(Jewish Group) How Jews Became 'Too White, Too Powerful' for U.S. Progressive Activism

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

The Women’s March anti-Semitism saga exposes the profound failure of identity politics and inclusion. We're told we must 'work through' the pain of overt anti-Semitism, that we boost white supremacy and that we're Zionist genocidaires

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It is clear, however, that community building within the progressive movement today comes at the cost of Jewish pain.

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For example, the Black Lives Matters platform required its supporters to back the assertion that Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians is a "genocide." At the Chicago Dyke March, a queer Jewish activist waving a rainbow flag with a single Jewish star was told she was "making people feel unsafe…putting [others] in danger by being here." At protests against Trump’s Muslim ban and family separation policies, Jewish groups such as Tucson Jews for Justice were berated, with other activists demanding they denounce the "genocide" of Palestinians as a pre-requisite for participation.

Jewish women identifying with Zionism have had their compatibility with activist feminist circles queried by Women’s March leaders such as Linda Sarsour, and Jewish progressives have even been the target of noisy boycotts for being "gentrifying Zionists" engaged in "woke-washing."

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Further, anti-Semitism is no longer allowed to remain a distinct form of discrimination, but rather a lesser branch on the tree of general bigotries. Some even question whether anti-Semitism belongs in the family of prejudice at all and downplay its impact. Sarsour herself claimed anti-Semitism "impacts Jewish Americans, [but] it’s different than anti-black racism or Islamophobia because it’s not systemic."

Jews are seen as too institutionally integrated, too successful a minority (itself a favorite anti-Semitic trope), or, in other words, too white (and therefore too much the beneficiaries of "white privilege&quot for anti-Semitism to be taken seriously.

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Boom goes the dynamite!

[MosheFeingold]

1. Welll, Pelosi has our back

You know by appointing Ilhan Omar of the Jews "have hypnotized the world" fame who rants about the "evil doings of Israel" to the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

(Yes, this is bitter sarcasm.)

Antisemitism is main stream, now.