The far-right’s pretend fight against antisemitism is a perfect political strategy | Rachel Shabi
The far-right has found in its pretend fight against antisemitism a way to divide progressives while at the same time clobbering them
The detention of Columbia university student, Mahmoud Khalil, is unequivocally chilling. Khalil, who helped lead the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia university last year, was targeted for his politics. His unlawful arrest by the US immigration enforcement agency comes amidst relentless smears lobbed at protesters of Israel’s war on Gaza. This McCarthyite abduction of a Palestinian Green Card holder is a trial balloon, a test of what society might tolerate and a threat of more to come. And the added horror-show twist to this assault on free speech is that it is being done in the name of Jewish people under the pretence of tackling antisemitism.
Such egregious claims are easily refuted. Most American Jews didn’t vote for Trump and don’t back his crackdowns. As Amy Spitalnik of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, one of multiple Jewish groups opposing Khalili’s detention, said: “The Trump administration is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to undercut democracy.” Meanwhile, it is grotesque to pretend that Team Trump, home to antisemitic conspiracy theories, Nazi salutes and Holocaust denialism, is fighting antisemitism, rather than actively reproducing it.
Rachel Shabi is the author of Not the Enemy – Israel’s Jews from Arab Lands and Off-White: The Truth About Antisemitism
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