We Can’t Let Antisemitism Be Weaponized to Criminalize Solidarity With Palestine
“More broadly, the IHRA definition misrepresents and fails to combat the roots of A form of oppression targeting Jews and those perceived to be Jewish, including bigoted speech, violent acts, and discriminatory policy. Learn more . It overwhelmingly defines antisemitism as mere individual Individual beliefs that favor one group over others, or disfavor a particular group, and/or laws, policies and traditions that inscribe such beliefs in institutions. Learn more — “hatred toward Jews” — which obfuscates how antisemitism is fueled by white nationalism [politicalresearch.org] and global capitalism. Isolating antisemitism, rather than understanding its place in the same systems that uphold An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more and Fear of or distaste for people or ideas thought to be strange or foreign. Often fomented to build support for anti-immigrant measures. Learn more , will only place both Palestinian and Jewish students in more danger.”