Great piece! The word, to me, also became a sign that people just either don’t know what they’re talking about or are intellectually lazy, like referring to the killing of Iranian protestors by the IRGC as a genocide. 🙄
I question why we still use the term antisemitism as an umbrella term, especially when you look at its origin. The term was coined by Wilhelm Marr, who founded the League of Antisemites in 1879, the first political organization in Germany created specifically to combat the alleged threat posed by Jews to German society. It’s like if the official term for hatred against Black people were a word invented by the Ku Klux Klan.
It’s time to stop using antisemitism as an umbrella term and focus on exposing and fighting antizionism, which is now the more dominant mutation of bigotry towards Jews: https://www.movementagainstantizionism.org/
Hi Rina, this article isn’t about the origins of the term antisemitism or debates about labels. It examines how some are using “genocide” as an antisemitic slur in contemporary discourse. Thanks for reading ☺️
Great piece! The word, to me, also became a sign that people just either don’t know what they’re talking about or are intellectually lazy, like referring to the killing of Iranian protestors by the IRGC as a genocide. 🙄
Thank you :-) I just subscribed to The Shabbat Drop — looking forward to reading!
Thank you! It’s not as intellectual 😅 hope you like!
I'm just a suburban mom who intellectualizes her feelings instead of eating them...
https://www.academia.edu/165601881/Sometimes_Scholars_are_Wrong_Dr_Omar_Bartovs_Genocide_Accusation
Your argument is much more succinct than mine☺️ I had to go down a total rabbit hole! But hey, that’s why we’re friends.
I question why we still use the term antisemitism as an umbrella term, especially when you look at its origin. The term was coined by Wilhelm Marr, who founded the League of Antisemites in 1879, the first political organization in Germany created specifically to combat the alleged threat posed by Jews to German society. It’s like if the official term for hatred against Black people were a word invented by the Ku Klux Klan.
It’s time to stop using antisemitism as an umbrella term and focus on exposing and fighting antizionism, which is now the more dominant mutation of bigotry towards Jews: https://www.movementagainstantizionism.org/
Hi Rina, this article isn’t about the origins of the term antisemitism or debates about labels. It examines how some are using “genocide” as an antisemitic slur in contemporary discourse. Thanks for reading ☺️