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@paulg I was nodding along until the laughable "cash strapped universities" line. They are flush with taxpayer cash. They just waste $.

@vasilipoupkine it's a tweet about the overuse of the term to stifle dissent. Akin to "terrorism" being invoked to justify anything.

@vasilipoupkine he wrote no such tweet. Read it again. It criticises ZIONISM for subverting the meaning of anti-semitism.

@vasilipoupkine this is a reasonably clear explanation: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/is_anti_semitism_losing_its_meaning_and_are_we_to_blame …

@vasilipoupkine in brief: Zionism uses the charge of anti-semitism to discredit & dissuade legitimate criticism of Israeli state policies.

@vasilipoupkine which anti-semitic tweets, exactly? The one you've mentioned makes a valid, non-anti-semitic, point.

@vasilipoupkine I've already explained, and provided a link to explain, that Zionism conflates anti-semitism with anti-Zionism.

@vasilipoupkine to expand: by calling human rights campaigners "anti-semitic", Zionists transform the term into an honorable one.

@vasilipoupkine really? I shall be sure to tell my Jewish anti-Zionist friends that they're not being sufficiently Jewish, then.

@vasilipoupkine can we agree to disagree on this tweet, then? You don't agree with my interpretation, I don't agree with yours.