There is something stomach churning in watching a Jewish person hand over one more pound of flesh, buckling under the pressure to sell out his people as the price of ever temporary “acceptance”.
Like in Kafka’s metamorphosis (a story only a Jew could write) Jews, who grew up to believe that being Jewish is fun, prestigious and easy, woke up one morning to discover they have been transformed in the eyes of their peers into a giant repulsive insect (otherwise known as shrill cries of “you’re genocidal baby killers”).
I understand why Jews who have lost the muscle memory of the Jewish condition buckle under the incentive structure that raises steeply the price of standing with your people and rewards selling them out, but it is still sickening to watch.
As a result of violent attacks against three visibly Jewish Pitt students and a eruption of antisemitism in our city, leadership at the University of Pittsburgh asked me to co-chair a working group on antisemitism. It was an honor to be asked, but this is not work I want to do. I'd rather be out building bridges.
After this announcement, our local Antifa chapter started attacking me on social media. Cowards also left vile antisemitic hatred on the steps of my house.
My 10-year old daughter and 7-year old son found this washer. My daughter picked it up and then told her little brother to run inside because, "It's not safe to play outside." This all happened last month.
I live steps away from Tree of Life.
The Pittsburgh Police and university police detectives are all working on this.
I'm deeply concerned about the rhetoric I see here among colleagues - even among professors I thought knew better. I respect your freedom of speech, but when you employ vitriol and blood libelous language to talk about Israel, Zionism, "Zionists," and the Jewish community, you normalize this kind of hatred.
You have become the face of the new antisemitism.
I'm not scared of these cowards--and you should not be either. But I thought it is important that you are aware of the depths of this hatred. They will not stop our work.
The algorithmic amplification of antisemitism on social media has led to a surge in antisemitic sentiments among the youngest Americans.
The difference between AntiZionism and Antisemitism exists solely on paper. In the real world, the two have become inextricably intertwined and reciprocally reinforcing.
Jews visibly existing in the same space as Arabs is not "provocation."
Outside of whatever bigoted bubble you live in, Jews and Arabs are capable of coexisting.
A fascinating bit of research for a journalist that wants a fresh look at antisemitism and the effects of policing...
In 2018/19 there was a wave of antisemitic violence against the chasidic communities in the New York area.
Jewish faces were smashed with paving stones. Men were strangled and brutalized on the streets on their way to shul. Strollers with babies were kicked.
It culminated with the murder of five people in two violent attacks over the course of December 2019.
In 2021 I made this beat and sent it to a friend of mine. They told me it sucked. In 2024 it’s in a Rolling Stone article. People’s opinions of your art doesn’t matter.
Indeed. Jews have always been hated.
That’s why people will gleefully perpetuate all manner of dehumanising lies about the Jewish people.
Jews have always also been grossly outnumbered. That’s why these lies are so widely disseminated and believed.