A Definitive List of Things That Are Antisemitic and Not Antisemitic on College Campuses
Hope this clears it up
Protesting on a campus to oppose a war, to stand in solidarity with the civilians of Gaza, and to call for transparency in university financial holdings.
NOT ANTISEMITIC!
Telling Jewish students in New York to “Go back to Poland.”
ANTISEMITIC!
Wearing a keffiyeh.
NOT ANTISEMITIC!
The enormous cloth JVP Seder Plate at USC with the Hebrew words all written backwards.
ANTISEMITIC.
The word “Intifada.”
Ok. It means “shaking off” or “uprising.” So, alone, not technically antisemitic. As a call to resistance in solidarity with an oppressed and slaughtered population, it isn’t necessarily an incitement of violence, but as a term that describes the periods of bloody resistance against Israelis in ‘87 and 2000, that is certainly a more targeted -
“GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!”
The hair on the back of my neck certainly stands up!
A tent occupation as peaceful protest.
NOT ANTISEMITIC!
Asking me to go camping.
ANTISEMITIC.
With you all the way. Especially on the camping.
Perhaps I just don’t get your humor… at all.