Wow! Look at all these antisemites. Guess they should be deported and denied entry to the US, eh? Maybe put members of J Street on a terrorist watch list? Just more Hamas sympathizers supporting terrorism, eh? Oh my, someone gets it. And tell us again what Bill had to say, please?
Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda
The letter was organized by two progressive Jewish groups — the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.
Over 550 rabbis and cantors have signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration for “abusing the issue” of antisemitism, joining a growing chorus of opposition from Jewish leaders.
The letter, published Monday and titled “A Call to Moral Clarity: Rejecting Antisemitism as a Political Wedge,” was organized by two progressive Jewish groups— the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.
It follows another letter published last Tuesday by the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS that included the signatures of over 560 Jewish religious leaders. That letter condemned the “immoral use of the law” by the Trump administration, specifically citing the administration’s deportation campaigns.
The letters have become the latest in a widening call from Jewish leaders who have accused the Trump administration of using antisemitism as a pretext to further its anti-higher education agenda and its crackdown on immigrants.
“The resurgence of this age-old hatred is alarming, and we unequivocally stand against it in all its forms,” the J Street-Truah letter reads. “We must also be clear: the way in which the Trump administration claims it is combating antisemitism is not about protecting Jews — it is instead overtly abusing the issue to divide Americans, undermine democracy, and harm other vulnerable communities.”
American Jews oppose Trump's handling of antisemitism
A poll last week found that most American Jews oppose the way President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism. Also last week, five Jewish senators, including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, signed a letter lambasting the administration’s crackdown on Harvard, which has seen $2.2 billion in federal funding frozen over its response to campus antisemitism.
The HIAS letter criticized the Trump administration’s revocations of over 1500 student visas, including those of some pro-Palestinian student activists. The administration began rolling back the revocations amid a spree of lawsuits from affected international students.
“As Jews and as Americans, we refuse to remain silent at the co-opting of our nation’s statutes and express alarm about the path down which it leads. We demand that the administration abandon its manipulative interpretation of law and restore a commitment to the inalienable rights that are the source of our country’s greatness,” the HIAS letter read.
The J Street-T’ruah letter also denounced the Trump administration’s targeting of international students, which have included the detainment of pro-Palestinian student activists including Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk of Tufts.
Defunding universities, threatening to deport student protesters, and using Jews as a justification for authoritarian tactics does not make us safer; it makes us more vulnerable. We reject these cynical attacks on higher education — institutions that have long been strongholds of Jewish academic and cultural life — under the pretense of protecting Jewish students,” the letter read.
The J Street-T’ruah letter was signed by clergy from across the country, a mix of mostly Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and cantors, along with a handful of Orthodox rabbis.
Several notable rabbis signed the J Street-T’ruah letter, including Sally Priesand and Amy Eilberg, the first Reform and Conservative women, respectively, to be ordained by their movements; and Deborah Waxman, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The list also includes Sharon Kleinbaum, David Teutsch, Gordon Tucker, Arthur Waskow, Susan Talve, David Rosenn and Julie Schonfeld.
The letter begins and ends with a call for Jews to take seriously the threat of antisemitism, which has increased since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, while also “refusing to let the fight against it be co-opted for authoritarian ends.”
“Our community has endured a very real spike in antisemitism in recent years. We’ve seen bomb threats, vandalism and attacks on our schools and synagogues,” said T’ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs in a statement. “It’s precisely because tackling this issue is so important that we can’t allow it to be hijacked by this administration to pursue an authoritarian agenda that puts us all at risk.”
Wow! Look at all these antisemites. Guess they should be deported and denied entry to the US, eh? Maybe put members of J Street on a terrorist watch list? Just more Hamas sympathizers supporting terrorism, eh? Oh my, someone gets it. And tell us again what Bill had to say, please?
Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda
The letter was organized by two progressive Jewish groups — the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.
Over 550 rabbis and cantors have signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration for “abusing the issue” of antisemitism, joining a growing chorus of opposition from Jewish leaders.
The letter, published Monday and titled “A Call to Moral Clarity: Rejecting Antisemitism as a Political Wedge,” was organized by two progressive Jewish groups— the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.
It follows another letter published last Tuesday by the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS that included the signatures of over 560 Jewish religious leaders. That letter condemned the “immoral use of the law” by the Trump administration, specifically citing the administration’s deportation campaigns.
The letters have become the latest in a widening call from Jewish leaders who have accused the Trump administration of using antisemitism as a pretext to further its anti-higher education agenda and its crackdown on immigrants.
“The resurgence of this age-old hatred is alarming, and we unequivocally stand against it in all its forms,” the J Street-Truah letter reads. “We must also be clear: the way in which the Trump administration claims it is combating antisemitism is not about protecting Jews — it is instead overtly abusing the issue to divide Americans, undermine democracy, and harm other vulnerable communities.”
American Jews oppose Trump's handling of antisemitism
A poll last week found that most American Jews oppose the way President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism. Also last week, five Jewish senators, including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, signed a letter lambasting the administration’s crackdown on Harvard, which has seen $2.2 billion in federal funding frozen over its response to campus antisemitism.
The HIAS letter criticized the Trump administration’s revocations of over 1500 student visas, including those of some pro-Palestinian student activists. The administration began rolling back the revocations amid a spree of lawsuits from affected international students.
“As Jews and as Americans, we refuse to remain silent at the co-opting of our nation’s statutes and express alarm about the path down which it leads. We demand that the administration abandon its manipulative interpretation of law and restore a commitment to the inalienable rights that are the source of our country’s greatness,” the HIAS letter read.
The J Street-T’ruah letter also denounced the Trump administration’s targeting of international students, which have included the detainment of pro-Palestinian student activists including Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk of Tufts.
Defunding universities, threatening to deport student protesters, and using Jews as a justification for authoritarian tactics does not make us safer; it makes us more vulnerable. We reject these cynical attacks on higher education — institutions that have long been strongholds of Jewish academic and cultural life — under the pretense of protecting Jewish students,” the letter read.
The J Street-T’ruah letter was signed by clergy from across the country, a mix of mostly Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and cantors, along with a handful of Orthodox rabbis.
Several notable rabbis signed the J Street-T’ruah letter, including Sally Priesand and Amy Eilberg, the first Reform and Conservative women, respectively, to be ordained by their movements; and Deborah Waxman, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The list also includes Sharon Kleinbaum, David Teutsch, Gordon Tucker, Arthur Waskow, Susan Talve, David Rosenn and Julie Schonfeld.
The letter begins and ends with a call for Jews to take seriously the threat of antisemitism, which has increased since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, while also “refusing to let the fight against it be co-opted for authoritarian ends.”
“Our community has endured a very real spike in antisemitism in recent years. We’ve seen bomb threats, vandalism and attacks on our schools and synagogues,” said T’ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs in a statement. “It’s precisely because tackling this issue is so important that we can’t allow it to be hijacked by this administration to pursue an authoritarian agenda that puts us all at risk.”
And it’s the woke left and the pro-Palestine protesters that you’re afraid of? People need to wake the fuck up and get woke about who is on whose side. Only 1,368 days left.
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
Most professors at Barnard College received text messages on Monday notifying them that a federal agency was reviewing the college’s employment practices, according to copies of the messages reviewed by The Intercept.
The messages, sent to most Barnard professors’ personal cellphones, asked them to complete a voluntary survey about their employment.
“Please select all that apply,” said the second question in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, survey.
The choices followed: “I am Jewish”; “I am Israeli”; “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry”; “I practice Judaism”; and “Other.”
Other questions asked respondents whether they had been subjected to antisemitism, as well as whether they were subject to “unwelcome discussions,” graffiti or signs depicting antisemitic messages or images, antisemitic or anti-Israeli protests, “unwelcome comments, jokes or discussions,” or “pressure to abandon, change or adopt a practice or religious belief.”
“The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Barnard associate professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish and received the text. “They are clearly targeting what most of the United States, I hope and I think, defines as freedom of speech, but only in the case of anti-Israeli speech.”
EEOC Investigation
In an email to professors on Wednesday after The Intercept first reported on the text, the general counsel at Barnard, a women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, said the EEOC initiated an investigation against Barnard last summer into whether the school had discriminated against Jewish employees.
The EEOC was “legally entitled to obtain the contact information of Barnard’s employees” to send out the option to “voluntarily participate in their investigation,” Barnard vice president and general counsel Serena Longley wrote in the email obtained by The Intercept. Barnard complied with the request.
G oing forward, the school said it would provide advance notice of any future requirements to provide staff information in connection with an investigation or litigation unless they were subject to a court order prohibiting them from doing so. Longley told staff they were not required to participate in the EEOC survey.
In a previous email on Monday evening, the general counsel at Barnard said the school had received multiple reports about the EEOC texts.
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” Longley wrote. “If you choose to respond, please know that both federal law and Barnard policy strictly prohibit any form of retaliation.”
N either the EEOC nor Barnard immediately responded to requests for comment.
The text messages are the latest episode stoking tensions on campus at Columbia, a flashpoint in the protests against the war on Gaza and the ensuing crackdown carried out by school administrators and the federal government.
Weaponizing EEOC
The Trump administration has already weaponized the EEOC, once tasked with enforcing laws against discrimination, as part of Donald Trump’s broad-based attacks on national programs to bolster “DEI,” or diversity, equity, and inclusion. These initiatives have been villainized in Trump’s rhetoric and attacked in executive orders that carried severe consequences for their targets.
The EEOC is intended to be an independent agency. It currently lacks a quorum, meaning that it is operating largely at the whims of Trump appointee, Republican Acting Chair Andrea Lucas.
T hose attacks on DEI have leveraged the EEOC to retaliate against corporate law firms that have drawn Trump’s ire. It was reported on Tuesday that a new federal task force at the Department of Veterans Affairs is asking employees to report “anti-Christian bias” to the government.
Professors who received the survey link told The Intercept they’re concerned that the EEOC is now being used to attack faculty on college campuses that have been the site of yearslong protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
At first, some people thought the text message was spam, said Becher, the Barnard professor.
“The email that we received seems to confirm for us that Barnard thinks it is the EEOC, and not something else,” Becher said.
“The government is weaponizing the EEOC in service of their own hatred and service of their own desire to destroy higher education,” Becher said. “And in their desire to silence speech about — as they have been — their desire to silence any speech that might criticize Israel as part of that larger campaign as well.”
You hopefully know I’ve received the specific attack “only Jews support Israel.” Not from you but from multiple commenters here. And received zero agreement from this forum that this behavior is wrong.
so by your own admission, this place is a carbon copy of trump admin. Trumpism for the Left.
And it’s the woke left and the pro-Palestine protesters that you’re afraid of? People need to wake the fuck up and get woke about who is on whose side. Only 1,368 days left.
Trump Administration Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They’re Jewish
Most professors at Barnard College received text messages on Monday notifying them that a federal agency was reviewing the college’s employment practices, according to copies of the messages reviewed by The Intercept.
The messages, sent to most Barnard professors’ personal cellphones, asked them to complete a voluntary survey about their employment.
“Please select all that apply,” said the second question in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, survey.
The choices followed: “I am Jewish”; “I am Israeli”; “I have shared Jewish/Israeli ancestry”; “I practice Judaism”; and “Other.”
Other questions asked respondents whether they had been subjected to antisemitism, as well as whether they were subject to “unwelcome discussions,” graffiti or signs depicting antisemitic messages or images, antisemitic or anti-Israeli protests, “unwelcome comments, jokes or discussions,” or “pressure to abandon, change or adopt a practice or religious belief.”
“The federal government reaching out to our personal cellphones to identify who is Jewish is incredibly sinister,” said Barnard associate professor Debbie Becher, who is Jewish and received the text. “They are clearly targeting what most of the United States, I hope and I think, defines as freedom of speech, but only in the case of anti-Israeli speech.”
EEOC Investigation
In an email to professors on Wednesday after The Intercept first reported on the text, the general counsel at Barnard, a women’s college affiliated with Columbia University, said the EEOC initiated an investigation against Barnard last summer into whether the school had discriminated against Jewish employees.
The EEOC was “legally entitled to obtain the contact information of Barnard’s employees” to send out the option to “voluntarily participate in their investigation,” Barnard vice president and general counsel Serena Longley wrote in the email obtained by The Intercept. Barnard complied with the request.
G oing forward, the school said it would provide advance notice of any future requirements to provide staff information in connection with an investigation or litigation unless they were subject to a court order prohibiting them from doing so. Longley told staff they were not required to participate in the EEOC survey.
In a previous email on Monday evening, the general counsel at Barnard said the school had received multiple reports about the EEOC texts.
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” Longley wrote. “If you choose to respond, please know that both federal law and Barnard policy strictly prohibit any form of retaliation.”
N either the EEOC nor Barnard immediately responded to requests for comment.
The text messages are the latest episode stoking tensions on campus at Columbia, a flashpoint in the protests against the war on Gaza and the ensuing crackdown carried out by school administrators and the federal government.
Weaponizing EEOC
The Trump administration has already weaponized the EEOC, once tasked with enforcing laws against discrimination, as part of Donald Trump’s broad-based attacks on national programs to bolster “DEI,” or diversity, equity, and inclusion. These initiatives have been villainized in Trump’s rhetoric and attacked in executive orders that carried severe consequences for their targets.
The EEOC is intended to be an independent agency. It currently lacks a quorum, meaning that it is operating largely at the whims of Trump appointee, Republican Acting Chair Andrea Lucas.
T hose attacks on DEI have leveraged the EEOC to retaliate against corporate law firms that have drawn Trump’s ire. It was reported on Tuesday that a new federal task force at the Department of Veterans Affairs is asking employees to report “anti-Christian bias” to the government.
Professors who received the survey link told The Intercept they’re concerned that the EEOC is now being used to attack faculty on college campuses that have been the site of yearslong protests against Israel’s war on Gaza.
At first, some people thought the text message was spam, said Becher, the Barnard professor.
“The email that we received seems to confirm for us that Barnard thinks it is the EEOC, and not something else,” Becher said.
“The government is weaponizing the EEOC in service of their own hatred and service of their own desire to destroy higher education,” Becher said. “And in their desire to silence speech about — as they have been — their desire to silence any speech that might criticize Israel as part of that larger campaign as well.”
You hopefully know I’ve received the specific attack “only Jews support Israel.” Not from you but from multiple commenters here. And received zero agreement from this forum that this behavior is wrong.
so by your own admission, this place is a carbon copy of trump admin. Trumpism for the Left.
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Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda
The letter was organized by two progressive Jewish groups — the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.
Over 550 rabbis and cantors have signed a letter criticizing the Trump administration for “abusing the issue” of antisemitism, joining a growing chorus of opposition from Jewish leaders.
The letter, published Monday and titled “A Call to Moral Clarity: Rejecting Antisemitism as a Political Wedge,” was organized by two progressive Jewish groups— the Israel lobby J Street and rabbinic group T’ruah.
It follows another letter published last Tuesday by the Jewish refugee aid group HIAS that included the signatures of over 560 Jewish religious leaders. That letter condemned the “immoral use of the law” by the Trump administration, specifically citing the administration’s deportation campaigns.
The letters have become the latest in a widening call from Jewish leaders who have accused the Trump administration of using antisemitism as a pretext to further its anti-higher education agenda and its crackdown on immigrants.
“The resurgence of this age-old hatred is alarming, and we unequivocally stand against it in all its forms,” the J Street-Truah letter reads. “We must also be clear: the way in which the Trump administration claims it is combating antisemitism is not about protecting Jews — it is instead overtly abusing the issue to divide Americans, undermine democracy, and harm other vulnerable communities.”
American Jews oppose Trump's handling of antisemitism
A poll last week found that most American Jews oppose the way President Donald Trump is handling antisemitism. Also last week, five Jewish senators, including New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, signed a letter lambasting the administration’s crackdown on Harvard, which has seen $2.2 billion in federal funding frozen over its response to campus antisemitism.
The HIAS letter criticized the Trump administration’s revocations of over 1500 student visas, including those of some pro-Palestinian student activists. The administration began rolling back the revocations amid a spree of lawsuits from affected international students.
“As Jews and as Americans, we refuse to remain silent at the co-opting of our nation’s statutes and express alarm about the path down which it leads. We demand that the administration abandon its manipulative interpretation of law and restore a commitment to the inalienable rights that are the source of our country’s greatness,” the HIAS letter read.
The J Street-T’ruah letter also denounced the Trump administration’s targeting of international students, which have included the detainment of pro-Palestinian student activists including Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk of Tufts.
Defunding universities, threatening to deport student protesters, and using Jews as a justification for authoritarian tactics does not make us safer; it makes us more vulnerable. We reject these cynical attacks on higher education — institutions that have long been strongholds of Jewish academic and cultural life — under the pretense of protecting Jewish students,” the letter read.
The J Street-T’ruah letter was signed by clergy from across the country, a mix of mostly Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and cantors, along with a handful of Orthodox rabbis.
Several notable rabbis signed the J Street-T’ruah letter, including Sally Priesand and Amy Eilberg, the first Reform and Conservative women, respectively, to be ordained by their movements; and Deborah Waxman, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. The list also includes Sharon Kleinbaum, David Teutsch, Gordon Tucker, Arthur Waskow, Susan Talve, David Rosenn and Julie Schonfeld.
The letter begins and ends with a call for Jews to take seriously the threat of antisemitism, which has increased since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, while also “refusing to let the fight against it be co-opted for authoritarian ends.”
“Our community has endured a very real spike in antisemitism in recent years. We’ve seen bomb threats, vandalism and attacks on our schools and synagogues,” said T’ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs in a statement. “It’s precisely because tackling this issue is so important that we can’t allow it to be hijacked by this administration to pursue an authoritarian agenda that puts us all at risk.”
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-851785
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so by your own admission, this place is a carbon copy of trump admin. Trumpism for the Left.
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