The Zioness Movement called the change “utterly outrageous,” while Todd Richman, co-chair of Democratic Majority for Israel, said on Twitter, “@DisneyChannel for 2,000 years Jews at the Passover Seder have said ‘next year in Jerusalem!’ And now you decide to change it after a couple of thousand years? You sure about that?”
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Antisemitism often manifests via conspiracy theories and age-old tropes unrecognizable for those not deeply educated in this ancient form of hate, which is why defining this evil is a necessary first step to combating it. But, contrary to some of the arguments being made, defining hate speech is not the same thing as banning it.
The progressive Zionist group Zioness called the joke “beyond unacceptable.”
The pro-Israel progressive group Zioness asked, “Why are these people, who claim to be progressive, promoting and covering up antisemitism in the progressive movement? Well-known antisemites have no place defining antisemitism.” “It is inherently and egregiously antisemitic for you to claim to speak for American Jews,” they said to the panelists.
