I think I understand his feelings, because American Jews are playing defense a lot lately. I should know, going around the country in these past few months I’ve also addressed non-Jewish audiences—some of which are quite hostile toward me. When I speak to that type of audience, I hear myself participating in a kind of defensive dance, a strange ritual of self-humiliation where I try to disprove the conspiracy theory of antisemitism.
Not all Jews are rich, I tell people. I explain that about 20% of Jewish New Yorkers live below the poverty line. On the one hand I’m trying to show that the conspiracy theory about us is factually incorrect. But on the other, what if most Jews were rich? Would that mean that we actually were controlling the world? That the conspiracy theory of antisemitism was true?
Not all Jews are white, I tell people. I explain that about 70% of Jews in Israel certainly aren’t from European descent. On the one hand, I’m trying to explain to people that Jews have lived around the globe for centuries and that we are beautifully diverse. But on the other hand, what if we were all light-skinned? Would that make Jews guilty of racism or oppression? Would that “prove” the conspiracy theory? Or at least validate it?
And worst of all, we are genocide survivors, I tell people. I explain that 6 million Jews were murdered in living memory, including 1 million children. On the one hand, I’m trying to teach Jewish history. I am fighting for facts. A significant percentage of millennials believe that 2…
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How can the promotion of Jewish values and contributions to society serve as a powerful counter to antisemitism?
@9L976QY2mos2MO
Why is the issue of how Jews an issue? Anti-Semitism is no longer an issue, and it is only an excuse for them to make more money
@9L88VD3 2mos2MO
If you want to fight against the "conspiracy theory" then hold your fellow Jews accountable. I'm talking about the ones who are rich and the ones who do hold lots of sway. Hold them accountable for pushing homosex and transexual content. Hold them accountable for pushing increasingly sexual content in general (gay and straight) in the media. Hold them accountable for pushing diversity, immigration, DEI. Hold them accountable for using the media, educational, and financial institutions that they own and/or control in order to push those things. Until "regular" Jews sta… Read more
@ZebraMiaRepublican2mos2MO
Yeah, but in addition, maybe American Jews should exercise their right to bear arms and become able to actually defend themselves?
Are you going to establish a kill zone on eastern parkway?
@S0c1alSecur1tyCoatiGreen2mos2MO
You're going to bomb hospitals, steal the land of indigenous people, carry out apartheid against them and kidnap children by falsely claiming they are "terrorists"?
Great advice. As an American *** here's me standing up for myself: shut the **** up and don't ever draw even the slightest comparison between me and that genocidal regime. Free Palestine. Thanks.
@ChameleonNickSocialist2mos2MO
please don’t blow up my local hospital
Associating Judaism with violence and genocide is antisemitic.
@MotivatedMonkeyDemocrat2mos2MO
That’s the thing, Israelis wish we would be like them and think we envy them but really we think they’re weirdos. What exactly has Israel provided as a model way to live? they’re all in suburbs that look like Orange County. And they’re not any safer for it either
@PretzelsClaireGreen2mos2MO
I don’t wanna be mean or anything but I dont think anyone involved in the writing, editing or publishing of this article should be allowed near a school
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