Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations.

Evidence

Amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the widespread student protests against it across the United States, universities have sought to prove their equal commitment to Jewish and Muslim students by addressing both antisemitism and Islamophobia. This impulse to treat antisemitism and Islamophobia as if they are analogous phenomena emerging from this war creates a false equivalence that masks the deep asymmetries embedded in ethnic cleansing, apartheid, military occupation, forced starvation, and genocide. — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to scholarly debates on comparing racisms and the false-equivalence critique used in studies of racism without races and intersectional analysis. — connects to: Anti-Semitism and Negrophobia share the same underlying structure; Nation and national interest mask class by uniting individual subjects; Western limits on speech extend to Holocaust denial but not to anti-Islamic expression — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 67 (+22 more)
• SEED: Angles for an essay on how ‘both sides’ framing in institutional DEI responses obscures structural asymmetry in campus conflicts.

Broader Connections

• Public anti-Islamophobia stances can function as a cover for pro-Israel politics #complicates (0.45) — Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophobia The…, 35