The definition of anti-Semitism, and who gets condemned for it, has become a major political battle in recent years. The Trump administration required colleges to prohibit a controversial definition of anti-Semitism that included criticism of the Israeli government. Ironically, Donald Trump himself recently used anti-Semitic tropes in an interview that condemned Jewish Americans, but this conservative anti-Semitism receives remarkably little coverage from rightwing media outlets. Yet the belief that progressives are the ones primarily responsible for ignoring anti-Semitism is common.
In his recent essay for The Hill, “How American progressives normalize anti-Semitism,” law professor Steven Lubet quotes an anonymous “well-regarded First Amendment scholar” he deems guilty of normalizing “thinly veiled racism.” Since I am the scholar Lubet quoted, I want to defend my position publicly. While the many people who have never heard of me would dismiss the term “well-regarded,” and everyone should question whether my personal beliefs represent the entire progressive movement, my core complaint with Lubet’s analysis is that he seems to accuse anyone who disagrees with his assessments of anti-Semitism of normalizing hatred.
Lubet’s key evidence of me normalizing anti-Semitism is my largely indifferent response to a Virginia state legislator who reacted to a media report that Mossad had known two decades ago that the Bush administration was exaggerating claims about weapons of mass...
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