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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Caitlin Johnstone:<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s declaration follows a completely insane statement from health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr which makes the targeting of pro-Palestine protests much more explicit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnti-Semitism \u2014 like racism \u2014 is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history\u2019s most deadly plagues,\u201d said Kennedy. \u201cIn recent years, the censorship and false narratives of woke cancel culture have transformed our great universities into greenhouses for this deadly and virulent pestilence. Making America healthy means building communities of trust and mutual respect, based on speech freedom and open debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leaving aside Kennedy\u2019s ridiculous claim that antisemitism \u201ckills people with lethalities comparable to history\u2019s most deadly plagues\u201d in modern times and all the weird mental contortions he\u2019s performing to turn this into a Health and Human Services issue, conflating pro-Palestine protests with antisemitism and then claiming it needs to be eliminated as a \u201cpestilence\u201d squarely contradicts Kennedy\u2019s asserted support for \u201cspeech freedom and open debate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy\u2019s bat shit crazy remarks align with an accompanying statement from Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, who says, \u201cAmericans have watched in horror for more than a year now, as Jewish students have been assaulted and harassed on elite university campuses. Unlawful encampments and demonstrations have completely paralyzed day-to-day campus operations, depriving Jewish students of learning opportunities to which they are entitled.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1628061420852589\/posts\/4130116467313726\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1628061420852589\/posts\/4130116467313726\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74386,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74383\/revisions\/74386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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