Various departments and programs at UCLA are sponsoring a talk by Rutgers professor Noura Erakat styled Revisiting Zionism as a Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination. And given Erakat's record, "Revisiting" means "Endorsing the Notion that Zionism is a Form of Racism." There are two commentators on her talk. There is no pretense of academic debate here, each of them is ideologically sympatico.

To be blunt, this is antisemitic propaganda disguised as an academic talk. It's the 2025 equivalent of reconsidering whether Jews really bake the blood of Christian children into matzah. Like the blood libels of old, it's a libel invented and spread (in this case by the USSR) to justify mass violence against Jews. For those interested in the origins of the libel and why it's antisemitic in both i

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