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I don't think the accusation of antisemitism has much to do with the problem of "wokeism". There is certainly evidence of an increase in incidents of overt antisemitism particularly since the context of what is going on in Gaza. Where all Jews are blamed and not the Israeli govenment, this could be anti-semitism. However much of the critique is (as the speaker noted) a strategy to silence pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests. There is one less clear aspect in the "From the river to the sea" slogans (which are issued actually by both sides; both single state Israel and single state Palestine advocates.) Calling for the wiping out of Israel could be seen as anti-Jewish in the sense that Israel is a Jewish state, but it is also a political position that could be called anti-zionist, ie opposition to a Jewish state (and favouring support for a democratic secular state where Jews and Palestinians would live together.) In 1975 the UN had allowed a resolution calling zionism racist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_3379) because it was an exclusionary state that discriminated against non-Jews, but that resolution was revoked in 1991.

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