Thank you for your support! We now have 567 petition signers from Dutchess and Ulster Counties who oppose the use of the term "antisemitism" to attack our First Amendment right to criticize Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocide. It is a right wing ploy to gain control of our nation's media, colleges, workplaces and representative form of government. 

Here is the petition we have all signed. Why don't we make our county legislators aware of how antisemitism is being used? You can copy the petition below and email it to your legislator, or you can write your own letter. 

"We, the citizens and residents of Dutchess and Ulster Counties urge our representatives in local, state, and national governing bodies, commissions, and schools not to confuse criticism of Israel with antisemitism. Adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition does exactly that. It includes eleven examples of antisemitism, seven of which claim that criticism of the state of Israel is antisemitic. 

This seriously flawed definition can be used to censor First Amendment free speech rights, and must not be given an influential voice. If adopted already, as New York State and some counties have done, it must be amended or replaced. We cannot allow protestors, teachers, students, workers, and public officials to be exposed to criminal liability, censure, firing, or false accusations of antisemitism simply because they dare criticize the state of Israel."

So please email your DUTCHESS COUNTY legislator from this list:
https://www.dutchessny.gov/Departments/County-Legislature/Dutchess-County-Legislators.htm    
Or request to email them all at: CountyLegislature@DutchessNY.gov

If you are from ULSTER COUNTY, email your legislator from this list:
https://legislature.ulstercountyny.gov/legislature/legislative-members    
Or request to email them all at: vfab@co.ulster.ny.us

We can fight this new McCarthyism. In fact, resistance is the only way we will restore our Constitutional rights. 

Fred Nagel
https://mideastcrisis.org