Significant number of Jews hide their identity-Antisemitism
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Survey: Jewish Americans are hiding their faith out of safety concerns
The recent survey by the American Jewish Committee found that Jewish people are changing their behavior such as not wearing their garments that identify them as being Jewish.
According to the American Jewish Committee survey, 22% of Jews have avoided publicly wearing, carrying or displaying things that would help people identify them as a Jew, 17% avoided certain places, events or situations out of concern for their safety or comfort as a Jew, and 25% avoided posting content online that would identify them as Jewish or sympathetic to Jewish issues.
“We cannot simply cower in fear and remain in our homes, or if we're a yarmulke-wearing person take it off and wear a baseball cap because that essentially is a victory for the antisemites," said Rabbi Yakov Saacks, of the Chai Center in Mineola.
"We have to clearly not allow antisemitism to define us. The problem is with the hater not with those who are being hated," said Rabbi Anchelle Perl, of the Chabad of Mineola.
In the past few months News 12 Long Island has reported numerous swastikas found in different towns and Jews being targeted for simply being Jewish. Perl said there is a lack of education that needs to be addressed.
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It really depends upon where you’re located.
You probably won’t be hassled for being Jewish in New York City (unless you’re Hasidic)—but in some hick town, who knows?
It’s certainly better to be Jewish in 2021 than it was before World War II.
I’m Jewish, by the way.
It’s probably much more dangerous to be one who looks “Islamic.”
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The danger from the Nazis are so obvious they do not need to be expounded upon. The danger from portions of the left are less obvious.
How Critical Social Justice ideology fuels antisemitism
David Bernstein is the founder and director of the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values
The paper argues that because of the binary nature of the ideology, which holds that those who are presumed to be powerful are the cause of suffering of those who are presumed to be powerless, CSJ ideology often fuels antisemitism. Even though many of those who advance the ideology do not intend to promulgate antisemitic ideas, the rapid proliferation of this ideology portends an increase in the world’s oldest hatred.
First, CSJ fuels the canard of Jewish privilege. Antisemites have always promoted the canard that Jews secretly control the levers of power. CSJ invites such antisemitic imagery by positing a fixed hierarchy of privilege, which legitimizes notions of “Jewish privilege.”
Second, CSJ promotes the erasure of Jewish identity. Daphna Kaufman of Reut popularized the term erasive antisemitism for the designation of Ashkenazi Jews from Europe as “white.” This racialization of Jewish identity erases Jewish identity in favor of the CSJ binary of oppressed “person of color” versus “white” oppressor. In this ideological framework, Jews are not afforded the status of a distinct people worthy of self-determination. The erasure of Jewish identity also denies antisemitism its unique quality and historicity by falsely equating it with other forms of bigotry.
Third, CSJ, in the concept of intersectionality, can multiple antisemitic ideas. Intersectionality is the theory that various forms of discrimination interact in ways that create specific and compound problems, constituting an intersecting system of oppression. In other words, groups with “critical consciousness” have a strong incentive to agree with each other on whom to designate oppressor and oppressed in every system. This ideological framework serves to multiply a false view of “Jewish power” in the US and popularizes a perverse, binary perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Fifth, CSJ may marginalize Jews in politics. While not explicitly antisemitic, CSJ has rendered and may further render many Jews politically homeless. Large majorities of Jews have historically voted for Democrats, yet the growing number of party officials, platforms, and policies supporting critical race ideologies stands to alienate a significant segment of American Jewry, especially as the connections between the ideology and antisemitism become more apparent.
Sixth, CSJ’s revamped concept of “equity” marginalizes Jews. CSJ ideology insists that the only reason there is disparity among racial and ethnic groups is white supremacy. If white supremacy is responsible for some people being held down, then it is also responsible for others being propped up. In this framework, Jews and other economically successful minorities are deemed complicit in or adjacent to white supremacy.
Seventh, CSJ undermines enlightenment principles. Jews have long thrived in societies undergirded by Enlightenment principles of rationalism, reason, logic and debate. CSJ is inherently anti-Enlightenment. It serves to delegitimize these principles as manifestations of “white supremacy,” stifle debate, and curtail academic freedom.
A lot of words but it boils down to the words I bolded.
What is a major omission is that a major part of Jewish, particularly Jewish-American culture is comedy. This comedy often deals with triggering subjects. It developed as a coping mechanism to deal with these painful topics. Since it is dealing with these topics it has traditionally been raw and not concerned with niceties. This often puts this part of Jewish culture in the crosshairs of “cancel culture” or “The New Puritanism” .
All of the above is not to dismiss the alt right. Wokes have not stormed the Capital, nor have they shot up synagogues. The threat of the alt right should not be used to dismiss the threat of the “regressive left”. The influential American Medical And Psychological Associations are not revising there mission statements to be based on Nazi race hygiene principals but Critical Race Theory ones. Same goes for the nations most powerful teachers union, etc. The Nazis are small outlier group.
We could further discuss over which side is the most of a threat to Jews, there are valid arguments for each, and one side is more dangerous. We Jewish-Americans do not have the luxury of spending too much time figuring it out, we need to deal with both.
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It depends on how the individual Jew sees it. And what “type” of Jew one is.
Hasidic Jews, for one, are basically one culture and mostly one ethnicity.
People who are Orthodox Jews are much more “culturally Jewish” than Reformed Jews.
The whole of Judaism encompasses many cultures and many ethnicities. We have Ethiopian Jews, and we have Ashkenazi (of Eastern and Central European descent, primarily) Jews.
Generally, Sephardic Jews are more conscious of their culture and origins than most Ashkenazi Jews.
Yiddish is, basically, German written with the Hebrew alphabet.
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Hasidic Jews, for one, are basically one culture and mostly one ethnicity.
People who are Orthodox Jews are much more “culturally Jewish” than Reformed Jews.
The whole of Judaism encompasses many cultures and many ethnicities. We have Ethiopian Jews, and we have Ashkenazi (of Eastern and Central European descent, primarily) Jews.
Generally, Sephardic Jews are more conscious of their culture and origins than most Ashkenazi Jews.
Yiddish is, basically, German written with the Hebrew alphabet.
Interesting.
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I have a funny experience of my family members, including myself, being often interperted as Jewish despite no known links to the ethnicity.
It reveals a complicated pattern of attitudes. Sometimes it's hate. Sometimes it's awe and high expectations. Sometimes it's a favor for "one of ours" even if unasked for. Often it's fear that can go both ways - towards hate and towards power.
Funny and scary.
And it's nothing we ask for, it's just how the shape of your nose and eyelids affects people around you.
That's how "race" works, I guess. Very dangerous social mechanism, I think.
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We should use Rwanda as a shining example.
They had their Genocide about 27 years ago.
They don’t deny it—but they have moved on from it and have built what basically is a new nation. Authoritarian as its government is, they’ve embraced the concept of “never again” to a T. The ethnic groups who killed each other are now living in peace.
There are countless ways that may result in a Central European having some Middle Eastern features.
But "race" is not as much about genealogy. It's about how your looks affect the way other people interpret you.
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