Anti-Zionist Jews And Anti-Palestinian Arabs!
We know there are anti-Zionist Jews. Are there anti-Palestinian Arabs? If there are, are the two groups comparable? To be anti-Zionist means to believe that Israel has no right to exist; that Jews have no right to a sovereign state of their own. To be anti-Palestinian means to believe, not only that a state of […]
Leftist Jews, Part II: White Privilege
In Part I of this two-part series, I discussed how leftist Jews, who often act in ways that are detrimental to Israel, are more like Uncle Toms than self-hating Jews or the kapos to which they have sometimes been compared. Uncle Tomism means that you put yourself down and obsequiously behave as you feel the […]
Leftist Jews — Part I: Jewish Uncle Toms
Credit for inspiration for this two-part piece goes to both Diane Weber Bederman and to Sarah Tuttle-Singer. Diane wrote that J Street Jews (and I suppose others like them) can most accurately be understood as Jewish Uncle Toms. Sarah wrote about privilege. In Part I, I will expand upon Weber Bederman’s application of the term […]