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As this MAGA hearing continues, attempting to smear and vilify students who are organizing to stop a genocide, the Israeli government is starving over 2 million Palestinian in Gaza.

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Ilhan Omar talks about how the Trump regime’s actions like targeting of student activists who support Palestinian rights for deportation is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes.

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Casar asks GOP Committee members if they condemn Trump saying there were "very fine people on both sides" of the racist & antisemitic march on Charlottesville, RFK's spread of antisemitic conspiracy theories, or Trump's pardoning of antisemitic insurrectionists. None raise hands.

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Alma Adams pushed back against this sham of a hearing, sharing the stories of the Jewish Columbia students on the Hill yesterday about how they are facing discrimination because of their political beliefs. Nothing Trump and his allies are doing is actually about Jewish safety.

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It's hard to take Mary Miller's pretense of caring about Jewish safety seriously when she quoted Hitler while giving a speech outside of the US Capitol the day before the January 6 insurrection...

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Elise Stefanik - who echos the antisemitic 'great replacement theory' and defended Elon Musk's Nazi salute - is on the mic pretending to care at all about Jews. One of her favorite ways to try to grow her career.

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Jewish faculty decry Republican panel members ahead of antisemitism hearing

Ahead of today, Jewish faculty from Haverford publicly rejected the hearings. Some noted that they are "political theater" aimed at "silencing pro-Palestinian voices on campus – including many Jewish voices." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Lawmakers on key committee have quoted Hitler and are associated with calls for Jews to convert to Christianity

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Meet the Jewish students speaking to US lawmakers about Columbia’s protests

Yesterday, a group of incredible Jewish students from Columbia spoke with lawmakers, calling on them to fight back against these kind of right wing attempts to use false allegations of antisemitism to dismantle free speech and social justice movements. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...

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Jewish students who support Palestinian rights tell Al Jazeera that accusations of anti-Semitism are being weaponised.

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The fact that Chairman Walberg doesn't even know how to pronounce "Chabad" really shows you all need you need to know about how much the folks leading this hearing care about Jews.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

And we're back! In another McCarthyite hearing led by the far-right wing Christian nationalists in the House Committee on Education & the Workforce who pretend to care about Jewish safety in order to attack the Palestinian rights movement and take a hammer to democratic rights.

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“I’m coming down right smack dab in the middle" Repulsive stance from Biden's antisemitism envoy on the Trump administration's abduction of students. Not surprising though from someone who smeared those same students as they protested to stop a genocide. forward.com/news/712297/...

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Student protesters being deported are not ‘martyrs and heroes,’ says former antisemitism envoy

Deborah Lipstadt said she agrees with some of the Trump administration's moves to deport students and crack down on campus antisemitism.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In his floor speech urging Senators to block weapons to Israel, Sanders discussed how Dems are too afraid of AIPAC, saying if a Dem votes against Israel "AIPAC will punish you with millions of dollars in advertisements and in other ways to see that you are defeated" Here we are.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

There are a few hundred people in the entire world who have the power to stop sending Israel the weapons it uses to slaughter Palestinians. If you're one of those few hundred people and you want a ceasefire, then stop. sending. the. fire.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

AIPAC is losing their shit over the upcoming Senate vote to block $8.8 billion in weapons to Israel. Why? Because this vote has the potential to show that the overwhelming majority of Americans want to stop arming Israel's genocide. Call the Senate now: jvpaction.org/blockthebombs

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Center for Jewish Nonviolence @cjnv.org · 28/03/2025

🚨 TODAY: BRUTAL SETTLER ATTACK LEAVES 5 HOSPITALIZED IN JINBA, MASAFER YATTA, WEST BANK 🚨 Every story of Israel's violence against Palestinians deserves the level of recognition and outrage that we saw over the attack on No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal. 1/ 📷 IG: @mahmoud.photography97

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A Letter From Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil | ACLU

Instead of listening to a hateful grandstanding bigot like Josh Hawley attack and smear Mahmoud Khalil, read Mahmoud’s own beautiful words about why he organizes for Palestinian rights and how he hopes to be released in time for the birth of his child. www.aclu.org/news/free-sp...

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Khalil, who was unlawfully arrested in retaliation for his advocacy, details this violation of his free speech rights.

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Sen Markey coming out swinging! Listing out the blatant antisemitism of Trump and his cronies over the years, and how Trump & co. Are simultaneously cynically using the fear of antisemitism to attack free speech. He calls out what is happening as what it is: authoritarianism.

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Husted smearing student activists and calling for deportations. This is part of the coordinated campaign of fear-mongering and attack that motivates the detention of students like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk who were abducted by ICE, targeted for their political speech.

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As Senators smear and attack anti-war student activists who are trying to end the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians, the Trump administration is using this narrative to abduct students from the street and their homes, targeting them for deportation. This is fascism.

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Sanders is showing an image from a Trump event showing Soros as a puppeteer over government, and asking each witness to say if it is antisemitic. StandWithUs witness is only able to say “it raises questions” and that “context is key”. Mkay.

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Tell Congress: Protect students' rights and free speech. - JVP

People are bringing up the Anti-semitism Awareness Act, a bill that would codify the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism in order to even further crack down on Palestinian rights activists and political dissent. Tell your Senators to oppose it: www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/tel...

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Email your members of Congress right now and tell them to vote no on the dangerous “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act”, which does nothing to keep Jews safe.

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Sanders needing to correct Cassidy’s pronunciation of “Lubavitch” multiple times really speaks volumes about Cassidy and this hearing.

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Carly Gammill of the anti-Palestinian group StandWithUs conflates Judaism with the political ideology of Zionism. This falsehood - intertwining a centuries old religion with a 77 year old ethnonationalist nation state - will be at the core of today’s attacks in the hearing.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The Senate HELP Committee is kicking off a hearing that claims to be about combatting antisemitism — it is not. This is Trump’s cronies using the guise of caring about Jews to further its agenda of deporting student activists and instilling fear to silence political dissent. 🧵

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Today, the Senate will hold a nomination hearing for far-right, extremist, ultraconservative Mike Huckabee to become US ambassador to Israel. I wrote in @thenation.com about how Huckabee wants bloodshed across historic Palestine to usher in the End Times. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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Democrats: Tell Mike Huckabee to Go to Hell

Trump’s nominee for Israel ambassador believes that we need bloodshed in the Middle East to bring about the end times. Nobody could be a worse choice.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

"Khalil’s abduction, in its cruelty and unlawfulness, has horrified people around the country. Let us be clear: This is what fascism looks like, and it is part of a much broader campaign." Must read from Palestine Legal's Dima Khalidi www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Mahmoud Khalil’s Abduction Is a Red Alert for Universities

Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

If you do not act to protest Columbia admin collaborating with ICE & Trump to illegally detain Mahmoud Khalil, you are consenting to your campus being next. You are giving a green light to your admin to hand over your students and colleagues. Enough is enough. ACT NOW.

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Beth Miller @bethavedon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Plainclothes government agents took a student from his home because of his political speech, in front of his 8 month pregnant wife. Now he is being held in an unknown location and his lawyers cannot reach him. Once again, the ADL shows that it chooses the side of fascism.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

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Congress Hearing on Antisemitism Does Nothing for Jewish Safety, Advances Authoritarianism Media advisory from JVP Action www.jvpaction.org/congress-hea...

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This hearing was a vile display of anti-Palestinian racism and the false conflation of Jewish people with the Israeli state. Trump and his allies do not care about Jewish safety. They are attempting to attack the Palestinian freedom movement, and to dismantle core civil liberties

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Israeli officials openly call for the annihilation of Palestinians while starving 2 million people in Gaza and ethnically cleanse tens of thousands from their homes in the West Bank So, contrary to what Hawley would have you believe, the Israeli government is committing genocide

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Tell Congress: Protect students' rights and free speech. - JVP

People are repeatedly bringing up the Anti-semitism Awareness Act, a bill that would codify the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism in order to crack down on Palestinian rights activists and political dissent. Tell your Senators to oppose it: www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/tel...

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Email your members of Congress right now and tell them to vote no on the dangerous “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act”, which does nothing to keep Jews safe.

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Yesterday, Trump posted on Truth Social calling for the de-funding of universities that allow students to protest and exercise their civil liberties. Today, his cronies in the Senate are all calling for the government to cut funding to colleges.

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It is shameful - and entirely unsurprising - that so many Democrats on the committee are joining far-right MAGA Senators in accepting and amplifying smears of college students who are organizing on their own campuses to divest institutional funds from apartheid and genocide.

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This hearing is a clear demonstration of how Trump and his cronies are using the topic of antisemitism as a political ploy build an authoritarian and ultra-conservative vision for America. They are not just attacking the Palestinian rights movement, but all progressive thought.

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Meanwhile, as this hearing smears students who support Palestinian rights, the Israeli government is once again fully blockading Gaza - flagrantly using starvation as a weapon of war against 2 million people. That is what these students are trying to stop.

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Heritage Foundation's Christian Nationalist 'Project Esther' Won't Combat Antisemitism — But it Will Weaponize Jews

Meirav Solomon correctly brought up the Heritage Foundation's Project Esther which claims to be about combating antisemitism but is actually a conspiracy-riddled, Christian Nationalist, McCarthyist blueprint for destroying the Palestinian rights movement. religiondispatches.org/heritage-fou...

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On the anniversary of October 7, the Heritage Foundation released Project Esther: A National Strategy to Combat Antisemitism. The 33-page document calls on the federal government to use counterterrori...

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Cojab also scoffed at the fact that Trump's actions have already led to terrifying chilling of free speech on college campuses - especially for Palestinian, Arab Muslim, and anti-Zionist Jewish students.

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Witness Adela Cojab is calling for adoption of the IHRA definition. This is an overwhelmingly controversial and dangerous mis-definition of antisemitism that is opposed by Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli groups, as well as civil liberties organizations like the ACLU.

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Grassley taking a few moments to praise his great leader, Trump: an EO to deport students who support Palestinian rights and that turns universities into surveillance agents; promising to cut federal funding for universities that allow students to exercise their civil liberties.

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I'm shocked - shocked - that the MAGA hearing about antisemitism in America kicked off with a video that didn't even include the richest man in the world giving a Nazi salute on national television. Instead, it was a smear reel to attack anti-war student organizers.

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