I don't think we're gonna find agreement on this. In college, I tried to object to the use of swastikas in rallies 1/
So while I agree with, and appreciate, the fact that there are disgusting attacks against good-faith activists that use 11/
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anti-Semitism to shut down legitimate criticism, we should be as critical of things that look anti-Jewish as we are 12/
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of things that look anti-black, anti-muslim, anti-gay, etc. We're all in this together, and American Jews should not 13/
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feel out of place on the left, given their politics. We can do better. 14/14
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It's possible to believe Israel's creation in 1948 was wrong & to understand the reasons many thought it was important.
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Yep. Understanding is important (too often not the case on the left -- "Jewish is not a race" a common refrain)
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I think of it as a religion, & the people who tell me it *is* a race on Twitter seem to be anti-Semites who want to otherize Jews.
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It's a religious minority, absolutely, but also w/ a long cultural background that allowed Hitler to target non-religious Jews
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I don't think anything "allowed" Hitler to do what he did but take your point re cultural history.
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