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 […]

Long History of Jewish Self-Loathing

As a long-time Zionist, I was exposed years ago to Jews who seem to think Zionists are evil incarnate. I have resisted using the term, self-loathing, to describe these members of the tribe. Guess I just don’t like to think about people hating themselves. Jewish self-hatred has not attracted an enormous amount of attention among […]

Toward the Making of Self-Hating Jews

Self-hating Jews, I think, deplore the reflection of themselves that they see mirrored in the eyes of the non-Jewish world; this determines how they experience their own Jewishness. Non-Jewish societies have, for centuries, found reason to hate and criticize us Jews and we seem to buy into it each time anew. In ancient times, some […]

Once a Jew Always a Jew – Jewish Self-Hate

Ryan Bellerose, Meti Canadian, put on a kippa for a week and saw what it is like to walk around town as if he was an easily identifiable Jew. In contrast, I left Toronto in 1970 to go to university in Ottawa, leaving my Jewish neighbourhood behind and seeing myself as a citizen of the […]

Proud to be an Israeli and a Jew

Do I not have the right to be a proud Jew in my own land: standing tall and looking at the world at eye-level? Is shaming and excommunication from the community of “civilized” nations of the world the price of my unwillingness to contribute to my own demise (for example in last summer’s war against […]