BREAKING: The House just passed HR 6090, which expands the definition of antisemitism to include criticism of Israel.
Let me be clear. People have rights. State governments do not have rights. This terrible bill sets a dangerous precedent & does nothing to actually decrease or stop the scourge of antisemitism. The Senate should not pass this bill and Biden should not sign it into law.
Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests: Antisemitism is Weaponized to Silence Dissent
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“. . . Even being anti-zionist is not anti-Semitic. There are hundreds of thousands if not more of ultra Orthodox Jews including some who are in the Israeli government who are anti-zionist, but they are not anti-Semitic. They see themselves as the epitome of Jewishness and Jewish tradition.
“So there is politics and there is prejudice and if we don't make distinction between the two, then what we are actually doing is enforcing a kind of silence over the policies that have been conducted by the Israeli government for a long time; and that ultimately culminated now in the utrter destruction of Gaza.” -- Omer Bartov, Israeli Holocaust Scholar
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