Jewish Anti-Zionists Are Betraying Jews - And The Intersectional Left

JEWISH GROUP

Once upon a time, anti-Zionist Jews vowed they’d stand up to anti-Semitism within their own ranks on the intersectional left.

That claim is no longer credible. Unless it hits them straight in the face, it’s clear they are either not able or not willing to recognize anti-Semitism, at least when it’s coming from the left to whom they are “allies.”

The latest evidence from this came in the form of a recent fiasco of a Twitter exchange between Glenn Greenwald, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and Batya Ungar-Sargon, this paper’s opinion editor, in which Omar used an anti-Semitic trope.

While I don’t think there is evidence that Omar is an anti-Semite, her immediate association of Jews, money, and control over the levers of social and political power, plus the insinuation of dual loyalty, was recognized by most Jews and across the broader U.S. public as anti-Semitic.

The Jewish anti-Zionist left joined hands with the rest of the intersectional left this week to gaslight the majority of an American Jewish community appalled by Omar’s tweets. They claimed that Omar said nothing anti-Semitic; rather, she bravely criticized Israel and AIPAC. And when the House leadership condemned Rep. Omar’s expression, this was proof to everyone of the Israel lobby’s power; lo and behold the power of AIPAC to bend the U.S. political class to its will.

Then they escalated the tension by falsely claiming that everyone critical of Omar’s tweet is ipso facto anti-Black and anti-Muslim.

In short, anyone appalled by Omar’s tweet was a racist.

It’s become part of a pattern: Accuse a person of color of anti-Semitism, and the hard Jewish anti-Zionist left will join a chorus calling you Islamophobic or racist. The role of the hard anti-Zionist left is a supporting one, to shut up and be good allies to people of color and to Palestinians.

Read more: https://forward.com/opinion/419369/jewish-anti-zionists-are-betraying-jews-and-the-intersectional-left/