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Weiss, however, does seem to be surprised (all further quotes from her Tablet piece): Remember, one hallmark of the “progressive” Democrats is their unstinting celebration of all things Palestinian and the demonization of all things Israeli and Jewish. It wouldn’t do, after all, to have anybody on “The Squad” celebrate anything to do with Israel. It’s not a shocker to me, though (indeed, AOC’s acceptance was a shocker), for you don’t have to be a genius to see the anti-Semitism of all members of “The Squad.” And if the Squad really heralds a new “progressivism” among Democrats, so the American Left will move further towards dislike of and disdain for Jews, aligning itself with Palestine, a territory that rejects every ideal of democracy and humanism.Īs Roger Cohen pointed out in the New York Times, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had initially agreed to participate in a virtual memorial on October 20 to Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who, 25 years ago on November 4, was killed by an assassin who deplored Rabin’s desire to compromise with the Palestinians and Rabin’s peace initiative with Yasser Arafat. Weiss begins with what she considers a shocker: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s acceptance and then withdrawal from a memorial event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated for trying to make peace with Palestine. After all, even the British Left, or at least the Labour Party, pulled back from the anti-Semitism that nearly wrecked it. It may be too late to fix it, but her article is a game try. Yet as Arabs reconcile with Israel (a result that the Palestinian and many NGOs can’t abide), the Left grows more hostile towards the Jews. The result, as Weiss foresees, is a rising tide of anti-Semitism on the Left, not just in America but throughout the West (the Middle East through India is already largely anti-Semitic, though Arab states are beginning to make their own peace with Israel). Click on the screenshot to see it.Īs I noted, her article deals with two interrelated issues: Wokeness as anti-liberalism, and the infection of the Left by a brand of Wokeness that is anti-Semitic. You should read her article, whether or not you agree with it. I won’t quote Weiss in extenso, for there’s simply too much that is quoteworthy. And so is the BDS movement, which from the outset has opposed Israel’s right to exist.īut I digress. So are calls for a “one-state solution”, which, as everyone knows, constitute a recipe for a bloodbath in the Middle East. Neither Weiss nor I are gung-ho fans of the Netanyahu government, but Israel is a country duly recognized by the United Nations, and anti-Zionism is, pure and simple, a denial of Israel’s right to exist. I happen to agree with her, and feel, as she does, that the “anti-Zionist” trope that passes for the Left’s criticism of Israel is actually thinly disguised anti-Semitism. This much most of us know, but she collects a lot of evidence of anti-Semitism among the Woke, something that many prefer to ignore. I say it’s a must-read because it does a superb job of exposing the anti-Semitism at the heart of Wokeness, while decrying the aims of that movement (if it is a movement) as anti-liberal.
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Weiss’s new Tablet piece is long but very good. Still, the NYT needs someone like Weiss-a liberal critical of what’s happening to liberalism-yet they’ve simply replaced her with a garden variety anti-Zionist.
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It’s also a Jewish venue, and Bari Weiss is much concerned with anti-Semitism, the topic of her most recent book. It broke the news of Jonah Lehrer’s plagiarism, leading to his resignation from The New Yorker and semi-permanent disgrace, it found out that Jewish lesbians were expelled from Chicago’s Dyke March, and it exposed the anti-Semitism rife among the leaders of the Women’s March, leading to the fracturing of that movement. While Tablet may seem a comedown from the New York Times-where she was hectored by her colleagues so relentlessly that she left- Tablet has had some good stuff, including scoops. I’m not sure whether Bari Weiss has a new, permanent gig at Tablet Magazine, but her latest big article is there (see below).