He Helped Define “Antisemitism”; Now He Says the Term Is Being Weaponized | Amanpour and Company 

Reminds me of another former world leader…

maybe u wanna point fingers at ur friends in hamas

Cute! Did you make that up?

Puckett!? Haha.

Netanyahu offends me. He declares a war and his own two adult sons are not fighting in his war but are protected and living in luxury. They say his son Yair is living it up in Miami. So Netanyahu doesn't want anyone living in Israel but Jews yet it's alright for Jews to live in other countries. Make it make sense. He and others are prejudiced but don't want push back and they will always call you a anti-semite. This is outrageous.

funny, because one is an ally of the USA and the other isn't. Why is Saudi Arabia or UAE considered ok and acceptable?

Why didn't they just pass a racism law? Why is it a Jewish racism only law?? Jews believe they're sooooooo special 😂

⁠@@alejandramoreno6625 you make no sense hasbara bot

@@Wise__guy😂😂😂

Western hypocrisy. !!!

Not for thee, but all for ME. REALLY? NONSENSE

True. We should coin a term for "cooking up a nonsense word to promote and propagandize the exceptionalism of one group at the expense of everyone else".

Tell that to the self acclaimed "chosen ones" who have taken land because GOD gave them eternal right to that land.

Yep, no one thinks anything of criticizing Central American countries. Muslim countries, or African nations that participate in immoral acts against their citizens and others. Almost like it’s racism 🤔

It's not that simple, not all antizionists are antisemites but all (or most) antisemities are antizionists.

💯 agree

But now this bill defines anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism, which is really sad.

@@user-op7by3pi4b they are all enslaving by Zionists.

@@JenniferSmolka oh really? So you will keep attacking children, women, innocents with an excuse that you are above all human beings. Ridiculous thought.

If you blame American college Jews for what Israel has done then yes you are antisemitic

You're an Antisemite if you're a typical Columbia U student, who DIDN'T protest week after week against the brutality of Putin, Assad or China, but were really keen on breaking windows for the (indeed horrible) violence committed by one nation in the world.

Bingo...well said!!!!

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I would recommend you validate your opinion about allegations of Assad regime gassing civilians. The Grayzone investigative journalist Ben Norton interviews Ian Henderson, OPCW's investigation team leader in Douma, the site of an alleged chemical attack. You may find the interview enlightening.

I think that is changing.

@@pvilla24 It was literally just this Spring. When is it changing?

Can you get a copy of "War Is A Racket" by Smedley Butler, then have your child take it to school?..It's a short simple read.(1hr 20min. on RU-vid vids). From 1935. Not sure if paper copies are available..Certainly, the money laundering racket that war typically is, has not changed any in over 100 years. "Turning blood into gold" book quote by US Marine Major General, Smedley Butler

@@borisblvd5354 Yes, that’s a good idea. I took in a young adult novel about the Nakba. They wrote the name down. 😶

For the same reason they don't teach Native American history in public schools

I know, that's where he lost me!

There’s Zionism and there’s Zionism. Believing Israel should exist, in any way shape or form (say the pre-1967 borders?) makes one a Zionist.

that's interesting to say the least, he says that but he's also the one that created a term that made it so that people can't criticize any of it? It doesn't appear that any other group of people gets that kind of privilege.

Educate yourself, read a definition of Zionism

@AA-iy4gm They are imposters. They emigrated to Palestine/ISRAEL in the 1940's from Eastern European countries. They had no ties or affiliation to the LAND. Their roots were in Europe. They just left Europe and claimed the land of Palestine/Israel for themselves. No one knows who these people were. They had no family members living in Palestine/Israel before they emigrated there. Canaanan land was given to The ANCIENT ISRAELITES and they lived there until they became disobedient to the Laws and Commandments of God. They worshipped pagan Gods and put their own children through the fire to Molech pagan God. God punished the ANCIENT ISRAELITES according to Deuteronomy 28 the Blessings and the Curses. He punished them and scattered them to the uttermost parts of the Earth. God himself punished them. The Curses of God fell on them. God said that he would return his people whom he scattered. These people who emigrated to Israel went their on their own on a Zionist political nationalist movement and ideology. When God returns his people they will return to ISRAEL worshipping God and being spiritual not secular. God is nowhere in ZIONISM. The men who promoted it were ATHEIST.

Terms evolve. We know it's come to mean Jews. Progressives change terms like the weather changes. This is a longtime evolution of a term

The term anti-Semitism was coined in Europe and means anti-Jewish, not against all Semites. Your comment is anti-Semitic, not righteous.

Antisemitic is a bullshit term no one care about what's happening in ww2, we care about what's happening to the pelstinian in Gaza we care about the controlling of entire political system and use it to create mess and destroy nations, guess what you will pay the price again and again and again as you did for last thousand years ago

I too think the term is a misnomer. Honestly it's a garbage term that shouldn't have been coined in the first place. Most misused nonsensical term in the English language.

@@tyrellcobb4665 terms evolve. What should and shouldn't have happened is irrelevant. Words are for communication not to be bogged down by hyper analysis.

In AIPAC we trust.

Victimhood taken too far, for too long.

Not only that, but the audacity of calling themselves democracy 😢 Honestly, democracy became a scary frightening word to millions of people around the world, everyone is scared of 2000 pound democracy falling on their head.

​@d4mdcykey It absolutely is too much especially when they themselves oppress and hate a people themselves. I don't feel people go around saying we hate Jews. They don't like some of their behaviors they have and things they do. Then when you call them out, they call you a ANTI-SEMITE. That's a weapon. Many times it's not true but if they call you that they try to label you and associate you with the Holocaust. The American taxpayer's money is being sent to Israel in the amount of $ 3.8 billions of dollars each year and for what? Then recently billions more was sent to Israel. America won't spend billions of our taxpayer's dollars on us. They keep saying we have to cut food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security because we don't have the money yet magically they come up with BILLIONS OF DOLLARS for Ukraine and Israel and Taiwan. That billions of dollars should be going towards Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare and Education. Yet, Americans are funding a state in the Middle East who wouldn't even let us live in one of those illegal settlements that our taxpayer's dollars subsidize unwillingly. Their only concern is themselves and that is selfish behavior. I ask AMERICA, are we going to give Israel Billions of dollars FOREVER? Is our Government going to say for each year that America has to fund Israel because they are a Democratic state? That is not AMERICA'S responsibility at all. They wanted Israel, so they musts take care of themselves. America must stop putting Israel before AMERICA and the A PEOPLE. NOW, the Congress is pushing a Bill to impede our First Amendment rights to FREE SPEECH. Americans are losing their rights to accommodate a specific people who claim all ties to another country Israel. There is no allegience to the United States of America. We must push back and not become second class citizens in our own land. We cannot be made prisoners in our own land and be dictated to and used for our BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER'S DOLLARS.

"Jew is not an ethnicity. It's a religion" And also "You're all antisemitic because you hate us for our ethnicity"

Yes! Palestinians are Semites too!

I couldn’t agree more!

Palestinians praise Hitler especially in Gaza. they even name some of their kids after him.

THANK YOU! Arabs are Semitic People! Eastern Europeans are NOT.

Better be careful. If you keep telling the truth like this, RU-vid will start deleting your comments.

@@JenniferSmolkano the 40000 peopke massacred in Gaza

As opposed to the farcical propaganda you spew..

@@JenniferSmolka did you ever think for a second that they are BOTH ABHORRENT AND WRONG!!???

@@Jouantiese you certainly mean the hasbara you spew everytime younopen your mouth

@JenniferSmolka good luck with that .. your economy is wrecked !

Excellent points!

Well, he knows he's not doing self-defense. He KNOWS he's intentionally trying to erase an entire ethnic group and destroy their culture.

Well, he knows he's not doing self-defense. He KNOWS he's intentionally trying to erase an entire ethnic group and destroy their culture.

Not really sure what that's supposed to mean given that there has been a long history of Jewish presence in Israel and many were at one time pushed out and thus have relatives today who descended from those who were exiled. Yes the current usage of antisemitism is too vague but that doesn't mean that Jews aren't semitic.

Non of Jews in present day Israel has any relatives with biblical Hebrews and jews​@@svscared

@@svscared I'll make it more clear, and it's what most people already understand, Ashkenazi Jews, the people who control the state of Israel, are white European gentiles whose families converted to judaism long ago and are not semitic people. They are hijacking Judaism to justify their claims of being God's chosen people while committing atrocities around the world. They refuse to get dna tests and have banned them in israel so people don't learn the truth that they do not descend from Abraham. But the world already knows it and is not tolerating it anymore.

@@svscared”it doesn’t mean that Jews aren’t Semitic”….. yes , that’s exactly what it does mean. An overwhelming number of Israelis are “.Ashkenazi” Jews.But what does that mean? It means they are genetically Europeans whose ancestors converted to Judaism in Europe during the last days of the Roman Empire in the same way that other Europeans were converting to Christianity. Jews were persecuted for their religion….not their “race”. The real “Semites” in this tragic story are the Palestinians. They are what the “Israelis” are pretending to be.

However one defines it; You certainly can’t be antisemitic for saying one group of people (who may/may not by one’s definition be semites) shouldn’t be violently driving another group of semites out of what’s their homeland too.

Why do you think that Anti israel though can’t be antisemitism? When you are screaming we are Ham’Ass thats not criticizing Israeli policy .

Same with communism back in the day during McCarthyism. Communism= Russian pawn. That was largely not true, but played on everyone’s fears and ruined the lives of those targeted for little more than being isolationists or so called “subversive” individuals. I fundamentally disagree with communism simply because it’s impossible to be done without being repressive, but I respect that people believe differently from me. just as I respect people who denounce the actions of the israeli government despite my belief in Israel’s existence, because I agree that the violence must end immediately. Fundamentally, there’s a lack of understanding of what Zionism truly means, which is simply the existence of a Jewish state. It doesn’t mean a Jewish state at the expense of Palestinians, or that the West Bank is fair game to Israeli settlers, or that Palestinians are inherently the enemy of Israelis. people who consider themselves anti-Zionist by definition are anti the existence of Israel. Which for that to be a reality, means expelling or killing 10 million people, including roughly 8 million Jews and 2 million Arab Israelis. I think that is why some consider anti Zionism to be antisemitism (which I don’t necessarily agree with). Everything I just listed is why a two state solution is simply the only way forward. Israelis need security guarantees against terrorist attacks, and Palestinians need freedom of movement, economic opportunity, and for Israel to leave decision making to an Arab coalition until a proper Palestinian government forms.

Sounds like the problem is ,as always, you shitty right wingers?

..... maybe if you weren't such shitty bad people, the world wouldn't be so shitty and bad?

And don't even act like your not P.O.S trump supporters because I can smell them from a mile away

You can freely criticise the Government in Israel, saying Israel shouldn't exist is anti-semitism.

@@contact594 literally no one is saying Israel cannot exist in these protests. This would ban any criticism of Israel.

@@johnd.2778 My lying eyes and ears eh?

@@contact594 a counter protester holding an Israeli flag said it to try to get some anti-war protesters arrested. Use your brain. There is video proving it.

@@johnd.2778 KTLA 5 news from 2 days ago, 3 mins in, the girl in the red kaffiyah will correct you.

You're ignorant, playing innocent and misleading.

Netanyahoo can hardly be called semitic. He is the result of hundreds of generations of Europeans. Not so long ago a Jewish cemetery from the 900's CE was discovered in Germany. That makes more than a thousand years of their presence in Europe. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were white racist Eastern Europeans who started colonizing a darker people's land. You can look up the historical origins of the meme "anti-semitism" yourselves.

These people wants to make it all about Jews in order to garner sympathy so they can carry out their crimes with impunity. It’s all about control the narrative and controlling people.

Anyone with a clue agrees that the etymology of "antisemitic" is dumb. But for a long time it has had a meaning divorced from semitic language speakers. On the larger point, there are people who are on the right side (IMO) on these issues of free speech and public discourse who are most certainly not pro-Palestinian. Honestly, this issue is more important long term / big-picture... We can't even really engage in trying to change minds unless we can discuss and debate. This guy self-identified as a Zionist, but he's pretty much correct about the speech issues he's talking about here IMO. That means he is, at least in theory, open to listening and compromise. On the Zionism, his 'side' looks like it might just lose the public debate, and he's still defending the importance of having that debate.

Being anti-genocide doesn't make one pro or anti-semetic, pro or anti-Palestine. It just means one values the individual human's right to human---live, be safe, happy and thrive.

Everyone knows the only meaningful consideration is money and power.

@@RatPfink66 So we take away their money and power. Boycott and divest from EVERYTHING.

Those anti Arabs are 100% anti semitic since Arabs are 100% semitic.

Antisemitism was always about Jews never about Arabs. Mainly because Arabs where lords of Jews and Jews were the oppressed in Europe and in the Arab world. Now Jews have power

Not really. Just basing its meaning on the technical definition of 'semitic' would imply that, but I'm pretty sure "antisemitic" was never widely used that way. It is just a euphemism for "anti-Jew".

The original meaning means those who spoke the Arabic and Ahramaic languages, ARABS IN OTHER WORDS. Shlomo Sand long ago exposed the fact that ancient jews spoke Germanic Yiddish so they invented their own form of Hebrew to claim they are native to Arabic Palestine when they are really just Anglo Europeans

@@marilynshepherd6480 The Ashkenazi aren't the only or oldest Jewish population, and the population genetics indicates they tend to have approximately 50% Middle Eastern ancestry. You're literally citing old disproven anti-Jew conspiracy theories.

Strictly spoken anti-palestinianism is antisemitism, because Palestinians are Semitic people as well.

​@@SurfinScientistIgnorant.

No such thing.

lmao no, Surfer is exactly right. The term anti-semitism is used in an explicitly anti-Arab way, because it erases the fact that Arabs are semites. Semite is a religious definition, so not only does this erase them, it displaces them from their biblical significance as descendants of Shem.

@@ganpik Your reply does nothing other than convince me that you are a bigot.

it was used by German jew haters who despised the J word

How is that related to Yiddish a low Germanic language?

it's worth looking deeper into her ideology - she didn't consider palestinians human, and there's footage of her discourse on this topic

@@larisaoproescu4996yeah she was hardcore racist

@@larisaoproescu4996 “Race was the [South African] Boers’ answer to the overwhelming monstrosity of Africa - a whole continent populated and overpopulated by savages.” - Arendt

​@@larisaoproescu4996I have read a couple of her books. Very worth reading, but even her comments on non-European jews in Israel were astonishingly racist. Strange person. She had a relationship with Martin Heidegger before the war, and then again after the war she defended him from critics. He was a member of the Nazi party from 1933 until the end of the war, and she was still defending his reputation in the 1950s. Why? I have no clue.

Arendt had disgusting remarks. Good for her that she manages to escape the Nazis, get American citizenship, smoke cigarettes all day in New York, while not giving a damn about the survival of other Jews, who didn't find such a comfortable solution.

false . he was anti-moslem . he was not looking to which child of Noah they descend from.

@@aloeste3994 the antisemitic ideology all three shooters shared was Great Replacement Theory. next time, look it up so that you can correct your understanding before you try to tell someone they’re wrong.

Let me start with my firm position since 1980es that settlements was the biggest mistake that Israeli political class made by yielding to their religious right, I am also a staunch anti-Trumper. But you are blaming the entire country for the sins of their political right which exploited the fears of the people after country's failed attempts to reach peace with the party that never acknowledged it's right to exist, after Israel was brutally attacked in 1967, 1973 and endless times in between and after? The same can be applied to the US, if you look at the US from the perspective of Trump government. Trump government does not define the entire US, in the same way as Netanyahu government does not define entire Israel. More than a half Israelis want Netanyahu to resign, 10% of Israeli population marched against Netanyahu in a single day. Compare that to American protests against Trump in 2017: 2.3% of the population. Does it mean that you and I are more guilty of the sins of Trump administration than ordinary Israelis are guilty of Netanyahu's sins? As for your reference to Native Americans kicking us out of our homes, this is exactly what those student protesters want, to kick the Jews out of the land that supposedly belongs only to the Palestinians, under the banner of anti-Zionism. It is way easier to demand that other invaders vacate the land which their ancestors inhabited 2000 years ago while being an invader in the land where your ancestors never resided until 200 years ago and feeling great about yourself.

@@Tamara-qd5dc Any logic of owning land that your "ancestors" inhabited 2,000yrs ago means for Israelis to morally exist upon that land, every US tax payer would then be uprooted and the land given back to the Black Feet tribe and all others from which it was very, very, very recently stollen by force. European Jews have zero claim to land they stole a mere few yrs ago back in 1948. The issue confronting the world, which only a very, very small percentage simply refuse to acknowledge, is that Israel is committing mass murder on an industrial scale, eviscerating young boys and girls, out of pure vengeance and hatred. There is no place in Heaven for such deeds. Israel is committing blasphemy before the eyes of Humanity. That is the issue. Words will not blind the world to evil. God does not contradict.

An Indigenous person whose great grandparents had their land stolen has some credibility (though no - I'm not saying that all non-Indigenous people need to leave the United States - just that claims that Indigenous land was stolen should be taken seriously and compensation from government should be a possibility). On the other hand Zionists ranting about who lived in Palestine thousands of years ago have no credibility, especially if they are white, European Jewish Zionists whose European ancestors converted to Judaism and they are demanding land from Palestinians who have an ancestral connection to the Jewish people who lived in Palestine thousands of years ago.

​@Tamara-qd5dc Two big differences between the United States and Israel. First, although the series of American invasions into the lands of Indigenous nations in the 1800s was horrific and inexcusable it was done in the era of European imperialism when such things were commonly done around the world. The Zionist invasion into Palestine on the other hand, though it started in the 1800s, really became established in 1948 when the Zionists declared that they had stolen over half the land in Palestine. In 1948 the era of European imperialism was clearly winding down as India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines had been freed from colonial rule and within 15 years virtually all such racist colonialist oppressive apartheid regimes created by European invaders had been dismantled or at least had eliminated virtually all of their explicitly racist, apartheid laws. In 1948 it was clearly a ludicrous, outdated idea to set up a new colonial regime just as a country deciding to start banning women from voting in 1948 would have been ludicrous and outdated. The other big difference is that in the United States Indigenous people are not locked in overcrowded impoverished prison camps and ordered to go through endless checkpoints and banned from going on the best roads and are not banned from voting or running for election and there are not vast numbers of Indigenous people living in refugee camps outside the United States as stateless refugees affer being chased right out of the country. So the history in the United States in terms of how Indigenous people were treated was horrific and there are still huge problems with systemic racism as there is in Canada and Australia and other countries with a lot of white settlers but the horrific oppressive apartheid regime that the Zionists run in Palestine is on a completely different scale of horror and has continued many decades after similar regimes around the world have been dismantled or ended their racist laws. And there is a general feeling now in the United States, especially among young people, that racism and apartheid laws targeting Indigenous people are wrong whereas in Israel the overwhelming majority of Zionists seem to want their apartheid system to continue forever or to have Palestinians driven completely out of Palestine. So I question how it will be possible for Palestinians to ever share the same land with Zionists who tend to be very illogical, hypocritical, fanatical and racist. Obviously, the Israeli protests were not about giving Palestinians full freedom and rights - they were about complaints of Zionists regarding their government. And you're being very misleading in claiming that other countries were always to blame for conflict with Israel. Remember that Zionists started the conflict by trying to steal over half of Palestine in 1948 after WW2 when the era of Imperialist invasions was supposed to be over. Remember too that Israel invaded Egypt in 1956 and attacked Egypt in 1967 and invaded Lebanon in 1982.

​@@Tamara-qd5dcLiking your own comment is a red flag littletrolltot

No one's saying he is. At the same time, we have people relying on a definition he helped to draft and publish as an unchangeable, infallible definition to weaponise against free speech, and his words carry weight as a mind behind the definition as well as a Zionist who really has no personal interest in defending free speech that he may find disturbing.

He did not say "I'm the authority on that, so people should accept what I say", he presented arguments for his position.

You are the definition of an Antisemite.

You're ignorant.

They are protected by this law so are Arabs , African Hebrews, and Ethiopians. Don't know what it mentions about Khazarians? Some Jews said they are related such as Noam Chomsky!

That's not how language works. Antisemitic has pretty much always been just used as a euphemism for anti-Jew, so that's what it means. Also, it is a pretty pointless thing to argue about. Maybe instead point out that Jews with ethnic ancestry in that region tend to have more in common with Palestinian Arabs than they do with Jews of Eastern European descent. Personally, I would rather avoid drawing arbitrary lines here at all though... Just people doing horrible things to other people. PS: Chomsky is (or at least was) a smart fellow, but prone to confidently bullshitting with fancy terms instead of admitting he might be mistaken or even just not know. I know a few people who took advanced linguistics (the field he is actually an expert in) courses from him, and they noted his tendency to "snow job" as they called it.

@@travcollier Not quite other people are also Semitic!

@@edwardpi9852 Again, antisemitic just isn't commonly used to mean "against semitic people". Yes, it is dumb from a literal perspective, but this sort of thing happens in language all the time.

It's the same people who have been subverting their host Nations for centuries and wonder why there is backlash when their is push back when they make it illegal to criticize them

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Nine trillion every 10 years, ill donate a dollar right now.

Are you talking about Palestine?

​@@redpigeonsContact your handler for history review.

Israel will never be secure because it doesn't know how to behave.

All of it. Problematic, yes?

Anti-Black, Anti-Racism........ Police brutality

The protesters are not criticising ISRAEL, they're against the EXISTENCE of Israel.

I don't. He needs to withdraw the definition and fix it. This definition is causing mayhem.