tomder55
Mar 19, 2024, 03:01 AM
A new expose is published in Time Mag. 'The New Antisemitism ' by Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman
The New Antisemitism | TIME (https://time.com/6763293/antisemitism/)
This is not the same antisemitism that historically was founded in religious persecution. Within hours and days of the massacre of Israeli's on October 7 of last year; highly educated youth on elite campus began protesting; not against the Hamas terrorists, but against Israel. Thier's was not a religious prejudice. It is hard to find any religious bases for their hatred at all. Most are non-religious and obviously rather ignorant of the history of the Jewish persecution. And yet they demonstrate a hatred almost as strong as any historically.
.. antisemitic ideology (https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/antisemitism-unstable-world-analysis/index.html) isn’t accountable to real-life facts, its content can be altered and changed as a society’s worries and moral judgments shift. Antisemitism’s capacity to keep its familiar character while also channeling new fears is what confers its stunning capacity to reinvent itself.
Feldman believe that the root of their hatred is in the post colonial theory that is taught on campus. The students are well indoctrinated .
There is a neo-Marxist assumption in the theory. A clear divide exists between oppressors and oppressed .The world is neatly divided into the 2 groups.
The oppressors are the western nations including the colony called Israel. Everyone else is the oppressed. The west's policies according to the theory is rooted in the subjugation and domination of the oppressed. The pogroms ;the holocaust are overlooked . The fact that many of the citizens of Israel are Arabic or immigrants from other 3rd world nations has no bearing on their thinking .
Roughly half of Israel’s Jews descend from Mizrahi, (literally, Eastern) origins. They are not ethnically European in any sense, much less racially “white.” A meaningful number of Israeli Jews are of Ethiopian origin, and the small community of Black Hebrew Israelites in Israel are ethnically African American.
Israel is an extension of the colonial past in their thinking . The Jews ;although historically part of the oppressed, a stateless minority; must be transformed into oppressors. They are western white occupiers . The fact that the Jews have had a centuries long presence in the region is of no consequence.
The core of this new antisemitism lies in the idea that Jews are not a historically oppressed people (https://time.com/6241771/hanukkah-amid-antisemitism/)seeking self-preservation but instead oppressors: imperialists, colonialists, and even white supremacists. This view preserves vestiges of the trope that Jews exercise vast power. It creatively updates that narrative to contemporary circumstances and current cultural preoccupations with the nature of power and injustice.
The new narrative of Jews as oppressors is, in the end, far too close for comfort to the antisemitic tradition of singling out Jews as uniquely deserving of condemnation and punishment, whether in its old religious form or its Nazi iteration. Like those earlier forms of antisemitism, the new kind is not ultimately about the Jews, but about the human impulse to point the finger at someone who can be made to carry the weight of our social ills.
The New Antisemitism | TIME (https://time.com/6763293/antisemitism/)
This is not the same antisemitism that historically was founded in religious persecution. Within hours and days of the massacre of Israeli's on October 7 of last year; highly educated youth on elite campus began protesting; not against the Hamas terrorists, but against Israel. Thier's was not a religious prejudice. It is hard to find any religious bases for their hatred at all. Most are non-religious and obviously rather ignorant of the history of the Jewish persecution. And yet they demonstrate a hatred almost as strong as any historically.
.. antisemitic ideology (https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/politics/antisemitism-unstable-world-analysis/index.html) isn’t accountable to real-life facts, its content can be altered and changed as a society’s worries and moral judgments shift. Antisemitism’s capacity to keep its familiar character while also channeling new fears is what confers its stunning capacity to reinvent itself.
Feldman believe that the root of their hatred is in the post colonial theory that is taught on campus. The students are well indoctrinated .
There is a neo-Marxist assumption in the theory. A clear divide exists between oppressors and oppressed .The world is neatly divided into the 2 groups.
The oppressors are the western nations including the colony called Israel. Everyone else is the oppressed. The west's policies according to the theory is rooted in the subjugation and domination of the oppressed. The pogroms ;the holocaust are overlooked . The fact that many of the citizens of Israel are Arabic or immigrants from other 3rd world nations has no bearing on their thinking .
Roughly half of Israel’s Jews descend from Mizrahi, (literally, Eastern) origins. They are not ethnically European in any sense, much less racially “white.” A meaningful number of Israeli Jews are of Ethiopian origin, and the small community of Black Hebrew Israelites in Israel are ethnically African American.
Israel is an extension of the colonial past in their thinking . The Jews ;although historically part of the oppressed, a stateless minority; must be transformed into oppressors. They are western white occupiers . The fact that the Jews have had a centuries long presence in the region is of no consequence.
The core of this new antisemitism lies in the idea that Jews are not a historically oppressed people (https://time.com/6241771/hanukkah-amid-antisemitism/)seeking self-preservation but instead oppressors: imperialists, colonialists, and even white supremacists. This view preserves vestiges of the trope that Jews exercise vast power. It creatively updates that narrative to contemporary circumstances and current cultural preoccupations with the nature of power and injustice.
The new narrative of Jews as oppressors is, in the end, far too close for comfort to the antisemitic tradition of singling out Jews as uniquely deserving of condemnation and punishment, whether in its old religious form or its Nazi iteration. Like those earlier forms of antisemitism, the new kind is not ultimately about the Jews, but about the human impulse to point the finger at someone who can be made to carry the weight of our social ills.