
Please explain how to criticize anything a rich Jewish person does without being antisemitic? Like it is possible? |
It’s the “Holy Land” which people disproportionately care about. People are more informed about Jews and Israel because the Holocaust was a European history thing that everyone knows about and everyone also knows about the subsequent creation of Israel. There are explanations for disproportionate interest that are not anti-Semitism. |
Thanks for this. I have had GenZ tell me Israel is guilty of genocide, and they clearly have no idea what the definition of genocide is. Civilian deaths during wars are not genocide. They are awful and tragic, but that’s not genocide. And we have killed far, far more people post 9/11. Guess the YouTube history lessons don’t include that. |
really dont think gen z are so fired up bc of concern for 'holy land' they are fired up bc they are falling for the same trope that lead to the holocaust. Assumption that jews are rich and powerful and crushing the poor man. I am NOT saying that no one should call for a ceasefire or have sympathy for the poor palestinians. We should. But so much of the rhetoric around occupation and apartheid and civilian deaths etc is outrage that you would NOT see directed at any given african country slaughtering a racial cohort in a neighboring african country en masse. |
No one has to personally feel a personal connection right now to the Holy Land to unconsciously reflect the historical preconception with that region that three major world religions collectively having for like half the world’s population in adherents share. |
I just don’t find this compelling. People don’t care about Africa… and that’s racist. People do care about Palestine… and that’s also racist. Um okay. |
People are pretty fired up about Ukraine too. That was apparently also racist. Why don’t we care about Syria?! No one is apparently allowed to be outraged unless it’s evenly distributed among current events. |
Yes all those poor Ivy League students concerned about crushing the poor man. I have read a few articles that talk about the decline of Jews at Ivy League schools. Where it was 25-40% depending on the school it is now 8-20%. This is apparently a big issue with the same people who are yelling anti-semitism at anyone who express sympathy for the Palestinians. They want to increase Jewish presence back to its historic(late ‘60’s through 2000’s). This is a way to put pressure on the presidents of the schools to increase Jewish enrollment. |
You talk about YouTube. I made the terrible mistake of watching the Hamas GoPro footage that they shared on social media. I have seen Hamas behead innocent people with shovels. I have seen them murder children. I have seen piles and piles of mutilated young people Go ahead and read the BBC article about the rape victims. None lived of course All you Hamas supporters are vile people. |
There’s no box to check for religion and also WTF. Affirmative action, thank goodness, is gone. I never want to spend time thinking about the demographics of the Ivy League again. |
While you were at grad school taking historiography classes, did you learn how to write lot of instead of “lotta” and how actually that’s not the word you use when you are mentioning the many classes you took. |
Go ahead and watch the videos coming out of Gaza of children covered in white phosphorus and babies left to die in hospitals. Two can play this game. In your view only one side deserves the sympathy. In my view any loss of innocent life is wrong and so far in this country, a Palestinian child has been murdered and three Palestinians boys were brutally shot at. So tell me are you not concerned about the anti Palestinians rhetoric that is causing people to commit such heinous crimes or does your humanity start and end with Israel and are you ONLY concerned with anti semitism? |
Nah.. I don't drink, but my autocorrect seems to. Are you a Trumpie? |
+1 I was embarrassed and frankly shocked that three women--well educated, supposedly savvy and bright academic leaders-- were clearly trying their best to avoid giving a direct response. It was a disgusting display of "dodge ball." If one were to substitute Black or any other minority group for Jewish, I have no doubt that they would have responded differently in a heartbeat. |
We got the Penn woman fired. Harvard next. Never again means never again. |