WHEN OREGON MUSIC teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she thought she would be preparing for a sixth year teaching at Valley Catholic School. Instead, she lost her job.

Lewis was shocked, she recalled in an interview with The Intercept, as were her colleagues and students. The school did not give any explanation for why they did not renew her contract. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the pro-Israel blacklist organization StopAntisemitism had recently launched an online campaign against her, framing her social media posts about the genocide in Gaza as “using her platform to spread vile antisemitic hate online.”

She sued StopAntisemitism for defamation in an Oregon state court over the summer, and the case was elevated to federal court last month. Her suit faces long odds, legal experts told The Intercept, but serves as a rare chance to register public dissent in the courts against the group’s targeting.

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    The former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin finally realized that peace is better than murdering each other. Albert Einstein was 100% correct.

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    Jewish man here. Our Rabbi left our (mostly) progressive Temple to form his own so he could be a leader in the Jewish space to advocate for Gazans/Palestinian civilians and speak out against the fascist Likuds.

    I am so proud of him.

    There are many of us, also inside of Israel, that condemn all genocides, including the one in Gaza.

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    Jews are not a monolith. One can criticize Israel without it being a criticism on Jews or Judaism.

    Blaming all jews for the actions of Israel (or any religion for the actions of a few) would be like blaming all Christians in the world for the actions of Trump, just because he happens to be Christian.

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      That’s the point. Israeli extremists are purposefuly conflating criticism of israel’s indefensible war crimes in Gaza with defensible antisemitism. It’s worked wonders for them.

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        Israel: You people don’t hate genocide, you just hate Jews!

        Millions of people: I hate Jews, huh? Well sure mister bossman, if you say so.

        Israel is creating the antisemitism.

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        He says he is and you really have no way to prove it one way or the other.

        Christians like to say stuff about works and then conviently ignore that Jesus had more to say about paying taxes than slavery and criticized the Pharisees for not stoning mouthy kids.

        Fact is, we gloss over most of Jesus’s actual teachings because they’re problematic to most modern people. He taught the Torah, which included all sorts of atrocious laws.

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          The God of the Torah made a big deal about worshipping no-one but Him, especially golden idols. Trump is the king of golden idols, usually in his own likeness and name. He even shills the Trump Bible. Jesus would have whipped him down the steps.

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      nah, drumpf only hides behind religion for the exact same reason - a lot of the magats do