Opinion: Trump isn't fighting antisemitism. He's targeting critics of Israel
The keffiyeh and watermelons are antisemitic symbols.
That's according to training that the New York Police Department received in January from outfits closely associated with the pro-Israel community. The US magazine Jewish Currents, which obtained details about the training, questioned the focus of the presentation.
'They are actively conflating any care for Palestinian humanity or rights - and in some cases, Palestinian existence itself - with antisemitism,' Dove Kent, the US senior director for Diaspora Alliance, a group that battles antisemitism and its weaponisation, told Jewish Currents. 'None of this does anything to increase Jewish safety.'
Barely a week goes by without mainstream media and Zionist groups telling the public that antisemitism is at record highs.
The head of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jonathan Greenblatt, recently went on CNN to detail his organisation's new research, which asserts that antisemitic incidents have skyrocketed by 10 times since 2015.
Attendees hold up an Israeli flag and Trump signs at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 16 July 2024 (/AFP)
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