Progressive social media outlet NowThis released an incendiary interview with pro-Palestinian activists who slammed the existence of Israel and even engaged in some Holocaust revisionism.
'[Trump] has no right to define what being Jewish is' — These Jewish and Palestinian students are speaking out against Trump for equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism in his Judaism executive order pic.twitter.com/hyqHWqirbv
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 15, 2020
Donning a traditional Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, Becca Lewis, a senior at George Washington University said in the video: "What's going to happen if there's another Holocaust? Well, we're seeing what's happening. We're seeing people die at the border for lack of medical care. That's how Anne Frank died. She didn't die from a concentration camp, she died from typhus."
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It's safe to say, though, had Frank not been imprisoned in Bergen-Belsen by the Nazis, she probably wouldn't have contracted typhus in the first place.
The video, which came out on Wednesday, featured Palestinian advocates responding to US President Donald Trump's executive order that protects Jewish students from being exposed to anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism on college campuses.
"I am Jewish and it is because I am Jewish that I fight for the rights and liberty for all people," Lewis said through crocodile tears. "I do not associate my Judaism with a nation-state."
Sitting beside Lewis, Mohamed Elsherbiny, a freshman at American University, added, "The executive order has nothing to do with the safety of Jewish allies. It is solely meant to repress Palestinian advocates."
Lewis argued Trump's executive order does nothing to protect Jewish students and suggested that universities instead "give us more kosher options on campus, give us a shul on campus, give us days off for religious holidays."
Lewis, who is a proponent of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, failed to add that the cause has actually targeted students simply for seeking kosher food options because doing so is "pro-Israel."
Elsherbiny then went on to praise the diversity of the Jewish people while, ironically, producers interspersed footage of Jews in Israel – the very country they are fighting against – to underscore his point.
Gabrielle Rossner, a senior at George Washington University, also chimed into the anti-Israel hatefest to say, "I went to high school and what I saw as my Jewish identity – this deep social justice tradition rooted in solidarity and collective liberation suddenly be applied to this state that I felt had no representation with me whatsoever."
Rossner apparently failed to realize that there's nothing "sudden" about Jews having an affinity for Israel and applying their values and traditions to a country the religion has considered its homeland for thousands of years.
Luckily, commentators on Twitter didn't seem to fall for the student's rhetoric and slammed the video for being anti-Semitic, ahistorical and indulging in Holocaust denial.
