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by uhhhd 393 days ago
"I know there were specific instances of Anti-Semitism, which were wrong and should be punished, but is there evidence Harvard didn't take action for those?" That is literally the allegation made in the lawsuit. And calling these protests merely "anti-Israel" is intentionally obtuse — it ignores the blatant anti-Jewish bigotry that was plainly on display.
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const_cast 393 days ago
> And calling these protests merely "anti-Israel" is intentionally obtuse

No actually I think it's right on the money.

Some vaguely brown people being very mad at Israel does not antisemitism make.

Are they denying the Holocaust? Are they saying Jews should die? Or... are they saying Israel is committing a genocide? Are they blaming those particular jews running Israel?

I think we all know it's almost entirely the latter, and almost none of the former.

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Jensson 392 days ago
> Are they saying Jews should die?

Quite a lot of people are. Just because some don't doesn't mean that others aren't.

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const_cast 392 days ago
In every movement there are going to be extremists and people with prejudice.

However, you don't need to be antisemitic to be anti-Zionist. There are pretty much infinite reasons to denounce Israel, and the state seems to be making more every day.

If I, or anyone else, wanted to make a poignant argument against Israel we could simple gesture to the pile of crimes against humanity the state has committed. We wouldn't need to resort to antisemitism.

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Braxton1980 393 days ago
>That is literally the allegation made in the lawsuit.

"I'd like to open my case against John Smith for murder your honor. My only piece of evidence that he committed this horrific crime is that he was accused of it. I rest my case"

>And calling these protests merely "anti-Israel" is intentionally obtuse — it ignores the blatant anti-Jewish bigotry that was plainly on display.

By all who were there or just some? Being the protest was open to all how can you lump all protestors together because of the views of some.

>intentionally obtuse

Because I avoided generalizations?

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slater 392 days ago
Why is it so difficult to understand that one can be against the actions of the current Israeli government, without being a raging anti-semite?
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