Journalist Ahmed Eldin says antisemitism targets Jews, but criticism of a “Zionist regime” like Israel’s shouldn’t be mistaken for antisemitism.
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00:00Melinda, can I just jump in for a second? Because, you know, I just want to share with your viewers. I mean, Shabos, I don't know if your audience knows that, you know, I would take everything he says with a grain of salt. You know, you say that these are some of the dumbest people.
00:14I mean, Shabos, you've written on Instagram, you know, to those who are protesting at Harvard. And by the way, let's be clear, they're not protesting against free speech or for free speech. They're protesting against genocide and ethnic cleansing, which is being widely documented. So that is not anti-Semitism.
00:35I'm not telling you what anti-Semitism is, but we can all hopefully agree that anti-Semitism is when you discriminate against Jewish people, not a Zionist regime that is rogue and violating international law and committing crimes against humanity.
00:49You wrote in response to an Instagram post, have you considered blowing yourselves up? That would really show the Zionists.
00:56So I don't know if that's like a joke or if you just feel as if that's somehow a level of discourse that should be encouraged.