Debra Messing Instagram – #Repost @theatlantic ・・・PLEASE READ AND SHARE All the punditry about free speech and criticism of Israel has extravagantly missed the point, Dara Horn argues: The big lie of anti-Semitism is winning.⁠ ⁠ As a Harvard alumna and the author of a book on anti-Semitism, Horn was asked to serve on the anti-Semitism advisory committee that the university convened after the October 7 Hamas massacre. “I was inundated with messages from Jewish students seeking help,” Horn recounts. “They approached me with their stories after having already tried many other avenues—bewildered not only by what they’d experienced, but also by how many people dismissed or denied those experiences.”⁠ ⁠ Horn discovered a “mountain of proof” that revealed a reality in which Jewish students’ access to their own university “was directly compromised. Compromised, that is, unless they agreed—or at least agreed to pretend, as many Jewish students who are neither religious nor Israeli now silently do—that there was nothing wrong with wallpapering America’s premier university with demonization of Jews.”⁠ ⁠ On and off campus, Jews have been subjected to threats, harassment, violence, vandalism, and genocidal rhetoric; some have taken to hiding external signs of their Jewishness. “It is remarkable how little any of this has to do with anything going on in the Middle East,” Horn continues at the link in our bio. “This harassment isn’t coming from an antiwar plea, or a consciousness-raising effort about Israeli policies, or a campaign for Palestinian independence, though those pretenses now serve as flimsy excuses. The only purpose … is to dehumanize and demonize Jews. Every time Jews are forced to prove that they didn’t deserve this, or to hide who they are, it is already working.”⁠ ⁠ 🎨: James Hosking. Sources: Erica Lansner / Redux; Eric Cox / Reuters; Fine Art Images / Getty; JDC Archives; Library of Congress; Luis Sinco / Getty; National Library of Israel.