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Special Report: What it's really like to be Jewish at GW, a campus 'hotspot' of antisemitism

National organizations have pushed a narrative that Jews are under siege on college campuses. The students say it's more complicated.

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The EoZ Definition of Antisemitism​

Antisemitism is
hostility toward,
denigration of
malicious lies about or
discrimination against

Jews

as individual Jews,
as a people,
as a religion,
as an ethnic group or
as a nation (i.e., Israel.)​

The formatting is deliberate, although not strictly necessary. It emphasizes that there is a list of actions that are included in the definition of antisemitism, as well as a list of potential targets, but the central and immutable point is that Jews are the object of vitriol.

The centrality of Jews to the definition contrasts with the IHRA Working Definition. The core IHRA Working Definition says the targets of hatred may be Jews, non-Jews, Jewish institutions, property or religious facilities. This is not strictly true. The target of antisemites is always Jews, and the others are simply proxies for Jews. For example, synagogues that are converted to churches may still have Jewish symbols on their facades, but they are no longer the objects of attack because there are no Jews associated with them anymore.

The definition has four types of general actions that define antisemitism, and five terms for the object of these actions. The objects represent the different dimensions of what it means to be a Jew.

“Hostility toward Jews” is, I believe, a better formulation than “hate towards Jews.” Hate is internal while hostility is generally noticeable to others. It does little good to make antisemitism a thought crime – antisemites usually don’t admit that they hate Jews, but they often display hostility towards Jews. “Hostility towards Jews” includes violence.

“Denigration of Jews” is any act or speech that unfairly criticizes Jews. This is emphatically not “criticism of Jews” – one can have criticisms of Jews as a people or a nation or as individuals without being antisemitic. Denigration crosses the line from rational to irrational.

“Malicious lies about Jews” includes all conspiracy theories involving Jews, and there are hundreds of them. It also includes any stereotyping of Jews: it is difficult to imagine a more heterogeneous group than Jews are, and any assumption that Jews all are on the same page with any issue is invariably a malicious lie.

“Discrimination against Jews” is obviously antisemitic, just as any discrimination against any people is bigotry. Notably, the IHRA core definition does not mention discrimination.

Now let’s look at the objects, Jews as “X.”

“Jews as individual Jews” means that the words and actions are directed against Jews simply because they are Jews.

“Jews as a people” emphasizes the peoplehood of Jews whether they are religious or not. Jews have been referred to as a people (“am”) since Biblical times. Attacking Jews as a people is clearly antisemitic.

“Jews as a religion” includes attacking Judaism itself. Again, we are only speaking of unfair or malicious attacks. Judaism may be criticized as may any other religion without it being antisemitic. (Admittedly, the language is a little stilted here.)

“Jews as an ethnic group” includes those who attack Jews for racial or xenophobic reasons. I didn’t want to say “Jews as a racial group” because Jews are emphatically not a racial group. Most Jews are, however, part of an ethnic group and have been discriminated against or attacked on that basis.

Finally, we reach “Jews as a nation (i.e., Israel.)”

The IHRA definition seems to bend over backwards to treat anti-Zionism as a special case of antisemitism. It isn’t. Any student of antisemitism knows how modern anti-Zionism is a new label on a very old bottle. Just because there is not complete congruity between Zionism and Judaism is not a reason to treat anti-Zionism as anything other than antisemitism – there is not perfect correspondence between Jews as a people, as a religion or as an ethnic group/tribe, either. Converts to Judaism aren’t ethnic Jews and most Jews aren’t religious. That doesn’t make attacks against those groups any less antisemitic.

The same goes for the modern State of Israel. As the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks eloquently stated,

Jews have lived in almost every country under the sun. In 4,000 years, only in Israel have they been able to live as a free, self-governing people. …Only in Israel can Jews today speak the Hebrew of the Bible as the language of everyday speech. Only there can they live Jewish time within a calendar structured according to the rhythms of the Jewish year. Only in Israel can Jews once again walk where the prophets walked, climb the mountains Abraham climbed and to which David lifted his eyes. Israel is the only place where Jews have been able to live Judaism in anything other than an edited edition, continuing the story their ancestors began.[iii]

Judaism and Israel are bound together. Jews know this - and the antisemites know this, too. Identifying with the State of Israel is a core component of what it is to be a Jew, not an exception.

Classic antisemitism says Jews poisoned the wells. Modern antisemitism says Israelis poison the wells and water.

Classic antisemitism says Jews delight in killing children. Modern antisemitism says the same about Israelis.

Classic antisemitism says Jews control major world governments. Modern antisemitism says the same about Zionists.

Classic antisemitism excludes Jews from clubs and organizations. Modern antisemitism excludes Zionists from “progressive” spaces.

There is no need to apologize for saying that modern antisemitism, in the guise of anti-Zionism, is just another flavor of classic antisemitism. The similarities dwarf the differences.

The IHRA Working Definition seems defensive when mentioning Israel. It says, “Manifestations [of antisemitism] might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.”

How is that different than criticism of Judaism, or criticism of Jews as a people? Any honest criticism is fair game for all those categories of what it means to be a Jew, not just for Israel. The IHRA does no favors by differentiating Israel from Judaism in this context.

We can run this same exercise against all the speech and actions in the first half of my definition. Hostility towards Jews as individual Jews, as a people, as an ethnic group or as a religion is clearly antisemitism – and so is hostility towards Israel as a nation. Hostility goes way beyond sober criticism, and it betrays the irrationality of the hostile party. Why single out Israel in this regard?

Denigration of Israel is similar. What other nation gets regularly denigrated? Saying Israel has no right to exist is on the same moral plane as saying Jews have no right to exist as a people – or that Jews are not a people at all, which is a favored accusation among Arab antisemites specifically to argue that a Israel has no right to exist as a homeland for people who merely share a religion. Again, classic and modern antisemitism are entwined.

Malicious lies about Israel fit in the same category as malicious lies about any group. The malice betrays the hate, and the hate is what drives the malice. The apartheid lie, the ethnic cleansing lie, the racism lie – they are just as illegitimate and revolting as the Christ-killing lie, the Elders of Zion lie, the Untermensch lie.

The same logic goes with “discrimination against Jews as a nation.” When Israel is discriminated against, we all know it is because it is the only state that is filled with and controlled by Jews. Vehement denials of antisemitism are not arguments.

For the purposes of determining what antisemitism is, Israel is not a special case of the collective Jew. It is a core example. Nowadays, it is perhaps the paradigm of being a Jewish object of hate.

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A plea to the @ADL (and others): read my paper and adopt my algorithmic definition of antisemitism

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I found an interesting 1921 book in German called "The Jew in Caricature," that gives a history of how Jews were caricatured throughout the ages up until the book's publication.

It appears to be a scholarly work, pointing out the antisemitic history of caricature. It discusses the phenomenon of Judensau - obscene sculptures and and drawings of Jews acting obscenely with pigs - at length. They can still be seen in cathedrals in Europe.



The author goes on to the 19th century with a large number of caricatures of Jews in popular magazines and newspapers.



Miss Goldstein, I've been looking for a woman for a long time for which, as my wife, I need not be jealous of. Why? Because jealousy is disruptive in business. and you Fraulein, would be just to my liking . . .




They find examples from all over the world.

Political flyer for antisemitic candidate Adophe Willette

Towards the end of the book the antisemitic caricatures of Germany circa 1919 are indistinguishable from Nazi posters.

It would be nice if someone would translate this book.

The Jew in Caricature (1921 German book)

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Last year I mentioned an Arab conspiracy theory that there is an "Islamic University of Tel Aviv" where Jews are taught to become secret Muslim preachers, where they infiltrate Muslim lands and corrupt the teachings of Islam.

An Egyptian news site has exciting new information about this fictional university:

Recently, publications about the Islamic University in Tel Aviv have spread on social media, and some have praised the validity of that information, and others have attacked that information, and it has become oscillating between truth and rumor.

In this dialogue with Professor Dr. Said Askar, who specializes in Islamic studies in the hadith and its sciences at the Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion, Al-Azhar University, he revealed to us much about the validity of the existence of the Islamic University in Tel Aviv.


Who joins Islamic University in Tel Aviv?

Only the Jews join it and those who study it are the Da’esh [ISIS] who claim their knowledge of the Islamic religion.

What is the purpose of this university?

The aim of it is to know the Islamic religion and its history and to search for loopholes, the aim of which is to question Muslims in their religion. And to study the conditions of Muslims in a systematic way so that they can know the weaknesses and strengths. This is what we find in some Hebrew newspapers and websites that speak of Quranic verses and hadiths and when they pretend to congratulate Muslims on holidays.

What is the benefit of distorting the Islamic religion?

The benefit is that they believe that the Islamic religion attacks Judaism and that they believe that they can respond to Muslims through religion. They can brainwash young people who join ISIS and create immoral principles of religion.

When was this university established?

A long time ago, because it was the one who brought out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who served a lot in the Israeli Mossad, and before they executed him, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi admitted this.

I would like to add to this that whoever leads Libya now is a graduate of that university... His militias and all leaders are Jews, and the evidence for that when some of them were arrested, they found their nationalities were Jewish.

From your point of view, Doctor, can the Arab world demand the demolition of this university because it is considered a source of terrorism?

Of course, the whole world must intervene, but normalization has spread in some countries, and if they talk about the demolition of that university, it will be said that this is an internal matter in Israel that no one can control but Israel.

Why wasn't that university known before that we only heard about it at this time?

Because it was secret in the beginning, like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but after the fall of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and others, the matter began to appear completely and many talked about it.

The only person I can find with this name at Al Azhar University is in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

"Islamic University of Tel Aviv" conspiracy theory grows

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Henri-Charles Dahan, born in 1947, was a young witness to the rising violence (‘the events’) against French rule in Algeria leading to the exodus of its Jews in 1962. In his grandfather’s generation, the main threat came from far-right white settlers (Pieds Noirs) who burned down his business. But in the 1950s, when Dahan attended the Lycee Bugeaud in Algiers, the purveyors of antisemitism were Muslim. Here is an extract from his eye-opening account of those times for Morial, the newsletter of the Algerian Jews in France. ( With thanks: Leon)

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Algeria: we left because of Muslim antisemitism • Point of No Return

Henri-Charles Dahan, born in 1947, was a young witness to the rising violence (‘the events’) against French rule in Algeria leading to the exodus of its Jews in 1962. In his grandfather’s generation, the main threat came from far-right white settlers (Pieds Noirs) who burned down his business...

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Antisemites in Los Angeles, California, stated their support for recent tirades against Jews made by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, by hanging banners over a freeway in the city and declaring that “Kanye is right about the Jews.”

It appeared that the racist Goyim Defense League was behind the move, with members photographed performing Nazi salutes beside the banner.

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Antisemites hang banner over LA freeway declaring Kanye ‘right about the Jews’

Goyim Defense League trying to capitalize on Ye's comments by targeting the Black community with antisemitic propaganda, ADL says

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Ofek Preis won’t walk to class by herself anymore. She’s afraid of being harassed for being Jewish.

“I’m just so burnt out from this. I just want to go to class and have a normal class. Then I remember that there is so much antisemitism here. It can be really debilitating,” said Preis, a 21-year-old senior at State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz.

“It’s shocking and triggering. You start to feel you have no control of your learning environment; you feel unsafe everywhere,” she told The Times of Israel.

Preis isn’t alone: Jewish students across the United States report being excluded from campus organizations, targeted on social media and harassed in classes by students and professors alike. Additionally, they’ve seen dormitories and sidewalks vandalized with swastikas, and buildings plastered with flyers that equate Birthright trips to Israel with genocide and call for Zionists to “fuck off.”

Yet, often lost in the coverage of these incidents is the emotional toll they take on the Jewish students.

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US students report jump in mental scarring from campus antisemitism, but see no end

From a Jewish sexual assault survivor targeted by her support group, to a pupil afraid to wear a Star of David, young Jews say they walk on campuses in fear of hate crimes

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An academic described by the UK’s Jewish Chronicle (JC) as a “disgraced anti-Zionist” recently shocked a televised panel discussion with his positions on Iran’s wave of popular protests, which seek regime change in the face of several high-profile murders of innocent women.

The discussion was televised on Red Line TV and included comments by Miller denying that Mahsa Amini was murdered, the JC reported. In reality, Amini was arrested for not wearing a hijab and died in custody, with all evidence pointing to brutal treatment at the hands of regime thugs as her cause of death.

According to Miller, “[W]hat was happening in Iran was ‘an armed insurrection from the outside which is being directed by the US and by Israel through their proxies.'”

Miller added, “Do you think that Palestine can be liberated without the Islamic Republic of Iran? Of course it can’t. It’s absurd – an absurd position.”

While he served as a professor of political sociology at the University of Bristol, he was fired in October 2021 after an internal investigation found he “did not meet the standards of behaviour [we] expect from [our] staff.”

According to the JC, the specific comments that ended Miller’s career at the university were references to Jewish students as “pawns” of the state of Israel and his call for “an end to Zionism as a functioning ideology in the world”.

Miller claimed there is an “all-out onslaught by the Israeli government, mainly through the ministry of strategic affairs but also other ministries too, on the left globally,” accusing Israelis of trying “to impose their will all over the world.”


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‘Disgraced Anti-Zionist’ Professor: Only Iran Can ‘Liberate Palestine’ | United with Israel

'Do you think that Palestine can be liberated without the Islamic Republic of Iran? Of course it can’t,' said David Miller during a recent televised discussion.

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ACT NOW! Demand CUNY Appoint Antisemitism Investigator Who is NOT Antisemitic | United with Israel

The City University of New York cannot be trusted to police itself on antisemitism.

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Adidas cuts ties with Ye over antisemitic remarks that caused an uproar

The decision follows a nearly decade-long relationship between the German sneaker giant and the rap superstar, also known as Kanye West.

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Hatred of Jews has been a feature of world history for centuries. But only in the late 19th century did a new specific word emerge to describe it.

What prompted the coining of the neologism “anti-Semitism” was the perception of an altered relationship between Jews and the peoples among whom they lived that could not accurately be described as mere “Judeophobia” or “Jew-hatred.” The felt need for a new word affected not just self-identified anti-Semites. It was recognized by Jews and non-Jews throughout Europe and wherever Europeans settled in the world.

Anti-Semitism, as a concept and a movement, was a response to the so-called Jewish Question, which was itself precipitated by the remarkable economic, cultural and political ascent of the Jews during the 19th century and their entry into mainstream European life. For some of the peoples among whom they lived, this rapid accumulation of power was ominously threatening. Accustomed to seeing Jews as small-time chiselers, heretics, peddlers, and parasites, they were now confronted by Jewish political leaders, cultural luminaries, bankers, captains of industry, army officers, professors, and bosses. No longer powerless outsiders, Jews were seen as wielders of surreptitiously acquired power.

Seeing only the dramatic success stories, this view ignored the thousands of still impoverished Jews dwelling in Eastern Europe and in the slums of central and western European cities. Nevertheless, it was the fear of what Jews would do with their wildly exaggerated power that animated efforts to disempower them before it was too late — first in Germany, and then in many other countries. Conservative Christians, disaffected democrats, former liberals, nationalists, cultural critics, thwarted academics, and visionary social reformers took action against the Jewish enemy in a variety of ways. Some, though certainly not all, were convinced that a mass movement organized on the basis of Jew-hatred was the best way to proceed — assuming, probably correctly, that the great majority of their countrymen harbored some degree of resentment, suspicion, or disdain for Jews.

The term anti-Semitism emerged to describe these efforts. In Germany, Wilhelm Marr, if not the coiner of the word then certainly one of its major early popularizers, thought of himself as a modern man, a student of history and science. Anti-Semitism allowed him to distinguish the party he launched in late 1879 — the Antisemites’ League — from the religious bigotry of medieval Jew-hatred. Like many (but not all) who shared his goals, Marr defined the Jewish Question as one of race, not religious deviance. In the past, persecution had been episodic; outbursts of terrible violence alternated with long periods of quiet relations between Jews and their neighbors. In Marr’s view, such lackadaisical Jew-hatred had allowed Jews to grow stronger and, in fact, launch plans for conquest of the non-Jewish world. Mere religious prejudice had failed to halt their rise. The Jews had become too powerful, too entrenched in society, to be beaten back by the occasional pogrom.

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Where the Word 'Anti-Semitism' Comes From | My Jewish Learning

Hatred of Jews has been a feature of world history for centuries. But only in the late 19th century did ...

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Chicago released its hate crime statistics for the year so far.

Through Oct. 18, 77 hate crimes had been reported to the [Chicago’s Commission on Human Relations,] a 71% increase from the 45 reported to the commission through the same period last year.

The most frequent targets were Jews (18). Black people were the target 16 times, while in 12 cases white people reported being targeted. After that the reported targets were members of the LGBTQ community (8, not including one crime specifically noted as anti-lesbian); Asian (5); biracial (5); Arab (3); Catholic (1).

Those numbers reflect only hate crimes reported to the commission; the Chicago Police Department received reports of 120 hate crimes during the same period.

The Chicago Police hate crimes dashboard shows things a bit differently. And the most frightening part is the increase of anti-Jewish hate crimes in Chicago. (The beige line is anti-Jewish crimes.)


Between 2021 and (partial) 2022, anti-Black crimes went from 22 to 27; anti-gay plummeted from 27 to 11, but anti-Jewish hate crimes skyrocketed from 8 to 25 - and there are still two months to go.

While hate crimes against Blacks and Jews are very similar in Chicago, in New York there is no contest - Jews "win" by far in every quarter and every year. Their word chart shows the comparative number of bias crimes so far this year:


Anti-Jewish hate crimes in New York more than double any other kind (and, worryingly, anti-Asian hate crimes are now #2.)

In Los Angeles, as of June 30, there were 39 anti-Jewish incidents, down from 48 in the same time period in 2021. Antisemitic crimes are #3, behind anti-Black and anti-Hispanic. But compared to other bias crimes against religions, anti-Jewish crimes are always far ahead of the rest, with only six incidents for all other religions.

And on a victim per capita basis, anti-Jewish crimes always dwarf every other kind of hate crime.

One would think that given this, and given that the motivations behind antisemitism are way different than that behind most other hate crimes, that these big city police departments would be spending more resources on the problem.

Not only NYC: anti-Jewish hate crimes skyrocket in Chicago, but down in LA

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Alvin H Rosenfeld, the Director of the Indiana University Bloomington Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism talks about how centuries old tropes of religious antisemitism are being recycled and expressed in today’s America.

 

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A close confidante of a Muslim Brotherhood cleric who defended Hitler and called for murdering Jews, was a featured speaker at recent back-to-back events in New York discussing Palestinian activism in the United States.

“Palestine is Al Quds [Jerusalem], and Jerusalem is Al Aqsa Mosque,” speaker Akram Kassab claimed at an Oct. 1 workshop, “Palestine: The Growth & Future of Our Cause.” He quoted his former boss, extremist cleric Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi: “What would Palestine mean if it has no Jerusalem or Aqsa Mosque? Palestine without Jerusalem is like a body without a head.”

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US Anti-Israel Group’s Events Feature Jew-Hating Extremist’s Acolyte

Jewish visitors gesture as Israeli security forces secure the area at the compound that houses Al-Aqsa Mosque, known to Muslims …

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Helmi Charif, who is running for Ward 3 in Windsor, posted on his Facebook page in March 2022 a bizarre theory in Arabic that “Zionists” are somehow orchestrating events taking place in Ukraine.

“From a comedian to the presidency of Ukraine, of course, with Zionist efforts led by the Ukrainian Jewish Zionist billionaire accused of corruption and actually ruling Ukraine, Ihor Kolomoisky and Zelensky is nothing but a puppet of Ihor’s hand. The Zionist lobby incited Ukraine to secede from Russia and join Europe,” Charif wrote on March 1.

The same day, Charif opined on Facebook that “Western media is now of course controlled by the Zionists.”

Writing on his Facebook page on March 30, he claimed that “Zionist mercenaries” are dedicated to destroying Christians and Muslims, writing “These Zionist mercenaries were not satisfied with occupying and destroying Palestine, but also went to Ukraine and ruined it. Wherever they go, devastation and destruction will occur. They consider themselves the masters of the world and, above all international laws, and their mission is to eliminate the Islamic and Christian religions.”

HonestReporting Canada has independently verified the translation of Helmi Charif’s words from the original Arabic.

These words go far beyond simply expressing an opinion, no matter how baseless and detached from reality. The term ‘Zionists’ suggests Jews in our estimation, and such a statement – that ‘Zionists’ are aiming to destroy Islam and Christianity – is in our view a modern day take on an ancient libel: that Jews have a secret plot to wipe out other religions.

At first glance, such statements can seem outlandish, even comical, but hardly dangerous, but tragically Jewish history has shown that concocted lies about Jewish control and plots have been used to justify horrific massacres against Jewish communities, ranging from the Crusades to pogroms in Europe, all the way to the Nazi Holocaust in the 1940s.

In short, creating and spreading antisemitic lies have been used effectively for many years to create very real violence against Jews.

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https://honestreporting.ca/windsor-municipal-candidate-spews-anti-israel-venom-on-facebook-where-is-the-news-media/