Is It ANTISEMITISM To Criticize Israel? 

"You can criticize Israel without it being Antisemitic" 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏽‍♀️ - Any sane person

Criticism of a state is not racist in any way

i'd imagine it's pretty disruptive to be a palestinian student on campus when the government is basically saying anyone speaking out against your nation being genocided is a terrorist

As a college student, my academics are being disrupted by being called an antisemite by fascists and liberals

Criticizing Israel is as antisemitic as criticizing Hamas is anti-Muslim

But they will still let Charlie Kirk on campus with no issues

It's wild how smug and condescending these ghouls can be when defending genocide.

It's like selective suffering. They acknowledge what Putin is doing but not Netanyahu.

This is 100% a 1st Amendment violation

We went from " Hope and Change " in 2008 to " Nothing Will Fundamentally Change " in 2020 to " We Support Israel's Genocide No Matter What , Please Vote For Us 🥺" in 2024 , Absolutely Amazing

My local YSDA chapter was suspended for no reason, no warning, nothing. Just a vague mention of "hate speech" when boothing for free Palestine. Amazing.

Imagine this getting struck down in the Supreme Court because Alito and Thomas want to be racist.

We hear you, we see you, we arrest you. -The American Establishment

And they still won't give you healthcare

Even with the Palestinian genocide, I still believed Biden had a bigger chance at beating out Trump than not. His treatment to these protests is the first time I’ve ever genuinely thought he would lose. You can’t convince young people to vote for a dude who’s actively supporting genocide and suppressing their right to protest by just going ‘Well, the other guys worse.’

Practicing and Ethnic Jews gonna be called Antisemitic 😆

It was so fascinating finding out that Jimmy Carter was actually pro-two state, and gave very cogent yet calm and measured criticism of Israel. Even if his views are rather milquetoast it’s still far better than the current democratic party

forcibly barring speech tends to be a really effective way to make people shut up and behave like good little drones... right?

So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause.

"Fifty years ago, in January 1969, 70 black students occupied Morrill Hall on the U's Twin Cities campus to protest institutional racism and the lack of outreach, support, and culturally relevant coursework for students of color. The takeover, which lasted for 24 hours, was peaceful." Building takeovers in the past by a small percentage of students got you your rights...

When will people realize that Israel is not Judaism. One is a nation the other is a religion. The people that live in the nation may be the same practitioners of the religion. But disagreeing with the actions of one doesn’t have anything to do with the characteristics of the other.

wow i sure do love living in a functional democracy

The Red Scare is back BAYBEEE

They did this to Corbyn. Two years straight every day in the U.K. news.

Remember, the government in Israel now is literally semi-fascist. It’s like calling someone Germanophobic for saying, oh that Hitler guy? I really don’t want him passing these laws, seems kind of sus to me.

I feel like someone would have valid grounds to sue if someone labeled you as an anti-semite for being pro-palestinian or anti-israel

We got a steep cliff to climb and they keep shoveling dirt on top of it.

fucking bots in comments

This would violate freedom of speech and contradict the First Amendment.

It is *failure* to criticize Israel that is the surest sign of bigotry.

Biden is preferable to Trump BUT He's also to the right of Reagan on Israel/Palestine. This is why we have fascists rising in the first place.

Aren't sit ins?.. one of the most historically understood forms of peaceful protest? Or maybe we should wait for the social media post about their reverence for MLK to clear it all up for us.

I hate to say this, but this is literally *"crying while striking"* in action

gotta love it when a foreign nation gets to dictate what freedoms we're allowed to exercise

“Some are worried the language will limit free speech.” Yeah, no shit. That’s exactly why they worded it that way.

Literally 1984, but not a meme

It would absolutely be unconstitutional if they pass this. An actual free speech violation to not be allowed to criticize or oppose a foreign government the US government likes.

War is now Peace.

It's beyond infuriating how one country has so much influence over our politics.

This abomination of a law will and must be challenged in court.

Hating, harassing, and making up foolish conspiracies about the jewish people in general is anti-semitic. Calling out a right-wing government whose admin and military is committing a genocide is not.

From what I understand even saying things like "Christ is King" (a motto of the cristeros among the other things) or quoting the Quran could potentially cause legal trouble. It is kinda crazy.

This discriminates Anti Zionist Rabbis. NOT IN THEIR NAMES Hitler is morally the same as Netyahu

Thank you AIPAC and citizens united .

I would resign if I was that lady. Fuck that I don't care what you pay me

Feminism is gender equality. I'm expecting right wingers in the replies to disagree

This is going to be just as transparently horrible as the government crackdowns during the civil rights era and the sheer ammount of information out there right now will only enhance that

Video should just be Vaush saying no, roll credits.

Unfortunately, on the flip side British students can be arrested for those demonstrations.

I'm not in my early 40's Palestinian liberation was one of the first causes I protested for as an adult on a college campus, I marched for life as a kid - thanks for making me value protest :)

This is insanely idiotic.

I do like that Charlie Kirk is currently panicked over this

we be OUTLAWS now

If Biden had a spine and cared about the constitution, he'd walk out there, say "you've asked for my response to these protests, here it is: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Then walk away.

A Hamas spokesman stormed out of the room after being asked about the killing of Israeli families as they slept, during an interview. Ghazi Hamad, the deputy foreign minister for Hamas, was being questioned by the BBC’s Middle East reporter Hugo Bachega when he threw his microphone to the floor. Hamad had been asked how he could justify the murder of Israelis as they lay unaware in their beds, stating “I want to stop this interview” before walking out of the room.

As Kyle Kulinski said, Joe and Myka are the last two Americans defending the Vietnam War. They must be so proud.

What a terrible time for Bernie to not run for President. I feel like Bernie would win the 2024 election if he decide to take one last shot.

How unhinged! Anyone voting to harm our freedom of speech like this should be recalled!

Is critisizing North Korea anti Korean? Is critisizing BLM (the organization) anti black? I wish people in power would think before they enact law that would obviously have negative implications for their actions and society as a whole

am I crazy or does the holocaust remembrance definition seem sensible? "Criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic" so valid criticism of the country doesn't mean antisemitism. However, using Israel as a stand in for "the Jews" e.g. "Israel has all the banks, it's the new world order!!!" is definitely antisemitic. I guess the main issue is that it's not clear enough about that first part

My question is if Israel isn’t connected to Jews as a collective then why would it be anti semetic to criticize them?

This is unreal. Jesus Christ

Damn, Vaush's comment about protesting being a bonus to the college experience is super true - I was in college in the early-mid 2000s, and participating in protests, including for recognition of the Armenian Genocide and divestment over the genocide in Darfur, were some of the highlights of my college experience. If the protests had escalated to a standoff with police, I would have eagerly cut class to be there at the barricades. Sure, not every student is big on this stuff, but plenty of them are.

2:09 "very simple, boiler-plate" Racism is the incitation of discrimination, hatred or violence towards a person or a group of persons because of their origin or their belonging, or not belonging, to a specific ethnic group or race. Such discrimination, hatred and violence are directed against minority groups. More broadly, racism can be defined as a set of theories and beliefs that establishes a hierarchy of races and ethnicities, based on misconceptions and stereotypes. Racism is a form of discrimination founded on the origin, or on the ethnic/racial background of the victim. Racism can be held in several forms; including, structural (systemic/institutional), interpersonal, or individual. According to Vermont’s Act 33: An act relating to addressing disparities and promoting equity in the health care system, systemic (or structural) racism is defined as “the laws, policies, institutional practices, cultural representations, and other societal norms that often work together to deny equal opportunity…”. Similarly, the National Archive’s Archivist’s Taskforce on Racism Report states that institutional racism occurs within an organization and includes discriminatory treatment, unfair policies, and biased practices based on race that result in inequitable outcomes for white people over people of color and extends beyond prejudice” Interpersonal racism often involves slurs or hateful actions between individuals and individual racism is an embodiment of the beliefs, attitudes, and actions of individuals that “support or perpetuate racism in conscious and unconscious ways.” Racism uses prejudices to belittle people based on their physical appearance and it attributes character traits, values, aptitudes or physical or intellectual defects to them, that refer to clichés or stereotypes. Racism aims to incite hatred, encourage verbal or physical violence against minority groups and undermine personal dignity and honor. Hence, the term racism refers to any type of racial discrimination that occurs when an individual is victim of disparate treatment because of their actual or perceived race. The term "racism" is a modern concept: the word "racism" appears in the eighteenth Century in the European age of imperialism and the doctrine of discovery, more specifically in France and in the United-Kingdom. The term is then used more commonly to describe the Atlantic slave trade, the Nazi regime actions in Germany, the apartheid in South Africa, racial segregation in the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Racism has played a capital role in hate crimes and genocides throughout history, such as the holocaust, the Armenian genocide, or in times of colonization, such as the colonization of the Americas, of Africa and Asia. Indigenous people were direct victims of racism. Racism has also tinted many political systems, such as apartheid, but also is the root to racist ideologies such as nativism, xenophobia, segregation and supremacy. Racism can be expressed through different aspects: Behaviors: speech, attacks, threats, insults. Crimes against Humanity: slavery, genocide, wars. Ideologies: nativism, xenophobia, colonialism, white supremacy, otherness. Policies: segregation, redlining, apartheid, State persecution, laws against mixed marriage, etc. Racism built itself on scientific unfounded theories and disillusions that all turned out to be false, and was used to rationalize the politics of oppression. Indeed, racism was originally based on biology. Presupposing the existence of human groups called "races", it stipulates that the members of each "race" have a common genetic heritage that determines their intellectual and physical aptitudes and moral qualities. In the early 20th century, the biologists and scientific community used geneticists to warned that intermarriage between "widely separated" races could result in what they called genetic "disharmonies." This theory was common and quite popular, but quickly lost its credibility. Racism passed from a biological racism to a cultural racism, which has not yet been uprooted. Finally, ideological racism has developed since the 19th century, with apartheid in South Africa or the German Reich’s Nazism. “Race” is no longer used to justify inequality, replaced by “Ethnicity”, which refers to the division of human groups based on qualities assumed to be essential to a group. According to the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, there is no distinction between the terms "racial" and "ethnic" discrimination. The UN Convention concludes that any superiority based on race is “scientifically false, morally condemnable, socially unjust and dangerous”. Illustrations of Institutionalized Racism in the United States Racism in the Criminal Justice system: In its article titled “Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice”, the American Bar Association highlights that although Black people make up 13.4% of the population, statistics show that: 22% of fatal police shootings target Black people; 47% of wrongful convictions are inflicted upon Black people; 35% of individuals executed by the death penalty are Black people. The American Civil Liberties Union states that Black men receive sentences that are on average 20% longer than White men. Hate Crimes: Hate crimes are a very violent manifestation of racism. The Covid-19 pandemic has further demonstrated that anti-Asian racism was very present in the U.S. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism reported: A 331% increase in hate crimes against Asian-Americans Over 9,000 documented reports of hate crimes against Asian-American since the pandemic. The most common type of manifestation of anti-Asian hate is verbal harassment, insults and physical assault. On March 16th, 2021, the Atlanta shooting where six women were killed for racial motives further demonstrates that Anti-Asian is extremely violent. Racial Discrimination in Healthcare: As an example of healthcare discrimination, the data relating to maternal mortality amongst Black and Native American mothers is a good example. Maternal mortality is higher for Black and Native women than it is for their white counterparts, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that: 700 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related complications; Over 50,000 experience life endangering complications related to childbirth; African-American women are 3.2 times more likely to die during labor than white women; Per 100 000 births, 40.8 African-American women die, and in comparison per 100 000 births, 12.7 white women die; Native women are 2.5 times more likely to die during labor than white women; Over 60% of pregnancy-related deaths are found to be preventable. Racial Discrimination in Housing (Redlining): Redlining can be defined as a discriminatory practice that consists in the systematic denial of services such as mortgages, insurance loans, and other financial services to residents of certain areas, based on their race or ethnicity. As an illustration of redlining, reporter Bill Dedman published a series of articles in the 1980s demonstrating that Atlanta banks would accept lending in lower-income white neighborhoods but would refuse to lend in middle-income or upper-income Black neighborhoods. For additional educational resources on racism visit the National Museum of African American History and the Zinn Education Project

i know ive said it before, but I HATE IT HERE, trump may be more fascist but the fascist policies, and police incidents lately are making me hate it even more. pro tip to fascists, a lot of young people dont believe they have a future, do you wanna push that further? what happens when a bunch of young people with access to guns freely feel like their back is against the wall? you tell me

THE ADULTS ARE THERE!! the students are not minors anymore, quit infantilizing us!

This normalizing of Press Secretary media sessions while the President gets to retreat like some emperor is obscene and no one talks about it. The President needs to answer to the press!

Just imagine if this bill swapped Israel/Judaism with Iran/Islam..😳🤯🤬

Better question - Isn't refusing to criticize a state or military for committing a genocide against a Semitic people Antisemitic?

This is literally how to lose an election

She seems to really think she's sidestepping these questions with finesse. These people are asking direct, clear questions and she's avoiding answering them in any meaningful way. It's disrespectful to these journalists' time

And still, people will bitch about how freedom of speech is threathened because people can't make fun of the transes anymore...

I am not condoning this but this could end of making this a self fulfilling prophecy

Why do you think Mike Johnson was smirking .

American Mainstream media has *completely* Lost the plot, absolutely unhinged.

Funny how no one says your anti Muslim for criticizing Saudi Arabia, no one calls you anti Hindu for criticizing India ect. This is some McCarthy bull shit

Morning Joe clip is depressingly stupid

Nope. And you should be able to criticize anything. Because the second you can't your not free. And if your making laws to police speech it would seem to people that something is being hidden. In short if you don't have free speech you don't have freedom.

The way she keeps saying „people have the right to peacefully protest“ just translates to „people have the right to let out some steam but obviously we’re not gonna change anything“.

Can't we say Israel is very worthy of criticism AND that there's an alarming increase in dog whistling Shouldn't be mutually exclusive

7:55 sounding a whole lot like Malcolm X

Isn’t saying anti Arab antisemitism as well!?

CNN: Look at this student in 1968 taking exactly the same actions that we are seeing today, and for the same purpose. Me: Wow, honestly it is refreshing to see finally some big network look at the frigging past because so often they just ignore such a clear example of goo... CNN: And that is why this is also BAD. Me: ...d , wait what now?

Watching a black women denounce sit ins and protests makes my head spin. Congratulations on condemning so many inspirational civil rights leaders.

Almost like in Europe at this point

This is quite the reaction to a daily presser non-answer to a question Vaush admits had no good response. I'm happy she refused to condemn the protesters; that has significance.

“Where are the adults?” And trying to belittle the Vietnam war protests is so disrespectful it’s genuinely baffling. Like wdym “where are the adults?”, they’re right there fighting for a better future while that guy is already one foot in the grave

Without a shadow of a doubt, these campus protests will go down in history just like Vietnam War protests, Civil Rights Movement protests, Black Lives Mayter protests, etc

Signed me up for hate speech charges.

Arab people are semite people too as are other Mediteranian and Mesopotamiam peoples.

Vaush is my favorite channel! when i go to work at my stupid warehouse job in central Indiana....nobody cares about anything real. It is depressing. I come here (this channel) to get informed not just by the content but by most of the comments section. It gives me hope.

My school in Canada recently started an encampment!! I spend all my free time there.

There is a difference between the government of Israel and the people of Israel. I think it is fair that when someone criticize the government they keep it at that... if they criticize the people, then that crosses the line... if they pretend to criticize the government but are really talking about the people... then that is just gasligthing... Is this really that hard?

Biden administration starting to feel like Trump Administration

It's antisemitism when demands are made on Israel but not Hamas. It's not as though Israel just decided to invade and bomb Gaza on a whim, but rather in retaliation for a horrific attack. It's antisemitism when Gazan civilian deaths by Israeli strikes is called genocide but Israeli civilians killed by Hamas and Islamic Jihad is called an act of resistance.

I did some reading in my country's reporting on this. It's pretty bizzare to see the situation being described "neutrally" when the worst that can be said about the pro-Palestine camp is that they are disruptive and did some graffiti, while the pro-Israel side is throwing explosives at them. Very normal reporting. I also love how there's a tonne of photo evidence of excessive violence against the protesters, but 90% of bad things done by the protesters is just "some students say" or "allegedly". But sure, let's report it like those two have equal evidence value.

0 views in 0 seconds? Bro fell off

This is exactly the reason why I dislike whole concept of hate speech at a first place. It is Pandora box which can be used to silence your enemies, but your enemies can use it to silence your friends. It was stupid to open that Pandora box to begin with.

Eric Addams has a 29% approval rating.

This definition + the 3D rule (double standards, delegitimization, demonization) is one of the reasons why situation in Germany is so messed up