Anti-Semitism

The Burden Western Liberals Impose Only on Palestinians

November 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Europe, Imperialism, Occupation, Palestine, US Hypocrisy

by Joseph Massad, published on Electronic Intifada, November 9, 2022 Since the beginning of Zionist Jewish colonization of their country in the 1880s, Palestinians have faced demands that they carry a double burden: to fight off the Jewish racist colonists while having to defend their colonizers against anti-Jewish European Christian racism. No other colonized people has been forced to carry[…]

On Equating BDS With Anti-Semitism: a Letter to the Members of the German Government

June 9, 2019 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine

Photo: Alex Chis, Flikr by Sara Roy, Published on Counterpunch, June 4, 2019 To the Members of the German Government: I write to you regarding the motion recently passed by the Bundestag that equated BDS with anti-Semitism. I also write to you as Jew, a child of Holocaust survivors and as a scholar of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. My mother, Taube,[…]

The Fake News Nazi – Corbyn, Williamson And The Anti-Semitism Scandal

March 12, 2019 UNAC Editor Political Corruption, United Kingdom

By Editor, Published on Media Lens, March 6, 2019 One of us had a discussion with an elderly relative: ‘He can’t be allowed to become Prime Minister.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘It’s so awful…’ ‘What is?’ ‘The way he hates the Jews.’ The last comment was spoken with real anguish, the result of continuous exposure to just two main news sources: the[…]

Being Pro-Palestinian Doesn’t Make Jeremy Corbyn an Anti-Semite

August 31, 2018 UNAC Editor Israel-Palestine

by As’ad AbuKhalil, originally published on Consortium News, August 22, 2018 In the last few decades, public opinion in the West has shifted from the early, post- World War II period. Support for Israel has declined while support for the Palestinians has increased. This shift has been particularly pronounced among youth, especially those who are liberals or leftists. The view[…]