House to vote on antisemitism bill amid unrest on college campusesThe bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling to add a more specific definition of antisemitism than what exists in the Civil Rights Act.
Man it’s amazing to see how fast they can set aside their differences to pass things that are universally terrible. Really makes you believe in the institutions
If calling Israel racist makes me an antisemite, than I’m a proud antisemitic Jew.
All this has done is cause harm to Jewish people by devaluing the meaning of the word.
Yes, this. I remember Cenk saying this multiple times in recent weeks/months and I think he’s right (as are you). The actions of Israel are going to do more harm long-term to Jews everywhere as well as the short-term harm to Palestinians they are carrying out right now. It just adds more fuel to the fire and more ammo for those trying to whip up actual antisemitic hate…
Extra irony points that the same people that make apologies for the “Jews will not replace us” bunch are the same ones that have undying support for Israel, no matter what Israel does. Often cynically so because of their eschatological fantasies about Israel…
Exactly. People, all people, hate being labeled something they aren’t. By calling everything that isn’t 100% Pro-Israeli Genocide “Anti-Semitic”, you get people who have positive to neutral feelings about Jews slowly get more and more angry with the term and actually cause the antisemitism.
There was a similar backlash in the US against gay/trans people. And black people. And everything. When you adopt a policy of 100% for or against, binary only, you leave your 99% ally behind along with your 0%-support enemy.
The definition includes denying Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the State of Israel is a racist state and drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.
America is the land of the fucked. Israel is a racist state committing genocide against a peoples just like the Nazis did.
The idea that a state is required for self determination means Israel is an apartheid state by keeping Palestine an open air prison.
Jfc are we really this beholden to the state of Israel? Are we really Israel’s bitch?
What the fuck is wrong with our elected representatives, grow a goddamn pair. Israel cannot dictate American domestic policy. Freedom of speech… fuck.
It is extremely cheap and easy to purchase politicians in the U.S. Neoliberals (like Biden) and conservatives like Bitch McConnell have accepted money from Jewish funds like AIPAC for decades.
Unless they are progressives, you should assume every politician you see is purchased.
Israel DOESN’T dictate American domestic policy, evangelical Christians do. They believe that the existence of the state of Israel is a necessary step to bring about the Second Coming of Jesus, so they’re all in and absolutely nothing can sway them.
An all-powerful, omniscient creator of literally spacetime itself, and he needs an anthill–one that is, on his scale, far smaller than a subatomic particle–to defend his honor against other anthills within the same infinitesimally small particle and to keep defending their anthill by some arbitrary and tiny point in this spacetime so they can have an everlasting party together outside of his pet spacetime, of which that anthill is, itself, constituted.
Military industrial complex says hello.
When nazis pretend theyre protecting jews
But really they are just protecting other Nazis.
So long First Amendment, was a good run.
A special thank you to the media that helped launder the politics of those parties involved in undermining this fundemental human right. Fox, CNN, NPR, NY Times etc. your efforts have finally paid off for good.
Bear in mind that this still has to go through the Senate and Biden to be set in legal stone.
Sadly only a question of it will get through senate. Betting Biden can’t wait to sign it
Democrats support this bill. Joe Biden supports this bill.
Democrats (with the exception of the progressives) are as into genocide as Republicans.
Does Biden support it? I haven’t seen any evidence he plans on signing it (or anything to the contrary, either)
Several Democrats and Republicans have indicated they’d vote against it but is it reasonable to expect it will get through the Senate?
Ken Stern, the person who wrote the definition adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, testified against a basically identical version of the bill in a previous Congress. He basically said it was meant to help governments collect data on antisemitism and was never intended to be enshrined in law since some of the examples in the definition aren’t automatically antisemitism. He was concerned making the Dept. of Education use it would chill legitimate speech on college campuses.
Unfortunately, chilling legitimate speech on college campuses is the true goal of the bill so here we are.
…and just how do these assholes define “antisemitism”, I wonder? {reads}
Oh, of course. JFC. They are the most cynical bunch of jerkoffs…
Albert Einstein would be pissed off and tell the House to go to hell.
