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I don't agree with everything here but these words are very close to my personal beliefs: "Liberalism celebrates certain values: reasonableness, conversation, compassion, tolerance, intellectual humility and optimism. Liberalism is horrified by cruelty." nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opi…
Our current political/chattering classes have all but capitulated to cruelty as a virtue, the age of The Clapback! I refuse to accept it. Dehumanizing our opponents stems from the part of ourselves we must wage war with, every single day. But today it's considered the noble part.
"But the other side is putting babies in cages!" Yeah, for lack of murdering the part of themselves that enjoys dehumanizing the other. You don't fight that by finding someone else to dehumanize, to humiliate, to shame.
I'm not saying don't fight. Lord knows, we have a lot to fight for. But the amount of cruelty specifically people are bringing to this fight, to their own side even, it's not just counterproductive; it becomes impossible to eradicate. And it will always look for a new target.
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I usually ignore Jewish Currents because of its total lack of moral credibility, and I don't have the time or temperament for hate reading. But I have to say something about their editorial about violent attacks against Orthodox Jews.
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Polling from Gallup finds that 95% of American Jews have favorable views of Israel. Anti-Zionist Jews are of course part of our wonderfully diverse community. But they are a tiny minority. Non-Jews should avoid using them as cover to offend the other 95%.

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If you only have room in your movement for the 5% of Jews who don't have a favorable view of Israel, your movement effectively doesn't have room for Jews in it. Something I urge people to keep in mind.
That may be a calculus some people want to make. But a better idea would be to talk to Jews about why Israel is so important to them. You'll find that despite this support, most American Jews object to the same injustices you do.
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