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when it comes to anti-semites Ben-Gvir is the king of the hill...palestinains are semitic
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"..I’ll give Ben-Gvir his due. He doesn’t even try to hide his hatred for Arabs. If Ben-Gvir were a Palestinian, every single politician and media outlet would be in an uproar that he was anywhere near Yale. The man lives on an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank and has advocated for the deportation of all Arab citizens. He had a picture in his living room for years of Baruch Goldstein, who massacred 29 Muslim worshippers in Hebron in 1994. He has previous convictions for
inciting racism and supporting terrorism.
Again, Shabtai is not officially associated with Yale but it very much looks like a Yale organization, especially as it is based there. It was founded by the Democratic senator and
Yale alumnus Cory Booker and the New Haven rabbi Shmully Hecht. Speaking to Shabtai, with all its elite associations, grants Ben-Gvir respectability. It gives his violent and racist ideas legitimacy. Particularly as Hecht – a man closely associated with Booker – has said
he admires Ben-Gvir. At the time of writing, Booker hadn’t made a public statement about Ben-Gvir’s Shabtai invitation and had not responded to a request for comment.
Several Shabtai members, I should note, have objected to Hecht’s comments about Ben-Gvir and two have resigned from the society. But Yale has not issued a clear condemnation of the far-right politician. Again: Shabtai is not an official Yale organization but it has enough ties to the university that, by not speaking out, the Ivy League institute is in effect endorsing one of the most extremist politicians in Israel. Particularly since Yale has simultaneously been very busy doing what US colleges seem to enjoy doing most: demonizing anyone who speaks out about genocide. A pro-Palestinian student group was stripped of its official recognition by Yale after it was accused of involvement in
protests against Ben-Gvir.
But I don’t want to focus too much on Ben-Gvir because he’s not the real issue here. This isn’t about one man giving a speech – it’s about who is allowed to speak and who isn’t. What facts get reported and what don’t. What the media, politicians and thought leaders choose to get outraged about and what they ignore. It’s about the real-time manufacturing of consent for the US-enabled atrocities happening in
Gaza and the West Bank, and the systematic quashing of dissent.
Pro-Palestinian speech is being
systematically eradicated in the US on multiple fronts. Palestinian viewpoints are being erased, punished or ignored. Ice, of course, has been very busy for weeks now
detaining and deporting pro-Palestinian activists. Meanwhile, on Wednesday the FBI violently raided the homes of pro-Palestinian activists linked to University of Michigan protests. And earlier this week a performance by the R&B star Kehlani at Cornell University in New York state was cancelled, with the university’s president saying the booking of the singer had “injected division and discord” at Cornell because of
her stance on Israel.
Shabtai, a Jewish society based at Yale, hosted the extremist far-right politician convicted of supporting terrorism. Why did Yale allow this?
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