{"id":9661,"date":"2024-05-20T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:20:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:20:50","slug":"beware-of-the-anti-semitism-awarene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=9661","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareneness Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul id=\"menu-main-menu\">\n<li>Search for:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/lewrockwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LewRockwell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lewrockwell.com\/\/feed\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2024\/05\/lew-rockwell\/beware-of-the-anti-semitism-awareness-act\/\">Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/author\/lew-rockwell\/?ptype=article\">Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May 13, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.lewrockwell.com\/products\/donations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donate<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/add_to\/email?linkurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2F2024%2F05%2Flew-rockwell%2Fbeware-of-the-anti-semitism-awareness-act%2F&amp;type=page&amp;linkname=Beware+of+the+Anti-Semitism+Awareness+Act&amp;linknote=\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2024\/05\/lew-rockwell\/beware-of-the-anti-semitism-awareness-act\/#\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/#facebook\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/#facebook\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/#twitter\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a>2F<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The House of Representatives passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/house-vote-antisemitism-bill-campus-arrests-rcna150170\">\u201cAnti-Semitism Awareness Act\u201d on May 2, by a vote of 320-91<\/a>&nbsp;in reaction to demonstrations on numerous university campuses and elsewhere against the brutal and genocidal policy of Israel in Gaza. The Act has now been sent to the Senate, where it seems certain to pass. This is an extremely dangerous bill that could criminalize the Bible, many Christian Churches, as well as any negative remarks about Israel and Jews. In brief, it threatens us with totalitarian thought control. We must do everything we can to oppose it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, let\u2019s take an <a href=\"http:\/\/congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/6090\/text\">overview of the Act<\/a>. It adopts the very broad definition of anti-Semitism of the \u201cInternational Holocaust Remembrance Association.\u201d&nbsp; The Act calls this definition \u201ca vital tool which helps individuals understand and identify the various manifestations of antisemitism.\u201d Gardner, Andy Buy New $19.57 (as of 09:02 UTC &#8211; Details) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAIDE7MWL7UCS6TA4A&amp;ASIN.1=B0BS8SMX4Y&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/holocaustremembrance.com\/resources\/working-definition-antisemitism\">What does this definition say?<\/a> \u201cAntisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed in hatred of Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of anti-Semitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and\/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.\u201d&nbsp;How you can be anti-Semitic toward someone who isn\u2019t Jewish isn\u2019t immediately apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authors of the definition give someone examples of what they consider anti-Semitic. These include saying that the Jews control the media and Congress, saying that Israel is a racist state, propagating the \u201cblood libel\u201d that the Jews killed Jesus, minimizing or denying the Holocaust, and claiming that Jews in America have \u201cdual loyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a number of writers including Tucker Carlson and John Zmirak have pointed out, the definition allows large parts of the Bible to be banned. The most famous such passage is Matthew 27: 25. \u201cHis blood be upon us and our children.\u201d This is the \u201cblood libel\u201d that the Act wouldn\u2019t let us teach!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You might object that the Act would never be enforced in this way. The American people would never stand for it! But it would always be there, like a sword of Damocles, hanging over our heads. And don\u2019t be so sure it wouldn\u2019t be enforced! The Scottish Hate Speech Act was passed in 2021, and people predicted it would never be enforced. Beginning in April 2024, though, it has been enforced, and many people have been fined and imprisoned for violating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest problem with the Act, though, isn\u2019t the definition of anti-Semitism. If it were, we could substitute a more reasonable definition, such as \u201chatred for all Jews.\u201d Even if this were done, however, we would still be in an untenable position. Banning any kind of speech, whether it is good or bad, is incompatible with a free society. As the great Murray Rothbard has taught us, all rights are property rights. Everyone can set the rules for speech on his own property, and no one has the right to control what anyone says on someone else\u2019s property. This includes speech which counts as \u201coffensive.\u201d Of course, we don\u2019t live in a libertarian society, but we should come as close as we can in practice to it. This means following the strictest possible interpretation of the First Amendment. \u201cCongress shall make no law. .&nbsp; .abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.\u201d. \u2018No law\u201d means \u201cno law\u201d and that includes laws against so-called \u201chate speech.\u201d As the great legal scholar Dr. Wanjiru Njoya says, \u201cJews must learn to live in a world where people say offensive things about them, same as anyone else. You shouldn\u2019t jail people for saying offensive things about Jews or Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need to ask ourselves, why the Act has been passed at the present time. The answer is obvious. It is to block all criticism of Israel. And Israel should be criticized, because of the genocidal policy it is following in Gaza. The US government, led by brain-dead Biden and his gang of neocon controllers, have supported Israel with money and advanced weapons throughout Israel\u2019s invasion. Anthony Blinken, \u201cour\u201d Secretary of State, flew to Tel Aviv as soon as the invasion started and, standing beside war criminal \u201cBibi\u201d Netanyahu, said, \u201cI come before you not only as the United States secretary of state but also as a Jew.\u201d See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/12\/blinken-israel-netanyahu-hamas-gaza\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it \u201canti-Semitic\u201d to report this? One of the examples the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Association\u2019s definition of anti-Semitism is to say that Jews have a strong influence on American foreign policy. But it\u2019s the simple truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what policy do Blinken and his cohorts support? It is Israel\u2019s policy to exterminate the Palestinians who live in Gaza. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/runz\/israel-gaza-the-masks-come-off-in-american-society\/\">The great Ron Unz has called it<\/a> \u201cthe greatest televised massacre of civilians in the history of the world.\u201d Under the Act, Unz could be prosecuted for saying that, because saying that Israelis are committing genocide, or comparing then to Nazis, is forbidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if that were not bad enough, conditions in Gaza are getting worse. Because of Israel\u2019s constant bombing and interdiction of food shipments to Gaza, a famine is occurring there. According to Cindy McCain, the Director of the World Food Program, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/04\/world\/middleeast\/gaza-famine-mccain-israel.html\">There is famine, full-blown famine<\/a>, in the north, and it\u2019s moving its way south.\u201d&nbsp;Now it will reach the south, because Israel has just blocked food shipments to Rafah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Should calling attention to horrendous news like this be an offense punishable by jail? You don\u2019t have to be a libertarian to recognize that we can\u2019t have a free society under the censorship conditions this Act would impose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Jews would have to be banned by this standard. The eminent Jewish historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/10\/opinion\/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html\">Omer Bartov said last November<\/a> that \u201cfunctionally and rhetorically we may be watching an ethnic cleansing operation that could quickly devolve into genocide.\u201d&nbsp;His worst fears have come to pass since then. He too would be banned under the Act. So would Norman Finkelstein and John Mearsheimer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jews who don\u2019t criticize Israeli\u2019s war could also be banned under the Act. For example, some very religious Jews are anti-Zionist and don\u2019t recognize Israel as a legitimate state. They could be charged with anti-Semitism. Also, what about Orthodox Jews who don\u2019t recognize conversions to Judaism supervised by Reform rabbis? If they say that such converts aren\u2019t Jewish, they could be charged under the Act as anti-Semitic. So could Reform rabbis who mock the Orthodox as benighted reactionaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the oddest aspects of this whole deplorable business is that the Act bans statements that the Jews have a lot of political power. One wonders how the Act passed by the astonishing margin of 320 to 91 without pressure from the Israeli Lobby. The sellout Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is bought and paid for. How then can the Act ban a statement that is obviously true and that the passage of the Act shows to be true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One target of the Act is the heroic university students who are protesting what is going on in Gaza. The sponsors of the Act depict them as lawbreakers who need to be suppressed to preserve \u201claw and order\u201d, but students protests against criminal wars are part of the American tradition. Student protests against LBJ\u2019s criminal war against Vietnam helped bring down his presidency. Libertarians and all other lovers of freedom should never forget that we are anti-war. Cushatt, Michele Best Price: $11.96 Buy New $11.88 (as of 09:07 UTC &#8211; Details) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/aws\/cart\/add.html?AssociateTag=lrc18-20&amp;SubscriptionId=AKIAIDE7MWL7UCS6TA4A&amp;ASIN.1=0310353033&amp;Quantity.1=1\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course the neocons behind the Act don\u2019t see matters this way. These days, students often learn about news through social media platforms like TikTok. Many students learned about what was going on in Gaza though discussions on that platform, and because of this, the neocons in Congress voted to force TikTok\u2019s parent company to sell it within 270 days; if not, it will be banned in America. <a href=\"http:\/\/lewrockwell.com\/2024\/04\/ron-paul\/tiktok-hypocrisy\/\">As Dr. Ron Paul notes<\/a>, \u201c The head of the Anti-Defamation League was actually caught on tape complaining about the \u201cTikTok problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we talk about the neocons, we should never forget that they got us into the disastrous invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush. The US government killed a million people \u2013half of them children thanks to the US starvation blockade \u2014 and cost us trillions of dollars. Despite this\u2014or maybe because of it\u2014neocons like Robert Kagan still praise the Iraq war today. This is the sort of person behind the Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my opinion, the evidence for Israeli genocide is overwhelming, and those who want to ban people from saying so are calling for a ban on the truth. But suppose you disagree. You should still oppose the Act. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.econlib.org\/library\/Mill\/mlLbty.html?chapter_num=2#book-reader\">John Stuart Mill said in his great <em>On Liberty<\/em> (1859)<\/a>: \u201cBut the peculiar evil of silencing an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race;. . .those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/1970\/01\/albert-jay-nock\/free-speech-and-plain-language-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lrc-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/2024\/04\/Lew-Rockwell-Copy-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-884934\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/1970\/01\/albert-jay-nock\/free-speech-and-plain-language-2\/\">The great Albert Jay Nock said about censorship<\/a> that \u201cthis degrading enervation of a whole people is rather a heavy offset to the benefits gained by a policy of expediency.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You shouldn\u2019t be surprised that neocons like Kagan smear this great libertarian and anti-war crusader as an anti-Semite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We should take the opportunity provided by the Act to engage in a full and frank discussion of American foreign policy. Why are we supplying billions of dollars in aid to a country engaging in genocide? Why are we supporting Ukraine in a war against Russia that could lead to a thermonuclear war? What groups benefit from these policies? By the way, if you are looking for real anti-Semites, you should start with the pro-Nazi Azov Brigade backing the tyrannical dictatorship of Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s do everything we can to get rid of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act and to return to our traditional foreign policy of non-intervention, following the guidance of Dr. Ron Paul and Murray Rothbard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act By Llewellyn H. 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