Thread by @PsychRabble

When Bret Stephens, a NYT Opinion writer, expresses more sense and insight on prejudice than I have seen throughout all of Academia: A thread of quotes from:
nytimes.com/2021/05/24/opi…

"In recent years it has become an article of faith on the progressive left that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism and that it’s slander to assume that someone who hates Israel also hates Jews.

Not everyone got the memo."

"Not the people who, waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Death to Jews,” according to a witness, assaulted Jewish diners at a Los Angeles sushi restaurant. Not the people who threw fireworks in New York’s diamond district."

"Not the people who brutally beat up a man wearing a yarmulke in Times Square. Not the people who drove through London slurring Jews and yelling, “Rape their daughters.”

"Also not getting the memo are the people who have tweeted the hashtag #HitlerWasRight (including someone who now works for the BBC)"

"Apparently, these hashtags count as legitimate political speech at Twitter, a company whose objections to bigotry are otherwise so strong that it once banned a Canadian feminist for the sin of tweeting remarks about" (CENSORED: I DO NOT WANT TO GET BANNED BY TW FOR QUOTING NYT).

"if there’s been a massive online campaign of progressive allyship with Jews, I’ve missed it. If corporate executives have sent out workplace memos expressing concern for the safety of Jewish employees, I’ve missed it."

"If academic associations have issued public letters denouncing the use of anti-Semitic tropes by pro-Palestinian activists, I’ve missed them. It’s a curious silence. In the land of inclusiveness, Jews are denied inclusion."

"It is especially despicable when Israel is singled out in ways that apply to no other country...when was the last time you heard of a...call for boycotts&divestment in response to Turkey’s 47-year occupation of northern Cyprus..."

"This ought to be whistling loudly in the ears of progressives who claim to be horrified by every form of prejudice. Instead, they have indulged an anti-Israel movement that keeps descending into the crudest forms of anti-Semitism."

"Progressives will have to come to their own reckoning about what to do about the burgeoning anti-Semitism in their midst. As for Jews, they should take the events of the last few days less as an outrage than as an omen."
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