And fighting White Supremacy and racism means simultaneously fighting Antisemitism, which Omar supporters fail to acknowledge. Both are disgusting.https://twitter.com/cerothstein/status/1151844216819068928 …
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Absolutely say no to bigotry/white nationalism. But also to antisemitism - bc no one is going to stand up for us. She gives lip service to including Jews, but her actions speak louder and show the opposite. In the end, I can't support either.
Again, I hear you. And I agree with you on saying no to antisemitism—of course. I think it’s ok if we both approach asking to actively hold non-Jews and Jews alike in how they work against both/all forms of oppression. Antisemitism is so complex. It’s not not most systems of
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oppression bc it’s been created and sustained to use Jews/us as a buffer race/people/demographic for scapegoating and blame throughout history, especially during times of civil unrest like now. So I think one of the ways we approach it is by both calling out and calling in.
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Except when you hashtag that you are standing with Omar, you are giving tacit approval to her repeated anti-Israel and antisemitic behaviors. If I included Stand w/Trump in my tweets, everyone would call me a racist.
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I hear that. I do. And. I am demanding we have more nuance. And willing to accept that people may not know what is behind my Tweet. And that’s a risk I take.
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Conversations like this we start to pull and push and expand our hearts until somehow we all end up living at the intersection of safety and unconditional love. No matter how hard and how long that work takes.
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For me, especially in thinking about how to ensure the safety of Jews of color who are targeted both from outside and within the Jewish community, calling in Omar says: I see what you’re doing for marginalized voices; that includes asking for that work also on behalf of Jews.
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And then what gets extra complicated is that that still means that white Jews, like myself, who have participated in whiteness and benefited from white privileged, to still hold ourselves accountable for ending White Nationalism. It’s so complex! But I think as we have
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