Among other actions, the federal government will partner with campus law enforcement agencies to track hate-related threats.

They conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism & anti-crimes against humanity in order to trample on people’s first amendment rights to speech & assembly.

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      There is much conflation going on, much of it intentional and sinister, but antisemitism does have a specific meaning & etymology pertaining to Jews, according to Wikipedia:

      Due to the root word Semite, the term is prone to being invoked as a misnomer by those who interpret it as referring to racist hatred directed at all "Semitic people" (i.e., those who speak Semitic languages, such as Arabs, Assyrians, and Arameans). This usage is erroneous; the compound word antisemitismus (lit. 'antisemitism') was first used in print in Germany in 1879 as a "scientific-sounding term" for Judenhass (lit. 'Jew-hatred'), and it has since been used to refer to anti-Jewish sentiment alone.

    • MiddleKnight@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      I'm pretty sure that using the term "Semite" in any other context than the modern interpretation of "antisemitic", meaining prejudice against Jews, stopped being a thing roughly around the same time that we stopped treating the bible as an authority on the classification of human races. Same with Hamites and Japhetites.

    • Stillhart@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Seriously? Gonna be pedantic about "semitic" and then intentionally use "Zionist" wrong?

      • Maoo [none/use name]
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        8 months ago

        Looks to me like they used Zionist correctly.

        They're settler colonists supporting a genocidal apartheid ethnostate.