The Antisemitism Awareness Act is a wrecking ball designed to pulverize the First Amendment. While the alleged intention of the bill is to make Jewish students feel safer on campus, the real purpose is to put an end to the anti-genocide demonstrations that have broken out across the country and to prevent the criticism of Israel. The proposed bill invokes a dodgy legal mechanism to derail the protests and to silence Israel’s critics. By using a broad and ambiguous definition of antisemitism, the bill compels university administrators to crackdown on free speech invoking sketchy claims of discrimination. Political analyst Paul Craig Roberts summed it up like this: “if universities …don’t suppress student protests against Israel’s massacre of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon they will lose their accreditation and federal financial support.” In short, universities are being encouraged to quash the free expression of political ideas to preserve their federal funding. This helps to illustrate how Zionist lobbyists are now engaged in a full-throated assault on constitutionally protected civil liberties, namely free speech.
I took the liberty of changing Mike Whitney’s title for this piece. It’s a good overview but readers of ABN surely know most all of the details. Worth sending to someone who is vague about any of this or needs to refresh their memory for possible Thanksgiving-day discussions. Censorship is never a good idea. There is no honest argument in favor of it. It is always an attempt to preserve some vile status quo or hide corruption, infiltration, malfeasance, treason, crime, sedition, parasitism, psyop mind-control lying. ABN
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