We're Fed Up with the Hypocrisy. It's Time to Talk About 'Antisemitism'.

There are words so heavy with the pain of history that they should only be spoken with reverence and precision. ‘Antisemitism’ is one of those words. It is a name for a specific, vile, and ancient hatred that has carved rivers of blood across centuries. But today, that sacred word is being desecrated. It is being hollowed out, cheapened, and welded into a political cudgel by the very people who claim to be its guardians. It is being used not to protect Jewish people, but to protect a nuclear-armed nation-state from accountability. And in this cynical game, the biggest losers are not just the Palestinians fighting for their lives, but the very concept of truth itself.

A Word Twisted into a Weapon

Let us be painfully clear: what we are witnessing is a deliberate, malicious, and coordinated campaign to redefine a word. The goal is simple and sinister: to make it impossible to criticize the actions of the Israeli state without being branded a racist. Any opposition to its policies, any solidarity with the oppressed, any cry for justice is to be immediately recategorized as an ancient, irrational hatred of Jews. It is a lie, and it is a lie that is crumbling under the weight of its own absurdity.

Look at the case of the artist Bob Vylan. At the Glastonbury festival, a crowd chants against a military force, the IDF, which is actively engaged in a brutal campaign. This is political speech, a protest against state violence. Yet, this act is instantly laundered through the political spin machine and emerges on the other side as ‘violent antisemitic rhetoric.’ It escalates so quickly that the U.S. Department of Justice—an arm of a foreign government—is now assessing his US tour as a national security threat. Think about the chilling insanity of that. A British artist inspires a chant against a foreign army, and the American federal government considers intervening. This isn't about protecting anyone. This is about protecting an ideology and shielding an ally from criticism, using the most emotionally charged accusation available.

Look at Zohran Mamdani, a New York Assemblyman. On national television, he refuses to perform the ritualistic condemnation of the phrase ‘globalize the intifada.’ For this, the leader of his own party, Hakeem Jeffries, publicly rebukes him. The establishment demands he fall in line. Why? Because they have successfully reframed ‘intifada’—a word meaning ‘uprising’ or ‘shaking off’ in the context of a decades-long occupation—as a call for genocidal violence. They are policing language, not to prevent harm, but to prevent solidarity.

What They Don't Want You to See

Behind this wall of slander, a simple truth is fighting to breathe: supporting Palestinian human rights is not antisemitic. It has never been, and it will never be. Demanding an end to occupation, to bombings, to apartheid policies is not an attack on a religion; it is a stand for universal human dignity.

The smear campaigns are becoming more desperate and transparent. They now create elaborate guilt-by-association chains. They tell you that Bob Vylan praised the group Kneecap, and a member of Kneecap was once charged under the UK’s Terrorism Act. This is not journalism; it is a McCarthyite playbook. It is an attempt to create a toxic cloud around any prominent figure who dares to step out of line, to make solidarity so professionally and personally costly that most will choose silence.

This same tactic is being deployed in our universities. When brave students and faculty at institutions like MIT speak out, they are met with a barrage of lawsuits. A new lawsuit now targets a specific tenured professor, aiming not just to win a legal case, but to ruin a life, to create a chilling effect on campuses, and to purge academia of any critical thought on Israel. They are not fostering a safe environment; they are engineering an intellectual monoculture through fear and legal intimidation.

The Cowardice of the Powerful vs. The Courage of the Voiceless

What we are seeing is a stark moral contrast. On one side, you have the immense power of the state, legacy media, and lobbying groups, all working in concert to enforce a single, brittle narrative. They have power, money, and influence. But they are cowards, because their position is so morally bankrupt it cannot withstand open debate. It can only be sustained through smears, censorship, and the abuse of power.

On the other side, you have artists like Bob Vylan, politicians like Zohran Mamdani, academics like the professor at MIT, and millions of ordinary citizens in the streets. They have no armies, no state departments to defend them. Their only weapons are truth, conscience, and courage. They face career destruction, public shaming, and government surveillance. Yet they continue to speak. Who, in this story, is on the side of justice?

And in the most ghoulish twist of all, the cynical manipulators of this narrative will seize on real-world tragedies to fuel their engine of propaganda. A horrific, vile attack on a Jewish boy in France—an act of pure, undeniable antisemitism—is not just mourned; it is used. It is immediately held up as proof that the entire global movement for Palestinian rights is a violent, hateful mob. They look at the suffering of a child and see a political opportunity. They dishonor the victim by making his pain a talking point to justify the collective punishment of millions and to silence dissent a world away. This tactic is not just wrong; it is a moral desecration.

The Cost of Our Silence

By allowing the term ‘antisemitism’ to be weaponized in this way, we are not only enabling the continued oppression of the Palestinian people, we are also rendering the word meaningless. When everything is antisemitism, nothing is. When a protest chant against an army is treated with the same gravity as a neo-Nazi march, we lose the ability to fight the real poison of Jew-hatred. The boy with a knife at his throat in France is a victim of antisemitism. The professor being sued for his political views is a victim of political persecution. To conflate the two is a grave error, and the powerful are counting on you to make it.

We are in a battle for the meaning of words, because words shape our reality. If we allow this to continue, we surrender our language to the powerful and give them the ultimate weapon: the ability to define who is human and who is not, whose pain matters and whose can be ignored, and what justice even means.

The choice is clear. So what can you do?

• Share this truth. Do not let the lies stand unchallenged in your conversations, online and in your communities.
• Reject the cynical weaponization of antisemitism. When you hear it being used to silence criticism of a state, call it out for the political tactic that it is.
• Defend the voices being silenced. Support the artists, academics, and activists who are being targeted for their courage.
• Never be silent. Your voice is a weapon in the fight for truth. Use it now.