“ Israel’s assets in the UK have been emboldened by the university collaborating with them to shut down teaching about Islamophobia."
As someone who had a Palestinian roommate, I must say that the west has done a great job whitewashing Israeli excesses and downplaying the racism that’s rampant in Israel. Part of this is indeed through soft censorship of viewpoints critical of Israel (they can exist in the narrow confines of academia, but never get major airplay). This poll is pretty damning, but it’ll never get the airplay it deserves: https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israelis-say-no-vote-to-ara...
“ “ This is plainly antisemetic ... and I have a bar for that.”
Hopefully you apply that same bar to what people say about Palestinians, too. They have, for the longest time, been treated as subhuman in the west, with no consequence for the perpetrators of bigotry.
As someone who had a Palestinian roommate, I must say that the west has done a great job whitewashing Israeli excesses and downplaying the racism that’s rampant in Israel. Part of this is indeed through soft censorship of viewpoints critical of Israel (they can exist in the narrow confines of academia, but never get major airplay). This poll is pretty damning, but it’ll never get the airplay it deserves: https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israelis-say-no-vote-to-ara...
“ “ This is plainly antisemetic ... and I have a bar for that.”
Hopefully you apply that same bar to what people say about Palestinians, too. They have, for the longest time, been treated as subhuman in the west, with no consequence for the perpetrators of bigotry.