A flurry of Harvard students and groups are trying to backtrack on their support of a letter blaming Israel — as some business titans seek to blacklist them from future jobs.
Totally agree. I just thank god every day that it is completely and utterly impossible to criticize Israel without being an antisemite. Inexorably linked, for sure. Absolutely should NOT have nuanced or subtle opinions on anything.
Because of course all Jewish people live in Israel, and the Israeli government consists of everyone in the entire country, not just political leaders. God, it’s so good being right all the time.
It’s perfectly possible to criticize the Israeli government without being an antisemite. I do it all the time. This statement was not that by a mile.
The statement is antisemitic. The statement says that Israel is entirely to blame for the murder of Israeli civilians. It doesn’t express any sympathy for the dead, or the kidnapped, or the raped, or the burned, or the beheaded. It does not identify Hamas as having anything to do with what happened. That sort of rejection of reality is not an accident. It’s antisemitism.
What goes around comes around. Fuck you, antisemites.
I can’t understand how someone can be ignorant enough to think being anti-isreal is equivalent to being an antisemite.
Totally agree. I just thank god every day that it is completely and utterly impossible to criticize Israel without being an antisemite. Inexorably linked, for sure. Absolutely should NOT have nuanced or subtle opinions on anything.
Because of course all Jewish people live in Israel, and the Israeli government consists of everyone in the entire country, not just political leaders. God, it’s so good being right all the time.
It’s perfectly possible to criticize the Israeli government without being an antisemite. I do it all the time. This statement was not that by a mile.
The statement is antisemitic. The statement says that Israel is entirely to blame for the murder of Israeli civilians. It doesn’t express any sympathy for the dead, or the kidnapped, or the raped, or the burned, or the beheaded. It does not identify Hamas as having anything to do with what happened. That sort of rejection of reality is not an accident. It’s antisemitism.
Israel ≠ Jewish. Jewish ≠ religious always. Criticizing Israel ≠antisemite