Thread by @cindyfsolomon

@adam_louis52328 To encompass today’s anti-Israel Jewish progressives who actively join pro-Palestinian protests, the framework must be expanded. This group represents a highly active, modernized evolution of the Assimilator impulse, characterized by three distinct dynamics:

@adam_louis52328 1. Unlike historical assimilators, modern progressive anti-Zionists loudly assert their Jewish identity ("As a Jew..."). They use their heritage as an active political shield to validate anti-Israel movements and insulate those movements from accusations of antisemitism.

@adam_louis52328 They internalize an outside political orthodoxy (intersectional progressivism) & reframe it as a "core Jewish value" or "moral imperative." They argue that standing for Palestine is the fulfillment of Jewish ethics, subordinating Jewish national survival to a universalist cause.

@adam_louis52328 Their stance creates a stark, fact-based paradox. These activists loudly proclaim their Jewish identity in solidarity with a movement and a leadership (the Palestinian national movement) that fundamentally rejects the right of a Jewish state to exist.

@adam_louis52328 They extend uncritical moral grace to a platform that refuses to acknowledge Israel, mirroring the exact trap of the early assimilators: adopting the morality of a culture that ultimately does not accommodate their own existence.

@adam_louis52328 Current protesters can be understood not as a new phenomenon, but as active assimilators. They have internalized the dominant anti-Zionist narratives of their contemporary political peers and attempt to convert the negation of Jewish statehood into a moral obligation

@adam_louis52328 Modern anti-Israel Jewish progressives are new wave "assimilators," who project naive idealism and pathological altruism onto a movement that rejects Jewish statehood. They engage in an empathetic self-abnegation that historically ends in the erasure of their own community.