(Jewish Group) A USC student tweeted 'kill every motherf----ing Zionist.' Zionist faculty are unhappy

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A USC student tweeted ‘kill every motherf——ing Zionist.’ Zionist faculty are unhappy with USC’s response.

A group of University of Southern California faculty members are demanding the school take action against a Palestinian student who posted several antisemitic tweets, including one saying she wanted “to kill every motherf——-g Zionist.”

In an open letter addressed to the university president, provost, and board chairman published Dec. 1, the faculty said a lack of university action against “ongoing open expressions of anti-Semitism and Zionophobia” would mean “tacit endorsement” of hate speech.

“The silence of our leadership on this matter is alienating, hurtful, and depressing,” the letter reads.

The student, Yasmeen Mashayekh, says she has faced consequences already. According to Mashayekh, who is a student in the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, she has been fired from her campus job and removed from the Viterbi Graduate Student Association website — which had previously listed her as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion senator. (I added the bold!!)

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Oh course, she is the real victim.

This is how anti-Semitism is allowed to enter mainstream; how it is normalized. Proving, once again, "Anti-Semitism is always wrong...except when it isn't!"

[Beastly Boy]

1. Later in the same article:

Defending her posts, Mashayekh tweeted Nov. 29 that she was “trying to normalize the language of resistance regardless of what that looks like.”

This "language of resistance" has a long history. "Zionist" as a derogatory term first appeared in the Soviet propaganda hit pieces after the Six Day War, and referred to any (mostly Soviet) Jew who would as much as hint of their sympathies for Israel. Soon enough it became the brunt of underground jokes among Soviet subjects for its awkward and indiscriminate application of the term "zionist" as synonymous to "Jew". Later, it has been promoted, to be used in essentially the same way, first by the propaganda organs of the Soviet Bloc countries and Arab states, and eventually, as the Soviet Bloc disintegrated and the Arab states lost interest in antisemitic propaganda in favor of normalizing relations with Israel, picked up by Iran and its Middle East clients. From there, the term found its way into the vocabulary of the radical left through social media.

Throughout its long and infamous history lasting over half a century, the "Zionist" label was always intended for one specific purpose: to shield its users from being accused of naked antisemitism. But it never took hold as such. All attempts to misuse the term to this effect remain as awkward and as transparent as they have always been. You don't have to be an inclusion officer to realize that this is not the language of resistance. This is exactly what it looks like: the language of antisemitism, plain and simple.