{"id":100298,"date":"2022-12-06T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=100298"},"modified":"2022-12-06T15:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T13:43:40","slug":"10-05-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=100298","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Life Is Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Jewish Life Is Cheap<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

ASHLEY RINDSBERG<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Just look at how it\u2019s treated in the media.<\/strong><\/span>
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Jewish tombstones lay vandalized at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia, Feb. 27, 2017MARK MAKELA\/GETTY IMAGES<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ever since Ye declared he\u2019d be going \u201cdeath con 3 on Jewish people,\u201d the media and advocacy groups like the Anti-Defamation League have sought to portray the issue as a battle between free speech and censorship. When Ye fawned over Hitler<\/a> alongside an open Holocaust denier on a talk show hosted by a man successfully sued for calling a school massacre a hoax, it seemed to prove the larger point: Unregulated internet forums (like the ones where Alex Jones made his name) are dangerous, and the best safeguard against antisemitism lies in actively policing them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Free speech of the kind being advocated by people like Twitter\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk, the argument goes on, is a direct threat to Jews. Following Musk\u2019s acquisition of the social media platform,\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0wrote breathlessly that \u201cHate Speech\u2019s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find.<\/a>\u201d Only two groups are named as sources for the research, one is the ADL and the other is British-based, dark-money-funded Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), perhaps best known for providing the White House with data that was then used to pressure Facebook to remove content deemed objectionable. The ADL, meanwhile, has increasingly defined its mission to defend the Jewish people as being synonymous with the Democratic Party\u2019s efforts to eliminate \u201chate\u201d from the internet, while turning a blind eye to it elsewhere. The head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, has repeatedly\u00a0framed the fight against antisemitism<\/a> in recent weeks as hinging on the actions of Elon Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But this tells only half the story. After all, Ye\u2019s narrative of sinister Jewish control did not emerge fully formed from his personal study of historical and theological matters. Rather it\u2019s been building for decades in the same media ecosystem that now proclaims itself guardian against all things racist and the protector of the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ye\u2019s narrative of sinister Jewish control emerged from the same media ecosystem that now proclaims itself protector of the Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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For the past five years, the dominant media narrative about race\u2014perhaps the dominant media narrative, period\u2014has built up a hierarchy of racial justice. At the top are the perennially marginalized \u201cBIPOCs,\u201d victim to the lash of the ever-present colonial whip. At the bottom lurks the \u201cwhite male,\u201d inherently and ineluctably racist, even when (or perhaps\u00a0especially\u00a0<\/em>when) they\u2019re trying hard not to be.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a manner true to our history, Jews have been sucked into this Manichean whirlpool, cast by radical academics and their media acolytes as an essential, almost distilled element of the global system of racial oppression. We are not just white; we are the plotters and financiers of the entire sysyetm of white supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Worse still, if Jews are white then they are not, well, Jews. The largely successful effort to assign Jews to the white race means Jews do not have the moral privilege of determining our own identity. The perverse result of dispossessing Jews of their own history is that it grants the mantle of Jewishness to our enemies. Thus Ye, in the same Twitter thread where he threatened to go \u201cdeath con 3\u201d on Jews, also claimed: \u201cI actually can\u2019t be antisemitic because Black people are actually Jew also.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When Whoopi Goldberg asserted on\u00a0The View<\/em>\u00a0that the \u201cHolocaust was not about race,\u201d she was advancing a version of the same arguments made by virulent Black Hebrew Israelite hate preachers, professors who insist on the indelible whiteness of Jews, and anti-Zionists who deny the legitimacy of Jewish historical identity. It\u2019s true that only the last two groups tend to have their ideas promoted by the media, but all three share the idea that \u201cJew\u201d is not a meaningful or legitimate category. Palestinians can be Jews\u2014thus the Democratic political activist and Louis Farrakhan fan Linda Sarsour is invited to participate as an expert in a\u00a0prominent panel<\/a> on antisemitism. And by the same logic, Black Hebrews can be Jews. Ye can be a Jew. Only Jews are not allowed to be Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Over and over, Jews have watched this trend play out, and largely we\u2019ve been silent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a key scene in the 2014 Oscar-nominated\u00a0Selma<\/em>, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads a group of activists and protesters across a bridge alongside Black civil rights leaders. Not pictured in the scene was a man\u00a0who walked in that front line of protesters<\/a>, fighting for civil rights: the great American Jewish rabbi and leader Abraham Joshua Heschel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Why would Ava Duvernay, the film\u2019s director, compromise the film\u2019s historical integrity to erase one of America\u2019s most prominent Jewish spiritual figures out of the image? The answer is that over the past decade, the anti-racist movement that has been the media\u2019s single most championed social cause has turned a syllogism into a truism: Whites are by definition white supremacists; Jews are the whitest of whites because they falsely hide behind their fake ethnicity; Jews, therefore, are at the top of the white supremacy totem.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The media has actively spread these ideas by turning woke racialism into the defining moral cause of our time, while at the same time ignoring the consequences of this campaign. While Ye was \u201ccanceled\u201d for making open threats and affirming his love for Hitler, little more than a week earlier hundreds of Black Hebrew Israelites marched through central Brooklyn, uniformed and in formation, chanting \u201cwe are the real Jews.\u201d Save for some\u00a0coverage<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>\u00a0and in\u00a0Tablet\u2019s daily newsletter, The Scroll<\/a>, the rest of the media was virtually silent. The media is still talking about the alt-right\u2019s 2017 hate march in Charlottesville, treating it as one of the defining events of the modern era, but when hundreds of virulent antisemites march in Brooklyn\u2014the mecca of America\u2019s media establishment\u2014it was crickets. The silence was appalling but also unsurprising given that the same media has\u00a0largely ignored the routine violent attacks against religious Jews<\/a>\u00a0in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The media has turned woke racialism into the defining moral cause of our time while ignoring the consequences of this campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Ilhan Omar tweeted in 2019 that Jewish money swayed Congress to support Israeli policies\u2014only weeks before claiming American Jews harbor dual allegiance\u2014the media response was hedged. Ilhan Omar \u201cwas widely accused of antisemitism,\u201d <\/span>NPR<\/a>\u00a0wrote, working hard not to claim Omar\u2019s comments were in fact antisemitic. CBS News\u00a0<\/span>noted<\/a> that it was not the first time Omar \u201chas been attacked,\u201d positioning Omar, incredibly, as victim rather than aggressor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0worked this idea of dual Jewish allegiance into a 2021 news article by Catie Edmonson that\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u2014without any source to substantiate it\u2014that unnamed \u201crabbis\u201d had influenced Congress\u2019 decision to fund Iron Dome, a missile-defense system that has saved countless lives in Israel. The media appeared to further boost the narrative that Iron Dome is a tool of Israeli injustice when it ran\u00a0dozens<\/a>\u00a0of<\/a>\u00a0headlines<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0AOC openly weeping<\/a> after the vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In a\u00a0profile<\/a>\u00a0of Alice Walker last spring, the\u00a0Times<\/em>\u00a0offered sympathetic treatment to\u00a0The Color Purple<\/em>\u00a0author despite the fact that she has spread vile antisemitic tropes, including writing a poem that asks \u201cAre Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews, and not only \/ That, but to enjoy it?\u201d The\u00a0Times<\/em>, which previously ran a\u00a0conversation<\/a> between Walker and Cheryl Strayed that made no mention of Walker\u2019s Jew hatred, characterized this noted antisemite as \u201ccomplex.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By far, the most effective tool in the demonization of Jews has been the use of Israel and Zionism as a means to hide what would otherwise be recognized as pure ethnic bigotry under the cloak of social justice. Casting Israel as the world\u2019s last settler colonial state allows antisemites to call Jews colonialists. And casting Jews as colonialists has allowed them to call Israel a colonial movement. It has also underlined the idea that Jews are the most villainous sect on the hierarchy of white supremacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But by this tail-swallowing logic, the mere existence of Israel constitutes a crime. If Jews are not a real category with a legitimate identity, then why would they ever have a state, given that other people are there, too? And if the state is mired in the original sin of apartheid, how can any Jews support it without upholding white supremacy?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As a\u00a0PLO political cartoon<\/a> so neatly illustrates, the Palestinian national movement has not been slow to capitalize on the opportunity to conflate Jews with whites and Palestinians with American Blacks: An American police officer kneeling on the neck of an African American man is joined by an Israeli soldier kneeling on the neck of a Palestinian.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This paradox is resolved by a narrative of control. \u201cThree hundred Zionists<\/a>\u201d (by Ye\u2019s reckoning) run Hollywood, media, and finance to keep the gentiles in thrall. And through its silence, its endless attacks on Israel, its complicity in demonizing Israel and treating the word \u201cZionism\u201d as an epithet, the media not only accepts but advances this heinous narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Blaming the normalization of antisemitism on Elon Musk or on the internet\u2019s \u201cdangerous\u201d tolerance of unregulated speech shifts attention from the way many Jews are regularly treated by the media, their neighbors, their college classmates, and law enforcement. As calls now come from the ADL and establishment figures that Jews should trust them to censor the problem away\u2014that our very lives depend on it!\u2014Jews understand that the real problem has been censored all along.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ashley Rindsberg<\/strong> is the author of\u00a0The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times\u2019s Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(2021).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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