Evelyn Alsultany — Antisemitism and Islamophobia The University s Diversity Equity Inclusion Response to October 7 2023

29 published claims from this book.

• Anti-Arab racism in the US is rooted in the Palestinian struggle.
• Anti-Palestinian racism historically produced Islamophobia in the United States
• Antisemitism and Islamophobia are not equivalent forms of discrimination on US campuses.
• Billionaire donors pressure universities to punish pro-Palestinian protest.
• Campus DEI framing treats Jews and Muslims as equally marginalized, erasing power asymmetries.
• Campus DEI responses to October 7 systematically obscure Israel’s role in anti-Palestinian violence
• Campus repression of Palestine speech is asymmetric since endorsing Israel faces no comparable suppression.
• Counting indirect deaths raises the Gaza death toll to roughly 186,000.
• DEI can be weaponized to enforce rather than repair exclusion
• DEI procedures were used to punish pro-Palestinian faculty speech.
• DEI responses to October 7 conceal the Israel-Gaza context and normalize Zionist justifications.
• Federal investigations of campus bias target antisemitism but ignore Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.
• Fighting antisemitism and Islamophobia need not be a zero-sum game
• Framing discrimination as individual hate obscures its structural and policy-based causes
• Islamophobia as a term obscures that Palestinians of all faiths suffer in Gaza.
• Muslims in the United States endure discrimination in their everyday lives
• Official anti-hate strategies functioned as cover for US arms to Israel
• Pairing the terms antisemitism and Islamophobia fabricates false symmetry between occupier and occupied.
• Public anti-Islamophobia stances can function as a cover for pro-Israel politics
• Redefining antisemitism to include Israel criticism inflates antisemitism and intensifies anti-Palestinian racism
• State denunciation of hate crimes obscures state complicity in producing those harms
• The term Islamophobia obscures the specificity of anti-Palestinian racism.
• The US mainstream defaults to Islamophobia as the frame for violence against Palestinians
• Treating antisemitism and Islamophobia as analogous masks asymmetric power relations.
• UC allocated seven million dollars to campus anti-hate training programs
• Universities’ donor-driven priorities block meaningful response to advocacy for Palestinian life.
• University DEI responses frame antisemitism and Islamophobia symmetrically while omitting the Israeli-Palestinian context.
• Zionism conflates Palestinian rights advocacy with antisemitism through racialized stereotypes
• Zionism is an ethnonationalist movement that has perpetrated ethnic cleansing and apartheid