Wednesday, May 26, 2021

How Anti-Semitism Rises on the Left and Right

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-anti-semitism-rises-on-the-left-and-right 

 I think I see anti-Judaism anywhere that I see people explaining their circumstances by thinking about the Jews in a way that seems driven by prejudgment rather than reality. In that sense, I wouldn’t draw a distinction between a Muslim in Paris who suffers all kinds of discrimination at the hands of the French state, but who enacts his rage first and foremost against a Jewish target, and a white nationalist or a black nationalist or a left-Labour politician in England. I think all of them—to the degree that they are explaining what needs to be overcome in their world in terms of overcoming the Jews—are participating in a similar kind of thought.

1 comment:

  1. The political spectrum isn't a line - it's a circle and at the extremes, left and right extremism are the same.

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