Wednesday, May 13, 2015

How a course on Palestine at UC, Riverside is considered anti-Semitic

"“The course schedule is filled with egregiously one-sided, anti-Israel readings and films that falsely paint Israel as a settler-colonial and apartheid state, hold Israel to a double standard to which no other democratic country is held, vilify and demonize Israel and Israel’s supporters, and argue for an end to the Jewish state; these tropes are all considered anti-Semitic according to the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism,” wrote the 20 organizations in a letter to UCR Chancellor Kim Wilcox."  According to the US State Department's definition finding an Israeli to be unfunny and unattractive is also anti-Semitic.