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@ymenken - Rabbi Yaakov Menken

This morning in Newsweek, I took aim at one of the key factors contributing to skyrocketing #Antisemitism in America, less than a century after the #Holocaust. /1 https://www.newsweek.com/progressive-myopia-inflames-antisemitism-opinion-1828869

Progressive Myopia Inflames Antisemitism Recognizing antisemitism is not always easy. It disguises itself behind facades that grant it respectability in different societies and cultures. newsweek.com

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Though just 2% of the U.S. population, Jews are the most targeted religious group in America, more likely by far to be victimized. But don't expect to hear this from DEI officials; many of them are guilty of antisemitic bias themselves. /2

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That well-paid diversity advocates pronounce Jews, those whom the Nazis massacred for being non-white, to be beneficiaries of "white privilege" is only one symptom of the underlying disease. Wilful blindness to left-wing hate has allowed it to fester. /3

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Recognizing antisemitism is not always easy. It disguises itself behind facades that grant it respectability in different societies and cultures. The untrained ear will often confuse antisemitic bias with legitimate opinion and vice versa. /4

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Barefaced racism, "Anti-Semitism," no longer has cultural purchase; society's supreme concern is respect for human rights. But this noble cause has been derailed, like religion and science before it, by antipathy towards Jews. /5

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Classical Jewish thought identifies the underlying lies that antisemites tell themselves. Rabbi Naftali Z.Y. Berlin specified two: the idea that all Jewish property is stolen via fraud and deceit, & that Jews, deeming themselves superior, denigrate & harm everyone else. /6

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The "Promised Land" is common parlance. Everyone knows what it is, where it is, & how central it is to the faith of Moses and the Jewish people. Yet millions have adopted a fictional narrative built upon a European colonialist term for that Jewish homeland: #Palestine. /7

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In an alternate reality, descendants of Arab marauders are "indigenous Palestinians," whose homeland, by miraculous coincidence, happens to trace the borders of modern Israel. The Jews, in other words, are "stealing" Judea, exactly as rabbinic models of #Antisemitism predict. /8

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Israel provides its Arab citizens with superior health care, higher education, & the right to vote. Yet it is demonized with words like oppression, brutality, & ethnic cleansing. This is incomprehensible except that antisemites consider Jews inherently bigoted against others. /9

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Rabbi Sacks said that antisemitism, or any hate, becomes dangerous in a democracy when it moves from the fringes into a mainstream party, the party's reputation is not harmed, & those who protest are vilified. He was not speaking about America, but his words apply today. /10

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10 Leftists in Congress recently endorsed racist bias against Israel, even boycotting Israel's own left-wing president when he came to address them. Yet other Representatives continue to cosponsor legislation from those racist 10. /11

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For the Overton window to again encompass only positions compatible with a civilized society, 10 racist Members of Congress must be considered no less toxic than Steve King. Congress must, in bipartisan fashion, repudiate racism in its ranks—even when expressed against Jews. /12