Thread by @equalityAlec

THREAD. We seeing an organized McCarthyist campaign unlike any in decades.

Across the U.S., people are losing jobs, being disciplined at schools, losing contracts, being cancelled for lectures, being threatened, etc. It's predicated on the fallacy that Jewish people and non-Jewish people who criticize the far-right Israeli government are “antisemitic.”

My grandparents dealt with antisemitism for their entire lives. Weaponizing "antisemitism" to insulate a monstrous anti-democratic government and fascist vigilante settler violence from measured criticism and application of basic international law cheapens the concept.

In moments like this, it's important to keep two things in mind:

First, blackball campaigns like this are only successful if people--like professors, employers, politicians--let it be. If you have courage and reject it, the facade will crumble quickly.

Second, we need mutual aid to take care of each other. If we organize to support people being attacked, and if they know they are not alone and that they will be okay b/c people care, it reduces power of the right-wing forces to threaten people. So, go find someone and help them.

And whenever someone tells you criticism of Israel's violations of international law is about antisemitism, you can show them what the Israeli government is doing to its own religious communities who are opposed to its orgy of land theft and violence:

https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1719752311684071469

It takes only a moment of reflection for any thinking person to reject the idea that Ta-Nehisi Coates is "antisemitic."

https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1720088460021899553

On the other hand, take a look at how Zionist discourse is moving. There is a new law to revoke citizenship of Jews who are critical of the government. This is the editor in chief of the Jerusalem Post saying that Jews critical of the government are no longer Jewish: