"House passes resolution condemning testimony by university presidents over antisemitism"

An update to Rep. Elise Stefanik's trolling of three college presidents in a hearing entitled “Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism." All three presidents are women. 

One was pressured to resign. Now, a bipartisan (303-126) House resolution not only "condemned testimony" (and antisemitism generally), but firmly said: "Whereas President Magill has resigned, and the other Presidents should follow suit." Since many news articles (and so on) find it hard to include vote counts, which are quite important when they are not simply normal partisan splits, here is a link (it isn't that hard people) to the vote.

My last blog post (see first link) underlines that this is based on trolling and confusion. This is not about presidents allegedly (cf. Popehat discussion) explaining themselves poorly. This is the use of hysteria, including the censure of the one Palestinian-American member of Congress based on bullshit. And, now Congress advises colleges to fire people or "suggests" they resign. 

An abuse of power that not only my hard right on Israel representative signed on to but the f-ing minority leader (unlike Pelosi). What the hell is wrong with you?  This is the same person who opposed the New York Senate (finally) stepping up regarding the control of the New York Court of Appeals. 

If a consistent liberal runs (doubt it), I'll vote against Rep. Torres in the primary unless I get AOC back with new re-districting scheduled. As to the minority leader, he comes off as too partisan for me, and at times not liberal enough. He appears to run the caucus well (from what I can tell) but he's not Pelosi.  

Does this mean there is no anti-semitism, especially now that Israel's reply to Gaza is so over the top that even President Biden is starting to really push back? No. This doesn't mean that we should look the other way in the face of anti-semitism, any less than we should look the other way in the face of attacks of Palestinians. 

I have not parsed the testimony. Maybe, they "should have known" or be more scripted (as if conservatives would not have latched on to something, like labeling opposition to settlements "genocide") or whatever. A reasonable hearing could have aired out the concerns while presidents made their case. Certain members of Congress would troll some. Fine. 

The resolution and soundbites (getting some "I dislike her but" replies) is trolling. Again, this is expected with this House of Representatives. Nonetheless, this does not require over eighty Democrats, including the minority leader, to sign on to the resolution. A resolution that is not just a statement agaisnt anti-semitism or supporting the right of Israel to exist. 

A non-binding resolution is for show. But, the breadth of support here (as compared to the around twenty against Rep. Rashida Tlaib (which is offensive since it's a fellow Democrat) is notable enough to underline how wrong it is.