It's great Josh Riley and Pat Ryan voted for a resolution condemning antisemitism. It would be less hypocritical if they also voted to quit funding Israel's genocide against the SEMITIC people of Gaza. Indigenous Palestinians are at least as "Semitic" as the western settlers in Israel, who are granted citizenship with the flimsiest connection to Judaism. These immigrants are major drivers of far right Zionist settler colonialism, which hides behind Judaism in it's naked quest for "lebensraum". Israel's obvious ethnic cleansing and takeover of Gaza is fueling Jewish antisemitism world wide. How many eyes for an eye are enough? Many Zionists openly call for exterminating ALL Gazans, not just Hamas.
By conflating protest against the Gaza massacre and boycott of the Zionist state with
antisemitism, our constitutional freedoms are being criminalized. Today the Palestinian freedom movement; tomorrow the climate justice, women's, civil rights, LGTBQ+ movements, and any speech our rulers don't like. Indeed some very bad actors like Trump, who called Neo-Nazi rioters in Charlottesville (August 2017) "very fine people", the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025), and Christian Nationalists, are all onboard with weaponizing antisemitism to silence liberal education, including progressive Jewish voices, while stoking actual antisemitism, as in demonizing Jewish "elitists" like George Soros.
Following the horrific police murder of George Floyd and so many others (Monica Goods locally), Wrong wingers countered "Black Lives Matter" with "All Lives Matter". Wouldn't it be awesome if all Semites, indeed all people mattered? Or are some Semites just chopped liver?
Edmund