There are more #Evangelicals that are #Zionists than Jews and both groups subscription to zionism makes it very clear it is not exclusively a Jewish belief and therefore criticism of zionism cannot be #antisemitic. Full stop.
#DartmouthCollege professor arrested during protest: 'It's really shameful
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Story by Hannah Cotter
5/2/2024
"Video captured by News 9 showed the moment #Orleck was arrested by police during the protest. She said she was among a handful of professors who showed up to support students at what she called a peaceful protest until law enforcement arrived in #RiotGear.
"'And it's really shameful in a sleepy little campus, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this ridiculous show of arms and strength and violence,' she said.
"She also wanted to address Gov. #ChrisSununu calling the protests against the war in #Gaza#antisemitic. She said she's a #Jewish woman and did not feel safe after last night's police response.
"'As a Jewish woman of an age that I grew up in a neighborhood full of #Holocaust survivors and knew Holocaust survivors, I have to say that I think this is disingenuous,' she said. 'It's a weaponizing of #antisemitism for their own #political purposes, which is to #SuppressDissent. And if, in fact, as the governor and the college president said, the point is to make the campus safer for the Jewish community members, I have to say that what happened next made it decidedly less safe for all of us.'
"Orleck, who has been a professor at Dartmouth for more than three decades, said as part of her bail condition, she is being banned from Dartmouth's campus. She said her emails to the institution have gone unanswered."
“The Anger in the region [about Palestine] is palpable and it is traumatic. When people are consuming daily images of massacres of people suffering and yet they hear that United States willfully enabling it by continuing to send bombs, it makes people lose complete faith in the United States.
“This is painful to me as an American Diplomat. I've worked for the last 18 years to straighten ties between the United States and other counties; to advance US interests, to promote America's image, but this policies [Arming Israel without condition] made it impossible. How can we talk about Press Freedom when we remain willfully silent about the killing of so many journalist.”
– Hala Rharrit, First U.S. Diplomat to Quit over Gaza
“Right now, we are looking at the possibility of mass starvation and famine in #Gaza. When you make those charges, that is not #antisemitic. That is a reality.”
Benjamin Netanyahu has been rattled by the US campus protests and has claimed they are anti-semitic. Moya Lothian-McLean of
Novara Media explains why Netanyahu's claims are not supported by reality.
Ryan Millsap’s apology for his messages, which were revealed by a ProPublica and Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation, comes as influential #government and #entertainment officials said they were disappointed by his derogatory rhetoric.
I assume most Israelis, the vast majority of whom distrust & loathe #Netanyahu & want him replaced, are picking up what Gantz is laying down about #Israel's real natsec interests (i.e., maintain diplomatic respect & trust with the US –which is obviously impossible w/Bibi calling the shots).
Serious Q: Have Israelis decided keeping #Bibi in power forever is worth pushing US power to the "Jews Will Not Replace Us" party (GOP) for keeps? B/c that's where all this is headed in 2024 election.
Gantz:
I am now truly concerned that people in Israel do not understand that insisting on letting Netanyahu run a forever war is going to come at the cost of delivering the US government into the hands of the fascist Republican Party, which likes to use Christian Zionism to whip up its most fanatical & racist base, but which builds its electoral strategy around intentionally increasing #antisemitic terrorism & scapegoating Jewish people globally & in US.
See @blogdiva's great thread from a week ago on the fascist #GOP's use of #antisemitism AND so-called #ChristianZionism. Often in the same breath. Like fascist ethno-state booster Richard Spencer, who calls himself a "white Zionist" & praises the state of #Israel for being “the most important & perhaps most revolutionary ethno-state."
#Gaza / UN security council passes [a draft] resolution calling for immediate ceasefire, as US abstains
The UN Security Council voted today (Monday) in favor of a draft resolution including a "demand" for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire during the month of Ramadan, which ends in about two weeks, and for the "immediate and unconditional release" of the hostages. 14 countries supported the draft resolution, the United States abstained, since it does not include condemnation of #Hamas - but did not use its veto.
I really am concerned that people in Israel do not understand that insisting on letting Netanyahu run this war is going to come at the cost of delivering the US government into the hands of the fascist Republican Party, which likes to use Christian Zionism to whip up its most fanatical & racist base, but which builds its electoral strategy around intentionally increasing #antisemitic terrorism & scapegoating Jewish Americans. Do they think this is wise? Not care?
Like fascist US ethno-state booster Richard Spencer, who calls himself a "white Zionist" & praises the state of #Israel for being “the most important & perhaps most revolutionary ethno-state."
TOM COTTON who is METHODIST just called CHUCK SCHUMER, a mensch from Brooklyn who had family murdered during the #Holocaust, an antisemite.
sit with that for a sec: an Arkansas Republican —who aligns himself with the antisemitic evangelical "Christian Zionist" movement— just called ANTISEMITE, USA's highest ranking Jewish official.
what is the end goal of Christian Zionists? colonize #Israel & convert Jews to Christianity... 🧵
"While their support for #Israel is supposed proof that their program is not anti-Semitic, CUFI’s adherents’ interest in Israel is little more than a declaration that Jews are only useful insofar as they trigger the end of days. Palestinian suffering — including that of Christian Palestinians who come from some of the oldest Christian communities in the world — has no meaning in #Christian#Zionist belief."
#US / Israeli Faces Charges After Assaulting a Protestor in NY Who Addressed Him as “genocidal Jew”
An Israeli named Yotam Dankner has been charged in New York with “strangulation, assault and criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation” of a protestor named Simon Miler. Dankner claims Miler addressed him using the allegedly #antisemitic slur "genocidal Jew."
Dankner, who is represented by multiple lawyers, expressed surprise at being charged. His lawyer stated: "The DA's office has decided to weigh into the current Gaza-Israeli situation by arresting and charging a private citizen who was insulted by an antisemitic bigot who repeatedly used the antisemitic slur against him."
On social media, Dankner had previously commented on protests against Israel's policies in the occupied Palestinian territories, referring to the protesters' ethnicities and genders, presumably in an attempt to delegitimize their criticism.
Dankner was released on bail and awaits trial for the alleged assault on Miler.
Ths idea that saying @israel is an apartheid state is #antisemitic becomes really laughable when you know about ISRAELI-based groups, ngos, and people who also agree with this.
Analyse: Was tun gegen Antisemitismus im Kulturbetrieb?
Antisemitismus im Kulturbetrieb ist kein neues Phänomen. Jetzt sorgen Aussagen zu Israel und dem Gaza-Krieg bei der Berlinale-Preisverleihung für Empörung. In der Kritik steht einmal mehr Kulturstaatsministerin Roth.
@tagesschau
"Yuval Avraham demands an apology from the KAN Broadcasting Corporation for framing his speech at the #berlinale as #antisemitic; 40 filmmakers signed a statement of support."
The clips, which included unaired, #antisemitic remarks by #KanyeWest, were published by Vice & MediaMatters
Tim Burke, a freelance journalist & #media consultant, has been charged w/ 14 federal #crimes, including #conspiracy. Burke was #arrested this morning….
But no-one with even a half-functioning moral compass.
Screaming "#antisemitism" when people point-out the atrocities #Israel is committing in #Gaza is the surest way of guiding people towards #antisemitic feelings. And that's not fair at all to the #Jewish people as a group. But #Netanyahu et al. won't care. In a way they are the biggest antisemitism promoters there are.
I had no idea referring to the tentacles of the Jewish lobby might sound antisemitic! 😆
"The #NewSouthWales premier, Chris Minns, has warned parliamentarians about sowing division in the community after a #Greens MP apologised for referring to the “tentacles” of the “#Jewish lobby” and its influence across #Australia.
The Newtown MP Jenny Leong said she did not intend to reference an #antisemitic cartoon depicting #Jews as an octopus when she made the comments at the #Palestine Justice Movement forum in #Sydney in December, where the boycott movement against #Israel was being discussed."
The video shows Michael Yon making false claims regarding so-called "#terrorists coming across the border being funded by #Jewish money." Yon was speaking at a "Take Back Our Border" convoy in Texas.
In the video posted on X, formerly Twitter, the man can be heard claiming that #HIAS, a global Jewish nonprofit that works to protect refugees, is responsible for funding terrorists coming to America."