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Biden administration unveils new actions to combat antisemitism on college campuses
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Theyre also ignoring the very real hate crimes being perpetrated against Palestinian-Americans, like the little boy that was stabbed to death by his racist landlord.
BUT DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS???
This condemnation thing is super dumb. How does terror, murder and using civilians as shields need to be explicitly comdenmed?! That's one of the things where condemnation is a given until stated otherwise. But to create a nice and clean-cut narrative, someone who is against Israel's campaign against civilians hast to be explicitly against Hamas or they must be pro Hamas... Which is bullshit. I talk about Hamas less because there is nothing to discuss, no opinions to share. No sane person can be on the side of fucking Hamas.
I'm not saying both forms of hate here are getting the exact same amount of attention, but do read the article please:
"In recent days, White House officials have increased their outreach. Biden called the family of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who was murdered in what authorities are calling a hate crime, and White House aides have reached out to Muslim, Arab and Palestinian American elected officials across the country."
Palestinian-Americans get thoughts and prayers, Jewish Americans get extra protection from the god damn FBI.
I want to see some fucking action. Words are words, and until Biden does literally anything I'll assume he's ignoring it.
Again, please read the article. There's nothing in there about Jewish Americans getting FBI bodyguards or something. They said federal law enforcement agencies are partnering with campus police to help them track hate related threats, which they consider both anti-semitism and islamophobia to be. These actions they're doing aren't specific to anti-semitism.
FTA "Just last month, two weeks before the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, the administration rolled out additional actions to combat antisemitism and Islamophobia more broadly across several federal agencies, citing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
For the first time, federal agencies clarified that the 1964 law prohibits “certain forms of antisemitic, Islamophobic, and related forms of discrimination in federally funded programs and activities.”
You expect me to click on links? lmao
I wonder why the title excluded Islamophobia?
Because it's an article about anti semitism on college campuses? Articles can be about different topics. But the article did actually have a lot of info relevant to the administration's Islamophobia response too, since they're using the same change they made to title vi regulations to help them assist with hate crimes and threats on campus to allow them to help with both. Specifically updated to add both Islamophobia and antisemitism.
Okay, but Biden unveiled these new actions at the same time right? Antisemitism and Islamophobia? So covering campus antisemitism without also covering anti-Arab/anti-Palestinian/Islamophobic hate seems to be leaving a lot of people out for no reason.
And that's why they included it in the article (that my dumbass should have read). Just not the title for some reason.
They didn't ignore that, in fact Biden gave a speech condemning it.
Turns out stabbing children is already illegal, so what else needs to be done other than throw the murderer in prison for life.
Uh huh, and hate-related antisemitic threats were also already illegal, so why does Biden need to pledge additional action? It certainly seems like one is taking precedence over the other.