Deborah Lyons

As academic conferences, talks, and articles examine the movement's roots in Soviet propaganda, the Nazi Islamist alliance, settler colonial racializations of Israelis, or the history of the genocide libel against Israel.

A recent conference in Toronto featured Deborah Lipstadt, Deborah Lyons, Irwin Cotler, and others to talk about Jew hatred in the contemporary era and focused heavily on anti-Zionism.

The most recent two-week-long seminar, held at Cambridge University by the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, well known for its work in exposing Qatari funding of American universities and its relationship to anti-Zionist discrimination on campuses, has also increasingly focused on anti-Zionism as a topic of study.

In my own peer-reviewed article on anti-Zionism for the Journal of Contemporary Anti-Semitism's most recent edition, I traced anti-Zionism to three historical roots.

Like, do you wanna name and shame some of the guests? But I also wanna mention, like, the whole premise too of this conference wasn't just to talk about this, quote unquote, "rise in antisemitism" that they completely attribute to, uh, Palestinian solidarity.

In her opening remarks, she, you know, she mentions October 7th in the most charged language possible, right? And then it's a who's who of, um, like, Irwin Cotler, right? Deborah Lyons.

I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be missing people.

But it's all under the guise that this, this rise in antisemitism, you know- For whatever [clears throat] it's worth, that's a diff- I feel like that's a separate discussion perhaps, but that it's a detriment to our democracy, right? What is the line they use as they're trying to sell the tickets out? What the resurgence of antisemitism means for the health of our democracy.

And it's like there's no genuineness.

She's just saying what it takes to upset people, I feel, or maybe to get a paycheck.

Um, we've also got Deb- Deborah Lyons.

I believe she was the one who said that, like, um, she was really upset that people always say antisemitism and Islamophobia, um, because, like, she...