On Monday, President Biden smeared protesters at college campuses around the country opposed to the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as “antisemitic.”
“I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that,” Biden told reporters. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
Biden’s comments came as the media is focused on Columbia University in New York City, where students have set up a camp named the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment.” Some of the students involved in the protest were arrested last week and suspended by the university, prompting a walkout by faculty members to show support for the students.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has also smeared protesters as “antisemitic,” saying, “I am horrified and disgusted with the antisemitism being spewed at and around the Columbia University campus.”
The demand of the protesters is for Columbia University to divest from companies profiting from the Israeli slaughter of Palestinians and the occupation of the West Bank. Al Jazeera reported that the protest is being organized by the student-led coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voice for Peace. According to the CUAD’s website, the coalition includes 116 organizations.
The situation at Columbia has led some members of Congress to call for the National Guard to break up the protests, including Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).
Critics of the protests have accused the demonstrators of harassing Jewish students, which has been a common claim about recent college protests in general. Peter Beinart, editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, made the point on X that Jews are usually “overrepresented” among pro-Palestinian protesters at colleges. “Sometimes they’re the largest identity group. Maybe folks calling for cracking down on protesters in the name of Jewish safety should consider their safety too,” he said.
A commenter at a different site accuses Soros of funding Palestinian groups. He had no evidence other than some article. It doesn’t really make sense that he would.
Why not? He is a bit of a humanitarian isn’t he? There is certainly a need in Gaza at the moment.
One concern is the pro-Palestinian groups, some, might be intended to make Palestinians look bad. False flags.
He has been behind provocateurs in other countries. Billionaires are usually about billionaire interests, no matter who they support in political parties.
He’s a speculator. He wanted to put money into Ukraine, but demanded a profit and strong US leadership, 2015:
George Soros: I may invest $1 billion in Ukraine
George Soros has long called for the West to pump billions into Ukraine. Now he says he’s ready to walk the talk.
The veteran hedge fund investor told an Austrian newspaper he was prepared to invest $1 billion in the collapsing war-ravaged economy under certain circumstances.
“There are concrete investment ideas, for example in agriculture and infrastructure projects. I would put in $1 billion,” he told Der Standard. “This must generate a profit. My foundation would benefit from this, not me personally.”
The Hungarian-born billionaire said Europe and the U.S. must show strong political leadership over Ukraine — that would make it more attractive to private investors. The West could provide finance at European interest rates close to zero, for example.
A spokesman for Soros said his investment would depend on the West doing “whatever it takes” to rescue Ukraine.
https://money.cnn.com/2015/03/30/investing/ukraine-soros-billion-russia/index.html
Soros is just a cashier. Behind him is standing American oligarchy.
That’s what I figured. However, his successor is somewhat of an activist and thusly closer to his heart.
So, I figure Soros is a bit of both.
I’ve seen this thinking from writers who follow Steve Bannon, and probably Breitbart as well. . They blame “Soros funding” on everything they don’t like, including pro Palestinian activities.
It was from Revolver News commentary, which is similar to Breitbart. I mostly just post here and occasionally there.
He has funded color revolutions. It would be nice to know the context of this assertion.
I’ll provide the full context by reposting his comment here. All I need do is scroll back through my comments.
No telling what the truth is, maybe it is a false flag, but he is an old man and it is a crazy time.
No, they are not antisemitic. But Blinken is complicit in genocide, a self proclaimed Zionist murderer.
Arabs supporting Arab positions is understandable.Spitting at and threatening someone for the crime of wearing a skullcap is not.
Pluz – Jewish Voices for Peace are being attacked by Likudniks.
Video testimony of anti-genocide Jews in London
https://t.me/VanessaBeeley/27048
“Never again” means never again, FOR ANYONE. That was the purpose of the 1949 laws against genocide.
And Hamas started its genocide on Oct 7,and brought ruin upon its own people.
Evey person is entitled to their own opinions,no matter how absurd they may be.Every person has a right to protest peacefully,or walk around peacefully,c/o fear of threats or worse.
They better be careful throwing that label around. Some people may become OK with it. Surely there is space between objecting to what the Israeli government and settlers are doing and anti-semitism.
Palestinians are Semites; so, it’s pure Idiocracy.
There is a difference between connotation and denotation. The term antisemitism was invented to mean hatred of Jews.
Words have meanings, except when used by the press. Then we’re off to the Red Queen’s domain.
Antisemitism now just means “is critical towards Israel” and nothing more. This is what Zionists have whished it to mean and this is how they use it. They were warned against this cynical ploy so many times it isn’t funny. So that is how language works. Semantics follows actual use. Congratulations with that victory.
newrepublic dot com
ADL Officially Admits It Counts Pro-Palestine Activism as Antisemitic
Adrienne Mahsa Varkian
Yes. It is everywhere the case. And it is not exactly a novel thing, invented only after october ’23, this deliberate identification and subsequent substution of antisemitism for antizionism. They know of course they can’t use the accusation of antizionism as contrivance to silence dissent with any chance of succes. You don’t accuse people who protest racism or genocide based on racism of being antiracist in order to shut them up.
You have to make stuff up to achieve that. And however cynical everyone extacly knew this ploy was, it was quite succesful for a while. But it is just dealt out too brazenly and getting too obvious for too many people in too short a timespan to maintain the desired level of effectiveness.
Protesting against Zionism is like protesting against the Ku Klux Klan.
Protesting against Jews is like BEING the Ku Klux Klan.
Unfortunately, there are always some people doing the latter in the guise of doing the former, making it easy to paint the former as the latter.
Absolutely true. Those latter people who protest Jews I don’t think I could despise more. You have no business protesting Zionism when such is your motivation.
Protesting against Zionism is like protesting against the Ku Klux Klan.
Protesting against Jews is like BEING the Ku Klux Klan.
Unfortunately, there are always some people doing the latter in the guise of doing the former, making it easy to paint the former as the latter.
Protesting against Zionism is like protesting against the Ku Klux Klan.
Protesting against Jews is like BEING the Ku Klux Klan.
Unfortunately, there are always some people doing the latter in the guise of doing the former, making it easy to paint the former as the latter.
Some criticism of Israel is just,some is antisemitic.
How does criticism for genocide of 30,000 innocent women & children fit into your framework of what is just, or antisemitic?
The “anti-Semitism” smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on
A campaign to disparage progressive writers makes a shameful comeback.https://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/the_smear_campaign_against_cap_and_media_matters_rolls_on/
Words and phrases have a life of their own and change when necessary to fit the times & circumstances. All language changes & also evolves..
Last year, CAMERA’s blog published a post titled “Anti-Semitic Echoes in Iran Deal Debate” and denounced Obama for suggesting that lobbyists and well-heeled interests were opposing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).Obama, defending the JCPOA, had told The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart:I guarantee you, if people feel strongly about making sure that Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon without us going to war, and that is expressed to Congress, then people will believe in that. And the same is true on every single issue. If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds.CAMERA concluded, “[I]t is bigoted to invoke anti-Semitic tropes to tar Jewish Americans or those who represent them in Congress,” effectively saying that it is anti-Semitic to discuss the massive budgets deployed to defeat the Iran dea
http://lobelog.com/will-clinton-follow-the-money-on-foreign-policy/
Israel and the US government leadership are the key promoters of antisemitism by tying a genocide to judaism instead of to Zionism. This has, and will have, truly devastating consequences globally for innocent people who do not support the carnage in Gaza.
The most outspoken voices in the US, at least, are Jewish, like Finkelstein, Blumenthal, the Mates, Greenwald, etc.
You’re the first one on the list Gen Joe…!
He is an idiot. And old, drooling idiot. He does not have an original thought. Policy is directed by others. Stopped peace in Ukraine in 2022. Enables genocide. What a record.
He knows. He just doesn’t give a shit.
Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On ‘Antisemitism’
The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/04/23/israel-is-turning-hospitals-into-mass-graves-while-the-west-fixates-on-antisemitism/
Part of the intent on destroying the remaining medical system is because the “official” statistics of the Gaza Ministry of Health of Palestinians killed is only accumulated through the medical facilities. The reason why the death toll has stagnated in recent weeks is because with so few facilities functioning at all, and those barely or totally unable to send in the counts the MoH doesn’t have new numbers to add to it. It certainly hasn’t been because the slaughter has slowed down.
At this point the only thing we know for sure is that they’re dramatically undercounting the fatalities. The true death toll is definitely much, much higher (although probably not Nader’s claim of 200,000 yet).
Yhe Luftwaffe bombed hospitals in Poland and Britain in WWII. Look it up.
So did the u.s. – “look it up”!
Hey, I ran across the article I mentioned a while back that I had saved. Links to the agreement inside the article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights
Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses
Revealed: review of internal state department documents shows special mechanisms have been used to shield Israel from US human rights laws
That’s a banger. The US should be a co-defendant for this at the ICJ.
I ran across it randomly looking for something else. Pretty damn shifty.
The State Department, NSC and EOP blob is a crime scene.
Neocons are making antisemitism = to anti-Zionism and anti-Nazism. If Biden wanted to help Israelis, he did it very much unclever.
Translation “The donor class is really mad and I don’t want to lose their $”
He really, truly, does not care on a human level, though.
That’s because the only people allowed to rise to that level of society are sociopaths.
Biden has the bona fides, no doubt. It’s astonishing to me that stalwart Democrats still call him a “good man”.
The “good man” once called Social Security and Medicare “sacred cows”. I do not know if he encouraged him, but Obama, as President, suggested a means test for recipients of Social Security. No President has proposed raising the cap, or eliminating it. None.
“I was a robot for Zionism”… coming to an administration near you…
More like a robot for plutocrats and hegemony.
AIPAC, the child of AZC, should be registered as a foreign agent. There is nothing “American” about it.
Should Arab Americans who support their people in the MidEast,be registered as foreign agents-if they are law abiding-not at all
FJB
“I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I’ve set up a program to deal with that,” Biden told reporters. “I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.” is not funny. What’s funny is that anyone actually listens to this madness. But what’s funnier is these sentences were said by the “Leader of the Free World!” …No. …I’m not making this $hit up. Read it yourself in the article above.
Always difficult to ignore a train wreck.
“The situation at Columbia has led some members of Congress to call for the National Guard to break up the protests, including Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Josh Hawley (R-MO).” LOLOL. They could have blamed the whole thing on the Demo Rats. But the Repugninants can’t help themselves from committing the most deranged anti-constitution actions especially while they claim to support the constitution. …Yes! I meant to insult idiots by calling them idiots. …I didn’t call them idiots? …Okay, you are correct but it’s implied.
Tin soldiers and
Nixon’sNeocons comin’We’re finally on our own
This summer I hear the drummin’
Four dead in
OhioNYCGotta get down to it
Soldiers are gunning us down
Should have been done long ago
What if you knew her and
Found her dead on the ground?
How can you run when you know?
Classic!
Does bring back memories, doesn’t it.
Obviously I went down the Vietnam era rabbit hole.
Same here
Re “committing the most deranged anti-constitution actions especially while they claim to support the constitution.”
E.g. the slaveocracy’s secession from the union.
Protests are spreading to other universities. NYU, Berkeley, others. The kids know. If the National Guard is called in, will there be a Kent State II? If the protests carry into June, what happens at the Democratic Convention? I have read that universities have tried to insulate against on campus protests by closing off parks, forcing protests away from the universities. Universities have gone to great expense.
More at Cancel Culture. Kraft hedges his bets. He donated to Trump and to Democratic party AIPAC funds and yet complains about influence. Of course the NY Post spins the protests as thoroughly anti Israel vs Anti Genocide because that is their strong bias:
Patriots owner Robert Kraft calls tenured Columbia professors one of the ‘biggest problems’
“I think one of the biggest problems that we have to do something about is really tenure at these universities,” Kraft added. “Where people can do things and don’t have accountability.”
Kraft, who is worth $11.1 billion and has been one of Columbia University’s most prolific donors, announced earlier on Monday that he was pulling his financial support from the school “until corrective action is taken” to address the “virulent hate” plaguing the Manhattan campus.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/22/us-news/robert-kraft-calls-tenured-columbia-professors-one-of-the-biggest-problems-amid-protests/
I’ll relish his team’s many losses next year 🙂 …
“I think one of the biggest problems that we have to do something about is really unaccountable wealth by these crazy people who try to control all narrative to their desires”
… fixed it for Mr. Craft.
n.b.: thenation dot com
In the Fight Against Antisemitism, Robert Kraft Is Part of the Problem
Dave Zirin
There are very few tenured educators at universities. Adjunct professors are utilized. Less expensive. Part of the intrusion and influence of big business. In 1923, Upton Sinclair wrote. ” The Goose Step: A Study of American Education”. The premise is that students are taught to think in unison, their education controlled by financial interests.
Their education is controlled by ivy tower intellectuals that believe that only they have the answers, and will toss down a few nuggets to the spellbound “students”.
“Where people can do things and don’t have accountability.”
Here’s looking at you, Biden.
Everyone should be familiar with this famous quote: “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
Hmm, I’m guessing Germans aren’t in charge.
The German leadership is outright rabidly against these protests in a highly fascist manner.
Joe Biden has often professed in public that he is a zionist.
As a politician, Biden was bought out by AIPAC a long time ago and he keeps delivering, i.e. placing American interests behind Israeli interests.
The Labour files
https://youtu.be/elp18OvnNV0?si=UXIinWegi-xBbrOd
Who Is Funding Canary Mission? Inside the Doxxing Operation Targeting Anti-Zionist Students and Professors
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/canary-mission-israel-covert-operations/tnamp/
Lawsuit Links Wild UAE-Financed Smear Campaign to George Washington University
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/20/farid-hafez-muslim-lorenzo-vidino-gwu-uae/
FJB
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize” by Kevin Alfred Strom
Biden says he “has a program” to deal with the college anti-Israel protesters. Hmmm, wonder what that means? I’m thinking they will be treated similarly to the Jan. 6th protesters…locked up, assets frozen, etc. One thing this ME crisis has shown is that people like Biden are capable of oppressing anyone, conservative, liberal, whatever. He’ll burn his own voters for Israel. So when we see the establishment going after a certain segment of the population, and that segment isn’t one of our favorites, don’t jump to applaud, because you might be next if you don’t fall in line. I was always opposed to the way the Democrats treated the Jan. 6th rioters, and I’m opposed to how the Democrats are now treating the campus demonstrators. And BTW: Trump claims that Biden “abandoned” Israel. That should send chills up your spine.
Yes, I was puzzled by the program comment as well … what is it? Did the esteemed reporters ask??
I think he meant pogrom. That makes more sense.
Isn’t there a phrase, something about getting with the pogrom?
Palestinians for decades have lived in refugee camps/prisons, so the “program” means they will just get more crowded.
To me this signals just one thing: those genocide apostles are getting desperate. Being called an antisemite today by these vile genocide apostles just means you pass the lowest bar of being a decent human being; you are not enthusiastic for mass murder. You don’t delight in the mass slaughter of toddlers. You don’t desire to hunger people to death. You don’t relish in the deprivation of life saving medical help for people of the wrong race. You oppose genocide.
This is supposed to be an accusation now. This is desperation.
The only genocide was perpetrated by Hamas on Oct 7. The Hamas criminals are now being hunted down.
I do have some understanding, sympathy even, that you want to hold on to that mantra. Because if you still feel the need to regard yourself as a human being with some decency left you need to resolve an almost insurmountable amount of cognitive dissonance. The dilemma is clear: succes means the greater failure.
In other news, the Zionists of Israel are building a tent city, planning to “evacuate” 1 million Palestinians. One million. And we have Mr. Biden all in on it, as well as Mr. Fetterman. And other “reasonable” congressmen/women. I hate Trump. I hate Biden. I hate all but a couple of congressmen/women. This country is on its way to the trash bin of history.
Because Washington is Epstein island. Most of them have a skeleton in the closet. The Speaker was a changed man after being taken into a special room. He cane out having aclook of a dear in a headlight.
Can anyone explain how criticalizing non Semitic, European origin people is being anti-Semitic when it is being done by actual Semitic people?
Ridiculous.
It’s meaningless and bizarre.
Trump always told that story about the frog giving a ride across the river to a scorpion after the Scorpion promised not to Sting the frog at the end of the ride. Sure enough the frog was stung. When asking why the Scorpion said it’s my nature. I think it’s obvious that Trump was talking about himself being a scorpion and the people being the frog. He seems to be a major principal in getting the war funding passed by the Republicans. So yeah he may be slightly better than Biden but only slightly.
Biden will take advantage of the newly improved surveillance bill passed by the law abiding and protector of the constitution congress to target all critics.
I accept that there are some genuine, vile Anti-Semites among the protesters just as there are undoubtedly some genuine, vile Anti-Palestinians among their opponents.
The wise man would invite representatives of the protesting students to the White House for a honest, non-shouting talk about US policies on Gaza and Israel and how that might begin to include valid concerns about war crimes on both sides.
Why am I not surprised that you’re “both sidesing” a genocide, Dieter?
The use of “might” stands out within a truly incredible post.
NO group of people due to their religion, sex, race, ethnicity, get’s to commit MASS SLAUGHTER of defenseless human beings. Call them whatever you want, how about Zionist Mass Murderers , is that OK? But do NOT call them Semitic, that would be a LIE, do NOT call the Protestors Anti-Semitic, because that would be a LIE. This is about GENOCIDE being committed by the State of Israel, the USA, UK, EU, the Reps/Dems, the Evangelical Christians and it has to STOP. It is NOT Constitutional, or Lawful to commit Genocide and the Human Race is saying STOP!
What about those hundreds of anti-semitic bodies tied up and shot in the back?
Bunch of spoiled rich kids playing know it all. Real students are busy studying.
You don’t understand what is happening, which is just as well. Say ignorant, it’s safer.
Your motto? “I was just following orders”
You don’t understand what is happening, which is just as well. Stay ignorant, it’s safer.
Your motto? “I was just following orders”
Check this picture out. It is an article from the Libertarian Institute, and is in antiwar.com as well: https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/polish-president-says-country-is-willing-to-host-nato-nukes/
Make note of Biden’s smile. His face appears to droop on the left, which, to me, may indicate he has had a small stroke, or TIA.
Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group[2][3][4][5] associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping “Semitic languages” in linguistics.[6][7][8] First used in the 1770s by members of the Göttingen school of history, this biblical terminology for race was derived from Shem (Hebrew: שֵׁם), one of the three sons of Noah in the Book of Genesis,[9] together with the parallel terms Hamites and Japhetites. Wikipedia
President Joe Biden is not bother with the moniker Genocide Joe, he is deeply sensitised to the nickname his father gave him “Joey” Joey Genocide will greatly effect him.
How can pro-Palestinians be antisemitic, if they support Palestinians who are semitic?
Logic does not apply when it comes to the privileged race.
It is propaganda and deception, not logic.
You know who is in the pocket of the lobby when Anti-war protesters are the bad guys and the people committing atrocities are the hero’s.
Serious question: Is there anyone alive with more innocent blood on his hands than Joe Biden?
A few examples among many: He fully supported economic sanctions against Iraq that from 1991-2003 killed 500,000 Iraqi civilians. Wrt the Iraq War, which he had been pushing for since the mid-1990s, no Democrat save Bill Clinton was more responsible then Biden for corralling Congressional Democrats’ support for Bush’s war. Biden was fully behind the destruction of Libya in 2011, and the destruction in Syria beginning in 2010.
Biden’s contributions to mass death around the world can be tallied in part through the Watson Institute’s Costs of War project, though be advised Watson’s calculations are extremely conservative.
sAnyone with a heart or or concern about the well being of people, especially the innocent women & all the children should be vehemently anti-slaughter of the innocent an anti anyone involved in mass killing. If the “Jewish State” and it’s leaders feel free to use genocide as a tool of war, they must then take the manifold precipitate of criticism & the opporium
The sheer, sheer audacity of anyone to call support for Palestinians “antisemitic”…!
Worse even is the tacit implication from Biden and other ASI fanatics, in calling protests “antisemitic”, that “semetism” is intrinsically genocidal, hateful, and murderous. It, and the religion oft associated with it, absolutely ARE NOT defined or related to those aberrant philosophies. So to oppose murder, hate, and genocide as if those are semetic traits or characteristics, is ucking fenraging.
Fuck biden.