The Markaz Review:

The author argues that smearing the struggle for Palestinian rights as “antisemitism” perpetuates the genocide, stifles free speech, and makes Jews less safe.

Stephen Rohde

When the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on November 1 against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity, Netanyahu accused the judges of “anti-Semitic hatred toward Israel.”

After November 5th, promising to crack down on campus protests by invoking the Insurrection Act to enlist the US military, President-elect Donald Trump warned American colleges and universities that if they did not “end antisemitic propaganda,” they would lose accreditation and federal financial support.

A favorite tactic of repressive governments and intolerant societies to suppress dissent is to stigmatize opponents with a label which, at the time, is despised and reprehensible. Heretics, blasphemers, heathens, witches, savages, Communists, illegal aliens, racists, and terrorists are all examples of derogatory epithets used to isolate and demonize groups and individuals, in an attempt to undermine their credibility and banish them as legitimate participants in the discussion of any important issue.

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