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‘‘Anti-Palestinian Racism’: It’s the next tool of anti-Zionists – opinion

APR is framed as a new category of discrimination against Palestinians, their narratives, and their advocates.

A PRO-PALESTINIAN protest encampment is set up at the University of California, Berkeley last year. At Stanford and Berkeley, faculty resolutions and student events have labeled opposition to Hamas as ‘racist,’ state the writers.
A PRO-PALESTINIAN protest encampment is set up at the University of California, Berkeley last year. At Stanford and Berkeley, faculty resolutions and student events have labeled opposition to Hamas as ‘racist,’ state the writers.
(photo credit: Carlos Barria/Reuters)
ByERIC R. MANDEL, BETSY BERNS KORN
Anti-Palestinian Racism is coming to America and a campus near you. But what is it, why now, and why is it so dangerous?
APR is the latest evolution of anti-Zionism, rebranded in the language of civil rights and anti-racism. It uses “progressive morality” to silence dissent, intimidate Israel’s defenders, and shield Palestinians and their allies from criticism, even when they glorify Hamas or excuse antisemitism.
Framed as a new category of discrimination against Palestinians, their narratives, and their advocates, APR has been aggressively promoted since 2022, first in Canada and now across North America and Europe. Far from protecting human rights, APR is the latest weapon designed to delegitimize Israel and stigmatize its supporters.
A boy waves a Palestinian flag during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, U.S., December 2, 2023. People gathered in solidarity after a temporary cease-fire ended between Israel and Hamas earlier this week. (credit: REUTERS/BONNIE CASH)
A boy waves a Palestinian flag during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Lafayette Square near the White House in Washington, U.S., December 2, 2023. People gathered in solidarity after a temporary cease-fire ended between Israel and Hamas earlier this week. (credit: REUTERS/BONNIE CASH)

IHRA vs APR

Unlike the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, which has been endorsed by more than 40 nations, the US State Department, and hundreds of universities, APR is not meant to clarify the boundary between legitimate debate and bigotry. The IHRA definition affirms that criticism of Israel is legitimate, but it draws a red line at demonization, double standards, and the denial of Israel’s right to exist. APR does the opposite: It turns nearly any defense of Israel into “racism.”

Call for Gaza’s demilitarization? Racist. Affirm Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state? Racist. Say no genocide is occurring in Gaza or that there was never a state of Palestine? Racist. Cite Palestinian rejectionism, terrorism, or antisemitism? Racist. Wave an Israeli flag or affirm Jewish indigeneity in the Levant? Racist. Under APR, virtually every expression of support for Israel becomes a racist act.
This inversion is not new. In 1975, the United Nations declared Zionism to be racism. In the 2000s, the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) movement swept across campuses, branding Israel an apartheid state. APR now borrows the language of critical race theory and social-justice activism to recast Zionism itself as structural oppression and racism.
What makes APR especially dangerous is its claim to moral authority. Classical anti-Zionism was political. APR disguises itself as a universal fight against racism, indicting anyone who challenges Palestinian narratives as irredeemably racist. It flips the IHRA playbook on its head, shifting victimhood from Jews under attack to Palestinians portrayed as the sole victims of “racism.”

Calling out racism

The timing is revealing. Since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, Jews have been attacked on campuses, in public squares, and on city streets. Yet APR reframes Palestinians as the only victims of racism while treating Jews as oppressors. Proponents dismiss the surge in antisemitism with a shrug, suggesting that “Zionists had it coming.”

The trend is spreading quickly. At York University, APR is formally defined as a “distinct form of racism.” At Stanford and Berkeley, faculty resolutions and student events have labeled opposition to Hamas as “racist.” In city councils from Toronto to Seattle, anti-racism resolutions now include APR while excluding antisemitism. NGOs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations echo this narrative, accusing Israel of “genocide” while cloaking anti-Zionism in the mantle of human rights.
APR also exploits Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion frameworks. While DEI initiatives were meant to address historic injustices, many have been co-opted to portray Zionism as colonialist or privileged. In such environments, defending Jewish identity or Israel’s legitimacy is not a viewpoint but a bias to be corrected.
If left unchallenged, APR will reshape public discourse, empower hostile NGOs, and normalize antisemitism in schools, governments, and even corporations. Policymakers must act now. Congress, state legislatures, and school boards should ensure anti-racism curricula are not hijacked to advance anti-Israel ideology. Universities should adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism and resist attempts to elevate APR. Civil society must demand equal standards, where Palestinians are held accountable for terror and incitement just as Israelis are for policy decisions.
The stakes could not be higher. Anti-Zionism has always adapted to survive, and APR is its newest disguise. Racism is always wrong, but labeling something as racism doesn’t make it so. Only by rejecting APR and standing firmly behind the IHRA can we protect Jewish communities, defend Israel’s legitimacy, and preserve America’s moral clarity.
Betsy Berns Korn is the chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. She served as president of AIPAC from 2020-2023 and then as chair of the Board of AIPAC from 2023-2025. She is also a member of the AJC’s Board of Governors and the Israel Economic Forum.
Dr. Eric Mandel is the senior security editor of The Jerusalem Report and director of MEPIN, the Middle East Political Information Network. He regularly briefs members of Congress, their foreign policy aides, and the State Department.
20 replies
  2. George P
    George P says:

    Its time for America to do a war that’s not for the Jews, namely to take Britain back from the Muslim invaders and the Jews who run the police and arrest 12 year old girls for carrying a knife to defend themselves against the Muslims. The Jew-mandated Muslim invasion must be stopped. America must invade Britain and treat both Muslim and Jew as the enemy. The Jews are the brains and the Muslims are the muscle, but they are entity together. Anyone who is not stupid is racist against both Jews and Muslims because he knows they constitute one non-human entity that seeks to wipe humanity out; they are a race of demons.

    • English Patriot
      English Patriot says:

      George P, are you nuts? America won’t invade Britain, least of all for the “reason” you propose.
      Muslims and Jews do not constitute a single non-human demonic entity that seeks to wipe humanity out. This is just tripe, and degrades this blogsite.

    • Spectromancer
      Spectromancer says:

      The US currently occupies Germany and does nothing to help the German people. Why would the UK be different?

    • James Clayton
      James Clayton says:

      WIKIPEDIA claimed her surname is Seibel Newsom to maintain her visible racial identity after marrying California governor and Presidential hopeful Gavin Newsom. She has framed herself as an actress, filmmaker, feminist and victim but did not catch the Me Too allegation fame as the jury reportedly wasn’t sure that her alleged rape in Weinstein’s hotel room wasn’t simply casting-couch consensual.

  4. Freddy
    Freddy says:

    “Never-Ending Story of IDIOCY”: Manic gynocen-
    trist “Heil Cunt” is resistant to logic and rationality;
    he puts all his eggs in the basket of “myth,” “faith,”
    fairy tales, and fantasy in order to defeat “nihilism.”

    Just like muzzies with their “72 virgins in paradise,”
    he expects to be rewarded with an infantile prin-
    cess. This guy is sick and belongs in a mental insti-
    tution. He is assisted by a (similarly bonkers) Brit
    “narrator.” Ridiculous to the point of unbearability.

    https://www.renegadetribune.com/the-nothing-is-real-what-the-neverending-story-warned-us-about/

  5. Joe Webb
    Joe Webb says:

    Palo Alto “anti-war” lefties group, Palo Alto Peace and Justice , has adopted the latest Jewish trick to discredit Palestinians and Hamas , a deriving from the attack on APR I guess.

    At a recent demo in downtown Palo Alto, the tactic deployed against my Uncle Sam street theatre sign (I want you to die for Israel, etc.) and myself centers on the words Jews and Zionism. Don’t say Jews, say Zionism. Say Jews, and I was informed that I was a hater.

    So the newspeak politically correct term is Zionism. Never use the term Jew, etc. A couple of the 30s unattractive ladies told me I was a hater.

    The directive was straight out of the mouths of the PP and J commissars….paid for literally by Palo Alto Jews.

    As for the above comment from George that Jews and Muslims area both non-human, let the record speak for itself. How many Muslims are committing the equivalent number of victims in Europe and the ME compared to the Jews?

    Hint, which group has an official religious position of anti-racism?

    a

    a
    PR

    • English Patriot
      English Patriot says:

      Inhuman, but not non-human.
      Muslims have a history of warfare, slavery and terrorism, with Hindus, Christians and Jews among victims. Jews also have a little-known history of violence at different historical periods.
      Muslims are basically a religion, not a race, although many regard themselves as a “nation” – but are open to converts of different races. Jews are basically an ethnic group which includes non-believers identified by male circumcision and Jewish mothers, but they do not proselytise and resent missionary attempts to convert them. Neither Jewry nor the Umma is notably friendly to Christians, except as a political strategy.
      The Talmud can be quoted against Christians, and also against pagans. The Quran can be quoted against Jews, as can the New Testament. So much for the “Abrahamic Faiths” and their “Holy” Land.

  6. Joe Webb
    Joe Webb says:

    By the way…my TV in SF Bay Area, is getting lots of Jew propaganda movies…nazis, WW2,etc.
    I guess that this TV blitz is everywhere. Jews Are good for you.

    Seems like the Blacks are also getting about 80% of the jobs in commercials. Turn on your TV and a get a nigger in your face.

  7. ps
    ps says:

    “The German transition from a ‘planned economy’ [sic] with regulated commercial advertising activities in the National Socialist regime (from 1933 to 1945) to a ‘free market” [sic] system in the decades after Second World War opened the door for newly founded German agencies as well as for foreign agencies to successfully flourish starting from the 1950s (Berghoff, 2003).” Nazis couldn’t “plan” an economy (like the communists), yet idiots like Brandon Martinez believe this nonsense. Or those brainwashed pseudo “experts”.

    The real “Americanization” (and thus the ultimate dumbing down) only began in the 1980s, when television and radio were privatized. Many of these trashy stations, like in America, spend the whole day broadcasting cheap, nonsense advertising for j*nk products (mostly of American origin). This led to a complete loss of quality, as the now government-affiliated state broadcasters (which were actually created to criticize the government) are now trying to undercut the private stations in terms of their “level.” All this r*bbish is called “diversity.”

    https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Liste_deutschsprachiger_Fernsehsender
    https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Liste_deutscher_H%C3%B6rfunksender

    https://i.ibb.co/R4drb0tv/trade.jpg

  8. James Clayton
    James Clayton says:

    “Since Hamas’s October 7 massacre, Jews have been attacked on campuses, in public squares, and on city streets. Yet APR reframes Palestinians as the only victims of racism while treating Jews as oppressors.”

    What remain of the so-called Israeli-Jew hostages, 18, justifying total war against Palestinians?

    The author in the byline of the above article has his own web site including testimonials https://www.mandelstrategies.com/#about

  9. Evangelos Aragiannis
    Evangelos Aragiannis says:

    I am going out on a limb here but I urge all to watch “Angel Heart” 1987 by Allan Parker, and watch very closely. Names, surnames, symbolism, tradition and the lot.
    Have jews been set up all along? How long has this been happening?
    Portugal president says Trump is a Soviet (sic) asset.
    Trying to connect the dots, here, that’s all.
    Looks huge.

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