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.

XREF: Connects to critical scholarship on false equivalences and the difference between prejudice against a minority versus institutionalized state violence and occupation.

Evelyn Alsultany, Antisemitism and Islamophob…, loc. 23