With anti-Semitic [14] and Islamophobic [15] violence in the US both rising since Israel began its campaign of genocide [16] in Gaza, it is incumbent upon Palestine solidarity activists not to play into this dynamic by engaging in rhetoric and tactics that demonize Jews as the "other." Cynical weaponization [17] of the accusation of anti-Semitism by Zionist propaganda increases rather than decreases our responsibility to be clear about recognizing and opposing actual [18] anti-Semitism. Alas, in cases from Chicago [19] to Seattle [20] to Philadelphia [21] to Washington DC [22], activists have failed to make [23] this critical distinction—not only providing propaganda ammo to Israel's supporters, but displaying a paradoxical point of convergence with the MAGA right [24]. In Episode 241 [25] of the CounterVortex podcast [26], Bill Weinberg rises to the odious task of calling them out.
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