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This is a brilliant piece. You think with the precision and thoroughness of an academic but with such moral clarity; you do not hide behind jargon. With me, though I am not a Jew, you are preaching to the choir, but I still appreciate (I can't say enjoy) your piece. I wrote a piece that applied the criteria of the objections to the formation of the modern state of Israel for the last 75 years, and my conclusion is that if that were done honestly, there would be many protests going on. I will attach the article at the end.

But I have a question that I have never understood. I am a Christian, and I know the "Christ Killer" as an ancient anti-semitic trope. It was a Roman hit job, but regardless, and as you know, without the death of Christ (and resurrection, etc), there is no Christianity, so how can people object? Not to mention, Christ's death is a fulfilment of Old Testament prophets (and at least that's my Christian perspective, which I assume the Christ killer crowd agrees with).

I don't get it. I'm so surprised you have so few likes on this. Sadly, the best writers are buried in obscurity. Here are the two pieces I wrote, one that I mentioned and one on trying to trace the headwaters of anti-semitism.

Neither has your depth. I am a university lecturer (not a professor, not a trained researcher) and have been suspended for 13 months for saying I stood with Israel, and if you stand with Hamas, you stand with Nazis. A strangely overt antisemite @waelramadan48 was my accuser; I had hurt his feelings; though he wants a 7th-century Islamic theocracy and loves Hamas and wants Israel gone, he is oddly skilled and backwards engineering an HRC; it was the Vice Provost of my small university that filed the official Claim, and she has sworn that she will have my head for over a year.

But I am still here, and I am going to take her down. But we are in dangerous times; a Canadian University is hell-bent on firing an "I stand with Israel" prof based on hurt feelings (calling Hamas Nazis also made me violent and a threat to children, go figure) of an unshamed antisemite who says that Jews make clothing from gentile skin (I guess he's a bit old school on the antisemitic tropes). That's a red line; is the University of Guelph saying that anti-semitism is a baseline acceptable position and standing with Israel? We will sack you.

https://www.freedomtoffend.com/p/anti-zionists-should-be-much-busier? All the best over the holidays; I look forward to reading more of your work.

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Thank you for this thoughtful comment and I will have a look at your pieces -- and thank you for fighting the good fight on your campus -- if there's any way I can be supportive please let me know --

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I scanned this essay.

since Oct. 7th ...if I needed any support for knowing that anti Zionism is racism is antisemitism....there it is.... in stark relief...reading Can the Whole World be Wrong by Richard Landes....he reminded me that in 2014 all the demonstrations and slogans of Oct. 8th were all being utilized....all the intimidation, the specious arguments from "as a Jews" and on and on...

in 1975 the UN's racist Zionism is racism declaration was deflating....no one I knew was bothered by it....didn't say they supported it but weren't outraged.....

the only "jvp" member I've ever known was a work colleague and out and out trotskyite communist.   at college there was not yet a jvp but the few openly anti Zionist Jews I met were communist and  frankly Jew hating.  mad at the parents, the synagogue, the local rabbi, something happened on a trip to Israel?  I doubt the last...no one had been to Israel. 

So Buber and others ...see the State of the Jews from 2o years ago, Hazoni....made clear that some Jews made anti Zionism a safe haven for antisemites.   So you 've got the "jewish" N Yer, N Y review of Books, Forward, NY magazine giving prominent space to "as a Jews"   " I hate being a Jew ' jew' "  "the  P  o  C you can't touch me because WE have suffered and your are privileged WHITE people so quit your shrying and hogging the holocaust spotlight, cause Y'ALL ran the slave trade anyway......"   all in the forefront of doing what they can to destroy Israel.....How sad for them that the alleged ogre Netanyahu has waged HIS war to allegedly just stay in power....not to save his nation.....is defeating Islamism all across the Mid east.....and TRUMP the orange Jewlius is back in power.

Sad day for "as  jews" jew haters in Hollywood, and London's snobbish St Vanessa haters of Jews , for other W. Europeans who hate Jews from Amsterdam to Brussels to Berlin....for Columbia, Venezuala Nicaragua and Cuba...good day for Egypt, Jordan....while still hating Jews....and so on...... Very Good Day for Me. Couldn't be prouder of being Jewish/Zionist....

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Thanks for this thoughtful comment ...

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Since Oct. 7th '23 and the tsunami of Jew hate and the black shirted "as a Jews" at every hatefilled pro hamas demonstratation .....YES, Bomb them IN MY NAME....I do my best at commenting from what is now a long life.....

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