Show threadpetersuberApr 29, 2025

Update. @michelle speaks my mind.

"I Can’t Believe Anyone Thinks #Trump Actually Cares About #Antisemitism."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-antisemitism-jews-israel.html

"Speaking on CNBC last week, #JonathanGreenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, cheered Trump’s attempt to exercise political control over #Harvard…In a shocking interview with The New Yorker…the Holocaust historian #DeborahLipstadt…praised Trump’s assaults on academia and [his] attempts to deport some pro-Palestinian activists. While in some cases she thinks the administration has gone overboard, she suggested that those who don’t give the president credit for standing up for Jews suffer from “Trump derangement syndrome.” It seems to me that there’s another sort of derangement at play here, rooted in the way Israel’s defenders conflate all but the mildest criticism of #Israel with antisemitism."

#Academia #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Opinion | I Can’t Believe Anyone Thinks Trump Actually Cares About Antisemitism

Jews should remember how Trump promised to “protect” L.G.B.T. citizens.

The New York Times
Jonathan EmmesediNov 13, 2024

Some Maccabi supporters engaged in repugnant hooliganism, but Deborah Lipstadt gets it right here:

>> “People are now saying the crowd was rowdy, the Israelis were saying, ‘Let’s kill the Arabs,’” Lipstadt noted. “I don’t care what they were saying, that doesn’t give you the right to kick someone when they’re down on the ground and make people say ‘I’m not a Jew’ in order to escape safely.” <<

The pogrom in Amsterdam reflects a troubling trend of antisemitism – The Forward

https://forward.com/forward-newsletters/looking-forward/673240/amsterdam-pogrom-violence-maccabi-tel-aviv-soccer-antisemitism-antizionism-netherlands-adl/

#Amsterdam #Antisemitism #Maccabi #DeborahLipstadt

How the Amsterdam pogrom is—and isn't—like Europe in the 1930s

The attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam crossed the line from fair criticism of Israel to violence against Jews and Israelis

The Forward
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Aug 20, 2024
@serge Had the privilege in 2019 to visit Warsaw and Krakow on a small group tour organized by https://taubecenter.org/. Now-Amb. #DeborahLipstadt, then still a professor at Emory, was the scholar in residence. There is an emerging Jewish community in Warsaw and, as the writer indicates, a thriving Jew-ish one in Krakow. Both cities have JCC’s — a newer one in Warsaw, a thriving one in Krakow. 1/4
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Oct 20, 2023
@jackLondon Yes, a fabricated reason. If you’re interested in learning more about this, suggest you read #AntisemitismHereAndNow by #DeborahLipstadt.
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Jan 28, 2023
@robinbrenizer True, although, if you go back to #DeborahLipstadt’sTrial, it doesn’t take an absence of survivors to make #HolocaustDenial flourish.
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))Dec 22, 2022
@amythewicked @abolitionbb @auschwitzmuseum @aaron I was fortunate to be there in 2019, as part of a trip led by #DeborahLipstadt. I had to leave the museum when I got to the vitrine of personal items like combs, lipstick, etc. It was too much for me to handle, especially after finding names of previously unknown relatives in the massive list that is on display.