(Jewish Group) Why The New York Times Got the Fight Against anti-Semitism in America Wrong

[Behind the Aegis]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

Jonathan Weisman compares the reluctance of U.S. Jews to speak out against the hate crime to the European failure to prevent the Final Solution, which is wrong on many levels

---snip---

Weisman’s article echoes the theme of his book that hits stores this week – “(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump” – which is billed as “taking to task the Jewish community in the United States for a single-minded obsession with Israel that blinded it to the threat inside its borders.”

I don’t know precisely what American-Jewish community Weisman is describing, but his generalizations bear little resemblance to the one I’ve been reporting on. It is certainly true that anti-Semitism has surged during the rise of Donald Trump. But the American Jews I’ve watched have been anything but sheeplike in their response.

The ADL’s press releases that flood reporters’ inboxes and their hyperactive Twitter feeds don’t reflect a group that has trouble asserting itself, or one that lacks support from mainstream Jewish organizations and many individual American Jews.

---snip---

It would be more helpful for American Jews to remove partisan blinders and improve their ability to see and denounce anti-Semites regardless of ideological or political orientation – recognizing that disturbing hatred of Jews exists in both mild and extreme forms on both sides of the partisan divide.

more...

----------------

BOOM goes the dynamite! Awesome! This was a response to the piece I posted yesterday, Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren't American Jews Speaking Up?. She NAILS it, including taking on the idea that anti-Semitism is not just right or left!