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Jerry Nadler on Trump’s university attacks: ‘He doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism’

www.theguardian.com

Summary

Rep. Jerry Nadler accused Trump of exploiting antisemitism to justify political crackdowns on elite universities.

Nadler said Trump “doesn’t give a damn about antisemitism” and is weaponizing Jewish concerns to impose control over academia.

The administration has suspended or threatened over $10 billion in federal funding to schools like Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton.

Nadler warned that curbing campus free speech would harm Jews and condemned Trump for gutting civil rights enforcement. He also criticized universities for capitulating and urged legal resistance to what he called unconstitutional coercion.

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I disagree. Trump is quite the supporter of antisemitism. His own daughter and son-in-law refused to sign a document that stated he has never been antisemitic. The whole Kushner family has spoken to the media about his long history of antisemitism.
However he loves Netanyahu. There’s just something about a genocidal authoritarian megalomaniac that really makes the man swoon.
- They certainly like to talk and represent they aren’t, but if someone speaks up against war in Gaza they are picked up by ICE. It doesn’t mean the same thing to others as it does to them.
  Opposing Israel is “antisemitic” to them.

When there are Jewish students participating in these protests, there should be no room left for the "antisemitic" argument. But here we are.
Israel played the religion card, and by doing so they did a great job of establishing the narrative that opposing Israel means you are an antisemite. The word has been weaponized. Actually antisemitic people like Trump who support Israel for political reasons get to hide behind it as a shield, meanwhile semitic people are being labeled as antisemites.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
- Zionism is a genocidal ideology that never made sense.