The alleged right of "Zionists" — to steal land and suppress Arabs is purportedly so sacred — that the United States is willing to suppress free speech to uphold it

© 2019 Peter Free

 

18 December 2019

 

 

Israel has become an apartheid and land-stealing state

 

So why would an American president sign an executive order essentially banning speech that opposes those arguable wrongs?

 

You can read President Trump's order, here.

 

Notice that he had to pretend that Judaism is not a religion, but (effectively speaking) a nationality or national heritage this way:

 

 

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq., prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance.

 

While Title VI does not cover discrimination based on religion, individuals who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin do not lose protection under Title VI for also being a member of a group that shares common religious practices.

 

Discrimination against Jews may give rise to a Title VI violation when the discrimination is based on an individual’s race, color, or national origin.

 

Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism, WhiteHouse.gov (11 December 2019)

 

In other words, Jewish people are "Jews" because of the way they look and/or where they come from.

 

Huh?

 

What moron came up with that potentially boomeranging definition of Judaism and Jewishness?

 

 

Then . . .

 

. . . the President's son-in-law (Jared Kushner) stretched what the executive order says into something even more irrationally illogical:

 

 

[O]ur administration has stated publicly and on the record:

 

Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism.

 

Anti-Semites have grown increasingly brazen in claiming that attacks on Israel — and even on Jewish students who may or may not support Israel — are not anti-Semitic.

 

It has become fashionable among Jew haters to characterize any discriminatory behavior — no matter how loathsome — not as criticism of Jews, but of Israel.

 

This is a lie.

 

Especially on college campuses, where discrimination, harassment and intimidation of Jewish students has become commonplace and is routinely, but wrongly, justified.

 

© 2019 Jared Kushner, Jared Kushner: President Trump Is Defending Jewish Students, New York Times (11 December 2019) (excerpts)

 

 

According to Kushner, people who oppose Israel's apartheid nature, as well as its Palestine land-stealing, are automatically anti-Jewish.

 

Some discriminating logic, that.

 

 

The moral? — The cumulative effect of the President's order is akin to . . .

 

. . . claiming that someone hates Germans because she is anti-Nazi.

 

What is sad — as a matter of ethics and History — is that Israeli's constant lobbying for the exercise of unconstrained power in the United States will eventually further fuel the anti-Semitism — (that usually mistakenly applied term) — that it wishes to correct.