# On the Dangers of Fighting Antisemitism
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Publisher: Medium · published 2023-02-21 · read 2026-09-11

Original: https://emcohen.medium.com/on-the-dangers-of-fighting-antisemitism-c888c0bbd79f

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## Who is named (29)

- [Board of Deputies of British Jews](https://truthscore.com/entity/077b1aa9)
- [Mort Klein](https://truthscore.com/entity/0e548ed2)
- [Alana Lentin](https://truthscore.com/entity/1fb1f50b)
- [Deneed Borelli](https://truthscore.com/entity/24104b9d)
- [Marc Lamont Hill](https://truthscore.com/entity/26b61a38)
- [IHRA definition of antisemitism](https://truthscore.com/entity/48f6492e)
- [Dov Hikind](https://truthscore.com/entity/4c10f6ca)
- [Labour Party](https://truthscore.com/entity/55298204)
- [Night to Honor Israel](https://truthscore.com/entity/5653f66b)
- [Jewish Federation of Cincinnati](https://truthscore.com/entity/5fc271ac)
- [New York Police Department](https://truthscore.com/entity/6796feec)
- [John Hagee](https://truthscore.com/entity/6fc8817a)
- [Mike Pence](https://truthscore.com/entity/7e9e7006)
- [Anti‑Defamation League](https://truthscore.com/entity/81ef59cf)
- [RJC](https://truthscore.com/entity/8859b758)
- [Gaza](https://truthscore.com/entity/8966c466)
- [Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez](https://truthscore.com/entity/9326183e)
- [CNN](https://truthscore.com/entity/96511e67)
- [Donald J. Trump](https://truthscore.com/entity/a69fbe21)
- [IDF](https://truthscore.com/entity/a8e1802a)
- [Jeremy Corbyn](https://truthscore.com/entity/b1ae956c)
- [Fifth World Holocaust Forum](https://truthscore.com/entity/c5b06e34)
- [Pittsburgh synagogue shooting](https://truthscore.com/entity/d4e9f18e)
- [Coalition for Jewish Values](https://truthscore.com/entity/d8652ea7)
- [Liel Leibovitz](https://truthscore.com/entity/d9e931b6)
- [The Tablet](https://truthscore.com/entity/df2d3bcd)
- [Executive Order to Combat the rise of antisemitism](https://truthscore.com/entity/e8ed8d63)
- [Josh Holmes](https://truthscore.com/entity/f50ba0c3)
- [The Independent](https://truthscore.com/entity/fdba0a27)

## What it added

- [Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Combat the rise of antisemitism.”](https://truthscore.com/claim/48c2ca68)
  > The first quote is from Donald J. Trump, in his Executive Order to “Combat the rise of antisemitism.”
- [Mike Pence made a statement at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum.](https://truthscore.com/claim/3c29fde5)
  > The second quote was shared by Mike Pence in his statement at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum.
- [Pastor John Hagee made a statement during a “Night to Honor Israel” event in Texas.](https://truthscore.com/claim/71edf68c)
  > The third quote comes from Pastor John Hagee during a “Night to Honor Israel” at his church in Texas.
- [The three men are white Christian Zionists.](https://truthscore.com/claim/33e6c58a)
  > These three men are all white Christian Zionists who take every opportunity to condemn antisemitism and demand that we fight it.
- [During the summer of 2018 the IDF violently suppressed protests in Gaza.](https://truthscore.com/claim/a43bf6ed)
  > During the summer of 2018, the IDF was violently suppressing protests in Gaza.
- [The author and friends organized a vigil in their college town during that summer.](https://truthscore.com/claim/e6fb2e89)
  > In our small college town, my friends and I organized a vigil.
- [Three Zionists approached the vigil, ate ice‑cream, and accused the participants of antisemitism.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b953290b)
  > Three Zionists walked over to us, eating ice‑cream, demanded we explain why we hate Israel and asked why we don’t “want peace.” These zionists claimed we were antisemitic for some of our signs that demanded a Free Palestine and an end to the settler‑colonial violence that Israel enacts against the Palestinians.
- [The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred.](https://truthscore.com/claim/4724a402)
  > I recall being just as perplexed after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred
- [Mike Pence honored the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting with a sermon from a Christian “rabbi” who invoked the name of ‘Jesus the messiah’.](https://truthscore.com/claim/56229810)
  > I recall being just as perplexed after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting occurred when Mike Pence honored the victims’ memory with a sermon from a Christian “rabbi” who invoked the name of ‘Jesus the messiah’.
- [Philosemitism is defined as the love of Jews, the opposite of antisemitism.](https://truthscore.com/claim/6dabfecd)
  > Philosemitism is commonly defined as being the opposite of antisemitism.
- [Houria Bouteldja says philosemitism came about for three missions: to solve the white world’s moral legitimacy crisis, to outsource republican racism, and to…](https://truthscore.com/claim/4a07c3d4)
  > According to Houria Bouteldja, philosemitism came about for three cardinal missions: “to solve the white world’s moral legitimacy crisis, which resulted from the Nazi genocide, to outsource republican racism, and finally to be the weaponized wing of Western imperialism in the Arab world.”
- [Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez referred to the mass detention centers at the U.S. border with Mexico as concentration camps.](https://truthscore.com/claim/d7073c14)
  > A recent example of this is when Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez referred to the mass detention centers at America’s border with Mexico as concentration camps.
- [The ADL, RJC, and the Coalition for Jewish Values condemned Alexandria Ocasio‑Cortez’s comparison of the border detention centers to concentration camps.](https://truthscore.com/claim/71645b9d)
  > Major Jewish organizations, such as the ADL, RJC, and Coalition for Jewish Values condemned her comparison.
- [Josh Holmes called Ocasio‑Cortez’s comments an alarming and dangerous false equivalence that suggests a breathtaking lack of appreciation for the unparalleled…](https://truthscore.com/claim/b19ae827)
  > Josh Holmes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s former chief of staff, called Ocasio‑Cortez’s comments “an alarming and dangerous false equivalence that suggests a breathtaking lack of appreciation for the unparalleled evil of the Holocaust.”
- [Alana Lentin wrote that expression of opposition to antisemitism functions as a ballast against denouncements of racism.](https://truthscore.com/claim/fde33242)
  > Alana Lentin, in her book Why Race Still Matters, writes “expression of opposition to antisemitism functions as a ballast against denouncements of racism.”
- [Marc Lamont Hill was fired from CNN after saying “from the river to the sea”.](https://truthscore.com/claim/645b1673)
  > I think of the way Marc Lamont Hill was smeared as an antisemite and fired from his position at CNN when he dared utter the phrase “from the river to the sea.”
- [Liel Leibovitz wrote in The Tablet that bail reform poses a threat to the Jews.](https://truthscore.com/claim/951fbf09)
  > In the Tablet, one article by Liel Leibovitz claimed that a recent bail reform poses a threat to the Jews.
- [Dov Hikind said that fighting antisemitism is the responsibility of the Jewish community and non‑Jewish minority communities where attackers are coming from.](https://truthscore.com/claim/0c8f1ef2)
  > At the rally, Dov Hikind exclaimed that the work of fighting antisemitism “is on all of us — the Jewish community, as well as the non‑Jewish minority communities where these attackers are coming from.”
- [Mort Klein demanded that the mayor not criticize the police and said compassion should be reserved for innocent law‑abiding victims, not violent criminals.](https://truthscore.com/claim/098ad93d)
  > Mort Klein, the founder of the Zionist Organization of America, took his moment at the podium to assert “now is the time for African‑American and Hispanic leaders to speak out against the brutal and regular and mindless attacks on innocent Jews” in New York. Most succinctly, Mort Klein demanded that the mayor not criticize the police and said that “compassion should be reserved for the innocent law‑abiding victims, not the violent criminals.”
- [Mort Klein suggested that the NYPD dress up as Orthodox Jews to patrol neighborhoods where Jews live.](https://truthscore.com/claim/36c23f0d)
  > One potential solution, according to Mort Klein, was that the NYPD dress up as Orthodox Jews and patrol communities where Jews live to catch the Black people who allegedly endanger them.
- [Deneed Borelli claimed that most violent incidents against Jews in New York City are committed by Black men, a statement that is false.](https://truthscore.com/claim/44eb5616)
  > Deneed Borelli said “most of the violent incidents against Jews in New York City are by Black men,” however this is literally a lie.
- [White people commit antisemitic hate crimes in New York City at twice the rate of Black people.](https://truthscore.com/claim/b9287e01)
  > In fact, white people commit antisemitic hate crimes in NYC at twice the rate Black people commit them.
- [The IHRA definition of antisemitism includes “claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor” as an example.](https://truthscore.com/claim/c9580a6f)
  > The IHRA definition that their demands reference include “claiming that the existence of the State of Israel is a racist endeavor” as one of its examples of antisemitism.
- [The Board of Deputies of British Jews released a set of 10 demands to the Labour Party to end the antisemitism crisis.](https://truthscore.com/claim/0825d0e1)
  > The Board of Deputies of British Jews, a Zionist organization, released a set of 10 demands to the Labour Party to “end the antisemitism crisis.”
- [Jeremy Corbyn was defeated in the British general election.](https://truthscore.com/claim/dc37fee1)
  > In the wake of Corbyn’s loss, there has been a philosemitic “reckoning” in the Labour party.

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