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https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/11/05/no-theyre-not-protesters-or-peace-activists-theyre-antisemites-n4923649

There was a huge pro-Hamas protest in Washington, D.C., on Saturday afternoon that quickly degenerated into an orgy of hate against Jews and Israel.

Some estimates placed the crowd size at 100,000, although D.C. police refused to give any estimates. What was absolutely clear, however, was that there were very few “peace activists” in the crowd, given what they were chanting.

“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and “Long live the Intifada” was frequently chanted by marchers. Another chant intoned that Israel “does not have the right to exist.”

These aren’t protesters. They’re calling for the blood of Jews. And anyone who says differently isn’t listening.

Marchers smeared red paint on the white stone gates of the White House, screaming “Allahu akbar…F–k Joe Biden,” a New York Post reporter observed. 

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/11/02/virulent_antisemitism_and_the_rot_at_our_universities_149995.html

It is time for blunt talk. Jewish students at universities are being harassed and threatened in unprecedented numbers, with disturbing vitriol. That’s more than a danger for those students. It is a profound danger for a liberal, tolerant democracy. It is time to call it out and oppose it. It’s time to end it.

The attacks and violent demonstrations shine a particularly harsh light on the sorry state of higher education. The public has watched mass demonstrations against Israel on campus after campus. The demonstrators never mention the victims of the Hamas massacres, never condemn the terrorists, and often go beyond their support for innocent Palestinians to cheer Hamas.

University leaders, who postured on every fashionable issue, have responded with bland, spineless statements. It’s no surprise that parents are rethinking which universities their children should attend, and major donors are doubting whether universities are worthy of their support.

For Jewish students, these threats are real. They face harassment, intimidation, and bullying. The situation has been deteriorating for years, but the scale and ferocity of the harassment rose dramatically after Hamas launched its terror attack.

When some brave students have spoken out in Israel’s defense, they have faced the jackboots of campus bullies. Instead of protecting those students, universities have abandoned their fundamental duty to ensure a safe environment and promote open discourse about serious issues. The situation is most toxic at elite universities and schools in major cities, where anti-Israeli students are reinforced by angry local activists.

It is too mild to say, “This is the gravest, most antisemitic environment Jewish students have faced in recent years.” It’s worse than that. This is the most hostile environment Jewish students have ever faced in America.

Never before have Jewish students been subjected to this kind of venom simply for their heritage. True, their admission was limited by quotas until the mid-1960s. True, they were denied membership in fraternities and sororities and routinely excluded from the faculty. But they were never subjected to this kind of raw hatred. As the dean of Berkeley’s law school, Erwin Chemerinsky, a man of the left, put it, “Nothing has prepared me for the antisemitism I see on college campuses now.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/the_new_global_antisemitism.html

The global banner of anti-Semitism is once again being unfurled in a rage of rhetorical madness unleashed by the flailing Iranian theocracy. The growing success of the Abraham Accords that is slowly and steadily undermining the pathological consensus among Arab nations that there is something politically legitimate about denying the existence of the one Jewish state: Israel — threatens the smaller axis of anti-Semitism anchored by Iran. As more nations join the logical global dialogue of nations that is inevitable, the fringe extremism of Iran and its surrogates of Hezb’allah and Hamas are prominently exposed. This is why they launched the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust on October 7 and now are appealing for the aid of traditional American academic allies to rally global forces for deadly anti-Semitism. Jewish intellectuals understandably lift their voices against this pathology, but it is a moral duty now — especially with regard to American academic life — to stand up alongside our Jewish brothers and sisters against this deadly rhetoric.

“There is one battle — in Darfur, Iraq, in Gaza, in Somalia, in Afghanistan — against the Jews and we are fighting one enemy.” These are the words of former genocidaire and sovereign leader of Sudan, Omar Bashir, spoken at a political rally in Khartoum in 2009. The rhetoric is emblematic of a global 21st-century concert to promote injustice and genocide by pointing to the recurring global scapegoat — the Jews. Bashir was a huge proponent and practitioner of the new tool for rationalizing anti-Semitism: colonialism. Monday, October 9, was indigenous persons day, a holiday created largely by American and European academics to attack the historical holiday of Columbus Day. In this 21st-century mythology, human beings fall into one of two binary categories: indigenous and colonizer. It is not a coincident that on the Monday after the attack, that intellectuals celebrated their holiday with hardly any homage to the idea that Jews are the indigenous people of Israel. Though the Jewish community has better historical, anthropological, rhetorical, archeological, and sociological evidence for its origins in Israel than almost any other human community, it is excluded largely by academics from this community of preferred “indigenous.” This is an essential part of the new rhetorical mask for anti-Semitism: the colonialism critique. The idea that any human being is not indigenous is plainly absurd. The effort to create a moral binary of indigenous/colonizer is an arbitrary rhetorical act mediated by the power of academics wielding this rhetorical sword.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/black-lives-matter-and-the-worlds-oldest-hatred-anti-semitism-0e0c324e?mod=opinion_lead_pos8

Many who rushed to support Black Lives Matter following the death of George Floyd—professional sports leagues, Fortune 500 companies, placard-waving suburbanites—now seem shocked at how BLM reacted to the Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel. Yet nothing could have been more predictable.

During the previous round of major violence between Israel and Hamas, in May 2021, BLM made its position clear. “Black Lives Matter stands in solidarity with Palestinians,” it tweeted. “We are a movement committed to ending settler colonialism in all forms and will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation.”

After Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israeli civilians, the same activists were just as unambiguous about which side they were taking and why. While the body count was still being tallied, BLM groups in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington issued statements supporting Hamas’s tactics. “Their resistance must not be condemned but understood as a desperate act of self-defense,” BLM Grassroots in Los Angeles wrote on Instagram. “As a radical black organization,” the post continued, it sees “clear parallels between black and Palestinian people.” BLM Chicago tweeted an image of a Hamas paraglider with a Palestinian flag attached to his parachute and the caption “I stand with Palestine.”

Anyone surprised by this response either hasn’t been paying attention or refuses to take the activists at their word. Organizations such as BLM have done nothing to hide or sugarcoat their animosity toward Israel. In 2016, four years before Floyd was killed by police, BLM released an official platform that referred to Israel as an “apartheid state” and declared that America is “complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.”