Emmaia Gelman, 4/13/2024
A wave of intensified repression has engulfed university campuses since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza in October. To frame discussion of Israeli colonialism and Palestinian freedom as “anti-Jewish hate,” these efforts unite a diffuse set of tactics: megadonors, corporate advertising, lawfare, civil rights complaint—and astroturfing, meaning they work through dozens of small, opaque organizations simulating a grassroots movement. The result is a new ecology of antisemitism watchdogs that is reshaping the terrain of US political, academic, and cultural life. But their playbook is familiar from other battles against the right, and so are the possibilities for resisting their assaults.
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