Opinion | Memo To Shaun King From A Black Jew: Stop Dividing Our Communities

tikkunolamorgtfo:

littlegoythings:

Maybe you don’t realize this, but by conflating the criticism of you and Mallory with racism, you are suggesting that Jews who worry about anti-Semitism — most Jews, actually — are somehow racist. That’s not just borderline racist itself. But it erases tons of people like me, Black Jews and other Jews of Color, forcing us to pick a side. You’ve created a false binary that puts Black Jews like me in danger, and isolates us. Either we stand with you, against “Jewish folk,” or we stand with racists.

Nylah Burton is a goddess of the written word.

Support For Women’s March Softens Among Jews Amid Perceived Anti-Semitism

littlegoythings:

“I can’t in good conscience say that I support a movement or feel a part of a movement that clearly does not embrace me back,” Schorr told the Forward.

Schorr’s feelings reflect a broader trend in the relationship between the Women’s March and the Jewish community, which started out on a high note right after President Trump’s election but has since seen some rough spots over perceived anti-Semitism. Now a more organized backlash is forming. Some individuals and groups are speaking out against the march, and an organization has formed to push for change within the march and provide an alternative for disenchanted activists.

The Women’s March could not be reached for comment.

Support For Women’s March Softens Among Jews Amid Perceived Anti-Semitism

tikkunolamorgtfo:

the-spaceboat-enterpipes:

tikkunolamorgtfo:

legally-bitchtastic:

legally-bitchtastic:

In case you are wondering, it’s shit like this that is why Jews have so much trouble feeling safe in liberal places.

For the record, Shaun King is claiming that he is not antisemitic for claiming that Louis Farrakhan isn’t antisemitic. Shaun King is claiming that he knows more about antisemitism than Jewish people and that when Jewish people tell you that you are being antisemitic, it’s correct to throw a fit about how you can’t possibly be antisemitic and refuse to even discuss it. And imply that the Jews should be more grateful to him in the process.

The ironic thing is that King would be the first to criticize someone else for doing this about another ism, but when it comes to antisemitism, he is specifically exempt.

Shaun King Pro-Tip: Absolve yourself of having to listen to Jewish people about what constitutes anti-Semitism by declaring that you are not anti-Semitic by your own standards, which are (recursive loop!) not informed at all by Jewish perceptions/thought.

Not saying Shaun King hates Jews, but he seems willing to ignore Jewish voices. It’s damn frustrating that non-Jews think they get to decide what is and isn’t antisemitism.

Exactly. I don’t think he hates Jewish people. I think he just doesn’t care about us in any way that is meaningful, and is obviously not willing to “fight for us.”

girlactionfigure:

LOUIS FARRAKHAN

Louis Farrakhan heads the Nation of Islam, a group he has led since 1977 and that is based on a somewhat bizarre and fundamentally anti-white theology. Farrakhan is an antisemite who routinely accuses Jews of manipulating the U.S. government and controlling the levers of world power. Read

When Progressives Embrace Hate

By BARI WEISS

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…and this is why I do not trust the Left. It’s clear who they care about and who they don’t. Leftist identity politics will never include us; the Left’s just-so story about skin color and modern European colonialism as the root of all oppression can’t make sense of us. Universalist humanism is the only principle that has ever worked for our liberation along with others’. There would be no “liberatory” politics or philosophy at all without the Enlightenment, whatever you want to say about the specific views on race and gender of Enlightenment thinkers. It’s the ideals of the Enlightenment at the heart of all liberatory and anti-oppression politics, but they haven’t been improved by all the group particularism (I blame Hegel, which is usually a safe move).