– White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that Covid cases in the U.S. may need to fall as low as 3,300 per day for the nation to gain control over the virus. – The U.S. reported an average of nearly 83,500 new Covid cases every day over the last week, a 14% rise from the week before, according to Johns Hopkins University data. – Daily infections in the U.S. haven’t been below 10,000 since March 2020 –
#RaceClass Ep. 24 and 25| The Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism Power Play with BU Law Professor Jonathan Feingold and me
On Dec. 5, the U.S. House passed HR 894 <www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/894>, which states that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” On the same day, House Republicans charged <www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/12/05/colleges-antisemitism-house-hearing-israel/> the presidents’ of Harvard, Penn and MIT with institutional “cultures” that “foster [antisemitism] because you have faculty and students who hate Jews, hate Israel and are comfortable apologizing for terror.” As Noah Zatz recently illustrated <lpeproject.org/blog/palestinian-freedom-antisemitism-accusations-and-civil-rights-law/>, both claims rely on a logical leap that requires “conflating the Israeli state with its Jewish residents in conjunction with metaphors of destruction.” Building on Zatz’s analysis, we explore why conflating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism is *(a)* *analytically fraught*;* (b)* *dangerous* for Jews and others (because it foments social division and feeds white supremacist ideologies like great replacement theory) and (c) *a predictable and strategic effort* to *silence* dissent and *discredit* antiracist movements in the United States and beyond and abroad. listen online at www.wnhnfm.org/live Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, covid, Dr. Fauci, race class, Jonathan Feingold anti-zionism, anti semitism,HR 894, Congress, College Presidents, Palestinians, Gaza, Hamas, terrorism, war
