Prominent Republicans have seized on campus protests to assail what they say is antisemitism on the left. But for years they have mainstreamed anti-Jewish rhetoric.
That’s what a (probably intentional) lack of education does to people.
Republican politicians can openly use traditional antisemitic narratives that a majority of people doesn’t recognize anymore as a dogwhistle again.
Trump as well as -idiotic as it is- Israel’s government can openly steal from Hitler’s rhetoric.
People wanting to peacefully protest for Palestine miss the very obvious antisemitc clues of some people standing right beside them and supporting their message for the completely wrong reason, this way delegitimizing their actual cause.
And in the end any nuanced and informed discussion (that is important for a working democracy) gets derailed and replaced by polarisation and brain-dead tribalism.
Mission accomplished… And the people behind that mission definitely aren’t part of some global conspiracy (of Jews or others) but mostly just right populists and authoritarians operating independently or loosely allied at best with the same well-tested anti-democracy playbook.
That’s what a (probably intentional) lack of education does to people.
Republican politicians can openly use traditional antisemitic narratives that a majority of people doesn’t recognize anymore as a dogwhistle again.
Trump as well as -idiotic as it is- Israel’s government can openly steal from Hitler’s rhetoric.
People wanting to peacefully protest for Palestine miss the very obvious antisemitc clues of some people standing right beside them and supporting their message for the completely wrong reason, this way delegitimizing their actual cause.
And in the end any nuanced and informed discussion (that is important for a working democracy) gets derailed and replaced by polarisation and brain-dead tribalism.
Mission accomplished… And the people behind that mission definitely aren’t part of some global conspiracy (of Jews or others) but mostly just right populists and authoritarians operating independently or loosely allied at best with the same well-tested anti-democracy playbook.