Antisemitism is Being Used to Silence Speech About Israel. Says Jewish Professor/Holocaust Expert.

Antisemitism is Being Used to Silence Speech About Israel. Says Jewish Professor/Holocaust Expert. NO SIGN OF ANTISEMITISM OR VIOLENCE AT PROTESTS
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Israeli Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Campus Protests, Weaponized Antisemitism, Silencing Dissent
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Apr 30, 2024
Democracy Now!
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"There was absolutely no sign of any violence, of any antisemitism at all," says Bartov, who warns antisemitism is being used to silence speech about Israel.
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"There's politics, and there's prejudice. And if we don't make a distinction between the two, then what we are actually doing is enforcing a kind of silence over the policies that have been conducted by the Israeli government for a long time that ultimately culminated now in the utter destruction of Gaza."
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As Biden administration and U.S. college and university administrators increasingly accuse peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters on school campuses of antisemitism, we speak with Brown University professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Omer Bartov, who visited the student Gaza solidarity encampment at UPenn alongside fellow Israeli historian Raz Segal.
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FAIR USE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES
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