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The Anthropologist Deconstructing Antizionism
Thank you to Aish for the profile.
“A Yale-trained anthropologist, Adam Louis-Klein emerged from the Amazon to find his academic world celebrating a hate movement. He is using his background in anthropology to fight antizionism.”
I’ve also listened to many of AL-K’s interviews and I don’t remember him mentioning Trump at all. Maybe I missed something, but my perception is that a discussion of Trump is totally tangential, if relevant at all, to the anti-antizionist movement. The contemporary hate movement, antizionism, led to the abrogation of Jewish students’ civil rights all over the US (and apparently at McGill) after 10/7 while Biden was president. This injustice was curtailed to a great extent during the current administration, regardless of corrupt behavior in other circumstances.
I have listened to a few of your interviews. I am an elder, raised in Socialist Zionism, who lived in Israel many years, and whose family has contributed much to the growth of Israel. I find myself lucky to be able to enjoy and learn from the poetry of Yehudah Amichai, the songs of Natan Yonatan, the dances of Ohad Naharin, or Karmiel Dance Festival, the conflict resolution classes offered by Neveh Shalom Whahat Al Salaam, and reading commentary from both Palestinian and Jew in Palestine-Israel Journal, combing the Holocaust files at Givat Haviva's research institute, or reading about the latest scientific research from Ben Gurion University.
That said, I am so greatly disappointed that your advocacy for us is linked in any way shape, or manner, to a person who is a pathological liar, and sociopath, Donald Trump, who has destabilized the entire world, and with the help of his pathological oligarchs, and anti semites Peter Theil and Musk, who are dismantling US democracy.
Bibi, like Trump, has created an atmosphere of hate, and chaos, that started years ago, no better example than the atmosphere in Israel around the time of PM Rabin's assassination, to which the cult religious groups and Bibi amplified, with Rabin depicted as HItler.
Antisemitism and all racism, in ALL its forms, increased dramatically in the years since Trump was first elected. Trump regularly engages in daily violet rhetoric on his social media, as well as many in Bibi's gov. Those are facts. And Trump and his regime have enabled Bibi to continue using the military instead of finding a diplomatic solution, not for noble reasons, but just continued grift, as Kushner has done with the payoff he received from Saudi Arabia.
To ignore that Trump is propagating racism, is to have blinders on. To ignore that certain groups of Christians in the US gov. have openly called for the US to return to being a "Christian nation,"
that the very founding of the US, based on a separation of church and state, has now been eroded, by the very man you credit for "quieting" the anti Zionist demos on college campus' is putting another layer of blinders on.
And where, may I add, may I find you in a discussion with someone who disagrees with you, as it seems you only speak to people who already agree with you?