The first thing to say about Chuck Schumer’s Antisemitism in America: A Warning is that nobody wants this book. No blurbs, reviews, or endorsements grace its cover. The only praise for the author’s half-century as an elected official can be found inside the book’s pages, from Schumer himself. The curious reader who looks at the back cover will instead be greeted with an excerpt from the book that promises “the specter of antisemitism haunting the American continent” threatens the foundations of the United States itself. Yet the specter haunting the back cover is the senator himself, who appears above the quoted passage, reading glasses resting slightly askew on the bridge of his nose, with a sly smile. Though sounding an alarm, he seems completely at ease.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    The US does have an anti-semitism problem, but criticism of Israel and the IDF is not anti-semitism. Fuck Schumer for trying to equate the two and therefore empowering both the real anti-semites and the genocidal Israeli regime.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      2 days ago

      antisemitism: jews have no place in this society

      zionism: jews have no place in this society

      hopefully this helps people see the problem with labeling anti-zionism as antisemitism

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      The same person who taught me that antisemitism and antizionism aren’t the same thing also made me eat a burrito on his front porch because it wasn’t kosher.