1 April 2025

New York University is the latest Corporate University to Prostitute Itself To the Trump Administration

NYU Cancelled a Talk by Dr Joanne Liu of Doctors Without Borders Because They Feared She Would Mention the US Sponsored Genocide in Gaza

The cancellation of a talk on 19 March by Dr Joanne Liu, a past-President of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and a Professor at Montreal’s McGill University, on ‘challenges in humanitarian crises’ demonstrates the crisis of democracy in the United States.

It also demonstrates the cowardice and self-censorship of America's Corporate Universities and their Administrations. Instead of fighting for the principles of academic freedom that they avow in theory, they have simply surrendered.

NYU has an endowment of $6.7 billion. Columbia’s endowment is $14.8. They have been described as hedge funds with a university attached. It’s not that NYU doesn’t lack lofty policies. Quite the contrary. It states under The Case for Academic Freedom that

Academic freedom is essential to the free search for truth and its free expression. Freedom in research is fundamental to the advancement of truth. Freedom in teaching is fundamental for the protection of the rights of the faculty member in teaching and of the student in learning. Academic freedom imposes distinct obligations on the faculty member such as those mentioned hereinafter.

But like the neighbouring Columbia University, NYU is running scared. Médecins Sans Frontières is hardly a radical organisation but its work combating the effects of the American sponsored Genocide in Gaza and Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, was more than enough for NYU to get cold feet.

The fact that only the Guardian and Montreal’s CTV News has even covered the story (though that may be changing) speaks volumes. It is noticeable that the New York Times has ignored it. After having whitewashed Israel’s Genocide in Gaza it is in no position to stand up to Trump.

Once again Zionism and ‘anti-Semitism’ is the pretext for censorship. They dress up American foreign policy interests as concern for those poor Zionist Jews on campus who are suffering from a non-existent anti-Semitism. Of course the welfare of anti-Zionist Jewish students is of no concern. 

The night before her presentation, Liu got a call from the vice chair of the education department who raised concerns.

A couple of the slides in her presentation touched on Gaza’s Genocide as well as the CIA cut-out, USAID. NYU was concerned that mentioning cuts in USAID might be perceived as “anti governmental” and we wouldn’t want that would we?  What was that about academic freedom being ‘essential for the free search for truth and its free expression’?

Racial Cleansing or Rassenhygiene was the term the Nazis used in respect of Jews, Roma and other non-Aryans

Liu said she was told the slides about Gaza “could be perceived as antisemitic”. Well these days just about anything could be perceived as ‘anti-Semitic’. I imagine that a boil on the backside could be! And opposing genocide is certainly ‘anti-Semitic’ in the eyes of those who use Jews to justify the Empire’s more grotesque activities.

Liu, who by then was already in New York when she got the phone call, offered to make edits to the slides in question but three hours later, the university phoned back and said they were cancelling anyway.

Langone Health, NYU’s Medical Centre told CTV News that “Guest speakers at our institution are given clear guidelines at the outset.... we cannot host speakers who don’t comply.” Controlled Speech is not Free Speech. But they reassured CTV that ‘we did fully compensate this guest for her travel and time.”  Well that’s alright then but did they consult the Trump White House before paying money over to this terrorist sympathiser in the guise of a doctor? 

Liu said that she “was stunned,” but why?  Democracy in the United States, which has always been a sickly child is now on its death bed. Universities are demonstrating that under capitalism money talks loudest of all or, in Dylan’s immortal phrase money doesn’t talk it swears.

NYU campus

Bruce Robbins, a Jewish Columbia professor, slams the university’s response to  Trump's Demands

Liu wrote about her ordeal in an op-ed in Le Devoir referencing the abject cowardice of Columbia University Administration which rushed to meet Trump’s demands with expulsions of students, the revoking of degrees and placing its Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies department under martial law.  Columbia’s interim president, Dr. Katrina A. Armstrong, also stepped down.

Mentioning the fact that Israel specialises in bombing hospitals, universities and schools, not forgetting churches and mosques, is terribly anti-Semitic because, as we know, most Jews support burning children alive in their tent encampments.  Today Jews are the excuse for any atrocity.

Hans Luther - Nazi Ambassador to the USA who was welcomed on campus by university administrations

The irony, as I said in my Open Letter to Linda Mills is that her partner-in-crime, Columbia University, fired Jerome Klein, a member of the fine arts faculty in September 1934, for signing a letter protesting Columbia’s invitation to Hans Luther, Nazi Germany’s Ambassador to the US.

Luther also visited the University of Minnesota in 1935, as well as St. Paul and Minneapolis. He was hosted by the German Department for a tea. Students attempting to ask him questions were restrained by Dean Anne Blitz.

His visit touched off a campus-wide discussion on boycotting the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Dean Edward Nicholson would not allow students to distribute literature about the boycott.

The predecessors of the same creatures, who today fall over themselves to protect the Israeli state’s genocide, in the name of 'anti-Semitism' of course, were 90 years ago  protecting Nazi Germany. It is the same in this country. The BBC, which accommodates the fake anti-Semitism narrative whenever it can, barely mentioned anti-Semitism between 1933 and 1939 .

In other words, when anti-Semitism was a genuine form of racism, the ruling class and its university apparatchiks weren't interested. Nowhere is this more evident than with Trump. Trump has fallen over himself to oppose anti-Semitism on campus, despite having pro-Nazi figures like Sebastian Gorka in his Administration. But what's strange is that an out and out racist like Trump is so concerned with anti-Semitism when no other form of racism or oppression bothers him?

In 1936 Robert Burke, a Columbia student, was expelled for participating in a mock book burning and anti-Nazi picket on campus. Stephen Norwood wrote in ‘The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower’ about how

“American universities maintained amicable relations with the Third Reich, sending their students to study at Nazified universities while welcoming Nazi exchange students to their own campuses.’

So as I wrote to Linda Mills:

your behaviour today in supporting the extermination of the Palestinians of Gaza, because that is what it amounts to, is really no different to the reaction of American universities to the Nazi regime, except that the extermination is being carried out by Jews (or rather Zionist Jews) rather than them being done to them.

The latest atrocity in Gaza is Israel’s execution of Red Crescent and first responders last week. The Red Cross said it was "appalled" by the deaths of the medical teams. 

While carrying out their work, along with first responders from the Civil Defense in Gaza and a staff member of the United Nations, their bodies were identified today and have been recovered for dignified burial.

The Red Cross added,

International humanitarian law is clear: medical personnel, ambulances, humanitarian relief personnel, and civil defense organizations must be respected and protected. Attacking them or obstructing their passage is strictly prohibited. All feasible steps must be taken to ensure their safety.

We are told that we must ‘learn the lessons of the Holocaust’  by Zionist organisations such as the misnamed Holocaust Education Trust who accuse opponents of Gaza’s holocaust of ‘anti-Semitism’. 

I guess one lesson is that if you are going to put anyone in a gas chamber just check first that they aren’t Jewish. Because for Zionism only Jewish Lives Matter (unless they are anti-Zionist Jews!).

As Columbia University’s Jewish Professor Bruce Robbins said of the allegations of anti-Semitism, they are ‘completely lame and unconvincing.’

A McGill University professor told CTV News last week that he cancelled three visits to the U.S. due to the current political climate and what he believes is the “breakdown of the rule of law” south of the border. He said other colleagues are also avoiding visits to the United States. Trump wants Canada to become the 51st state in order that he can impose the same police state north of the border.

Liu said that she hopes this “assault on academia.” doesn’t creep up north and that universities remain a place where different points of view and facts are not silenced.

Meanwhile American academics who retain their integrity are looking for a future outside of the United States given the cowardice and capitulation of their own administrations. 3 Yale professors are fleeing, amongst whom is Tim Snyder, the author of  The Bloodlands and Jason Stanley, a scholar on fascism, whose grandmother fled Hitler.

Linda Mills - NYU President - the Pathetic Face of America's Corporate Universities

I have also sent an Open Letter to Linda Mills, the President of NYU. Below is a list of NYU email addresses for senior management who you might want to contact.

Tony Greenstein

elise.cappella@nyu.edu    georgina.dopico@nyu.edu  linda.mills@nyu.edu  angela.amar@nyu.edu

Peter.Arena@nyu.edu     dk96@nyu.edu   Gladys.Ayala@nyulangone.org   aydil@nyu.edu  g.woolf@nyu.edu

john.beckman@nyu.edu   charles.bertolami@nyu.edu  blooms03@nyu.edu   Eliot.Borenstein@nyu.edu

Deborah.Broderick@nyu.edu   caflisch@courant.nyu.edu   linda.chiarelli@nyu.edu   kday@nyu.edu

Guido.Ditto@nyu.edu   martin.dorph@nyu.edu   gfe2008@nyu.edu   sherry.glied@nyu.edu

tsoa.dean@nyu.edu   Peter.Holm@nyu.edu   Melody.Goodman@nyu.edu   Bethany.Godsoe@nyu.edu

Roe.Fellows@nyu.edu   joe.juliano@nyu.edu   Angie.Kamath@nyu.edu   carol.kim@nyu.edu

kiorpes@nyu.edu   mjknollfinn@nyu.edu   steinhardt.dean@nyu.edu   Michelle.Knudsen@nyu.edu

jsl569@nyu.edu   silver.dean@nyu.edu   charlton.mcilwain@nyu.edu   mckenzie@exchange.law.nyu.edu

Antonio.Merlo@nyu.edu   Nancy.Morrison@nyu.edu   Julie.Mostov@nyu.edu   karen.nercessian@nyu.edu

Hope.OReilly@nyu.edu   OGC@nyu.edu   Kristie.Patten@nyu.edu   Brian.Perillo@nyu.edu

nyuad.provost@nyu.edu   Fabio.Piano@nyu.edu   Michelle.Piekutowski@nyu.edu   jason.pina@nyu.edu

ryan.poynter@nyu.edu   Neil.Rader@nyu.edu   Zoe.Ragouzeos@nyu.edu   Kristina.Rose@nyu.edu

vpr6644@nyu.edu   Ellen.Schall@nyu.edu   sw6358@nyu.edu   Mark.Siegal@nyu.edu   rks1@stern.nyu.edu

wendy.suzuki@nyu.edu   josh.taylor@nyu.edu   Lisa.Taylor@nyu.edu   mathew.varughese@nyu.edu

jw5@nyu.edu   Fountain.Walker@nyu.edu   Janine.Wilcox@nyu.edu   Emma.Wolfe@nyu.edu


For further reading see:

NYU canceled talk on USAID cuts for being ‘anti-governmental’, doctor says


‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

University administrations collaborate in Trump’s reign of terror on campuses

 

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28 March 2025

David Miller has gone from Asset to Liability for the Palestine Solidarity Movement

Targeting Jews and Jewish anti-Zionists is explained by Miller’s Failure to Understand Why Imperialism Supports Zionism and Genocide in Gaza – As Such It is Anti-Semitic





The Virulent neo-Nazi Stew Peters Show & His $6 Million Reward for Proving the Holocaust Happened  

I didn’t want to have to write this blog. There are far more important topics such as Genocide in Gaza. However Miller’s recent social media postings are becoming ever more bizarre and crossing the line into anti-Semitism. Miller has abandoned anti-Zionism.

His behaviour is not only strange it is also stupid. If 'antisemitism' is the ritual accusation of the Zionists why try to prove them correct by attacking Jews as Jews? It seems that Miller believes that it is Western Jews who are responsible for the hideous monstrosity that is the Israeli state. This is the Zionist narrative. 

Jews in the West are the moral alibi for imperialism. Does anyone seriously think that Trump is seriously concerned about Jews or anti-Semitism?  His ‘concern’ over the ‘plight’ of Jewish students is grotesque in the extreme given his own racism and hostility to Black Lives Matter and anti-racism, with his portrayal of migrants as rapists and criminals.

Trump has given overt support to the neo-Nazis of Charlottesville, describing them as ‘very fine people’ and to the Proud Boys and other White Supremacist militias. Miller understands none of this.

When Biden said that if Israel didn't exist it would have had to be created he was expressing the views of mainstream imperialist thought in the US.  According to Reagan’s Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, Israel was the US’s unsinkable aircraft carrier and cheap at the price in an area of immense strategic and economic interest. Jews in the words of Barnaby Raine are merely the West's colonial pets.

I was reluctant to break from Miller because of what had happened at Bristol University where he was fired in a McCarthyist witchhunt. I was elated at his victory in the Employment Tribunal and I hope he wins at the EAT.  Initially I pushed back against the criticism of him by JVL and Na'amod, I cannot do so now because David has made it clear that he is going down an anti-Semitic pathway.

In holding Jews responsible for Israel’s holocaust in Gaza, Miller lets imperialism off the hook. The genocide could be halted tomorrow if Trump, or Biden had stopped the flow of arms. It could have been halted if the Arab states had stopped the flow of oil. The fact that that miserable humanoid Starmer, has uttered not one word of criticism speaks volumes.

In a tweet of 24 March Miller said

Those who are interested in ending this genocide must begin by targeting those responsible near them: the entire Zionist movement globally must live in fear of accountability until it is dismantled and its ideology eradicated. And let's be clear, there are Zionists everywhere. In every town and city. Find out where they are.

Zionism is the worst catastrophe that has befallen the Jewish people next to the Holocaust itself. It is an abomination. It has destroyed Judaism’s moral and ethical traditions.

Isaiah’s injunction to

‘learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause’

has been replaced by Israel’s determination to turn Gaza into a land of orphans. We have a new acronym WCNSF (Wounded child, no surviving family).

The injunction in Exodus ‘not (to) oppress a stranger... having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt” has been replaced by Death to the Arabs.

I am all in favour of destroying Zionism politically and organisationally but targeting individual Zionists is not the way to do it.

Miller is arguing that we start ferreting out individual Zionists. How will that stop the genocide? Israel isn’t even concerned about killing its own hostages. Why should it be concerned about Miller’s fans tracking down individual Zionists? He says ‘there are Zionists everywhere. In every town and city. Find out where they are.’ And then what?

Leaving aside his paranoia, are individual Zionists in Britain, many of whom are Jewish, really responsible for what Israel does?  Is that how imperialism operates?

But if like Miller you dismiss imperialism as an interconnected system of war and political domination motivated by economic exploitation, then it is far easier to focus on individual Zionists. In so doing you let off the hook US imperialism and the complicity of Arab regimes such as Saudi Arabia’s MBS.

Because Miller fails to understand why Western capitalism supports Israel, he believes that it is all due to ‘infiltration’ of government bodies. Since about two-thirds of Jews are Zionists this will inevitably be portrayed as Jew hunting. Is that what Palestine solidarity is about? 

Miller’s call for targeting individual Zionists lays him open to Police attacks. Of course the hysterical reaction of the Zionists is hypocritical. For years now Zionist organisations like the misnamed Campaign Against Anti-Semitism and UK Lawyers for Israel have gaslighted and doxxed anti-Zionists and Palestinians like Miller himself and Shahd Abusalama.

Of course if the Police were to act as the Board of Deputies enforcers then of course we would defend Miller despite his stupidity.

I am currently being prosecuted for support for the Palestinian Resistance. I was targeted by Heidi Bachram, who follows in a long tradition of Zionist informers who in countries under Nazi occupation betrayed Jews to the Gestapo.

Heidi Bachram would have been in her element feeding the Stasi or the Gestapo with 'useful information' on their enemies

Scottish PSC has tried to arrange a debate between Miller and myself without success. Miller has shied away from debating his ideas. David knows that what he is saying is indefensible.

The idea that the West supports Israel because Zionists have crept into powerful positions barely merits a response. Are the Christian Zionists in Trump’s cabinet all infiltrators?  Is Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State a Zionist infiltrator?

Does the German state support Israel and attack Palestine solidarity demonstrations because of Jews?  Why does the AfD, which is riddled with neo-Nazis and holocaust deniers, love Israel so much?

Far-right and neo-Nazi groups are happy to support Zionism and Israel, not because they love Jews but because they hate Muslims and love imperialism. In appearing on anti-Semitic and White Supremacist platforms like Stew Peters he is mixing in some very unsavoury company. Miller seems to have no sense of self-awareness.

A Reply to Some of David Miller’s Comments

In his first controversial tweet Miller made 3 points:

Jewish Power and Discrimination Against Jews

1.          Jews are not discriminated against.

2.          They are over-represented in Europe, North America and Latin America in positions of cultural, economic and political power.

3.          They are therefore, in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups.

In reaction to criticism of this tweet I defended it although I had grave misgivings, in particular about the third point.

Miller was correct to say that Jews are not discriminated against or experiencing racism. There is no state anti-Semitism in Britain. Anti-Semitism is a marginal prejudice not a form of racism with all its power dynamics. I was saying this long before Miller, as was Norman Finkelstein and others. I could even go along with his observations on Jewish 'overrepresentation' in positions of power, because statistically and sociologically it is true.

However where I parted company was Miller's third point that this enabled Jews to discriminate against those who were oppressed. If Jews in powerful positions discriminate against others they do it as part of the group or organisations they are part of, not as Jews. In private communication with Miller I made my position clear


In this long rambling tweet Miller declared that ‘the State of Israel is at war with you’. That when activists or Muslims are arrested by 'counter-terror' police, “that is being done directly on behalf of the State of Israel”

Miller is arguing that Islamaphobia in the West is a product of Zionism and Israel. “the soldiers of Zion have penetrated the security establishment of your state to make its policy.” How they managed to achieve this is not explained. To call this conspiratorial is an understatement.

At a stroke Miller erases the racism that results from colonialism and imperialism. Trump’s Muslim ban was a consequence of the Israeli state not racism in America.  What of the racism against Hispanics in the United States? Did Trump labelling all Mexicans as rapists arise from the soldiers of Zion? Are the deportations to Latin America all Israel’s fault?  Apparently so.


It is not difficult to see how this kind of conspiratorial fantasy degenerates into anti-Semitism. When I was young British fascists condemned Israel. Not because of what it did to Palestinians but because in their eyes it was a ‘Jewish’ state. The Palestine solidarity movement wanted nothing to do with them but Miller with his appearance on the Stew Peters Show and other tweets seems to be embracing them.

Racism in the West is not the product of support for Israel and its soldiers of Zion. It is home grown.  Of course today Islamaphobia in the West is goes hand in hand with support for Israel, which is seen as an anti-Islamic state. But that is a very different thing. Miller says

‘Take Geert Wilders, in the Netherlands, ... Wilders can be said to be a creation of the State of Israel and its foreign intelligence assets.’

This is completely unsupported by anything in the way of evidence. Geert Wilders is the product of racism in The Netherlands. He is a home-grown fascist. His support for Zionism and Israel flows from that. In his own words

If Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Muslims, Athens and Rome will be next.

Miller therefore exonerates the British and other states of racism by saying that their racism is not the product of their own class societies but solely that of Israel.  


Miller talks about ‘the global struggle against Jewish supremacism’. In this phrase Miller conflates all Jewish people with the Israeli state like the Zionists. That Israel is a Jewish Supremacist state is a fact which Israel’s human rights group Bt’selem testifies to. Again it is difficult not to take this as a call to oppose Jews everywhere and to brand them all as Jewish Supremacists.

Even accepting that two-thirds of diaspora Jews support Israel and Zionism, for a whole number of historical reasons, I doubt if any but a fraction are open Jewish supremacists. Most Jews see Israel, wrongly, as some form of refuge against anti-Semitism. Of course a minority are overt racists and Jewish supremacists but even they are not arguing for Jewish supremacism within the societies they live in.

Despite his academic status Miller’s language is sloppy, vague and open to misinterpretation. It is not helped by the fact that instead of putting his ideas down on paper he tweets out his latest undigested ideas and thoughts.

Miller confirms that he is no anti-imperialist or socialist when he says that the British and US states don’t do what they do because of imperialism and their need to subjugate, exploit and conquer, but because of infiltration. He even says that

there's no such thing as 'foreign' policy. The British state has made a colossal miscalculation by participating so directly in this genocide,... The British people will have to repair this trajectory by taking British political and public institutions out of the grip of Zionist fanatics. This is the only way to preserve the balance of British society in the long-term. It is essential that Britain is de-Zionised,

In other words he is arguing that the support of the British state for Israel is on account of a handful of Zionist fanatics. Without them the state would be quite a benign institution. It wouldn’t be imperialist or racist, cut disability benefits or privatise the NHS. Instead

A de-Zionised Britain could be an example to other post-imperial states in how to confront centuries of imperial violence and chart a course away from the suicidal client relationship with the US.

This is utter garbage and has nothing to do with a principled opposition to imperialism, let alone Zionism. It ignores the economic imperative behind imperialism. Anyone who thinks Miller is on the left is wrong. I responded to this here and JVL republished it as Looking down the wrong end of the telescope.

The global Left is occupied and infiltrated by Zionist fanatics  

In another conspiratorial tweet we are told that the ‘global left is occupied and infiltrated by Zionist fanatics.’ For someone who is a Professor Miller is remarkably imprecise in his language. Who is this global left? One of the problems with the left is that it isn’t united but in Miller’s fevered imagination it is homogenous!

The left is divided into Marxists, Stalinists, Trotskyists, Social Democrats and the unaligned. There is little agreement between them. But in Miller’s fantasies we are all infiltrated.

Miller doesn’t realise that attitudes on the Left towards Israel have changed. In the wake of the Nazi holocaust most people on the left saw the establishment of the Israeli state as some form of recompense. They were wrong not to see that an ethno-nationalist Jewish state could not help but become an echo of everything they had escaped from. I summed this up when I said that ‘Israel was Hitler’s bastard offspring’.

The Labour left around Tribune saw Zionism and Israel as progressive. The Labour Party saw settler colonialism as a positive thing and the natives were invisible. This was why people like Hyndman of the Social Democratic Federation supported the Boers in the Second Boer War.

Much of the Trotskyist movement adopted a position of neutrality during the Nakba seeing the 1948 war as one between British imperialism and its Arab allies and Israel. The Communist Party, after Stalin’s about turn in 1947 supported UN resolution 181 partitioning Palestine and with it the creation of the Israeli state.

However times have changed and the key point was the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 when both Tony Benn and Eric Heffer resigned from Labour Friends of Israel. The scales fell from their eyes. In 1948 most people knew nothing of the Nakba. What they saw were those who had survived Hitler’s genocide struggling again to survive. They were wrong. As we now know Zionism had much in common with the Nazis ideologically and had collaborated with them, as my book Zionism During the Holocaust explains. Israel’s fledgling army had been trained by the British and easily saw off the ramshackle Arab armies with the exception of Transjordan’s Arab Legion commanded by Glubb Pasha.

With the rise in support for anti-imperialist struggles, the revolution in Cuba and opposition to the Vietnam War and Apartheid in South Africa, the left moved into the Palestinian  camp internationally. Israel was seen as an arm of US imperialism.

In the Labour Party it was the right-wing which had historically been pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian.  People like Christopher Mayhew, David Watkins and Andrew Faulds. After 1982 the Right began to realign and Tony Blair made support for Zionism virtually a condition of New Labour.

So Miller is wrong on this point. The global left is less occupied by Zionists than it ever has been. He says that ‘'Pro-Palestinian' is a meaningless term’.  Perhaps to David but not to Palestinians.

Miller says that ‘A basic tenet of anti-imperialism is to begin with suspicion when confronted by possible agents of Empire.’ Really?  A basic tenet of anti-imperialism is support for the oppressed against the oppressor. We are told that:

leftists around the world are constantly deferring to Jewish 'allies' for analysis on Zionism... Not only do these leftists refuse to protect their movements from entryism, they actively solicit, privilege and even worship Jewish opinion about Jewish supremacist crimes.

It is impossible to interpret this as anything other than anti-Semitic and a symptom of Miller’s hostility to the left. Jews supporting the Palestinians should be treated with suspicion. Miller fails to acknowledge that Jews might have good reason to oppose Zionism in the same way as Jewish communists and the Bund opposed Zionism in their time.

Jews are part of the Palestine solidarity movement. Of course Jews, including Israeli Jews, might have a special understanding of Zionism having gone through a process of deprogramming but that isn’t because they are Jewish. It is a recognition that anti-Zionist Jews have a special expertise.

We only have to think of people like Moshe Machover, Ilan Pappe, Avi Shlaim, Haim Bresheeth – even myself! It was the Israeli group Matzpen which was first began calling Israel a settler colonial state.

Jewish activists have been to the fore in occupying Congress. Whilst Jewish Voice for Peace have been organising thousands of its supporters David Miller has been waging war against Jewish ‘infiltrators’ on Twitter.

This kind of attack, which can only turn the solidarity movement against itself is divisive and destructive. Miller is effectively doing the Zionists’ work.

American Jews are divided as never before, especially young Jews. Jewish students have been an integral part of the campus protests in the United States and Britain. Jonathan Ben-Menachem was one of many Jewish students who joined the protests at Columbia and other universities across the US calling for their institutions to cut ties with companies linked to Israel. In an interview he described his

amazement as the media and political figures have attempted to characterise the protests as antisemitic and dangerous, despite Jewish student organisations playing a central role in them.’

There has been this discourse that Columbia is this hotbed of antisemitism,... It’s crazy how bad faith that discourse has become.

Sarah, also a Jewish student at Columbia, was arrested for taking part in the encampment. She was held by the NYPD for eight hours, with her hands in zip ties. She was suspended the next day, but snuck back onto campus a few days later to take part in a Passover Seder celebration with fellow protesters.

“It was definitely one of the more joyful experiences I’ve had at Columbia,” she told The Independent. “So many of us got arrested or suspended, it was really nice to see so many Jewish faces at the Seder.”

Sarah had been appalled by attempts to smear the Columbia protests as antisemitic, saying that the term had been

weaponized in a really deceitful way by political opportunists who insist on conflating anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

There’s never any substantive response to people like me who are anti-Zionist Jews,” Sarah noted. “There’s a long tradition of Jewish anti-Zionism.

Nara Milanich, professor of history at Barnard College, asked:

Are Jews on campus, or anyone else, safer because hundreds of police in riot gear with firearms were invited to come onto campus and haul our students off in zip ties?  I don’t feel safer,” she said.

According to Miller all of those quoted above are Jewish infiltrators whom non-Jewish Palestine solidarity protesters are deferring to. Whereas to the press and politicians like Starmer and Braverman anti-Zionist Jews are invisible.


What really made me sit up and take note of Miller’s direction of travel was his retweeting of an article by Richard Lynn, editor of Mankind Quarterly ‘On the high intelligence and cognitive achievements of Jews in Britain’.

Mankind Quarterly isn’t some obscure academic journal. It was was established in 1960 with funding from White segregationists opposed to civil rights in America. It has been described as a ‘white supremacist journal’ and ‘a pseudo-scholarly outlet for promoting racial inequality.’

When I first saw the tweet I immediately saw that it smacked of the racial sciences:

Are Jews so (relatively) privileged because of ‘intelligence’ or ‘culture’? Or are there other explanations? And what are the consequences in terms of the power and influence of Zionism and the production of genocide in Palestine and Islamophobia in the West?

Miller saw a connection between ‘Jewish intelligence’ and Zionism. I explained in my response that Zionism was the idea of British imperialism and its Christian Zionist advocates not Jews.

A lead article in The Times of 17 August 1840, called for a plan 'to plant the Jewish people in the land of their fathers' claiming that it was under 'serious political consideration' and commending the efforts of Lord Shaftesbury. When Palmerston approached the Board of Deputies in August 1840 to inquire about co-operation in Jewish settlement projects, he got a very lukewarm response. The only ones who didn’t want to ‘return’ were the Jews themselves! In a resolution passed on 7 November 1842 the Board of Deputies resolved that it

'is precluded from originating any measure for carrying out the benevolent views of Colonel Churchill respecting the Jews of Syria’.



In his latest tweet Miller simply digs himself further into a hole. We are told that ‘there are no 'Israeli' anti-Zionists’. Presumably my comrades Ronnie Barkan and Stav, who are currently facing trial for participating in a Palestine Action outing and who are already on suspended sentences don’t exist?  Both of them are Israeli.

Miller also doubts that there are ‘more than a handful of Jewish anti-Zionists anywhere, particularly if we assess anti-Zionism on a *material* basis.’ What is this material basis?  Apparently we must first become martyrs! I wonder if this applies to non-Jews and if not why not?

Apparently I was one of the few Jewish anti-Zionists he conceded did exist but I suspect that after this article I will also be relegated!

Miller is not only going down an anti-Semitic rabbit hole but a Zionist one too. Zionists claim that all Jews, bar a handful of ‘self-haters’ are Zionists. Anti-Semites too are happy to see Jews as Zionists with anti-Zionist Jews rendered invisible.

It is extremely sad and regrettable that Miller is unable to see that Zionism was the adopted policy of British and then US imperialism well before Jews. Jews provided the imperialists with legitimacy. Winkling out Zionists is not a strategy.

Tony Greenstein

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