Guno צְבִי
We fight, We win
Our coming together also shows each other and the world that we are not paralyzed. In our donations and advocacy, in our numbers, we show strength.
We want the institutions entrusted to educate our children and grandchildren to reflect our values, and if they don’t, we want to make our objections known.
The awakening is rooted in the antisemitism we are feeling, antisemitism that seems both more widespread and more virulent than we had realized.
Uniformly bad, antisemitism is not uniform in expression. In these past few weeks, we see three main strains.
The first was in the attack itself: The antisemitic murder of more than 1,400 Jews — religious ones and non-religious ones, Zionist ones and non-Zionist ones, Jews for judicial overhaul and those against it. Jews who were murdered because they were Jews.
The second is made up of physical and verbal thuggery — the graffiti-scrawling, slur-making, social media-posting, punch-throwing sort of hatred that makes no distinction between Jews and Zionists. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism sums this form up succinctly: “Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism directed toward” Jews and “Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
We have seen a surge in this form of antisemitism, especially on college campuses, since Oct. 7 — an anti-Israel sentiment aimed at intimidating all Jews with the threat of verbal and physical confrontation.
The third kind of antisemitism is what Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 1903 named “higher antisemitism.” It is less violent but more nefarious, and seeks to deny Jews the right to self-defense and self-determination.
It is the stinging recognition of this third kind of antisemitism that has shaken American Jewry to its core and awoken it from its slumber. Jews are feeling the moral whiplash of watching Jews be murdered and then being blamed for those murders.
Amid all the justifications, moral equivalencies, “yeah buts,” and whataboutisms of these past few weeks, an unnerving realization has set in for many American Jews: We are not as secure on these shores as we thought we were.
https://forward.com/opinion/568018/...=email&utm_term=0_-878b15fee9-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]
We want the institutions entrusted to educate our children and grandchildren to reflect our values, and if they don’t, we want to make our objections known.
The awakening is rooted in the antisemitism we are feeling, antisemitism that seems both more widespread and more virulent than we had realized.
Uniformly bad, antisemitism is not uniform in expression. In these past few weeks, we see three main strains.
The first was in the attack itself: The antisemitic murder of more than 1,400 Jews — religious ones and non-religious ones, Zionist ones and non-Zionist ones, Jews for judicial overhaul and those against it. Jews who were murdered because they were Jews.
The second is made up of physical and verbal thuggery — the graffiti-scrawling, slur-making, social media-posting, punch-throwing sort of hatred that makes no distinction between Jews and Zionists. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism sums this form up succinctly: “Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism directed toward” Jews and “Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
We have seen a surge in this form of antisemitism, especially on college campuses, since Oct. 7 — an anti-Israel sentiment aimed at intimidating all Jews with the threat of verbal and physical confrontation.
The third kind of antisemitism is what Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary, in 1903 named “higher antisemitism.” It is less violent but more nefarious, and seeks to deny Jews the right to self-defense and self-determination.
It is the stinging recognition of this third kind of antisemitism that has shaken American Jewry to its core and awoken it from its slumber. Jews are feeling the moral whiplash of watching Jews be murdered and then being blamed for those murders.
Amid all the justifications, moral equivalencies, “yeah buts,” and whataboutisms of these past few weeks, an unnerving realization has set in for many American Jews: We are not as secure on these shores as we thought we were.
https://forward.com/opinion/568018/...=email&utm_term=0_-878b15fee9-[LIST_EMAIL_ID]
