"Instead of growing, learning, living, enjoying and furthering Jewish individual and national life, our raison d'etre and collective consciousness these days is: "Keep them at bay!" We are less Jews than we are anti-anti-Semites" (Sound familiar, my fellow 2019ers?)
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We should be focusing on virtue and being our best self, rather than begging for approval.pic.twitter.com/uVUHtYCjcX
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"Just how long are you prepared to stand there and "reason" with a man as he slams his fist into your gut over and over again? How long will you kneel and appeal to him while he keeps ramming his boot into your supplicant face? A day? A week? A year? THREE THOUSAND YEARS?"
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"You combat anti-Semitism by promoting that which the anti-Semite wants to crush: Jewish vitality. Affirmation, not negativity, is the way to fight, the way to win...Let them rant. YOU BUILD. This is the essence of Zionism." (And of
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Anti-Anti-Semitism is a terrible example for this principle though? Seeing as it has been *spectacularly* effective in the US?
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I had a friend who grew up in a town so small that not only had she never met a Jew, but as a child she had assumed *all the Jews were dead*. But nonetheless she didn’t grow up hearing any anti-Semitism. That’s how effectively the US has tabooed it.
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I think Jewish culture is great. But Sartre, an atheist non-Jew, in his “Anti-Semite And Jew”, believed that there’s no value in Jewish culture — but there’s tremendous *harm*, for Jews and Gentiles alike, in anti-Semitism. I think this perspective was influential!
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Zionism is demonstrably effective. But *liberalism was too.* Jewish emancipation happened before there were any Zionists! “Universal appeals against bigotry never work” is totally untrue!
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Liberalism done right: “Am I not a man and a brother?” Conveying, to people who *don’t yet know*, that real cruelty/injustice is being done to human beings, and you wouldn’t like that treatment if you were in their place. This can actually work.
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It doesn’t work if the audience thinks “yeah, it’s cruel, but they deserve it” or “they’re whining about trivialities”. But a down-to-earth person credibly expressing that her situation sucks, to observers who had no idea? That can be powerful.
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(My go-to contemporary example is Mel Baggs, who assembled a ton of evidence that disabled people are literally murdered and literally tortured, in appreciable numbers, even today. That motivated me to donate to an organization that lobbies to stop it.)
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Older examples are like Frederick Douglass and Elie Wiesel. “Bearing witness” by honestly informing the world what happened to you, can actually work at moving bystanders to do something about an injustice.
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