Watching fellow jews make this argument en masse is making me want to completely give up. It is a blanket nullification of any legitimacy in responding effectively to antisemitism. It is the ultimate self-disempowerment. We are our own worst enemies.
However horrible trump is, doesn’t mean we should condemn everything he does reflexively.
His response to antisemitism on campuses is what everyone should have done! It’s what the democrats should have done if they had any integrity left at all.
The Jewish pushback on this is the death knell for us; we are undermining any future ability to push back on this because we’re reifying the idea that pushing back on antisemitism is not legitimate . Instead of challenging the idea that responding to antisemitism is necessarily right-wing or trumpist; we’re actually supporting this as true.
Office Hours: Inside Wesleyan Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Written by
Lula Konner
Wesleyan Faculty for Justice in Palestine: “60 years ago, 2 powerful student movements (Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) took shape in the US in the heat of anti-war sentiment. Since that time, we have witnessed student-led movements demanding the end of apartheid in South Africa, labor rights, the movement for Black lives, feminist, queer, and disability justice, and the call for liberation more broadly. Building on the shoulders of 50 years of successful organizing, brave students and academic workers call for an end to the ongoing genocide. With them, we oppose the US-funded and armed Israeli regime of apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism.”
It takes an academic to argue for the destruction of 7.2 million Jewish Israelis while opposing antisemitism. Is this going to be on the exam professor?
Great article. My apologies in advance should I insult someone's intelligence, especially with what may be obvious.
I suspect Roth believes, “Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie.” Perhaps on inductive grounds, but almost as likely intuitive, there seems to be a Hitler vs. Stalin concern underpinning political beliefs of many Jews from the U.S. Perhaps, in part, as a legacy of the Holocaust viewed the U.S. during and especially after WWII? The hyper-pathological hate and rage directed at Jews (a race, religion, culture) vs. the worst of pragmatic, Orwellian tyranny of incorrigibles (political, religious, cultural) who are unwilling to assimilate. Freddy Kruger vs. Michael Corleone? ("Don’t be afraid, Carlo. Come on; you think I’d make my sister a widow?")
Hitler was right-wing. The political right is always evil. Politics do not or scarcely evolve. All right-wingers are monsters - they are not human. Therefore, conservatives of any kind are worthy of righteous hatred, including violence. Variants of this, if and when present, may largely be subconscious.
Thank you for writing this.
Watching fellow jews make this argument en masse is making me want to completely give up. It is a blanket nullification of any legitimacy in responding effectively to antisemitism. It is the ultimate self-disempowerment. We are our own worst enemies.
However horrible trump is, doesn’t mean we should condemn everything he does reflexively.
His response to antisemitism on campuses is what everyone should have done! It’s what the democrats should have done if they had any integrity left at all.
The Jewish pushback on this is the death knell for us; we are undermining any future ability to push back on this because we’re reifying the idea that pushing back on antisemitism is not legitimate . Instead of challenging the idea that responding to antisemitism is necessarily right-wing or trumpist; we’re actually supporting this as true.
Office Hours: Inside Wesleyan Faculty for Justice in Palestine
Written by
Lula Konner
Wesleyan Faculty for Justice in Palestine: “60 years ago, 2 powerful student movements (Students for a Democratic Society and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) took shape in the US in the heat of anti-war sentiment. Since that time, we have witnessed student-led movements demanding the end of apartheid in South Africa, labor rights, the movement for Black lives, feminist, queer, and disability justice, and the call for liberation more broadly. Building on the shoulders of 50 years of successful organizing, brave students and academic workers call for an end to the ongoing genocide. With them, we oppose the US-funded and armed Israeli regime of apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism.”
It takes an academic to argue for the destruction of 7.2 million Jewish Israelis while opposing antisemitism. Is this going to be on the exam professor?
https://wesleyanargus.com/2024/05/06/office-hours-inside-wesleyan-faculty-for-justice-in-palestine/
The people this moral nullity defends due to his hatred of Trump would smile thank him then slit his throat.
Great article. My apologies in advance should I insult someone's intelligence, especially with what may be obvious.
I suspect Roth believes, “Trump Is Selling Jews a Dangerous Lie.” Perhaps on inductive grounds, but almost as likely intuitive, there seems to be a Hitler vs. Stalin concern underpinning political beliefs of many Jews from the U.S. Perhaps, in part, as a legacy of the Holocaust viewed the U.S. during and especially after WWII? The hyper-pathological hate and rage directed at Jews (a race, religion, culture) vs. the worst of pragmatic, Orwellian tyranny of incorrigibles (political, religious, cultural) who are unwilling to assimilate. Freddy Kruger vs. Michael Corleone? ("Don’t be afraid, Carlo. Come on; you think I’d make my sister a widow?")
Hitler was right-wing. The political right is always evil. Politics do not or scarcely evolve. All right-wingers are monsters - they are not human. Therefore, conservatives of any kind are worthy of righteous hatred, including violence. Variants of this, if and when present, may largely be subconscious.
Comments and/or criticisms?
So Trump is left wing?
A very belated reply. I missed your comment until now.
Left and right are irrelevant to antisemitism. From JNS and other open sources, TDS appears to be relatively uncommon in Israel.