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The scenes in Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem, Gaza, and throughout occupied Palestine ‘48 have driven home the point clearly to people around the world: The Israeli settler-colonial project is one of systematic, massive violence targeting the Palestinian people. As we mourn the at least 153 lives taken so far this past week throughout occupied Palestine and on the border with Lebanon, as we express our outrage at the Israeli settlers seeking to uproot Palestinians from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, we also recognize that this moment marks 73 years of the dispossession, expulsion and colonization of Palestine, the ongoing Nakba the ethnic cleansing, colonization and occupation of Palestine that continues to this day and 34 years since the Great Intifada of 1987, the echoes of which we see clearly in recent days.
For more than a century, ever since Adolph Ochs purchased the New York Times in 1896, his newspaper has proudly.
“On the left, individuals engage in antisemitism most when they talk about Israel – they do it in ways that demonize, delegitimize, or hold Israel to a higher standard,” noted Ali Rosenblatt in a Brandeis Center book review of David Hirsh’s
“Contemporary Left Antisemitism.” “Should anybody speak out and call it what it is, antisemitic, the accuser is then discredited and accused of ‘bad faith’ and trying to ‘silence criticism against Israel. ”
US Rep. Ilhan Omar, for example, has made antisemitic statements asserting that Israel has hypnotized the world, that Jewish money and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have driven criticism of past comments by her and fellow US Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and that Jews have pledged allegiance to a foreign country – Israel.
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