Framingham kids create 'Kill the Jews' social-media page

I don't think it helps reduce anti-semitism much to turn a blind eye to it when we agree with the general political stance of the anti-semites.

We really ought to acknowledge that anti-semitism is currently as much of a problem on the left as it is on the right. This problem has been building for years. If it is at the point when Jews cannot talk about anti-semitism at the Hannah Arendt center, it is a significant problem we shouldn't ignore.

In this case, the speaker was protested and prevented from speaking not when she was at the panel about Zionism (the speaker invited the protesters to come back to the panel about Zionism), or even a panel about Israel, but when she and two other Jews were presenting a panel about anti-semitism. Anti-semitism is the specific thing the speakers were prevented from talking about.

“Don’t you see that?” I asked. Didn’t they see that protesting Jews over Israel when they are not even talking about Israel is racist? Didn’t they understand that saying we were responsible for the behavior of the Israeli Jews just because we shared their ethnicity was racist? That making every conversation with Jews about Israel is racist?”

“The conversation about anti-Semitism is already inherently about Israel,” one of the students archly explained, repeating a deeply anti-Semitic trope that has been voiced across the spectrum from David Duke to Louis Farrakhan to Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters. Right-wing anti-Semites see any accusation of anti-Semitism as a Jewish conspiracy to take away the rights of whites, while left-wing anti-Semites sees the same accusation as an attempt to silence Palestinians.

Perhaps stupid bored suburban schoolkids who think they're anonymous will learn better. We have a chance with them. When the problem includes full-grown academics who stand by while Jews are dehumanized right in front of them, it's worse.

“The next time someone says, ‘What have you done to help Jews as anti-Semitism has spiked across the nation, as Jews have been murdered at their place of worship and Orthodox Jews get beaten to a pulp day after day in Brooklyn,’ you can say, ‘I sat idly by as Jews were protested for trying to talk about anti-Semitism. I allowed a Jewish woman to be held accountable — because of her ethnicity — for the actions of a country halfway around the world where she can’t even vote. I egged the protest on, in fact. And then I went to a party.’”

I don't like what's going on in Israel either, especially with Netanyahu. But this is about what's going on here in America. You just sent your girl to college. Is she going to be free to tell people she's Jewish without being attacked for it? Do you care?

"If you're unable to see the difference between some teenagers in a suburban town posting about gassing Jews and college-level debates about BDS"

FTA, 'There was some support for us from the audience, and Berkowitz, the conference organizer, and the Bard deans did apologize later, and even managed to usher the students out, finally, when during the Q&A and they chanted so loudly that we couldn’t proceed.'

The use of the heckler's veto to silence a conversation about anti Semitic actions is, well, anti Semitic. The college discussion was not about BDS.

MAGA mentality allows the whatabout of anything.

"Whataboutism, strawman, Trump". Very original Swirl, all that was missing was an arbitrary anecdote about your cousin's pediatrician having a firsthand experience related to the topic at hand.

You add nothing to the conversation.

I cited a fresh link about what the hell is going on at the, um, finest (read most expensive) colleges in the country. That's not a troll.

'Stephen Miller was always a complete loser asshole'

Nice. Now do Ben Shapiro.