Mick Hartley

More on the Women's March/Louis Farrakhan affair, where Women's March leaders like Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour have refused to condemn the Nation of Islam leader for his open and virulent antisemitism. From Emma Teitel:

It’s infuriating because Mallory and Sarsour are activists who would argue in any other circumstance that intersectionality demands the condemnation of all forms of bigotry — and that big-tent feminism does not tolerate intolerance.

But it’s clear that when the wronged party in question is Jewish and the wrongdoer is a gentile leader of colour, the opposite is true. Suddenly intersectional feminism demands (as many members of the alt right do) that all perspectives deserve a fair shake, even odious ones. We must tolerate intolerance in the name of togetherness!

This is hypocritical BS at its stinkiest. But it confirms what I’ve suspected for a long time now.

Jews are unwelcome on the feminist left.

The refusal by Women’s March leaders to condemn Farrakhan in the strongest of terms or, frankly, in any terms whatsoever, is proof that intersectional feminism does not yet take anti-Semitism seriously.

Anti-Semitism, in the eyes of those at the helm of the Women’s March, is less objectionable and less cause for concern than Islamophobia and anti-Black racism.

Perhaps this is because most Jews are white. How bad can we possibly have it, right?

Unfortunately, being white has been kind of overrated for us. Being white didn’t help us during the Russian pogroms, and it certainly didn’t help us during the Holocaust. It doesn’t help us today against the likes of David Duke, Richard Spencer, nor any other white supremacist the Trump administration openly flirts with. To these men, our Jewishness is an irreversible stain on our whiteness.

In the end, we’re not white enough for the far right, but we’re too white for the feminist left.

Where does that leave us? Out of place. Nomads.

Nothing new there.