{"id":57562,"date":"2017-11-24T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T16:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=57562"},"modified":"2017-11-15T08:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:01:16","slug":"24-05-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=57562","title":{"rendered":"J Street U: Calling for Israel\u2019s Destruction Isn\u2019t Always Antisemitic"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>J Street U: Calling for Israel\u2019s Destruction Isn\u2019t Always Antisemitic<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiri Moshe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Demonstrators at an anti-Israel protest in Chicago. Photo: Jonathan Hoenig.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The president of the student group J Street U has argued that it is \u201cunfair\u201d to describe all those who seek to end Israel\u2019s existence as antisemitic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Zoe Goldblum\u2019s comments were sent last week \u201con behalf of the leadership of J Street U\u201d to the House Judiciary Committee, as it held a hearing on antisemitism on US college campuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

A senior at Stanford University, Goldblum heads the National Student Board of J Street U \u2014 the campus group of the lobbying group J Street, which describes itself as \u201cthe political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In her letter, Goldblum acknowledged that antisemitism \u201cis a real and serious problem on some of our college campuses and in communities across our country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYet applying the label of \u2018anti-Semite\u2019 to all those who oppose the existence of the State of Israel is unfair and unhelpful overreach that ignores the nuances and sensitivities of a complicated political debate,\u201d she argued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Goldblum cautioned that such an effort would position \u201csupporters of Israel as enemies of free speech,\u201d thereby empowering \u201canti-Israel voices on our campuses.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her comments were pointed out by Arsen Ostrovsky, executive director of the Israeli Jewish Congress, who wrote on Twitter, \u201cQuite astonishing, yet hardly surprising, that @jstreetdotorg @jstreetu, which considers itself \u2018pro-Israel\u2019 & paragon of virtue, does not believe calling for Israel\u2019s destruction is Antisemitic. Shame on you!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon echoed these criticisms, saying calls for the destruction of the world\u2019s only Jewish state and the denial of Jewish rights to national self-determination \u201cinvokes age-old antisemitic tropes in a slightly newer package.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the modern antisemites claim that the Jewish people are not a people to begin with, in order to justify that they don\u2019t have the same human rights of other peoples,\u201d the blogger noted.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no nuance in saying that Israel should not exist,\u201d Elder of Ziyon continued. \u201cIt demands that Jews in Israel be treated the way that Jews in all the Arab nations are treated \u2014 meaning that they would be largely expelled from the region. It is advocating ethnic cleansing of Jews from the Middle East.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

J Street did not respond to a request for comment by press time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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J Street U: Calling for Israel\u2019s Destruction Isn\u2019t Always Antisemitic Shiri Moshe Demonstrators at an anti-Israel protest in Chicago. Photo: Jonathan Hoenig. The president of the student group J Street U has argued that it is \u201cunfair\u201d to describe all those who seek to end Israel\u2019s existence as antisemitic. Zoe Goldblum\u2019s comments were sent last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57562"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57577,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57562\/revisions\/57577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}