{"id":2221406,"date":"2024-04-15T14:41:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pays-anti-israel-professor-thousands-to-investigate-how-viral-memes-spread-anti-muslim-racism\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T18:44:18","slug":"biden-admin-pays-anti-israel-professor-thousands-to-investigate-how-viral-memes-spread-anti-muslim-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-pays-anti-israel-professor-thousands-to-investigate-how-viral-memes-spread-anti-muslim-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Administration Funds Research on Spread of Anti-Muslim Racism through Viral Memes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-pays-anti-israel-professor-thousands-to-investigate-how-viral-memes-spread-anti-muslim-racism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2221406&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>San Diego State University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-shows-growing-democratic-opposition-to-cheap-labor-migration\/\" title=\"Poll Shows Growing Democratic Opposition to Cheap Labor Migration\">professor<\/a> \u200cAmira\u200c Jarmakani received federal\u2064 funding to\u2064 research how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/failure-is-an-option\/\" title=\"Failure Is an Option\">viral memes<\/a> perpetuate gendered and anti-Muslim racism.\u200d The\u200b grant \u2064raised concerns \u2063about \u200btaxpayer money\u2064 supporting such\u2063 endeavors.\u200d Jarmakani, known for views on Zionism and anti-Semitism,\u200b argues against the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, \u2062stating that criticizing Zionism isn&#8217;t anti-Semitism.\u2062 Jarmakani \u2062serves on the advisory\u2064 board of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, which challenges traditional views on Zionism.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>San Diego State University professor Amira Jarmakani claims &#8220;Zionism is racism,&#8221; anti-Semitism exaggerated<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tL: (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) R: Amira Jarmakani (sdsu.edu)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Biden administration is sending tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars to an anti-Israel professor to investigate how &#8220;viral memes&#8221; can &#8220;perpetuate gendered, anti-Muslim racism,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-energy-department-funnels-millions-to-beijing-backed-green-energy-company\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Energy Department Funnels Millions to Beijing-Backed Green Energy Company\">federal spending disclosures show<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded San Diego State University professor Amira Jarmakani $60,000 to research and write a project titled, &#8220;Weapons of Mass Dissemination: Apprehending Digital Anti-Muslim Racism,&#8221; which will address Islamophobic stereotypes in memes and images on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Jarmakani in the grant description argues such memes have the ability to perpetuate &#8220;gendered anti-Muslim racism&#8221; which leads to &#8220;domestic surveillance that can also lead to the capture and incarceration of innocent people, framed as terrorists or enemy combatants in the War on Terror.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grant, which will start on Sept. 1, comes as the Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/biden-presses-israel-to-declare-ceasefire-calls-netanyahus-gaza-campaign-a-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distances<\/a> itself from the Jewish state amid its war with Hamas. Biden last week called for a ceasefire and said what Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is a &#8220;mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what [Netanyahu] is doing is a mistake. I don\u2019t agree with his approach,&#8221; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/biden-says-netanyahus-approach-war-gaza-is-mistake-2024-04-10\/#:~:text=WASHINGTON%2C%20April%209%20(Reuters),he's%20doing%20is%20a%20mistake.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in an interview that aired on Univision. &#8220;What I\u2019m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden said his support for Israel\u2019s security is &#8220;ironclad&#8221; after the unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel over the weekend, but reportedly has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2024\/04\/14\/biden-netanyahu-israel-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discouraged<\/a> the Israelis from launching a counterstrike.<\/p>\n<p>At an October 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalzionismstudies.org\/2024\/03\/11\/from-zionism-is-racism-to-antisemitism-is-racism-whos-counting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speech<\/a> at the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, Jarmakani argued against the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism which includes &#8220;denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination by claiming that the existence of a state of Israel is a racist endeavor&#8221; and &#8220;applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel\u2019s apartheid policies, ongoing conquest of Palestinian land, and violent displacement of Palestinians clearly situate it within these explanations of racism as a structure and an institution,&#8221; Jarmakani said. &#8220;So notably, in disallowing the claim that \u2018Zionism is racism,\u2019 then, what is at stake is a repudiation of structural and institutional understandings of racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jarmakani argued during the October speech that criticizing Zionism and the Jewish state is not a form of anti-Semitism. The phrase &#8220;Zionism is racism,&#8221; she said, &#8220;condemns colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, and other forms of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-new-extreme-anti-police-agenda-after-rashida-tlaib-calls-for-no-more-policing\/\" title=\"Democrats Push New Extreme Anti-Police Agenda After Rashida Tlaib Calls For \u2018No More Policing\u2019\">state violence<\/a>, including apartheid, and it situates Zionism as manifested in Israel within these formations, namely that of settler colonialism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jarmakani, a professor of women\u2019s, gender, and sexuality studies at San Diego State University, serves on the advisory board of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism. The institute supports the &#8220;delinking of the study of Zionism from Jewish Studies&#8221; and looks to &#8220;reclaim academia and public discourse for the study of Zionism as a political, ideological, and racial and gendered knowledge project\u2026&#8221; according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalzionismstudies.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>. The institute accused Israel of &#8220;genocide&#8221; in Gaza and omitted the hatred Jewish people have faced historically.<\/p>\n<p>In an April 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/criticalzionismstudies.org\/our-work\/podcast-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a> produced by the institute titled, &#8220;Unpacking Zionism,&#8221; Jarmakani, who goes by she\/they pronouns, argued that stories of Jewish students who felt unsafe on college campuses due to a spike in anti-Semitic incidents were false. Jarmakani said the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adl.org\/resources\/press-release\/adl-reports-unprecedented-rise-antisemitic-incidents-post-oct-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistics<\/a> that said anti-Semitic events in the U.S. rose nearly 400 percent were misleading because they included what she called anti-Zionist protests, which she believes should be excluded from the count.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 400 percent does the same collapsing of anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism, and really importantly the huge majority of the things that are being counted are actually anti-Zionism, so this is a reason why counting is so important to how diversity, equity and inclusion works in relation to Zionism and anti-Semitism really weaponized in relation to it,&#8221; Jarmakani said on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of anti-Semitism, which includes anti-Zionism, is &#8220;really dangerous.&#8221; For example, Jarmakani said right-wing media and representatives such as Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) are &#8220;weaponizing anti-Semitism&#8221; in a bid to take down diversity, equity, and inclusion policies on college campuses instead of investigating the rise in anti-Semitism.\t<\/p>\n<p>Jarmakani has not acknowledged the massacre on Oct. 7 on social media or in the <a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2023\/11\/the-adl-is-leading-the-attack-against-free-speech-on-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">op-ed<\/a> she wrote, titled, &#8220;The ADL is leading the attack against free speech on Palestine.&#8221; She did, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReplyingOdalisQ\/status\/1711422109011018102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> &#8220;free Palestine&#8221; only two days after the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Jarmakani, the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism, and the National Endowment for the Humanities did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego State University professor Amira Jarmakani, known for controversial views on Zionism and anti-Semitism, is receiving federal funding to study how viral memes perpetuate gendered and anti-Muslim racism. 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