Florida student openly admits to being 'anti-Jewish' at panel event

[Beastly Boy]

An exclusive video from a student senate meeting calling at Florida State University, in which a student speaker admits to being “anti-Jewish,” was published by Israel War Room this week. The video clip, which was taken in February but only just released, shows a panel of six students debating whether a ceasefire motion should be passed.

The short clip shows the student saying, "And every single protest that we have, our actions have had counter-protesters, and there is never any backlash and never police protecting us. In fact, our police are directly protecting counter-protesters even at our events.”

“So I want to ask you all, is Palestinian life not worth mourning? And we, as Arab, Palestinian, Muslim, and anti-Jewish students, are we not worth protecting?”

https://www.jpost.com/christianworld/article-800836

Oops, a slip of the plausible deniability tongue. She was supposed to say "Zionist".

[live love laugh]

1. It's always FloriDUH ... or Texas.

[jimfields33]

28. Yes because the other 48 states are squeaky clean.

[yardwork]

40. This is happening all over.

[Mosby]

2. She read her statement

And let's face it, lots of people use Zionist as a stand in for Jew.

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[Beastly Boy]

4. I still find myself arguing with the people who refuse to face this.

[Mosby]

21. People don't want to face the extent of antisemitism in the world.

Nt.

[yardwork]

41. Some people are twisting themselves in pretzels to avoid facing this.

[al bupp]

3. Meanwhile, counter protesters misbehave

They are caught on camera beating, cursing at and hoping protesters get raped.

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[Beastly Boy]

8. Is this your response to an openly antisemitic statement?

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An excuse? A deflection? A whataboutism?

You decide.

[al bupp]

12. Are not Palestinians also a semitic people?

Why be so selective in the application of antisemitism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians#:~:text=Palestine%20has%20undergone%20many%20demographic,link%20to%20the%20ancient%20Canaanites

[sarisataka]

13. Your reference is about the Semitic language

Semitic used in a racial sense comes from the Göttingen school of history in the 1770s.

This group of historians played an important role in creating a scientific basis for historical research,[5] and were also responsible for coining two fundamental groups of terminologies in scientific racism:

Blumenbach and Meiners's color terminology for race: Caucasian or white race; Mongolian or yellow race; Malayan or brown race; Negroid or black race; and American or red race;[6

]Gatterer, Schlözer and Eichhorn's Biblical terminology for race: Semitic, Hamitic and Japhetic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ttingen_school_of_history

Further development of their theories gave us a refined term for the best of the Japhetic people, the Aryans.

Are you sure you want to use their definition of Semitic as a race?

[al bupp]

18. I don't think that "race" is in any sense a scientific term

Race is a social construct used to group people. Race was constructed as a hierarchal human-grouping system, generating racial classifications to identify, distinguish and marginalize some groups across nations, regions and the world. Race divides human populations into groups often based on physical appearance, social factors and cultural backgrounds.

https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Race

Therefore definitions for race cannot be "scientific".

[sarisataka]

20. Actual scientists would agree

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The "racial" definitions were pseudoscientific terms created to justify racism. The argument that antisemitic applies to all Middle Eastern people is using their pseudoscience definition. It (antisemitism) applies to Jews alone.

The term antisemitic was coined to soften the previous term used in Germany, Judenhass "Jew hate"

[JustAnotherGen]

25. I feel like its 2014

And the realities of how the group being discriminated against by their country are being dismissed as "nothing because it is not real anyways".

My lesson learned at DU (search Trayvon Martin, black lives matter, Jordan Davis and add the word gun) -there are spirit snipers everywhere.

I know you are writing The Truth, you know you are writing The Truth and we both are bearing witness to the Dominant Culture's game. It never changes.

If it helps folks to sleep at night to dismiss the reality now - let them. The Dominant Culture is going to radically change in short order. Get back them in 20 years - when all of a sudden - just like that . . . it matters to them.

It hurts my soul to see you pulled down into that mire.

[sarisataka]

30. In some ways it feels like 1934

And history is completely forgotten

[ShazzieB]

32. Of course the concept of "race" is unscientific.

But it was very, very real to most people in the not so distant past (and still real to many at present). If you read about the history of the Holocaust, for example, it comes up over and over again, because in Hitler's ideology, "race" was a very real thing, and it was considered scientific by many (not just Nazis) at the time.

You don't have to believe that race is a valid, scientific concept yourself to recognize that most people used to believe it was or to appreciate the powerful effect that concept has had in human history.

And I don't mean just n terms of Nazi Germany. Look at the history of the mistreatment of indigenous peoples in the U.S., as well as the system of chattel slavery of people of African descent. Race was the basis for both of those things.

I could go on and on, but I'll stop here and just leave you with this: No matter what we as educated westerners may think of the term "race," to discount this concept's profound influence on human history just because it's "unscientific" would be dangerously disingenuous.

[NoRethugFriends]

14. You knew what they meant. And anti-semitic means anti-Jewish in common usage and has for a while.

[al bupp]

19. My point is why should it be?

I have read all sorts of ugly things said about Palestinians that would all be considered to cross the line of antisemitism if said about people of Jewish heritage or ethnicity. That is what my original response to this thread was attempting to point out.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Because this is the world we live in.

Truth and reality. Your question deserves its own thread.

Listen to that anti Semitic little snot, seek her out, and tell her why she's arguing about something that doesn't exist.

[Beastly Boy]

15. Oh please! Don't get started with this tired excuse!

When was the last time you've heard of "antisemitic" being applied to anyone other than the Jews? Or antisemites being referred to as Arab haters?

Let's do an SAT question, just for fun:

Semitic is to antisemitic as septic is to ___________________

a) antiseptic
b) pretty
c) tall
d) none of the above

If you answered a), you get an F

[Behind the Aegis]

24. Just another microaggression for the delegitimization of Jews.

Pretty much when that argument is made, it is obvious that the comment is meant to be a "look over there" moment from someone who is either ignorant or spewing (or about to spew) bigotry.

[JustAnotherGen]

27. We've seen this argument at DU before BTA

Just a different group.

It's a trope for spirit snipers.

[yardwork]

42. It's crystal clear to anyone who cares to be honest.

There are a lot of cute word games being played here lately. Elementary school level taunting is the last refuge for people who know they don't really have a valid argument. So they revert to sniggers and sneers.

I'm seeing a lot of primitive behavior here lately.

[ShazzieB]

29. Because the term "antisemitism" was coined "specifically" in reference to Jews.

The term Semite, which was first used in 1781 to define languages related to Hebrew, initially referred to people of Near East origin. The word Semite is derived from the name Shem, the son of Noah. Abraham was a descendant of Shem. While there are varying groups who can be termed Semitic, antisemitism is specifically the hatred and persecution of Jews.

Source: https://njop.org/the-origin-of-word-anti-semitism/

The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.

In 1879, German journalist Wilhelm Marr originated the term antisemitism, denoting the hatred of Jews, and also hatred of various liberal, cosmopolitan, and international political trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries often associated with Jews. The trends under attack included equal civil rights, constitutional democracy, free trade, socialism, finance capitalism, and pacifism.

Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism

[LeftInTX]

36. Antisemitisms hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-Semitic


Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people

[Happy Hoosier]

22. This student is openly admitting being

“Anti-Jewish” in their own words. And your response is to “what about” it? C’mon….. that’s gross.

[Mountainguy]

31. Whos defending counter protestors?

I'm more concerned about Jewish student that can't walk to class and janitors that get taken hostage.

[ShazzieB]

34. Me, too!

That - blocking Jewish stuents from their own campus - makes my blod boil!

OF COURSE the counterprotesters were angry! I would have been outraged myself. And these little brats think they have the right to complain about the people THEY mistreated being angry at them? Gve me a freaking break!

[dembotoz]

5. perhaps her family or friends were bombed

[EllieBC]

7. Did you extend this to all

the anti Muslim assholes after 9/11?

[Beastly Boy]

9. Or perhaps they were not. She is an antisemite either way.

[Demsrule86]

11. She is a bigot who has at the very least made her life more difficult in the years to come.

[sarisataka]

10. Or, more likely,

She just hates Jews.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. And? That makes her "Anti-Jewish?"

Do we accept Islamophobia because of Islamic terrorism? C’mon…..

[MarineCombatEngineer]

33. Or perhaps they weren't, she could and likely is, a Jew hater by her own admission.

[tritsofme]

38. I am curious what you would consider a "good reason" for being anti-Jewish?

[MarineCombatEngineer]

39. Or perhaps not,

she may just be a Jew hater taught to her by her parents to hate Jews just because.
My explanation is just as legitimate as yours.
Have a great day and week.

[yardwork]

43. Good reason to hate all Jewish people?

Say what you really mean.

[EllieBC]

6. I'll answer her. No you aren't worth protecting.

I am glad she finally said the quiet part out loud. Stop hiding behind “anti-Zionist” and just admit the truth that they hate Jews.

[Srkdqltr]

16. Aren't we supposed to be bigoted against all middle eastern people? As well as jews? Im confused.

As always.
I'm bigoted against Netanyahu and Hamas, whoever they are.

[Beastly Boy]

17. Oh, it's so simple!

Just sing along:

Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Muslims
And everybody hates the Jews!

[Cha]

35. "Answer to Her Question: No, anti-Jewish students deserve NO protection."

"Protection from what? They are the ones Attacking and Harassing Jewish Students, People, and Businesses.

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