SJP accused Israel of pursuing similar goals to a white ethno-nationalist, neo-Nazi-affiliated leader, and of carrying out racially motivated injections of non-whites. These accusations go well beyond those typically levied against other world nations. Drawing parallels to the Holocaust and invoking a variation of the Jewish blood libel is not a condemnation of Israeli government activity, but the deliberate use of historically sensitive language to attack the Jewish people. In other words, it is antisemitism.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s New Offensive on British Jewish Students
At my own institution, there has been a continuous anti-Israel presence on campus this term. Jewish students returned to their campuses this autumn to an intellectual battlefield far more divisive than we’ve seen for some time. Just as Jewish and Zionist student leaders attended conferences and training across the world...