How Israel’s Special Antisemitism Envoy Is Getting Antisemitism Totally (and Dangerously) Wrong

As a scholar of antisemitism, I continue to be alarmed by the language [Noa] Tishby uses, sometimes in conjunction with other much more well-known television personalities such as Chelsea Handler and Mayim Bialik, to describe anyone who opposes her view that all criticism of Israel is antisemitism. In various media appearances, Tishby has called pro-Palestinian protesters “a cancer,” accusing them of secretly serving foreign governments that have “sent their tentacles,” and has argued that pro-Palestinian groups are funded by terrorist organizations. Tishby has also claimed, again without any proof, that students and professors have been planted at US universities and funded for years to promote an anti-Israeli agenda. Another Israeli-born influencer, Emily Austin, has used more explicit language, calling for defunding “Nazi-breeding college campuses.”

The very tropes Tishby relies on themselves typify antisemitic ideas about Jewish conspiracies everywhere.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/noa-tishby-antisemitism-criticism/

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