Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced a bold new strategy to combat antisemitism: checking people's Twitter feeds, reports NPR. But according to the puppy-slayer, antisemitism only counts when it comes with a foreign accent.
The policy specifically targets immigrants applying for permanent residence and those pesky foreign students who dare express opinions about Gaza. Meanwhile, mouth-frothing antisemitic members of Congress and assorted GOP darlings like Kanye West, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes not only get a free pass, they get courted by the MAGA power elite.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin declared "no room in the United States for terrorist sympathizers." Fascinating position from an administration that keeps finding plenty of room for dinner dates with white nationalists.
Let's be crystal clear: antisemitism is reprehensible, full stop. But this selective outrage from the MAGA crowd rings hollow when they're still retweeting Candace Owens' greatest hits.
In the twisted logic of 2025, criticizing Israeli government policy gets your visa revoked, while dining with Holocaust deniers gets you a speaking slot at CPAC.
It's not just selective outrage. They are redefining "antisemitism" to mean support for the Palestinians and not to mean prejudice against Jews.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-and-antisemitism
"Americans are being trained to see antisemitism as something other than the oppression of Jews by non-Jews -- which is of course a very real, very dangerous, and growing problem in the world.
Rulers who deploy the word "antisemitism" can themselves be antisemites or promoters of antisemitism. The abuse of the word "antisemitism" is meant to generate a sense of plausibility, confuse opposition, and create more space for the actual phenomenon of antisemitism. And this misdirection is an integral part of the effort to replace a constitutional order with an authoritarian one.
Jews in the United States are being instrumentalized in an effort to build a more authoritarian American system. The real and continuing history of the oppression of Jews is transformed into a bureaucratic tool called "antisemitism" which is used to suppress education and human rights -- and so, in the end, to harm Jews themselves.
As the word "antisemitism" becomes the cover for aggression, we lose the concept. And then, when actual antisemitism manifests itself, there will be no way to describe it, since "antisemitism" will have come to mean something like "the power of arbitrary rulers to suppress freedom of assembly and freedom of speech under cover of disinformation and propaganda."
At the moment the word takes on that meaning, such power will have been achieved. Words will have become just tools to achieve the vision of the Leader."