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Progressive anti-Semitism

More on that "Holocaust as just white-on-white violence" and other manifestations of campus anti-Semitism as practiced by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and other such "progressive" groups:

While campus progressives righteously fight all forms of bigotry that exist on college campuses, their “intersectional” alliances with pro-Palestinian movements have mobilized them to regurgitate anti-Semitic rhetoric. If incidents of anti-Semitism at LGBTQ conventions and Black Lives Matters meetings should tell us anything, it’s that SJP’s blind spot for anti-Semitism has nested itself well within the progressive community. This has made Jews of all ages question their place within higher education. “Jewish students and their parents are intensely apprehensive and insecure about this movement,” Mark Yudof, the former president of the University of California system, told The New York Times. “I hear it all the time: Where can I send my kids that will be safe for them as Jews?” Two more questions come to mind: If the progressives who have fought against racial injustice and bigotry for so long eventually become the ones who perpetuate it, who will remain to call them out? At this rate, if anti-Semitism is normalized through the efforts of the rising progressive movements on college campuses, what will the future look like for Jewish college students?

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  1. RY Avatar
    RY

    “If the progressives who have fought against racial injustice and bigotry for so long become the ones who perpetuate it, who will remain to call them out?”
    We don’t have to wait to see if this happens. Progressives have been perpetuating racial injustice and bigotry towards Jews for quite some time. And doing it with gusto.
    As for who will call them out: There are people who do, but they are the people whose voices won’t make a difference. As progressives are in charge of the universities, most of the media, and make up most of the intelligentsia, it’s pretty much a lost cause.
    You need the people who control the “culture” to shift attitudes. And progressives control culture.
    It’s the twentieth first century, and Jews are being chased out of universities. By people who pride themselves on how ” anti-racist” they are.

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    djf

    If American Jews are forced to choose between retaining their Jewish identity and acceptance by supposedly “progressive” institutions and social classes, the vast majority will choose the latter. The liberal (non-Orthodox) Jewish religious movements are beginning to try to adapt to this situation by jettisoning Zionism, although this is still officially cloaked in obfuscatory slogans like “Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace.” Eventually even the pretense will be dropped. It is questionable whether this will satisfy the Left/Islamist alliance in the long run.

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    TDK

    “As progressives are in charge of the universities, most of the media, and make up most of the intelligentsia, it’s pretty much a lost cause.
    You need the people who control the “culture” to shift attitudes. And progressives control culture.”
    I’m not so pessimistic. Today’s progressives imagine that they are in complete opposition to the “reactionaries” of the past who say built the Empire or implemented Eugenics programs. In fact when we go back the reality was that progressives of the day were usually the ones doing these things. It was British Liberals who thought Empire building was virtuous; that there was a “White man’s burden”; that sterilising the wrong people as was implemented in Scandinavia or the US were for the common good. It’s not hard to find Socialists like Jack London or Che Guevara who are explicitly racist. Or like Woodrow Wilson, an academic who thought segregation a progressive policy.
    I doubt the current ideas will stand.

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