Flag of evil at NYU shows what the haters really – Latest News
Israel-haters are doing a effective job of eroding the supposedly brilliant line between “antizionism” and “antisemitism,” proving that there’s no distinction between loathing Jews and opposing the solely nation devoted to defending them.
The newest demonstration got here Wednesday at New York University during a enormous commencement block get together on the streets round Washington Square Park.
Some demented “activist” selected that second of celebration to hoist a noxious banner resembling the Israeli flag however doctored with Nazi swastikas and the NYU emblem.
And raised it atop the Steinhardt building, named for a distinguished college donor additionally well-known for his curiosity in Jewish causes and his help for Israel.
This newest insult — equating the Jewish people with the very regime that erased 1,000 years of European Jewish life — got here simply days after a “protest” outdoors a Brooklyn synagogue morphed into a parade of hatred via a predominantly Jewish residential neighborhood.
A screaming mob with rags wrapped round their faces waved the flag of Hezbollah and shouted disgusting slogans demanding that “Zionists” vacate Brooklyn.
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These of us keep insisting We’re not in opposition to Jews — simply Zionists!
But they had been besieging a Jewish synagogue and a Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, and calling native Jews “babykillers.”
Claiming any significant distinction between “Zionists” and “Jews” in these circumstances is the equal of demanding that Jews show themselves to be harmless, presumably by denouncing Zionism.
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To paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre, antisemites take pleasure in accusing Jews of theft to make them empty their pockets to show their honesty.
It’s a humiliation ritual.
Whoever raised the Hakenkreuz at NYU wasn’t making some humanitarian gesture about struggling Gazans.
It was a gesture of hate, meant to make Jewish grads and their households really feel scared and ashamed, with no proper to have a good time.
NYU should discover the offender or culprits and prosecute them brazenly.
If they’re college students or graduates, expel them or revoke their diplomas.
Normalizing bigotry leads straight to scapegoating and violence; civilized people should censure the haters.
Stop the an infection earlier than it spreads any more.
