"FIRST CLASHES IN A COMING NATIONAL BATTLE?
The Brandeis Center’s allusion to a “national wave” aimed at legally conflating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism may be closer to reality than previously thought. Indeed, if Kenneth Marcus, Trump’s nominee to serve as the next Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, is confirmed in the coming months, the newly passed South Carolina law is likely to be repeated across the country.
Marcus, who once boasted of instilling “fear” into BDS activists and considers any demonstration of solidarity with Palestine as anti-Semitic, has long desired the post, as he sees it as a way to shut down BDS at the national level. As Marcus himself has noted, changing the legal definition of anti-Semitism to include criticism of the Israeli state is a critical part of silencing BDS groups on U.S. college campuses.
Ultimately, the bill comes at a critical time for pro-Israel partisans seeking to curb the recent success of BDS at universities across the U.S. Indeed, just a week after the new South Carolina law was passed, the students at one of the country’s most Jewish colleges – Barnard College in New York – overwhelmingly supported a referendum asking its school’s administration to boycott, divest and sanction Israel for its violations of international law in Palestine. Such victories are apparently considered so dangerous by Israel’s right-wing and its U.S. equivalents that they have sought to restrict freedom of speech on college campuses nationwide in order to prevent them in the future."
and from the comments…..
Ithamer • 18 hours ago
Hmmm The Palestinians are Semites, now what……..
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ameriCAN Ithamer • 14 hours ago
Excellent point Ithamer.
I can't wait for a Palestinian to challenge this law for being "anti-Semitic" due to criticism of Israeli (eastern-European-khazarian) occupation of his ancestral homeland. The Irony is priceless."
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/65524/south-carolinas-new-hate-speech-law-outlaws-criticism-of-the-israeli.html
So a quick little research…..
Semite, person speaking one of a group of related languages, presumably derived from a common language, Semitic (see Semitic languages). The term came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, some Ethiopians, and Aramaean tribes including Hebrews. Mesopotamia, the western coast of the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa have all been proposed as possible sites for the prehistoric origins of Semitic-speaking peoples, but no location has been definitively established.
By 2500 BCE Semitic-speaking peoples had become widely dispersed throughout western Asia. In Phoenicia they became seafarers. In Mesopotamia they blended with the civilization of Sumer. The Hebrews settled with other Semitic-speaking peoples in Palestine.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semite
Semitic Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/semitic
relating to the race of people that includes Arabs and Jews, or to their languages: Hebrew and Arabic are Semitic languages.
makes this illogical
Anti-Semitic Meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/anti-semitic
anti-Semitic definition: 1. having or showing a strong dislike of Jewish people, or treating them in a cruel and unfair way: 2. an anti-Semitic person