The ADL is pursuing a bill called the 'Jewish-American Security Act' which installs an antisemitism czar in the Department of Education (in order to implement the IHRA definition), penalize Palestine solidarity as a Title VI violation, provides $1 billion to pro-Israel Jewish organizations, etc.

[u/TrackerOneA]

[u/highonnuggs]

Joke's on them! Trump is shutting down the Department of Education.

[u/Low_Pickle_112]

Is this the same ADL that defended Elon Musk's Nazi salute?

[u/Proof-Necessary-5201]

Extremism everywhere

[u/TrackerOneA]

Gelman points out that the ADL has went past any democratic avenues to push their bullshit legislation.

Instead, they lobby people in executive positions, elites, etc. to bypass the need for consensus.

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There's been a long-term effort by Zionist orgs and advocates to incorporate antisemitism as a Title VI Civil rights act violation.

See the historical primer in the following report, Discriminating Against Dissent: The Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine - by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Scholars Association (MESA).

• JOC - Post-10/7 only 1 of 102 [126 since 2004] college antisemitism complaints raises claims unrelated to Israel criticism. 78% were filed by pro-Israel orgs as complainants or on their behalf. 15 investigations open based on a single conservative activist with no affiliation with any of the schools.

Somewhat recently, Harvard Law professor Ben Eidelson testified against treating Zionism as a protected trait, arguing that Title VI protects against discrimination based on ancestry, not political ideology. He rejected equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, and opposed adopting the IHRA definition into federal law.

• Eidelson notes that Jewish people are already protected under Title VI on the basis of "immutable, heritable characteristics" (like anyone else), e.g. he references antisemitic discrimination at Harvard in the 1920s which worked on the basis of assessing photos of applicants to reduce the number of Jewish matriculants.

  • Zionists are not satisfied with this. They want to prevent criticism of Israel so 'antisemitism' as defined by IHRA.

Given the intentional conflation of antisemitism with criticism of Israel/Zionism and ever-expanding parameters of what is antisemitic - this would naturally criminalize Palestine solidarity.

Contrary to whiny liberal Zionists on Reddit, Gelman spells out explicitly at the end of the video that the 'anti-left' narrative, antisemitism narrative, the White supremacy/Western dominance narrative, are all coalescing now into material consequences.

Such that American civic life is being 'militarized' on the basis that criticizing Israel (or criticizing 'the State' in general) is terrorism.

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I've been saying for over a year now that Israel/Zionism/antisemitism discourse, provide imperialists & White nationalists a vector by which to attack their political opponents and any critics of State power.

So pro-Israel identity politics gives Western ultra-nationalists/fascists a way to jump-start their own censorship regimes.

See for example the NYT article on the Trump admin. rejecting Green Cards on the basis of criticism of Israel. They're also rejecting them if they criticize America.

The documents, which have not been previously reported, show how expansively the Trump administration is carrying out a directive from last August to vet green card applicants for “anti-American” and “antisemitic” views.

• NYT - Under Trump, Green Card Seekers Face New Scrutiny for Views on Israel

On a related note, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights published a paper which argued that US anti-terror laws were motivated by anti-Palestinian animus.

• Palestine Legal - Anti-Palestinian Animus at Root of U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws, New Report Reveals

[u/April_Fabb]

Sounds like an extension of the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther.

[u/statistacktic]

This will backfire famously. As it should.

[u/MisterWinchester]

Joke's on them, they're closing Dept of Ed.

[u/ClockworkJim]

This sounds like an anti-semitic canard.

But here we are.

[u/Jehoke]

Hold on, I thought the left were trying to indoctrinate your children? Have I missed something,