The leaders of three large public school systems will appear before Congress on Wednesday to answer questions about how they have handled incidents of antisemitism on their school campuses.
The witnesses scheduled to testify before a House Education and Workforce subcommittee represent New York City Public Schools, the Berkeley Unified School District in California and the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.
The hearing comes amid a series of inquiries by the Republican-led committee into how universities have responded to pro-Palestinian student protests on campuses.
At first I thought they were using Netanyahu’s definition of antisemitism, pointing it at pro-Palestinian students. This is legitimate antisemitism, and absolutely needs to be addressed.
The problem is that the only reason they’re addressing it is because of Israel.
They were very tight-lipped about the bigots in Charlottesville chanting, “Jews will not replace us.”
And when this war is over, they’ll stop caring about antisemitism again.
Unfortunately, you’re probably right.
Ok yeah that absolutely needs to be stamped out hard.
They are using Netanyahu’s definition.
The Louis D Brandeis Center was founded in 2012, by a former Bush administration official.
LDB was founded to conduct lawfare at the behest of the Israeli Government.
They’ve been trying for years to change the legal definition of anti-semitism to include anti-zionism.
They focus mainly on suing student groups that they feel are too critical of Israel.
Check out their wikipedia for their long history of trying to prevent free speech.
Writing “kill Jews” on a wall is antisemitism, just like writing “kill blacks” is racism, or “kill Muslims” is religious persecution. Netanyahu uses the term incorrectly to defend against criticism of Israel. Jews =/= Israel.
Antisemitism is prejudice against Jews. Prejudice against Israel is nationalism.