#not when your members and constituency legitimately believe in and repeat great replacement conspiracies

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No, Republicans do not actually care or suddenly care about antisemitism. Not on college campuses. Not in government. This is the same party whose members routinely go onto Fox News to espouse antisemitic conspiracies about Jews controlling the military or “transing” our children. This is the same party whose members have defended the Charlottesville Nazis. This is the same party that is currently led by a man (Trump) who enjoys playing with antisemitic stereotypes, namely those related to greed. This is the same party that insists the Jan. 6th insurrectionists we’re innocent, peaceful protestors rather than violent, right-wing racists.

The Republicans see this as an opportunity to further US geopolitical interests and as an opportunity to— hopefully successfully—malign Palestinian movements, higher education, anti-nationalism and anti-colonialism. But their constituents do not care, and neither do they. They do not care about the safety of Jewish people domestically or abroad.

Stop painting Republicans as the sudden bastions of pro-Semitic sentiments in the US or as leaders in the fight against antisemitism. Unconditional support for Israel is not an indicator that someone is pro-Semitic, especially considering that this is the party of “Jewish Space Lasers.”

And before someone “bean soups” this post with something like “What about the Democrats; there are antisemitic Democrats” or “There *are* leftist antisemites” or “college campuses aren’t bastions of anti-bigotry, they *do* have an antisemitism problem” or “there are antisemitic anti-Zionists,” I would like you to go back, reread the post, and point to where I denied these things. And would you look at that! I didn’t. Engage in good faith. Don’t purposefully derail or distract with whataboutisms. Thank you!