Too much BS and twisted logic in this article to even begin to address any of it. My comment would be longer than the article itself. I subscribed to this Newsletter because I am extremely concerned about the over reach and twisted logic of the left and the fact that it will actually create a backlash that will set back social justice causes and the fight against racism. This racist twisted hateful shit is not what I signed up for. I'll stick with FairForAll.org.
its inaccurate to conflate historical or even current anti Semitism with the issue of palestine. prior to the cold war, there were almost zero jewish people in palestine going back to the 1400s. its an insult to bring up ancient history as some kind of current justification of anything happening now. the US and West have supported israel during the cold war as part of an effort to oppose soviet allied nations that surrounded israel. however justified the creation of modern israel seemed in the 1940s, it now seems like a mistake. the reason is that israel continues to keep millions in an outdoor prison for the past 80 years and continues to attempt to rob the Palestinians of their right to life liberty. its not anti Semitism to say so. Certainly i do not support any anti Semitism graffiti, which i would guess are most of the "hate crimes". its not hate to legitimately point out that israel refuses to stop its illegal occupation of palestine that has gone on for 80 years. israel steals palestinians water, land, destroys their homes, it never ends. its not anti Semitism to point this out. you may say - no wait you dont understand Palestinians did x y and z. no shit. everyone knows thats what happens during conflicts. but conflicts need to end at some point and its Israel that refuses to end it. the reason is clear to all, israel wants land it has no rights to . it wants the land that palestinians are living on. this really is just like every other situation where white people try to steal the land of native people. i understand jewish people have had tough times . but that doesn't justify ethnic cleansing.
To unpick the various strands of anti-Jewish feeling that still extant is not that difficult. There are 3.
The first is as old as Christianity. The break up between Judaism and Christianity was a 3-to-4-hundred-year affair that went on from the original rejection of Christianity by Jewish Communities in their own heartlands and then the ongoing arguments and conflicts that went on out in the Roman and Greek worlds between the Jewish diaspora and the emerging Christian communities there.
Basically the Jews accused the Christians of spreading Christological bollocks and there was nothing the Christians could do about it until the accession of Theodosis in the fourth century.... unlike the prophet Mohommed some centuries later, who just massacred the Jews who were disagreeable.....which made for much more agreeable later interreligious relationships, at least as far as Islam was concerned.
The Christians never forgave their Jewish interlocutors, as the resentment of them had built over a period of centuries. And the instant Christian communities had access to state power, they showed it with systematic and long term repression of the Jewish estate.
The second was as a result of the first, which was forcing Jewish communities out of normal participation in the economic life of their host societies, and into occupations that were always going to be a source of suspicion and contempt.
In medieval Europe, Jews were very over represented as capitalists in non-capitalist societies where capital was not respectable, or properly regulated/protected, particularly in finance, which was always high risk with the inevitable high risk costs that come with that. They were also used as hated tax/debt collectors who could be turned on by their employers and sacrificed to public anger if taxes or debts were too high.....which then resulted in credit becoming even more expensive and hard to get, for which of course the Jews would be blamed.
The third was the racial anti-Semite ideology that started to become noticeable (even if not particularly intellectually respectable) in the later nineteenth century. Adolf Hitler in Vienna picked up on it, and was particularly susceptible to uncritical absorption of these ideas, at least in part because his education was not very extensive.
The saddest thing about Hitler's rise to power and his anti-Semitism was that Jews over the previous two centuries had become quite well integrated into German society, with a lot of them Christianizing and inter marrying into the Christian community, as Nazi administrators found to their dismay after the promulgation of the Nuremburg race laws in 1935, which forced them to try and limit the disruption that a full implementation of them would cause.
The unhappy conflation of devastating loss and national humiliationn in The Great War, the destruction of the German currency in 1923 that ruined savers, and the equally devastating Great Depression meant that a Shaman like Hitler could exploit the pain, anguish and rage of his times, and use all three threads of anti-Jewish feeling to galvanize it.
The post-WW2 holocaust dividend that was the Jewish state had an enormous well of goodwill (and guilt) behind it in the West, but the reality was that Israel was a colonial society in much the same way as Boer dominated South Africa was, to the extent that the two got on famously as long as the latter lasted. And as time went by, the anti-colonial/Zionist sentiment gradually got traction as the Jewish state's behavior became ever more reminiscent of its racist South African allies.
All of this is deeply ambiguous, because the Holocaust was the apotheosis of the triple antagonism to Jews for which there needed to be a great deal of repentance all round, but there was always a not quite right question mark over Zionism, which arose during the peak of European colonialism and imperialism.
The triumphalism most of us in the West felt after the 1967 and '73 Arab-Israeli wars gave way to the much darker struggle with Arafat's PLO, then ugly defeat at the hands of Hamas in Lebanon and finally the obviously colonial struggle that has gone on in in 'the occupied territories', has worn the legitimacy of Zionist Israel down. The narrative of Israel as a beacon of Western civilization and freedom in a sea of Arab barbarism has taken something of a beating.
Israel is a spectacularly successful, innovative, stable and at least internally democratic society in a way none of its Arab or Persian enemies are, which makes it almost uniquely unassailable in an otherwise very unstable neighborhood, which makes them all the more hated.......
No matter what they do, Jews continue to attract more than their fair share of the wrong kind of attention. I note with dismay the discrimination against Jews (and Chinese) in access to higher education in the states, because, well they are just too damned successful for Wokes who demographically trade on the lack of it, and the wretched excuses that justify it
And here is the rub. Jews, no matter how much they are persecuted, defenestrated, murdered and forced to flee, always seem to have the resources to bounce back somewhere else, which always gets up the noses of those with inferior socialization, who never seem to be able to get ahead of the game.
Jews are a standing remonstrance to the myth of disadvantage that is the stock-in-trade of the Woke helpless-poor-thing narrative, that feeds their legitimacy claims and their colonization and domination of our system of social reproduction and its administration.
I go into this fascinating tale about a fascinating little group whose impact on the world is ridiculously large for its size, for which it is both admired and reviled, in almost the same breath....in my longish essay, 'Religious Fundamentalism: Shylock and His Bastard Children'.
Lol
Too much BS and twisted logic in this article to even begin to address any of it. My comment would be longer than the article itself. I subscribed to this Newsletter because I am extremely concerned about the over reach and twisted logic of the left and the fact that it will actually create a backlash that will set back social justice causes and the fight against racism. This racist twisted hateful shit is not what I signed up for. I'll stick with FairForAll.org.
its inaccurate to conflate historical or even current anti Semitism with the issue of palestine. prior to the cold war, there were almost zero jewish people in palestine going back to the 1400s. its an insult to bring up ancient history as some kind of current justification of anything happening now. the US and West have supported israel during the cold war as part of an effort to oppose soviet allied nations that surrounded israel. however justified the creation of modern israel seemed in the 1940s, it now seems like a mistake. the reason is that israel continues to keep millions in an outdoor prison for the past 80 years and continues to attempt to rob the Palestinians of their right to life liberty. its not anti Semitism to say so. Certainly i do not support any anti Semitism graffiti, which i would guess are most of the "hate crimes". its not hate to legitimately point out that israel refuses to stop its illegal occupation of palestine that has gone on for 80 years. israel steals palestinians water, land, destroys their homes, it never ends. its not anti Semitism to point this out. you may say - no wait you dont understand Palestinians did x y and z. no shit. everyone knows thats what happens during conflicts. but conflicts need to end at some point and its Israel that refuses to end it. the reason is clear to all, israel wants land it has no rights to . it wants the land that palestinians are living on. this really is just like every other situation where white people try to steal the land of native people. i understand jewish people have had tough times . but that doesn't justify ethnic cleansing.
To unpick the various strands of anti-Jewish feeling that still extant is not that difficult. There are 3.
The first is as old as Christianity. The break up between Judaism and Christianity was a 3-to-4-hundred-year affair that went on from the original rejection of Christianity by Jewish Communities in their own heartlands and then the ongoing arguments and conflicts that went on out in the Roman and Greek worlds between the Jewish diaspora and the emerging Christian communities there.
Basically the Jews accused the Christians of spreading Christological bollocks and there was nothing the Christians could do about it until the accession of Theodosis in the fourth century.... unlike the prophet Mohommed some centuries later, who just massacred the Jews who were disagreeable.....which made for much more agreeable later interreligious relationships, at least as far as Islam was concerned.
The Christians never forgave their Jewish interlocutors, as the resentment of them had built over a period of centuries. And the instant Christian communities had access to state power, they showed it with systematic and long term repression of the Jewish estate.
The second was as a result of the first, which was forcing Jewish communities out of normal participation in the economic life of their host societies, and into occupations that were always going to be a source of suspicion and contempt.
In medieval Europe, Jews were very over represented as capitalists in non-capitalist societies where capital was not respectable, or properly regulated/protected, particularly in finance, which was always high risk with the inevitable high risk costs that come with that. They were also used as hated tax/debt collectors who could be turned on by their employers and sacrificed to public anger if taxes or debts were too high.....which then resulted in credit becoming even more expensive and hard to get, for which of course the Jews would be blamed.
The third was the racial anti-Semite ideology that started to become noticeable (even if not particularly intellectually respectable) in the later nineteenth century. Adolf Hitler in Vienna picked up on it, and was particularly susceptible to uncritical absorption of these ideas, at least in part because his education was not very extensive.
The saddest thing about Hitler's rise to power and his anti-Semitism was that Jews over the previous two centuries had become quite well integrated into German society, with a lot of them Christianizing and inter marrying into the Christian community, as Nazi administrators found to their dismay after the promulgation of the Nuremburg race laws in 1935, which forced them to try and limit the disruption that a full implementation of them would cause.
The unhappy conflation of devastating loss and national humiliationn in The Great War, the destruction of the German currency in 1923 that ruined savers, and the equally devastating Great Depression meant that a Shaman like Hitler could exploit the pain, anguish and rage of his times, and use all three threads of anti-Jewish feeling to galvanize it.
The post-WW2 holocaust dividend that was the Jewish state had an enormous well of goodwill (and guilt) behind it in the West, but the reality was that Israel was a colonial society in much the same way as Boer dominated South Africa was, to the extent that the two got on famously as long as the latter lasted. And as time went by, the anti-colonial/Zionist sentiment gradually got traction as the Jewish state's behavior became ever more reminiscent of its racist South African allies.
All of this is deeply ambiguous, because the Holocaust was the apotheosis of the triple antagonism to Jews for which there needed to be a great deal of repentance all round, but there was always a not quite right question mark over Zionism, which arose during the peak of European colonialism and imperialism.
The triumphalism most of us in the West felt after the 1967 and '73 Arab-Israeli wars gave way to the much darker struggle with Arafat's PLO, then ugly defeat at the hands of Hamas in Lebanon and finally the obviously colonial struggle that has gone on in in 'the occupied territories', has worn the legitimacy of Zionist Israel down. The narrative of Israel as a beacon of Western civilization and freedom in a sea of Arab barbarism has taken something of a beating.
Israel is a spectacularly successful, innovative, stable and at least internally democratic society in a way none of its Arab or Persian enemies are, which makes it almost uniquely unassailable in an otherwise very unstable neighborhood, which makes them all the more hated.......
No matter what they do, Jews continue to attract more than their fair share of the wrong kind of attention. I note with dismay the discrimination against Jews (and Chinese) in access to higher education in the states, because, well they are just too damned successful for Wokes who demographically trade on the lack of it, and the wretched excuses that justify it
And here is the rub. Jews, no matter how much they are persecuted, defenestrated, murdered and forced to flee, always seem to have the resources to bounce back somewhere else, which always gets up the noses of those with inferior socialization, who never seem to be able to get ahead of the game.
Jews are a standing remonstrance to the myth of disadvantage that is the stock-in-trade of the Woke helpless-poor-thing narrative, that feeds their legitimacy claims and their colonization and domination of our system of social reproduction and its administration.
I go into this fascinating tale about a fascinating little group whose impact on the world is ridiculously large for its size, for which it is both admired and reviled, in almost the same breath....in my longish essay, 'Religious Fundamentalism: Shylock and His Bastard Children'.
https://www.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/866717