![]() The University of California at Santa Barbara’s student senate voted Friday on whether to join the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement against Israel, which aims to bring Israel to its knees-and, ultimately, to dissolve that state-with economic and social pressure. ![]() So here’s a real instance of hate speech from a college campus. ![]() (This, of course, is not to justify discrimination against anyone.) and Europe, there are roughly five times more committed against Jews than against Muslims.Īll of which is to say that while Islamophobia is used as a common epithet (especially in the atheist blogosphere), we don’t hear much about a genuine animus against individuals of another ethnic group: Jews. ![]() ![]() While accusations of Islamophobia are being bandied about, conflating dislike of Muslims with the real issue, dislike of the tenets of Islam (in particular, those tenets that are violent or oppressive), nobody’s much worried about a real phobia: “Judeophobia,” which I’ll coin as a neologism for what it really is: anti-Semitism. ![]()
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