= How the Delegitimization Campaign Against Israel Drives Hatred and Violence in America Endorsed by Authored by Endorsed by The New Antisemites How the Delegitimization Campaign Against Israel Drives Hatred and Violence in America Foreword by Marc Greendorfer Scan, Read, Share! Authored by: Zachor Legal Institute StopAntiSemitism.org Endorsed by: Simon Wiesenthal Center StandWithUs ZOA HADASSAH Museum of Tolerance Zionist Organization of America PragerU NA'AMAT USA AEPi - Alpha Epsilon Pi OU - Orthodox Union MEF - Middle East Forum EMET - Endowment Lawfare Project Rabbinical Council for Middle East Truth of America AISH HaTorah Americans Against APT - Americans for Peace CJV - Coalition Los Angeles Antisemitism and Tolerance for Jewish Values IAF - Israel Allies Jewish Policy JIMENA - Jews Indigenous to the SSI - Students Foundation Center Middle East and North A!ica Supporting Israel AICE - The American-Israeli WIZO - Women's March of the Living SPME - Scholars for CLUB Z Cooperative Enterprise International Zionist Peace in the Middle East Organization Alums for Campus National Council of B'NAI B'RITH Haym Salomon Young Jewish Fairness Young Israel INTERNATIONAL Center Conservatives IAC4Action DOC EMET The Israel Forever Emunah PRODUCTIONS Foundation of America AFSI - Americans For A Safe Israel The World Values AMIT Jewish War Veterans Network of the United States CAS - Combat Israel Christian David Horowitz Freedom Fuente Latina Antisemitism NEXUS Center A Wider Bridge ARISE - Alliance to Reinforce LCI - Latino CJUI - Christians and Israel's Security and Economy Coalition for Israel Jews United for Israel WMFA - WoMen Chabad on Campus RJCF - Russian Jewish Religious Zionists of Fight Antisemitism organizations Community Foundation America (RZA) AJIRI - American Jewish RAJE - Russian American Christian Coalition of America OJC - Orthodox Jewish International Relations Institute Jewish Experience Chamber of Commerce AAJLJ - American Association International Jewish Fuel for Truth The Israel Group Strength to Strength of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists Lawyers Table of Contents Foreword .........................................................................................................................................................................................8 Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................................................................10 Major Takeaways ........................................................................................................................................................................12 New Antisemitism .....................................................................................................................................................................13 Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................13 The Working Definition of Antisemitism ...........................................................................................................................17 The Rise of Antisemitism .........................................................................................................................................................21 Online Antisemitism Contagion .......................................................................................................................................... 23 A Dangerous Process: How the Delegitimization Campaign Disseminates and Propagates Antisemitism ............ 26 The Delegitimization Campaign and the BDS Movement .............................................................................26 The BDS National Committee ..........................................................................................................................................29 National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) ......................43 Electronic Intifada ....................................................................................................................................................................52 US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) ..........................................................................................................56 Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition .............................................................................................. 61 EAPPI, JVP, Samidoun, BADIL Resource Center and IfNotNow ....................................................................64 Reviving the Christ-Killers Blood Libel ........................................................................................................................69 Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).......................................................................................................71 Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) ............................................................................................................................ 75 US Palestine Community Network (USPCN) ............................................................................................................ 81 American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) ......................................................................................................................82 Greater Impact of the Process: Deterioration of Public Discourse ...........................................................86 The Unholy Alliance Between the Delegitimization Campaign and Neo-Fascists: Antisemitism ....................... 94 A. Al-Awda, Electronic Intifada, The Daily Stormer and Russian Insider .............................................................. 95 B. Storm!ont and Electronic Intifada ................................................................................................................................98 C. The Daily Stormer Celebrates Suspended Medical Professional Lara Kollab .................................................99 D. The Daily Stormer Supports Rashida Tlaib Revising Holocaust History .........................................................101 E. Traditional Worker Party Support the Delegitimization Campaign .................................................................103 F. BDS Promoted on Neo-Nazi Channels .......................................................................................................................105 G. David Duke’s New-Found Support for the BDS Movement .............................................................................. 106 H. Neo-Nazi Support for the BDS Movement in Germany .......................................................................................107 i. Neo-Nazis at Al-Quds Day March in Berlin ....................................................................................................108 ii. Neo-Nazi Presence at BDS Protest Against SodaStream in Berlin ..................................................109 iii. Germany’s The Third Way Encourages Party Supporters to Boycott Israel................................110 iv. Nazi German Propoganda Site Sell “Free Palestine” Stickers ...............................................................111 CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................................................................113 Recommendations, Solutions and Strategies ............................................................................................................... 114 A. Enshrining IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism Into Law ....................................................................... 114 B. Legislation to Ensure Social Media and Tech Companies Remove Antisemitic Content ........................ 115 C. Incorporating the IHRA Working Definition Into Educational Curricula ........................................................ 116 Foreword by Marc Greendorfer Marc Greendorfer is President of Zachor Legal Institute, a civil rights advocacy organization, which prepared this report on behalf of StopAntisemitism.org ntisemitic incidents, including those involving violence, are rising in the US and throughout the world. While antisemitism is o"entimes considered the oldest hatred in our civilization, a toxic mutation Aof this ancient evil in the form of anti-Israelism or anti-Zionism is spreading. Making matters worse, hate groups on the Le" and Right are joining forces, with the backing of designated foreign terror organizations, to inject this movement of intolerance and delegitimization into social justice campaigns, schools, government and society as a whole. We have prepared the report that follows, “The New Antisemites”, to document how this contemporary hate, as disseminated by the so-called “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) Movement, is negatively influencing large segments of the United States’ population and creating a dangerous environment that normalizes vilification of Jews, something that history has shown to have deadly consequences. The objective of this report is to expose the BDS faux “civil rights” movement for what it is - a delegitimization campaign with genocidal aims, rather than the human rights movement that it purports to be. Our report contextualizes the delegitimization campaign and its contribution to the rise in global antisemitism and radicalization of public