{"id":121784,"date":"2025-06-10T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121784"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:02:52","slug":"10-00-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=121784","title":{"rendered":"When It Comes to Antisemitism, People Can\u2019t Handle the Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>When It Comes to Antisemitism, People Can\u2019t Handle the Truth<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Alan Zeitlin<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Police officers gather on Pearl Street in front of the Boulder County Courthouse, the scene of an attack that injured multiple people, in Boulder, Colorado, US, June 2, 2025. Photo: REUTERS\/Mark Makela<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

At a recent event at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, Jewish historian and Holocaust expert Deborah Lipstadt said she has had to explain to people that antisemitism is real. It\u2019s quite ironic, considering that she had to have a court battle with Holocaust denier David Irving that was made into the film\u00a0Denial.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There are many Jews in denial about antisemitism, because they think if they lie and claim it doesn\u2019t exist, all the problems will go away. This has been proven false time and time again throughout history.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, some are in another kind of denial \u2014 they claim that antisemitic attacks are preventable by combating \u201cmisinformation.\u201d This is simply not true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Was the antisemitic attack in Colorado preventable by the Egyptian terrorist who was residing in the US illegally? Only if he\u2019d been deported \u2014 or never let in to begin with. It also perhaps could have been prevented if he\u2019d told anyone about his plans, and they reported him to police.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sad truth is that the majority of antisemitic attacks, or violent attacks against anyone, are not preventable. But that truth doesn\u2019t make anyone feel good. Instead, people would like to promote a false sense of security that is actually dangerous. Just as people wanted to tell Lipstadt that antisemitism wasn\u2019t a real problem, people like Professor\u00a0Cynthia Miller-Idriss<\/a>\u00a0of American University want to claim that the Colorado attack was preventable by equipping people against misinformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In her article on\u00a0MSNBC.com<\/a>, titled\u00a0\u201cBoulder, Colorado terror attack victims deserved better from Trump-and Biden,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Miller-Idriss conveniently neglects to mention the attacker was in the country illegally. Nor does she mention what former President Joe Biden or President Trump should have done\/should do\u00a0\u00a0to combat misinformation. I have interviewed numerous experts on antisemitism in my more than two decades of covering the topic, and there is no magic bullet. That\u2019s why Miller-Idriss has nothing specific that Biden or Trump should have done\/do.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like the term \u201cmisinformation\u201d because something is either true, it\u2019s a lie, or a person is spreading information without caring if it is true or not. The term \u201cmisinformation\u201d lets the liar get away with it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zionism is the right for a self-determinate Jewish State. But there are many who learn that Zionism means Jewish supremacy over any other person \u2014 because they are taught that lie by their professors, their parents, podcasters, or so many others. Those who believe antisemitic tropes are not going to simply unlearn it in 30 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

But wait! According to Miller-Idriss, \u201cThere is strong evidence that people can be dissuaded from believing in harmful online propaganda and conspiracy theories in as little as 30 seconds, just by learning about the manipulative tactics of persuasive bad actors and becoming more skeptical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe this is true of a tiny amount of people, but not in any real numbers \u2014 and certainly not someone who has decided he is ready to kill Jews. Jews need to learn self-defense and be armed as much as possible. Kumbaya idealism is suicidal. But have no fear \u2014 Miller-Idriss lays out in the article that the solution is \u201cupstream prevention,\u201d a nonsense term meant to pacify uncritical eyes. When schools barely teach the Holocaust and many believe Israel woke up one day in 1948 and decided to simply steal someone else\u2019s land, authors like this professor miss the point entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

The author correctly writes that people blame American Jews for the actions of Israel. But why? Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked, but\u00a0no American Russians fear getting attacked<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

No Chinese Americans fear being attacked for what has been done to the Uyghurs.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The reason is that they aren\u2019t Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if it was only \u201cmisinformation\u201d there is no way to combat it to a significant degree. It would be like trying to dry the ocean with a paper towel. It is about long-taught hatred, and not relegated to what is currently happening in the Middle East. That is simply used as the inspirational flashpoint to claim it has nothing to do with antisemitism and is anti-Zionism.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are either serious about combating antisemitism or we are not. If we are, it involves calling out major outlets that spew antisemitic bile. If the professor wanted to criticize Biden, she should have rebuked his staff for barely responding to people who called him \u201cGenocide Joe.\u201d His lack of a response to this did irreparable damage to American Jews that will be felt for decades to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either Biden or one of his representatives should have once a day for a week explained why Israel is not committing a genocide and rebuke professors teaching that it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no more \u201cMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood\u201d and it is time to stop living in the land of make-believe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The author is a writer based in New York.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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