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Not to our general liking. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place because much of the further left is demanding that we take loyalty oaths to things we cant support like the right is demanding loyalty to oaths to things we can't support. It's dealing with two idiot armies saying that "no, you're the anti-Semite" among themselves while ignoring what actual Jews are saying.

“Hashem, please grant me the confidence of a non-Jew explaining to me what is and isn’t antisemitic”

The left always struggled with anti-Semitism because Jews don't fit into any neat place in their cosmology and also because a lot of the left is anti-Semitic. "Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools" became a saying for a reason. For a lot of the left, anti-Semitism can come across as resistance or even emancipatory because Jews are associated with capitalism and power. Others really don't want to criticize groups they are sympathetic to when they engage in anti-Semitism or want to ignore it if something viewed more important is at stake.

The other big issue is that basically the Pro-Israel and Pro-Palestinian sides are basically occupying completely different factual universes. They can't agree on anything. Most Jews until you get to the extremes edges are going to see the various aliyahs and Zionism as a response to the persecution Jews faced and an attempt at Jewish national liberation. The Prp-Palestinian movement is incapable of understanding why anybody would be sympathetic towards Jews or Israel at all.

Jews are the monkey in the middle as the Right and Left play a game of "No, you're the anti-Semite " between them. There have been many Jews listing our problems with anti-Semitism on the Right and the Left for years since 9/11 but nobody really listens to us on this issue.

"Hashem, please grant me the confidence of a non-Jew explaining to me what is and isn’t antisemitic" has become something of a thing among Jews recently.

For what it's worth, most American Jews do not want Khalil and other people detained and deported because of their political opinions regarding Israel even if we retch and said political opinions and found the Pro-Palestinian protest movements on campus to be a lot less innocent and righteous than they presented themselves at being. Most of us voted for Harris though.

 

 

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