Are Jewish leaders afraid to fully call out antisemitism?

Vile hatred is not something that should exist in the United States, whether it is racism against the African-American community, whether it’s sexism, whether it’s homophobia, whether it is xenophobia, or whether it is Islamophobia... antisemitism is unacceptable; so are Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry.” Senator Sanders offered a second qualification to his objections to antisemitism by criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza, “There are very serious disagreements about what [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s government has done in Gaza… We can agree that antisemitism is unacceptable in all forms, but some of us happen to believe that the response of the Netanyahu government to the Hamas attack is also unacceptable.” AT A protest in support of Hamas activist Mahmoud Khalil, demonstrators call for a halt to all US funding of ‘Israeli apartheid,’ in Times Square. Qualifying objections to antisemitism – either by expanding the objection to all forms of hatred, conflating it with Israeli policy, or making it political – serve to dilute and minimize the objections to antisemitism.

Author: BY URI PILICHOWSKI

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