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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/its-time-to-de-normalize-palestinianism/
Jews Can No Longer Afford to Tolerate the Erasure of Our Identity
(JNS) Karen Lehrman Bloch - Last year, there were nearly 3,000 anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S., an increase of 34% over 2020. This is mirrored in the daily incidents on campus involving blatantly anti-Israel professors, speakers, students and resolutions. Anti-Semitism's dramatic surge has hitched itself to "Palestinianism," an ideology of lies about the Land of Israel combined with a complete erasure of Jews' Judean identity. Nerdeen Kiswani of the group Within Our Lifetime recently claimed that Jewish community organizations "are Zionist organizations hiding behind Judaism. So every single organization...is a legitimate target." Zahra Billoo, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations' San Francisco chapter, said, "We need to pay attention to the Zionist synagogues. They are your enemies." The New York group Decolonize This Place posted online, "Find targets nearby, find where these Zionist fools live, and where there [sic] offices are, and act!" Israel is not a "settler, colonial" state occupied by "white Europeans." Jews hail from Judea and are indigenous to the Land of Israel. Despite centuries of persecution, we have remained a people, a nation, an ethnicity - which is not "white," European or "privileged." Before 1948, the term "Palestinian" referred to Jews. The writer is editor-in-chief of White Rose Magazine, which hosts the Judean Ethnicity Project to reclaim Judean identity as well as our indigenous ties to the Land of Israel.