{"id":39866,"date":"2025-04-26T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/conservatives-fighting-antisemitism-are-actively-targeting-us-jews-why-josh-schreier\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T13:10:00","slug":"conservatives-fighting-antisemitism-are-actively-targeting-us-jews-why-josh-schreier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/conservatives-fighting-antisemitism-are-actively-targeting-us-jews-why-josh-schreier\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives fighting \u2018antisemitism\u2019 are actively targeting US Jews. Why? | Josh Schreier"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pro-Israel campaign to \u2018protect\u2019 Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets <\/em>Jews. That is no surprise<\/p>\n

The Trump administration claims that its moves to defund<\/a> universities, arrest and deport students<\/a> and force schools to demote<\/a> or monitor professors<\/a> are meant to combat antisemitism, protect Jewish students and remove \u201cHamas-supporting\u201d foreign nationals from the country. American pro-Israel groups including the Anti-Defamation League<\/a> (ADL), Hillel International<\/a>, Aipac<\/a> and the Heritage Foundation<\/a> have united behind Republican measures to crack down on higher education and its putative antisemitism. Religiously identified groups such as the Orthodox Union<\/a> and Christians United for Israel<\/a> have joined the chorus, celebrating the punishment of supposedly antisemitic students and professors. Whatever their varied pasts, today\u2019s pro-Israel groups are not about protecting American Jews. Instead, they are allies in Maga\u2019s war on free speech, academic freedom and the US\u2019s democratic society itself.<\/p>\n

To be clear: the pro-Israel campaign to \u201cprotect\u201d Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets <\/em>Jews. After a student complaint about a tenured Jewish professor\u2019s Twitter post, Muhlenberg College fired her<\/a>. The ADL has rewarded Muhlenberg by grading it \u201cbetter than most\u201d colleges for fighting \u201cantisemitism\u201d. The ADL also accused Jewish Voice for Peace<\/a>, a large<\/a>, anti-Zionist Jewish group with chapters on many American campuses, of \u201cpromot[ing] messaging\u201d that can include \u201csupport for terrorists\u201d<\/a>. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Columbia University expelled<\/a> a Jewish graduate student and United Auto Workers local president who demonstrated against the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Joshua Schreier is a professor of history and Jewish studies at Vassar College.<\/p>\n

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The pro-Israel campaign to \u2018protect\u2019 Jews by punishing anti-Zionist speech often targets Jews. That is no surprise The Trump administration claims that its moves to defund universities, arrest and deport students and force schools to demote or monitor professors are meant to combat antisemitism, protect Jewish students and remove \u201cHamas-supporting\u201d foreign nationals from the country. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}