"If one is interested in combating antisemitism, one has to preserve the concept, one has to preserve the word. If we allow it to become just a stick by which people, including antisemites, beat other people, if we allow it to become just one more bureaucratic tool that the government uses in order to deny people their rights or in order to destroy higher education, then it can't be used for the thing that it's meant to be used for…."

#Trump #Musk #Republicans #antisemitism
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@TheConversationUS Well then, perhaps there’s hope for ending at least this ‘reason’ for #antisemitism because there is not an iota of contemporaneous evidence that a person named Jesus *ever existed*, even though he supposedly started a regional revolution during his lifetime. So the ‘blood libel’ is almost certainly just based on a made-up misunderstanding. Can we move on now?

Update. Defense of #Palestinian rights is not #antisemitism, let alone terrorism. It should not be grounds for campus discipline, let alone deportation. Calling it antisemitic is a dishonest attempt to use support for Jews to deny and suppress support for Palestinians, free speech, and human rights.

Not In Our Name (I've signed)
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vRt_jMNTlIH7ABX_s7fQFuspYWf_yN2OGzfbrVzhNoO87YWlCyPQzhaq2VcWYDGYvWJRfLq7lNtpnd4/pub?pli=1&urp=gmail_link

"We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine, politics in the Middle East, and student activism on our campuses. But we are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name – and cynical claims of antisemitism – to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities. We specifically reject rhetoric that caricatures our students and colleagues as “antisemitic terrorists” because they advocate for Palestinian human rights and freedom."

#Academia #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

@kmpiw @palestine
The IHRA definition associates Judaism with ethno-supremacism and genocide. So yes, it's antisemitic.

The Jerusalem Declaration is less problematic:
https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
#AusPol
#censorship
#zionism
#authoritarianism
#ForeignInfluence
#ForeignInterference
#genocide
#antisemitism
#Islamophobia

I mean it wouldn't be an anti-Musk/Trump protests without fascist propagandists claiming *checks notes* millions of protestors were a paid psy-op (and also, Hamas, apparently.)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/elon-musk-says-saturdays-protesters-were-paid-puppets-thats-not-what-i-saw/

Elon Musk Says Saturday’s Protesters Were Paid “Puppets.” That’s Not What I Saw.

"Musk chimed in on the same video: “The problem is the puppetmasters, not the puppets, as the latter have no idea why they are even there,” he wrote. “He had to read the paper he was given to understand the sign he was holding,” Musk wrote over a video of a protester explaining what his sign—which said “End the kakistocracy”—meant. Musk also shared several posts from the Wall Street Apes account on X, which has more than 929,000 followers, and right-wing influencer Mario Nawfal, who has more than two million followers, alleging—without evidence—that the protesters were paid.

Conspiracy theorist and journalist cosplayer Laura Loomer also alleged that “the radical left is BUSSING IN PROTESTERS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY TO CAUSE CHAOS IN WASHINGTON DC” who she claimed were “pro-Hamas,”an apparent reference to the fact that some were holding Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs."

Folks, I don't know who needs to hear that it is feasibly impossible for a "puppet master" (man, he even talks like Goebbels) to pay MILLIONS of protestors, but it is. Please keep in mind that when it comes to Musk, who is literally a fucking nazi, this is the same guy who was accusing George Soros of paying hecklers at his Wisconsin Volkish Revival rally while he was dishing out million dollar checks to voters for "signing a petition" in an effort to buy a judicial election. As for Loomer, I'm pretty sure she also thinks her Uber driver and any particularly "swarthy" person she encounters in public spaces is also "Hamas" if her past social media transgressions are any indication.

The bigger picture here is pretty simple; for whatever the Hands Off protests did, didn't, will, or won't accomplish, if these nazi maggots are scared enough to lie about it with poorly-coordinated conspiracy theories to try and explain it away for the cult of Trump, that means *they* certainly noticed millions of people giving up their Saturday to tell Trump and Musk to get in the fucking sea.