“Today antisemitism is difficult to recognize because it does not come dressed in a Nazi uniform and it does not openly proclaim it’s hatred or fear of Jews.”
—-David Hirsch, Contemporary Left Antisemitism
Today’s antisemitism
wears the clothes of progressive politicians,
passionate professors,
smiling celebrities,
and amiable athletes.
It is camouflaged by calls for human rights,
while making shrill shouts for another Holocaust.
It can be heard crying out for freedom,
while making disturbing demands to dismantle the Jewish state.
And can be seen carrying placards of protest,
while using the trumped-up trope of blood libel
to accuse Israel of killing children.
It erases Jewish students from progressive projects,
and makes mockery of academic freedom.
It turns survivors into oppressors,
terrorists into freedom fighters,
spins the Holocaust as a ploy used by Jews,
and justifies acts of atrocity by blaming the victims.
It is given space to spread
in the petri dish of humanity,
by diplomats making moral equivalency
between those defending terrorism,
and those perpetrating it,
by journalists whitewashing history,
and by students and labor leaders
framing terrorism as resistance.
Attempts to define it or call it out,
are discounted as ‘silencing criticism’,
or the work of a ‘Jewish lobby’.
Woven into the fabric of our culture,
it remains in the background,
difficult to see like the air we breathe,
until brought to the foreground
by heinous acts making it impossible
to ignore.
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What is happening in this area of the world right now is appaling.
The hatred, the violence, the heinous acts, the threats are so disgusting and barbaric. I have had to walk away from watching this horrid news several times in the past few days.
I hope there can be some resolution soon. What is happening is so wrong on every level.