@brantly I’m aware of this video there is even another controversial video of Ami Horrowitz waving an ISIL flag and getting no criticism than waving an Israeli flag to get criticized by students at UC Berkeley:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHJ06bsSow
The issue here is the video posted by @brantly was labelling Palestinian rights groups as Anti-Semitic and anyone who supports the Palestinians or even sympathises with there cause is labelled this way. It seems to be more of a political video aimed at Palestinian groups and BDS on campus than anything actually having to do with any hatred of Jews. The video just proves my point on paranoia and anxiety among Jewish students. The parts of the video showing Palestinian rights groups seems to be edited out(although they are shown to be very hostile), The pro-Israeli Jewish students in this case could have provoked a response. For instance at one part of the video we see an angry response from a female Palestinian student to a Jewish professor but I know for a fact after watching the full video of this that the professor called her a terrorist for waving the Palestinian flag which provoked a response from her. The video’s purpose is more to fight not only BDS but any form of Palestinian support on college campuses, this may have been strategized by Netanyahu or Israeli organizations themselves in an effort to expose palestinian groups. The issue here is that support of Palestine or recognition of it isn’t necessarily anti-Israel. Every single country around the world supports a two state solution under international law and there have even been some countries in the western world that recognize Palestine most notably Sweden and potentially France aswell as the United Kingdom. I wish that Palestinian groups and Jewish groups could just get along on campus and have more peaceful debates than all this protesting and hostility.
There is another interesting video showing a Jewish professor who is confronted by a pro-Hezbollah student:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yGN8SlIEZ8
The conversation seems to start out normally then ends with the Professor questioning whether the student supported Hezbollah that is recognized as a terrorist group by Israel and the United States. Once she said she was for Hezbollah she was dismissed as a terrorist, he even calls her scarf a terrorist scarf which I found a bit offensive. I don’t understand why the student would support Hezbollah but this seems more of a political thing and has to do with radical Islamic terrorism.
The purpose of these videos is to cause Hysteria, anxiety and paranoia among Jewish students on college campuses. The video seems disturbing to the average viewer(including myself) and probably I can imagine terrifying for Jewish Americans to watch. I’ve seen other Palestinian groups on campuses and have rarely seen any hostility as shown in the video, I don’t believe it is fair to label all Palestinian groups this way especially from a well edited, politically biased video. I personally do support Israel as a sovereign state and U.S. ally and believe that the vast majority of Americans do, so I’ll advise most people that are watching this thread not to feel paranoid, worried or overreact.
Finally, I feel like my message of thinking positively and having peace of mind is being met for some reason with hostility. I ask would you rather have Jewish students feel paranoid and isolated?? Do you think this helps their college experience at all? and to add to that why should the definition of anti-Semitism be complicated? It is simple, any irrational hatred against Jews is anti-Semitic. Discrimination isn’t unique to Jewish Americans and I can argue that other groups even Catholics face more discrimination than Jews in America. The Professor in this case was more a conspiracy theorist than anything else, she mentions the CIA and Mossad not Jews in particular. She fits into the category of paranoid conspiracy theorists that believe Lizard people that live underground in California rule the world. Stop creating hysteria and being paranoid over trivial comments!!