You are so correct about the "self-hating"Jew. They are narcissistic and wackadoodle, not self hating in a sense that they hate themselves. They think they see the truth and thus are better than the rest of us. They just hate everything the overwhelming majority of Jews stand for. They endanger the Jewish community in Israel and the diaspora. They are traitors no less than those who betray their country. Unfortunately, they are used to Jew-wash the antisemite who wants to eradicate Israel, providing cover to some truly heinous people whose goal is Jewish genocide.
Thank you Pat. You are right that only a non-jew can make this case as a jew making this case is immediately cancelled. So thank you for taking up that unpleasant, but so important and appreciated, role!
Exactly! It’s the dangerous mix of arrogance and ignorance. Jews at the university encampments celebrated holidays that were perversions of the real thing. When Israel is eradicated from the celebration of the Maccabees victory over Helenization of the temple, or the harvest holidays, which required pilgrimage to the temple, or tu b’shvat where we eat fruits of Israel, what exactly is the meaning of those holidays? How do they mourn on Tisha b’av when 1 million Jews were slaughtered in Israel and most of the rest dispersed since that seems to be the aim of their movement?
JVP seems to function a lot like JFJ. 1 in 100 members will be actual Jews who believe they've uncovered some sort of Secret Truth that other Jews haven't, while the rest are cosplaying in order to get converts.
I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I've been reading you for months and I had no idea that you weren't Jewish until now when I read your disclaimer at the end of this piece. For a non-Jew, you're doing a wonderful job advocating on our behalf. Keep up the great work.
This the only article I’ve read on the topic that really elucidates the psychological phenomenon of AZJ. And you always stay the course here without other arguments that would distract or alienate readers. Kol hakavod
So accurate. I know a couple of these "anti-Zionist Jews" and they are indeed filled with arrogance and disdain for those who are not as "enlightened" as they are. Somewhat alarmingly, they seem to be overrepresented in Gen Z, but that's a whole other story.
Token Jews in academia are also grifters who know that being the Jew-washing clowns for Free Palestine cult peers is a role that helps them secure academic careers.
Thank you, Pat. I’ve found that Jews that hold this view are performative and worried mainly about losing their “friends” and others who pressure them.
Performative is a good word. Churchill's words about an appeaser feeding a crocodile hoping it will eat him last seems about right here. They'll come for the Zionist Jews first but they'll come for the anti-Zionist Jews later.
I hope that some of them will one day learn from their experience and tell the stories of the exploitative, cold "friendships" that they are likely in.
You are describing anti-Zionist Jews correctly when you say that "they are among the most self-infatuated, arrogant, pompous people" that one might encounter. Whether or not they are self-loathing comes down partly to the debate about whether people with high levels of narcissism are genuinely self loving or whether deep inside, they are actually insecure. Jewish people have evidence-based reasons to feel insecure, given the high levels of rejection that they have experienced throughout history. The question then becomes whether one deals with that rejection constructively or destructively--honestly or dishonestly.
Anti-Zionism is wonderfully anachronistic, treating Israel as if it were an idea rather than the home of nearly half of the Jewish people. It is also childish in seeming to suggest that if Israel is not "purely good," then it must be evil. In fact, the struggle in which we are engaging when it comes to Hamas and other destructive leaders is not between good and evil. It is between "ordinary and flawed" and evil. But arrogant people do not like to think about themselves as ordinary and flawed because they must be special.
One interesting person to study in relation to anti-Zionism is Victor Klemperer. He was a German Jewish professor who converted to Christianity before WW2, was married to a Christian woman, Eva, and really did not like Zionism. In his diaries, he provides valuable descriptions of the mistreatment of Jews in Nazi universities--but then there are also gems such as this one: “The Easter weekend especially quiet up here. Eva in the garden all day; spring weather. I wring a page a day out of myself. Short walks on the Dölzschen plateau. The Blumenfelds were here on Friday; I disagreed violently with him about Zionism, Zionism, which he defends and praises, which I call betrayal and Hitlerism” (118). What I see here is the desperation of a German Jew who just wants to be German to hold on to an identity that was in the process of being violently rejected (the Nazis really did not care how loyal German Jews were and how deeply they felt themselves to be German). At the time during which Klemperer was writing, many Jews (but not enough Jews) were saved from the Nazis because they escaped to the British mandate of Palestine on time. And yet, he makes himself special by calling Zionism, the very thing that was saving people from Hitler, Hitlerism and saying that he, the victim of Nazi violence, is violently against Zionism. I see a terrible insecurity and a denial of the reality of his own rejection in this attitude. So yes, I do think that ultimately anti-Zionist Jews loath what it means to be Jewish. For the Nazis, all Jews were Jews by virtue of "blood." Today's anti-Zionists feel themselves to be lucky by comparison: they believe that by hating Israel, they can escape being Juden.
Klemperer’s diary provides valuable descriptions of how universities fully collaborated with the Nazis and turned against the Jews (see some quotes below). These descriptions are richly relevant to academic Israel hate today. But ironically, Klemperer himself, who deeply resented being unable to go on with his life as an assimilated German Jew, turned to another evil: hatred of Zionism. As a person who really wanted to carry on with his life as a convert to Christianity, Klemperer was cruelly victimized by the Nazis who told him that he could never assimilate because his blood was polluted. And he seems to redirect some of his anger toward Zionism even though Zionism saved the lives of many German Jews. Most German Jews who immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine likely would never had done so had it not been for Nazism. As such, they were often reluctant Zionists—but their lives were saved. Someone who lived in Jerusalem at the time remembers that German Jews used to tell each other (paying lip service to Zionism) that they really want to speak Hebrew, the language of the Zionist motherland, but just out of politeness for Heinrich [or substitute Heinrich for another German name], their friend who has just landed in the boat and came to Jerusalem a couple of days ago, they will speak German because otherwise he will not understand. This was their way to joke about not being “real” Zionists but people who became Zionist because they were driven out of Germany. Ironically, with many Jewish refugees from Germany in Jerusalem at the time, I heard that Jerusalem during the British mandate had a “little Berlin” culture that had kept alive the intellectual culture of pre-Nazi Germany. But Klemperer did not want to be a part of this community. He wanted to just be German and seemed to resent anything that reminded him that he was regarded differently. He wrote:
“The Jewish communities in Germany today are all extremely inclined to Zionism; I shall go along with that just as little as I do with National Socialism or with Bolshevism. Liberal and German forever” (Volume 1, 319). [Note the irony and desperation of forever, which it italicized in his published diary—he vows to be German forever just as German Jewish life was being destroyed and many German Jews came to terms with their rejection by turning to Zionism.]
“Hitler is the most important promoter of Zionism, Hitler has literally created the ‘Jewish nation,’ ‘world Jewry,’ the Jew (Volume 1, 450). [He is correct that without Hitler, many Jews would have never left their countries or became Zionists—but the fact that many Jews fled Europe because of Hitler does not equate Zionism with Hitlerism. This is still the arrogant intellectual error that many anti-Zionists make today.]
“Yesterday afternoon, just as Steinitz had come to see us, Dr. Katz rang the doorbell. He is very melancholy when he talks about his shattered view of life; he considers assimilation, without which he does not exist, to be definitively impossible. He attributes much of the blame—and here we are in agreement—to Zionism; much blame also to the unchecked influx of the money-hungry eastern Jews” (Volume II, 94) [Here we have it plain and simple: the anti-Zionist Jew is a snob. He does not like Zionism, but he does not like the Jews who live east of Germany either. This quote is useful for challenging anti-Zionists today. These people would tend to agree with the equation of Zionism with Hitlerism. But would they also agree that Jews are money hungry and that non-German Jews are inferior to German Jews? Oops—one cannot escape the fact that anti-Zionism very much goes hand in hand with antisemitism because, well, it is antisemitism).
Here are some quotes from Klemperer’s diary about universities (not about Zionism)
[March 31, 1933]: “In Munich Jewish university teachers have already been prevented from setting foot in the university. The proclamation and injunction of the boycott committee decrees ‘Religion is immaterial,’ only race matters” (10).
“March 31 [, 1933], Friday evening
At university my examinations have been transferred to Wengler (explicitly for my “protection,” to keep me in my post). I am now lecturing on Old French literature to three students, I go through my Cultural History contortions in front of about twenty students” (19)
“May 13 [1934], Sunday On Monday no one at the general lecture and the seminar. A crushing experience. With a pension of perhaps 300 or 400M, as things stand, I would be facing disaster. In the evening I telephoned Beste, the section chairman, to notify him officially. He consoled me: general state of affairs in the university! He himself, a political economist, last semester still in front of eighty students, usually in front of one hundred and fifty, had six. Reasons: (a) The students were only just returning from Labor Service, not all were present yet, (b) university study in general was being throttled.—On Wednesday (French verse theory, one hour) I had two female students. (Blumenfeld, usually overflowing with students, has four students for the psychology lecture, one for the industrial psychology class.) Now I shall wait and see whether my seminar will materialize tomorrow. After that there will be another two weeks holiday. The Whitsun holidays have been extended from one to two weeks. The students are no doubt required for the new ‘Campaign against Fault Finders and Grumblers,’ and they do not want anyone to study; intellect, scholarship are the enemies. This ‘campaign’ was inaugurated by Goebbels on Friday. Speech in the Berlin Sportpalast. Gross rabble-rousing and a ‘last warning to the Jews.’ Flagrant threat of a pogrom if the foreign boycott does not cease. Promise not to harm them ‘if they remain quietly in their homes’ and do not claim to be of ‘full or equal value.’ Europe 1934, Germany!—” (64-65)
“The ideology also rages with a more scientific touch. The Academic Society for Research into Jewry is meeting in Munich; a professor (German university professor) identifies the traits eternels of Jews: cruelty, hatred, violent emotion, adaptability—another sees ‘ancient Asiatic hate flickering in Harden’s and Rathenau’s eyes.’ The Psychological Association is meeting somewhere else, and Jaensch condemns the materialistic psychology of the Jews, especially of Freud, and contrasts it with the spirituality of the new theory. And it goes without saying that, at the opening of exhibitions of German art in Munich, Hitler, etc. recite their familiar slogans” (262).
I looked at the "If Americans Knew" website. It's a state-of-the-art design, if you're using a 1993 website design as your basis for "state-of-the-art." It has all the appeal of polemics and think-pieces written by a 25-year-old political sage living in his mother's basement.
An interesting piece of information came out of the study which shows that most anti Zionists are concentrated in the gen Z age group. One should take into consideration, the environment in which gen Z has been brought up: an environment where you must stand out to be adulated, and admired, an environment where you are rewarded for being in the limelight, by followers who also have no identity. These people are seeking an identity because they lack one. They seek being admired for their virtuous morality, however they navigate the relationship with their peers, being admired is the most important virtue. Whether it is through lies or else, doesn’t matter. This are the ills of this generation. When you observe the most vicious anti Zionists you do see one thing in common: fervent narcissism. They seek to be seen, to be praised, so the most outrageous things they say, are even more admired. These are people who scream: “Look at me”!!!
Jonathan Haidt studied this generation and observed also, their brittle mental health. It sky rocketed when social media came into the picture. A
lot has to be said about the spread of lies through social media. They thrive in it.
Look at Jacson Hinckle, who says outrageous things and many lies to get attention all day, he’s obsessed about the attention. The more lies, the more attention. The truth doesn’t matter in the altar of admiration. Look at Dr. Loupis a transgender woman. Needed to change her identity to feel she fit in. At least from the non Muslim anti Zionist perspective. The Muslims who hate Jews are on another track of hateful denialism. But these deserve another essay in and of itself.
I am going out on a limb and say that these anti-zionist jews may or may not be halachically jewish, but most probably are very jewishly ignorant and certainly are not shomer shabbos and mitzvos. Their ignorance of their own people is overwhelming.
(I'm not including Neturei Karta, a whole other (tiny) thing)
They are participating in one of the three modes of Jewish historical existence: self-destruction for the “greater good.” (The other two options are be destroyed and be subjugated.)
"Because a bit part of the problem is this: All the evidence shows that people aren’t listening to Jews when they share their experiences.
That alone is a huge problem in an antiracism movement where lived experience is supposed to be the defining factor for understanding and respecting the perspectives of others."
My lived experience validates that the above statement is 100% true (unless you are a Jew who has internalized antisemitism).
You are so correct about the "self-hating"Jew. They are narcissistic and wackadoodle, not self hating in a sense that they hate themselves. They think they see the truth and thus are better than the rest of us. They just hate everything the overwhelming majority of Jews stand for. They endanger the Jewish community in Israel and the diaspora. They are traitors no less than those who betray their country. Unfortunately, they are used to Jew-wash the antisemite who wants to eradicate Israel, providing cover to some truly heinous people whose goal is Jewish genocide.
That seems about right.
Thank you Pat. You are right that only a non-jew can make this case as a jew making this case is immediately cancelled. So thank you for taking up that unpleasant, but so important and appreciated, role!
Todah rabah.
Exactly! It’s the dangerous mix of arrogance and ignorance. Jews at the university encampments celebrated holidays that were perversions of the real thing. When Israel is eradicated from the celebration of the Maccabees victory over Helenization of the temple, or the harvest holidays, which required pilgrimage to the temple, or tu b’shvat where we eat fruits of Israel, what exactly is the meaning of those holidays? How do they mourn on Tisha b’av when 1 million Jews were slaughtered in Israel and most of the rest dispersed since that seems to be the aim of their movement?
Ignorance and arrogance is a dangerous cocktail!
Brilliant details! They are fake Jews in my opinion.
JVP seems to function a lot like JFJ. 1 in 100 members will be actual Jews who believe they've uncovered some sort of Secret Truth that other Jews haven't, while the rest are cosplaying in order to get converts.
I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but I've been reading you for months and I had no idea that you weren't Jewish until now when I read your disclaimer at the end of this piece. For a non-Jew, you're doing a wonderful job advocating on our behalf. Keep up the great work.
Hahaha. Don't be embarrassed. I'm honoured.
This the only article I’ve read on the topic that really elucidates the psychological phenomenon of AZJ. And you always stay the course here without other arguments that would distract or alienate readers. Kol hakavod
Thank you for your kind words. I deeply appreciate them.
So accurate. I know a couple of these "anti-Zionist Jews" and they are indeed filled with arrogance and disdain for those who are not as "enlightened" as they are. Somewhat alarmingly, they seem to be overrepresented in Gen Z, but that's a whole other story.
That is a whole other story and a challenge for the Jewish community's future.
Token Jews in academia are also grifters who know that being the Jew-washing clowns for Free Palestine cult peers is a role that helps them secure academic careers.
Perhaps. The motives amy be complex or simple. I suppose they differ. But lack of moral courage may be a common theme.
Thank you, Pat. I’ve found that Jews that hold this view are performative and worried mainly about losing their “friends” and others who pressure them.
Performative is a good word. Churchill's words about an appeaser feeding a crocodile hoping it will eat him last seems about right here. They'll come for the Zionist Jews first but they'll come for the anti-Zionist Jews later.
Exactly.
I hope that some of them will one day learn from their experience and tell the stories of the exploitative, cold "friendships" that they are likely in.
Oh, I suspect some of them will get their comeuppance.
You are describing anti-Zionist Jews correctly when you say that "they are among the most self-infatuated, arrogant, pompous people" that one might encounter. Whether or not they are self-loathing comes down partly to the debate about whether people with high levels of narcissism are genuinely self loving or whether deep inside, they are actually insecure. Jewish people have evidence-based reasons to feel insecure, given the high levels of rejection that they have experienced throughout history. The question then becomes whether one deals with that rejection constructively or destructively--honestly or dishonestly.
Anti-Zionism is wonderfully anachronistic, treating Israel as if it were an idea rather than the home of nearly half of the Jewish people. It is also childish in seeming to suggest that if Israel is not "purely good," then it must be evil. In fact, the struggle in which we are engaging when it comes to Hamas and other destructive leaders is not between good and evil. It is between "ordinary and flawed" and evil. But arrogant people do not like to think about themselves as ordinary and flawed because they must be special.
One interesting person to study in relation to anti-Zionism is Victor Klemperer. He was a German Jewish professor who converted to Christianity before WW2, was married to a Christian woman, Eva, and really did not like Zionism. In his diaries, he provides valuable descriptions of the mistreatment of Jews in Nazi universities--but then there are also gems such as this one: “The Easter weekend especially quiet up here. Eva in the garden all day; spring weather. I wring a page a day out of myself. Short walks on the Dölzschen plateau. The Blumenfelds were here on Friday; I disagreed violently with him about Zionism, Zionism, which he defends and praises, which I call betrayal and Hitlerism” (118). What I see here is the desperation of a German Jew who just wants to be German to hold on to an identity that was in the process of being violently rejected (the Nazis really did not care how loyal German Jews were and how deeply they felt themselves to be German). At the time during which Klemperer was writing, many Jews (but not enough Jews) were saved from the Nazis because they escaped to the British mandate of Palestine on time. And yet, he makes himself special by calling Zionism, the very thing that was saving people from Hitler, Hitlerism and saying that he, the victim of Nazi violence, is violently against Zionism. I see a terrible insecurity and a denial of the reality of his own rejection in this attitude. So yes, I do think that ultimately anti-Zionist Jews loath what it means to be Jewish. For the Nazis, all Jews were Jews by virtue of "blood." Today's anti-Zionists feel themselves to be lucky by comparison: they believe that by hating Israel, they can escape being Juden.
Gefen, this is so insightful. thank you for this enlightening explanation. I was familiar with his name but not much more.
Klemperer’s diary provides valuable descriptions of how universities fully collaborated with the Nazis and turned against the Jews (see some quotes below). These descriptions are richly relevant to academic Israel hate today. But ironically, Klemperer himself, who deeply resented being unable to go on with his life as an assimilated German Jew, turned to another evil: hatred of Zionism. As a person who really wanted to carry on with his life as a convert to Christianity, Klemperer was cruelly victimized by the Nazis who told him that he could never assimilate because his blood was polluted. And he seems to redirect some of his anger toward Zionism even though Zionism saved the lives of many German Jews. Most German Jews who immigrated to the British mandate of Palestine likely would never had done so had it not been for Nazism. As such, they were often reluctant Zionists—but their lives were saved. Someone who lived in Jerusalem at the time remembers that German Jews used to tell each other (paying lip service to Zionism) that they really want to speak Hebrew, the language of the Zionist motherland, but just out of politeness for Heinrich [or substitute Heinrich for another German name], their friend who has just landed in the boat and came to Jerusalem a couple of days ago, they will speak German because otherwise he will not understand. This was their way to joke about not being “real” Zionists but people who became Zionist because they were driven out of Germany. Ironically, with many Jewish refugees from Germany in Jerusalem at the time, I heard that Jerusalem during the British mandate had a “little Berlin” culture that had kept alive the intellectual culture of pre-Nazi Germany. But Klemperer did not want to be a part of this community. He wanted to just be German and seemed to resent anything that reminded him that he was regarded differently. He wrote:
“The Jewish communities in Germany today are all extremely inclined to Zionism; I shall go along with that just as little as I do with National Socialism or with Bolshevism. Liberal and German forever” (Volume 1, 319). [Note the irony and desperation of forever, which it italicized in his published diary—he vows to be German forever just as German Jewish life was being destroyed and many German Jews came to terms with their rejection by turning to Zionism.]
“Hitler is the most important promoter of Zionism, Hitler has literally created the ‘Jewish nation,’ ‘world Jewry,’ the Jew (Volume 1, 450). [He is correct that without Hitler, many Jews would have never left their countries or became Zionists—but the fact that many Jews fled Europe because of Hitler does not equate Zionism with Hitlerism. This is still the arrogant intellectual error that many anti-Zionists make today.]
“Yesterday afternoon, just as Steinitz had come to see us, Dr. Katz rang the doorbell. He is very melancholy when he talks about his shattered view of life; he considers assimilation, without which he does not exist, to be definitively impossible. He attributes much of the blame—and here we are in agreement—to Zionism; much blame also to the unchecked influx of the money-hungry eastern Jews” (Volume II, 94) [Here we have it plain and simple: the anti-Zionist Jew is a snob. He does not like Zionism, but he does not like the Jews who live east of Germany either. This quote is useful for challenging anti-Zionists today. These people would tend to agree with the equation of Zionism with Hitlerism. But would they also agree that Jews are money hungry and that non-German Jews are inferior to German Jews? Oops—one cannot escape the fact that anti-Zionism very much goes hand in hand with antisemitism because, well, it is antisemitism).
Here are some quotes from Klemperer’s diary about universities (not about Zionism)
[March 31, 1933]: “In Munich Jewish university teachers have already been prevented from setting foot in the university. The proclamation and injunction of the boycott committee decrees ‘Religion is immaterial,’ only race matters” (10).
“March 31 [, 1933], Friday evening
At university my examinations have been transferred to Wengler (explicitly for my “protection,” to keep me in my post). I am now lecturing on Old French literature to three students, I go through my Cultural History contortions in front of about twenty students” (19)
“May 13 [1934], Sunday On Monday no one at the general lecture and the seminar. A crushing experience. With a pension of perhaps 300 or 400M, as things stand, I would be facing disaster. In the evening I telephoned Beste, the section chairman, to notify him officially. He consoled me: general state of affairs in the university! He himself, a political economist, last semester still in front of eighty students, usually in front of one hundred and fifty, had six. Reasons: (a) The students were only just returning from Labor Service, not all were present yet, (b) university study in general was being throttled.—On Wednesday (French verse theory, one hour) I had two female students. (Blumenfeld, usually overflowing with students, has four students for the psychology lecture, one for the industrial psychology class.) Now I shall wait and see whether my seminar will materialize tomorrow. After that there will be another two weeks holiday. The Whitsun holidays have been extended from one to two weeks. The students are no doubt required for the new ‘Campaign against Fault Finders and Grumblers,’ and they do not want anyone to study; intellect, scholarship are the enemies. This ‘campaign’ was inaugurated by Goebbels on Friday. Speech in the Berlin Sportpalast. Gross rabble-rousing and a ‘last warning to the Jews.’ Flagrant threat of a pogrom if the foreign boycott does not cease. Promise not to harm them ‘if they remain quietly in their homes’ and do not claim to be of ‘full or equal value.’ Europe 1934, Germany!—” (64-65)
“The ideology also rages with a more scientific touch. The Academic Society for Research into Jewry is meeting in Munich; a professor (German university professor) identifies the traits eternels of Jews: cruelty, hatred, violent emotion, adaptability—another sees ‘ancient Asiatic hate flickering in Harden’s and Rathenau’s eyes.’ The Psychological Association is meeting somewhere else, and Jaensch condemns the materialistic psychology of the Jews, especially of Freud, and contrasts it with the spirituality of the new theory. And it goes without saying that, at the opening of exhibitions of German art in Munich, Hitler, etc. recite their familiar slogans” (262).
I looked at the "If Americans Knew" website. It's a state-of-the-art design, if you're using a 1993 website design as your basis for "state-of-the-art." It has all the appeal of polemics and think-pieces written by a 25-year-old political sage living in his mother's basement.
Hahahaha. Seems about right.
An interesting piece of information came out of the study which shows that most anti Zionists are concentrated in the gen Z age group. One should take into consideration, the environment in which gen Z has been brought up: an environment where you must stand out to be adulated, and admired, an environment where you are rewarded for being in the limelight, by followers who also have no identity. These people are seeking an identity because they lack one. They seek being admired for their virtuous morality, however they navigate the relationship with their peers, being admired is the most important virtue. Whether it is through lies or else, doesn’t matter. This are the ills of this generation. When you observe the most vicious anti Zionists you do see one thing in common: fervent narcissism. They seek to be seen, to be praised, so the most outrageous things they say, are even more admired. These are people who scream: “Look at me”!!!
Jonathan Haidt studied this generation and observed also, their brittle mental health. It sky rocketed when social media came into the picture. A
lot has to be said about the spread of lies through social media. They thrive in it.
Look at Jacson Hinckle, who says outrageous things and many lies to get attention all day, he’s obsessed about the attention. The more lies, the more attention. The truth doesn’t matter in the altar of admiration. Look at Dr. Loupis a transgender woman. Needed to change her identity to feel she fit in. At least from the non Muslim anti Zionist perspective. The Muslims who hate Jews are on another track of hateful denialism. But these deserve another essay in and of itself.
“sort of a hybrid between narcissism and whackadoodle.” On the money 😆
I am going out on a limb and say that these anti-zionist jews may or may not be halachically jewish, but most probably are very jewishly ignorant and certainly are not shomer shabbos and mitzvos. Their ignorance of their own people is overwhelming.
(I'm not including Neturei Karta, a whole other (tiny) thing)
Some that I know have no Jewish identity other than that which they wave to condemn Israel.
They’re not self-hating, they are self-blaming.
They are participating in one of the three modes of Jewish historical existence: self-destruction for the “greater good.” (The other two options are be destroyed and be subjugated.)
Scary truths.
The final line of demarcation is you must at least denounce Netanyahu. If you can’t denounce him, you are most definitely a bad Jew.
"Because a bit part of the problem is this: All the evidence shows that people aren’t listening to Jews when they share their experiences.
That alone is a huge problem in an antiracism movement where lived experience is supposed to be the defining factor for understanding and respecting the perspectives of others."
My lived experience validates that the above statement is 100% true (unless you are a Jew who has internalized antisemitism).
You are 100% true. It is one of the (many) pieces of evidence that "antiracists" treat Jews differently than they treat everyone else.