President Donald Trump has selected a new special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, elevating a Miami businessman named Yehuda Kaploun to the role.
“I will not be bullied,” said Carrie Prejean Boller. “I have the religious freedom to refuse support for a government that is bombing civilians and starving families in Gaza, and that does not make me an antisemite.”
For two decades, some Israeli officials & Israel partisans have worked to embed a new, Israel-focused definition of antisemitism in institutions around the world, from international bodies & national governments to college campuses in heartland America. As a result, advocacy for Palestinian rights is on the way to being curtailed and even criminalized as “hate.”
University announces the move as it tries to restore $400 million in funds frozen over its alleged failure to protect Jewish students
Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.
At least 45 world leaders attended the World Holocaust Forum in Israel to fight “antisemitism.” The event was organized by Russian-Israeli billionaire Moshe Kantor, who calls support for Palestinian rights “antisemitic.” Kantor is said to have been a “sponsor of the 2005 ‘Orange Revolution’ in Ukraine, which led to the cancellation of the presidential election…
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights resisted pressure to adopt an Israel-centric definition of antisemitism that Israel and its partisans have been embedding in institutions around the world…
Now at least 30 American campuses have adopted a newly manufactured definition of antisemitism that focuses on Israel, which can potentially be used to censor info on Israel-Palestine…
Harry Potter star Emma Watson expressed support for Palestine on social media, and all Azkaban broke loose.
Major Jewish organization call on Biden to adopt an Israel-centric definition of antisemitism for use by all federal departments and agencies… the definition defines many criticisms of Israel as ‘antisemitic’… some groups oppose the action, calling its use an ‘attack on academic freedom& free speech’