https://www.europesays.com/1968651/ Trump administration sends list of demands to Harvard #Antisemitism #HarvardUniversity #ResearchFundingCuts #tariffs #TheWhiteHouse #trump #TrumpAdministration

"The head of the nation’s leading organization fighting #antisemitism questioned the #Trump administration’s aggressive effort to find and deport foreign students who have protested on behalf of #Palestinians, suggesting that the administration is betraying #American values, denying due process and punishing people for their views rather than their actions.

In pulling #student #visas and seeking to #deport #protesters who hold #greencards, the administration has failed to ensure due process that is central to America’s justice system, wrote Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive and national director of the #AntiDefamationLeague [#ADL]."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/03/adl-condemns-trump-deportations-campus-protesters/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#Trump Admin Set to Pause $510 Million for #BrownUniversity

The admin has now targeted 5 #schools’ federal #funding claiming it’s part of a pledge to combat what it has labeled #antisemitism, but what in actuality is #students exercising their #RightToProtest on #university campuses.

#law #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly #extortion #MafiaState
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/us/trump-administration-brown-university-funding-pause.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=CE266166-B715-45A7-9A62-0A68EE55B1CD

Today In Labor History April 3, 1950: Composer Kurt Weill died. Weill’s most famous song was Mack the Knife ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer"), which became a schlock classic after Bobby Darin’s rendition. However, Weill wrote the song as part of Bertolt Brecht’s “Three Penny Opera,” which was a socialist critique of the capitalist world. Weill was persecuted by the Nazis for his political views and his Jewish heritage. He fled to America, with his wife, singer Lotte Lenya. Some of Weill’s other well-known songs include: Alabama Song (covered by the Doors), Pirate Jenny (covered by Nina Simone), Mack the Knife (also covered by Louis Armstrong), Der Kleine des Lieben Gottes (covered by John Zorn).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6orDcL0zt34

Very brief lecture on the line between criticizing somebody's views or policies and #antisemitism:

https://youtu.be/nBChON1Z9mo?feature=shared

"... the current obsession with a definition of antisemitism is obscene. We are distracted from the horror by panic about an alleged explosion of antisemitism and concerns about Jewish safety – even though it’s been exposed as mostly bullshit.

My mother and grandmother survived the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, and I grew up hearing their stories. So, l think I know antisemitism when I see it. In fact, there has never been any antisemitism at our rallies, at universities or anywhere in Australia in my lifetime.

Saying “F**k Israel” or “F**k Zionism” is not antisemitic."
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/peter-slezaks-speech-to-the-uts-rally-on-26-march/
@palestine

#AusPol
#zionism
#censorship
#antisemitism
#repession

Today in Labor History April 2, 1840: Émile Zola, French novelist, playwright, journalist was born. He was also a liberal activist, playing a significant role in the political liberalization of France, and in the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely convicted and imprisoned on trumped up, antisemitic charges of espionage. He was also a significant influence on mid-20th century journalist-authors, like Thom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer and Joan Didion. Wolfe said that his goal in writing fiction was to document contemporary society in the tradition of Steinbeck, Dickens, and Zola.

Zola wrote dozens of novels, but his most famous, Germinal, about a violently repressed coalminers’ strike, is one of the greatest books ever written about working class rebellion. It had a huge influence on future radicals, especially anarchists. Some anarchists named their children Germinal. Rudolf Rocker had a Yiddish-language anarchist journal in London called Germinal, in the 1910s. There were also anarchist papers called Germinal in Mexico and Brazil in the 1910s.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #zola #germinal #anarchism #writer #fiction #strike #dreyfus #antisemitism #rebellion #novel #author #books #france #mining #coal #journalism @bookstadon

We see that Antisemitism is in the headlines again. We created a resource specifically for teaching about contemporary Antisemitism & its ties to white supremacy. The lesson uses recent, high profile examples from the US but the framework can be adapted for any country. Recommended for grades 9-12, higher ed & adult ed. Get it as part of our Schindler's List film guide or download it as a standalone lesson.

Like all of our resources, this lesson is free for everyone.

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#Antisemitism #AntiBiasEducation #EnglishLanguageArts #NeverAgain #SchindlersList #SocialStudies #SocialEmotionalLearning #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling @education @edutooters

They're not going after universities for " #antisemitism ", they're going after them for wrong-think.

Headline: Scrambling to hide “wokeness” for #Hegseth visit, #Naval Academy removes photos of female #Jewish grads

Source: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/1/2313826/-Scrambling-to-hide-wokeness-for-Hegseth-visit-Naval-Academy-removes-photos-of-female-Jewish-grads

https://www.europesays.com/1958699/ Harvard University faces Trump administration review of $8.7 billion in grants amid antisemitism investigation #Antisemitism #AntisemitismInvestigation #Cambridge #DepartmentOfEducation #Harvard #HarvardUniversity #massachusetts #TheWhiteHouse #trump #TrumpAdministration

All over the West, free speech is falling victim to pro-Israel supporters in government and institutions, and anything related to the Gaza genocide is being severely punished and suppressed with the blanket accusation of 'antisemitism'.

c: @5149jamesli on IG

In more "What the heck is going on in Australia?" news, it looks like a city council realized it had a problem on its hands when a song calling for the murder of Jews won a song contest, and the author of the song made antisemitic statements in her acceptance speech for the award.

The town has shut the context and the organization down, so that's good at least.

https://www.algemeiner.com/2025/03/28/australian-city-council-pulls-funding-local-music-awards-anti-israel-song-river-sea-wins-top-honor/

I'm going to make this as simple and straightforward as I can make it.

You don't have to agree with Zionism

You don't have to believe that Zionism is Jewish civil rights.

You don't have to agree with the Zionist idea of Jewish self-determination.

But you do have to accept the following:

Holding all Zionists responsible for the actions of a few politicians in a minority government is not just wrong, it's a form of hate.

Zionism has been part of Jewish thought since were forcibly expelled from our homeland 2,000 years ago, and even in its modern form is older than Herzel and the European Zionist movement.

Saying Zionism is a hate group or hateful ideology is disgusting and inverting the meaning of hate.

70-80% of all Jews are Zionists, and Zionists live around the world.

Using minority viewpoints to say what is and isn't part of Judaism is gross and tokenizing.