Just got off the phone with a young professional in the Bay Area who broke down sobbing about the amount of vitriolic antisemitism coming from his colleagues. It was striking to hear a grown man cry, but my main takeaway was that the worst part is the gaslighting--
the insistence that no, this isn't racism, this is antiracism. This is speaking truth to power. It's subversive in an essential way--such that any pushback only reinforces the righteousness of the cause. Second is the abject dehuminization of anyone cursed enough to bear the 2/x
title of "Zionist," a term now worse, in popular discourse, than "racist," or "capitalist," or most any other terms one can think of. To support the existence of a Jewish state in some portion of the land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It's a belief 3/x
shared by most American Jews and their parents, grandparents, uncles, nieces, nephews, and children. It's simply a feeling that it is, well, a good thing for Israel to exist. Even passive support for the existence of a Jewish state
Has become grounds for the most heinous accusations, that you are literally a Nazi, that you not only support genocide but are complicit in it. So yeah, one can understand why this could make someone cry.
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