s actions, you immediately understand
that the whole narrative about an epidemic of “antisemitism” in our society is
a complete lie.
GLOBAL HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM
The 7 Deadly Myths:
Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West by
Alex Ryvchin. Cherry Orchard Books,
2023, 114 pp.
Review by Thomas Klikauer To link to this article:
https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2023.2265716 Published online: 05 Oct 2023.
Alex Ryvchin’s The
7 Deadly Myths: Antisemitism from the Time of Christ to Kanye West starts
by asking: “Why have the Jews been so despised and so brutalised throughout
history?” One possible answer to that might be found in Götz Aly’s
masterfully written, Why the Germans? Why the Jews? (2015). Another
answer, as Ryvchin suggests, might be the fact that, throughout history “the
Jew is a convenient scapegoat.” Perhaps it is also because “the most common
explanation [is] that antisemitism comes from jealousy for Jewish success” (8).
Beyond that, “the Jew is hated because of how he or she is perceived to think”
(10) and what he or she represents. Apart from these possible explanations of
why Jews are discriminated against, Ryvchin correctly insists on spelling
antisemitism as one word without capital letters and not as antiSemitism.
(Indeed, as Deborah E. Lipstadt pointed out in Denying the Holocaust (1993),
spelling it with a capital ‘A’ would elevate anti-Semitic ideology which is
what Holocaust deniers want.) He notes that the original source of the word
“antisemitism” dates back to the German (no surprise here) agitator Wilhelm
Marr in the year 1879. In the 1930s, German Nazism added race to
antisemitism. The Jew is hated for being a Jew and being part of something that
does not exist: the Jewish race. One is inclined to think of the countless
victims and what they might have thought: I have done nothing wrong. Under Nazi
ideology, Jewish people did not need to do anything wrong, being Jewish was
enough. In its institutional form, Nazism might be gone, but antisemitism is
not. As Madeleine Albright once wrote, “it is easier to remove tyrants and
destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.” Antisemitism
lives on. It is not at all surprising that Ryvchin found that “a poll
conducted in the United States in 2020 found that a majority of Americans
thought the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust was a third of the actual
number. Nearly half were unable to name a single concentration or death camp.
One in ten believed the Jews had caused the Holocaust” (10). Perhaps even worse
than what Americans believe are the 14,000 antisemitic messages sent to Jewish
institutions in Germany in the recent past. Much of antisemitism dates back to
medieval Europe where “laws were enacted to isolate the Jews” (176). For
example, in Basel in 1434, Jews were forbidden from getting academic degrees.
Jewish people could not enter a medieval guild (Zunft). Ryvchin argues that
with “the rise of national movements and nation states . . . the Jews became a
problem to be solved” (17). Actually, Jewish people did not simply become a
problem to be solved, they were made into a problem. And what eventually
followed was “the Holocaust [as the] final fulfilment of every antisemitic
fantasy.” Yet one is tempted to argue against the premise that “the question of
Why the Jews? remains ultimately unresolved” (18). Books like Alex Ryvchin’s
make a valuable contribution to solving this question. Then of course there is
Götz Aly’s other book Europa gegen die Juden which is not off the mark
either. Eventually, Ryvchin closes his introduction with “each antisemitic
attack, each synagogue shooting can be attributed to one of the seven myths”
(19) of antisemitism. With that he begins his, much too short, book
of seven chapters: “The Blood Libel”; “Christ-killers”; “Global Domination”;
“Chosen”; “Money”; “Dual Loyalties”; and “Oppressed to Oppressors. . . .”
Magda Teter. Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antiisemitic
Myth. Harvard UP, 2020. 560pp. Rev. David Nirenberg. “The Impresarios of Trent: the long and
frightening history of the blood libel.”
The Nation (11-30/12-7, 2020). And other libels v. marginalized groups.
“Wikipedia Calls Key Zionist
Lobby ‘Unreliable’.” Consortium News
(6-16-24).
Robert
Inlakesh says the pushback against the ADL is a rebuke to the definition
of anti-Semitism adopted by U.S. universities, companies, governments,
political parties and lawmakers. Read here...
“We’ve seen this “antisemitism crisis on the Left”
script before” BY Caitlin A. Johnstone.
Mronline.org (6-19-24).
It sure is a crazy coincidence how
western politicians and media always start urgently telling us about an
invisible epidemic of left wing antisemitism every time western military ties
to Israel are subjected to widespread public scrutiny.
“The West believes antisemitism is a more
egregious problem than genocide.”
Editor. mronline.org (5-13-24).
Originally published: Pearls and
Irritations on May 10, 2024 by
Henry Reynolds (more by Pearls and Irritations)
(Posted May 12, 2024)
Human Rights, Ideology, Inequality, WarAmericas, Gaza, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, United StatesNewswireAntisemitism
The loss of Western authority as a result of Israel’s
genocidal attack on Gaza has merely sped up changes already underway for a
generation.
LAW: US, ISRAEL, GENOCIDE, FREE SPEECH, ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Last
week, the D.C. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in a lawsuit against
the American Studies Association and some of its former leaders for a 2013
resolution endorsing the academic boycott of Israel. The D.C. Superior
Court dismissed all claims last
year, most of them under a D.C. law designed to deter lawsuits that target
people who speak out on matters of public concern. The defendants include Dr.
Steven Salaita, an advocate for Palestinian liberation who joined the ASA
board two years after the resolution and who we represent in
this case.
“As this seemingly interminable
litigation continues, I watch in awe as thousands of students, faculty, and
community members face down extraordinary repression in their devotion to
Palestine's liberation. I am honored to join them in refusing to back down.” – Dr. Steven Salaita
Last week’s hearing took place amid a nationwide crackdown
on student protests calling on universities to divest from Israel as it wages a
genocidal campaign in Gaza. The case emerges from a longstanding pattern of
assaults on the free speech rights of Palestinian solidarity activists.
Read the full press release on our website.
“The New Anti-Antisemitism: Colleges Invite
Police to Pro-Palestinian Camps” by Rabbi Arthur Waskow via uark.onmicrosoft.com the Shalom Center
The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.
Rick Perlstein. . . .We are reprinting excerpts from his article called “The New Anti-antisemitism” on the pro-Palestinian campus encampments supporting a ceasefire and peace in the war between Israeli and Palestinian regimes. For the whole article see https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-08-new-anti-antisemitism-college-protests-gaza/. — AW, ed.
“The New
Anti-Antisemitism [Colleges Invite
Police to Pro-Palestinian Camps]” By Rick Perlstein
You might have already stomached some of the
videos of last week’s most harrowing abuses. At the University of Wisconsin, a balding, bespectacled professor face down, two cops pinning
his left arm sharply behind his back, and a disabled professor getting her
dress torn and suffering internal damage from police strangulation. The
65-year-old former head of Dartmouth’s Jewish studies program who dared scream
“What are you doing?” at cops being taken down with a wrestling move that also
left her with an arm wrenched behind her back. Then a second cop arriving to
keep her pinned as a third looks on blithely, rifle at the ready. (She
was suspended by her university for her trouble.) At Washington
University in St. Louis, a 65-year-old professor, a Quaker, was told by his doctor he was “lucky to be alive”
after absorbing a flying tackle from a very large officer for the sin of
filming cops with his cellphone, then being dragged to a nearby patch of grass,
writhing, then to a police van, where he fell limp. . . .
Not to slight, amid this Orwellian catalog, those who are just plain lying.
As press critic and higher-education historian Will Bunch points out, on the campus of Ohio State in Columbus, one of several
schools that let snipers aim rifles at students, the administration first said there weren’t any snipers. “When
presented with evidence, they admitted the truth.”
Any historical account of how this madness presently comes to pass might start,
not in the 1960s, but with a pattern so ancient it’s practically more
archaeological than historical: the claim of outside agitators.
The actual examples of alleged Jew-hatred that have been adduced are so
threadbare. A protest leader arrays the bodies of protesters as a human shield against those who’ve
shown up to oppose their protest. One cries—at a protest leader who, for all we
know, just as well might be Jewish—“We didn’t say a word! My friend had a
Jewish star necklace! All the sudden we’re surrounded, they’ve been circling
us, they’re threatening us.”
I mean, think about it: Do we complain when strikers who put up a picket don’t
let anti-union activists join the line of march?
[After quoting pages of Perlstein’s excellent, circumstantial expose of the
repression of dissenters, Waskow concluded]:
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“When Condemning Anti-Semitism Becomes
a Pretext to Criminalize Palestinian Speech” by Faisal Kutty. Posted On January 13, 2026. Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2026, pp. 70-71.
IN THE WEEKS following the anti-Semitic
mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia, political leaders, media
commentators and pro-Israel advocacy groups have converged on a troubling
response: calls to restrict or ban the phrase “Globalize the Intifada,”
discipline student protesters and treat Palestinian political expression as
inherently dangerous. What is unfolding in Australia is not an isolated
reaction to a horrific crime, but part of a broader pattern visible across
Western democracies—including the United States and Canada—where legitimate
concern about anti-Semitism is being transformed into a vehicle for suppressing
Palestinian speech.
The premise underlying these efforts is simple
and deeply flawed: that slogans, protests or expressions associated with
Palestinian resistance are causally linked to anti-Semitic violence. This
premise is not only unsupported by evidence; it is dangerous. . . .
Jonathan Cook. “The Antisemitism Industry doesn’t speak
for Jews. It speaks for western elites” Mronline.org (3-16-24).
Film-maker Jonathan Glazer’s crime at the Oscars was to
threaten the establishment’s stranglehold on the West’s narrative about
Israel–and itself
Jonathan Cook. “How the ‘fight against antisemitism’
became a shield for Israel’s genocide.”
Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a
political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause.
So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.
ISRAELI INFORMATION CONTROL
“Israel Lobby-Linked Group Tied To Illegal
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News. PopularResistance.org (2-21-24). Even as Israel pounds Gaza into rubble,
carrying out what has been described as a genocide in the process, many of its
supporters are attempting to change the subject, instead decrying a supposedly
new wave of dangerous antisemitism across American universities. Their evidence
for this is a new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute
(NCRI). Entitled “The Corruption of the American Mind,” the study alleges
that Middle Eastern funding of U.S. universities has helped unleash a torrent
of anti-Jewish hatred. Yet, as we shall see, not only does the report
contain... -more-
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HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM
HOW THE ISRAEL LOBBY WEAPONIZES ANTI-SEMITISM
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Foreword Iris
Hefets. Afterword Mitchell Plitnick.
A leading German-Jewish peace activist dissects Germany’s authoritarian
crackdown after Gaza. From
German gentiles confidently charging Israeli Jewish expats with antisemitism,
to the German state’s decades-long project to stifle free speech under the
guise of combating “antisemitism,” to German officials mobilizing their
historical responsibility for one genocide to justify participating in
another—Wieland Hoban guides us through the grotesqueries of German
“memory culture” and shows their lethal consequences.
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POLISH ANTISEMITISM
Jan Gross. Fear. FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL
JEWISH BOOK AWARD, NAMED
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD.
Publisher’s
description: Poland suffered an exceedingly brutal Nazi occupation during the
Second World War. Close to five million Polish citizens lost their lives as a
result. More than half the casualties were Polish Jews. Thus, the second
largest Jewish community in the world-- only American Jewry numbered more than
the three and a half million Polish Jews at the time--was wiped out. Over 90
percent of its members were killed in the Holocaust. And yet, despite this
unprecedented calamity that affected both Jews and non-Jews, Jewish Holocaust
survivors returning to their hometowns in Poland after the war experienced widespread
hostility, including murder, at the hands of their neighbors. The bloodiest
peacetime pogrom in twentieth-century Europe took place in the Polish town of
Kielce one year after the war ended, on July 4, 1946. Jan Gross's Fear attempts
to answer a perplexing question: How was anti-Semitism possible in Poland after
the war? At the center of his investigation is a detailed reconstruction of the
Kielce pogrom and the reactions it evoked in various milieus of Polish society.
How did the Polish Catholic Church, Communist party workers, and intellectuals
respond to the spectacle of Jews being murdered by their fellow citizens in a
country that had just been liberated from a five-year Nazi occupation? Gross
argues that the anti-Semitism displayed in Poland in the war's aftermath cannot
be understood simply as a continuation of prewar attitudes. Rather, it
developed in the context of the Holocaust and the Communist takeover: . . .
The 'fear' of Mr.Gross's title . . . is not just the fear suffered by Jews
in a Poland that wished they had never come back alive. It is also the fear of
the Poles themselves, who saw in those survivors a reminder of their own
wartime crimes. Even beyond Mr. Gross's exemplary historical research and
analysis, it is this lesson that makes "Fear "such an important
book."-"The New York Sun".
"After all the millions
dead, after the Nazi terror, a good many Poles still found it acceptable to
hate the Jews among them. . . . The sorrows of history multiply: a necessary
book." -"Kir, An astonishing and heartbreaking study of the Polish
Holocaust survivors who returned home only to face continued violence and
anti-Semitism at the hands of their neighbors "[ Fear ] culminates in so
keen a shock that even a student of the Jewish tragedy during World War II
cannot fail to feel it."--Elie Wiesel. . . . .
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