Discussion: How Anti-Semitism in Modern America Could Fuel Cross-Racial Unity

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Jews, the majority of whom are white

Since when? For as long as I and my family can remember, we’ve been treated and defined as Asian. Similarly, how have Jews been showing a lack of unity? We’re still there on the causes, even while the other groups have been consistently antisemitic.

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There are people on this planet that need to hate. Tribal, ethnic, religious, whatever makes someone ‘other’ is enough to get their hate on. I don’t see a real solution.

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… in the United States the age of quotas for Jews at universities,
restrictive housing covenants for them and job ads that explicitly
prohibit them from applying are simply a part of history.

Uhm, you may want to get out more.

The age of quotas for Jews at universities, restrictive housing covenants for them, etc. … has long ended in Europe as well. Just as in the US institutionalized antisemitism is not the problem, but biases and stereotypes persist, as well as baseless blaming of European Jews for Israel’s policies. It is these kind of resentments that are exploited by extremists on both side of the Atlantic.

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Asian, seriously? My grandfather has always explained his lack of antisemitism with the simple observation, “Well, they are white.” Sometimes followed with the additional qualifier, “… and they showed that they can fight in Israel.”

Unfortunately, he was a social Darwinist to the core.

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Great article. The Jewish people (Many or the educated majority) understand as JFK and MLK did, “When the rights of one man are diminished, the rights of all men are diminished.” They also learned from history after they got hoodwinked by Germany’s conservative party that they helped elect, which then turned on them scapegoating them for all the ills of Germany. We know the rest of that shameful history.

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I have to call BS on the antisemitism charges at UCLA. The concern of the student council members was because the candidate was a member of Hillel, which blindly supports the Israeli government & the Occupation. What they did was anti-apartheid & anti-Occupation. A blind hatred or fear of Jews had nothing to do with it.

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Good point. Much of the perceived anti-semitism is more likely opposition to Israeli policy which has become untenable in many of its aspects. Bombing Iran is not an answer. Enough is enough.

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Actually, you can make a good case that Jews and Arabs, and Persians and Turks, are in fact West Asians as opposed to caucasians. Certainly the linguistics, foods and customs are far closer to South Asians such as Indians and Pakistanis than they are to Europeans.

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An extreme–really extreme–example of making lemonade.

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“…communities…”

Actually, we’re all Heidelbergensis’s.

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Agree. These pollyannaish stories are just so – well, pollyannaish and naively kumbaya.

I’d like to believe it, but it ain’t gonna happen. If anything it might get worse.

Wars, big, small, local, national and international create and leave millions with hatreds and scores to settle. Recall what happened after Tito of Yugoslavia died? Much of the killing and genocides had their origins going way back to WW1 and WW2. That’s just one example that comes to mind.

When I was a teenager,I heard Catholics refer to Jews as “them Christ-killers” – a mere 500 years after the Spanish Inquisition.

Our race hatreds in this country have their roots in our post Civil War days – yes, way back then. Today, they’re fueled by the immigration of the poor, huddled masses coming to our shores many of whom are non-Christian and non-white.

So, dream on folks, and keep pumping out these Little Miss Sunshine stories.

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Thank you. That’s absolutely right. The reaction was a perfect example of reflexive Left support for the Palestinian cause rather than anti-semitism per se. As far back as the '60’s during my own radical leftie days, it was always "Brown good, White bad, and everything was squeezed into that simple trope.

There’s a lot to criticize in Israel’s recent policies, but on campus there’s no brooking support for Israel, regardless of any argument. A muslim could be part of the “I’m A Muslim And We Hate Jews” campus group, and be elected to student council without any problem. Not so, apparently, with Jewish institutions.

Regardless, I, too, saw it as anti-Israel not anti-semitic.

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Are you claiming that participation in Jewish religious life means that somebody can’t be objective on stuff that has nothing to do with Israel? How, exactly, is this not right out of the Dreyfus Affair?