(Jewish Group) National Union of Journalists member, censured for tweets, shares Holocaust denial

[Behind the Aegis]

Arjum Wajid resigned during a hearing into her tweets about Jewish politicians and then shared a tweet accusing Zionists of faking a 'mass killing of your own people'

A member of the National Union of Journalists' governing body, who resigned during a hearing over a tweet in which she said prominent Jewish politicians do not have “human blood,” has been condemned for sharing a tweet promoting Holocaust denial.

Arjum Wajid was found to be in breach of her NUJ membership responsibilities when she tweeted to attack Ruth Smeeth and Dame Louise Ellman, two Jewish Labour MPs, and Adam Langleben, a Jewish former Labour councillor in Barnet.

But the JC understands she resigned during the hearing into her conduct, having shared another tweet which accused Zionists of using a “fake event” to “manipulate the entire world into a conflict that devastates Europe”.

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But...but...this type of anti-Semitism is really about the evils of Israel.

[EllieBC]

1. I'm going to keep a list.

On my phone and pc of links to articles like this so next time some fool says antisemitism is only from far right whites or is only ever about Israel I can present them with a list of articles.

[MosheFeingold]

2. My great granddaughter is changing colleges

Because of antisemitism.

She was going to Berkeley. She's going to the University of Texas to live with her sister. Apparently, the Bible Belt is safer.

Weirdos, but at least they don't mock other religious people. (She's frum.)

[11cents]

3. If you mean in Austin, she's going to a blue city in a blue area of Texas, not the Bible Belt.

Albeit proudly weird. ("Keep Austin weird" is the motto.)

How was your great-granddaughter mocked?

[MosheFeingold]

4. Many things

Bagels thrown at her going to shul on Shabbat by “anti-Zionist “ protestors for one.

Constant alienation.

Crude veiled references.

Constantly mocking people or students with religious beliefs by professors.

“Forgetting” and scheduling exams on not one, but two back-to-back high holy days that are expressly on the school calendar (RH and YK).

Hating Jews is the hip thing on campus these days.

[11cents]

5. When did the bagel-throwing thing happen? What was the target of the protest?

I know the Bay Area well. I live in Oakland and worked at UC Berkeley for years, and I just find this hard to believe. If anti-Zionist protesters were throwing bagels at Jews on their way to shul it would have caused a huge uproar. If they were explicitly directing their protest at a synagogue it would have caused a HUGE uproar -- that kind of shit doesn't even pass muster in Britain. The local orthodox shuls and Chabad facilities are not close to anything that could be the target of a legitimate protest.

(I do recall Berkeleyites throwing bagels at neo-Nazi protesters a year or two ago,which was witty if not necessarily wise.)