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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Except your examples are not examples of anti-Semitism. As everyone knows now Zionists call every criticism of israel anti-semitic.

Take Ryna Workman, the president of the NYU Law Student Bar Association who sent a message to "y'all" expressing "my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination. Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life. . .. I will not condemn Palestinian resistance."

Did this man say "I want to kill all the Jews" according to you?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You have a weird hangup here dude. You aren't at all engaging with my comment about media coverage, but are instead pulling a random excerpt from the opinion piece a few days after the Oct 7th attack to discuss....what?

The opinion piece doesn't even call that 'antisemitism.' You cut off the lines immediately before it, which makes no claim in line with what you allude:

The Harvard students hardly stand alone in their abhorrent willingness to cast Hamas as freedom fighters rather than bloodthirsty terrorists. Equally offensive statements blaming Israel and effectively applauding Hamas abound at other universities and colleges too numerous to list. Take Ryna Workman, the president of the NYU Law Student Bar Association...

The author of that opinion piece is entirely entitled to the opinion that victim blaming terrorist attacks on civilians is offensive to them, just as there's plenty of opinion pieces to the other direction that denying human rights violations is offensive to a lot of other people. That's kind of the point of opinion pieces - to express an opinion.

But the brunt of the examples I provided in the main part of my comment (the many examples of religious leaders calling for the ethnic killing of the people they don't like) were completely in line with the OP article.

The last two were simply included as examples of how little the mainstream press covers "these people call for genocide" claims from any side except when relevant to recent news - and to that point one of the only two mainstream pieces was an opinion piece.

You're basically making my central point in citing the Newsweek opinion piece's shortcomings - that contrary to the theory of the person I replied to, there's little to no coverage of religious figure calls for violence outside of limited sets of articles with clear agendas.