Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), took to the floor of the Senate to decry anti-Semitism.
Schumer isn’t an amazing source on this particular topic, given his consistent support of the Middle East policies of the most anti-Semitic president in modern history, Barack Obama. Nonetheless, he spoke about the threat of anti-Semitism. And, in a rare moment of quasi-honesty, he actually mentioned the problem of anti-Semitism among liberals.
“Not long ago, many of us marched together for Black and brown lives,” Schumer said. “We stood against anti-Asian hatred. We protested bigotry against the LGBTQ community. We fought for reproductive justice, out of the recognition that injustice against one oppressed group is injustice against all. But apparently, in the eyes of some, that principle does not extend to the Jewish people.”
“I’m a progressive,” he continued. “I’ve had lots of good relationships with all the people who are protesting, but I also feel the urgency — the Jewish people are anguished. I had an obligation to many places: to the Jewish people, to my fellow progressives.”
Then he said of the “progressives,” “I had to say it, because I don’t think they know it. I don’t think they’re of bad will.”
Note the language there: Sure, they’re anti-Semitic, but they know not what they do. Schumer explained that the phrase “from the river to the sea” was actually just an ignorant expression, not a genocidal one. “Plenty of people,” Schumer said, chant the phrase, “not because they hate Jewish people, but because they support a better future for Palestinians.”
Of course, that’s a lie — and it’s a particularly egregious lie when Schumer himself has had nothing to say about anti-Semites Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
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But that lie must be maintained by the Left — because to recognize the roots of Left-wing anti-Semitism would be to destroy the progressive ideology wholesale. That Leftist ideology is based on a matrix of oppressor versus oppressed — that in any given situation, the powerless are oppressed and the powerful are oppressors. That oppressor-oppressed matrix maps directly onto anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about Jewish power: Jews are pseudo-white because Jews are financially well-off and Israel is disproportionately successful.
But the oppressor-oppressed matrix doesn’t fit the Jews, who are actually being victimized by widespread anti-Semitism in the Middle East and abroad, but who are also successful.
So the Left keeps pushing the lie.
That’s also true of the Anti-Defamation League, which put out a poll yesterday with Hillel International asking college students if Diversity, Equity and Inclusion should cover anti-Jewish prejudice. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is the rubric under which the Left pushes the idea that unequal group outcomes are the result of systemic discrimination — so, by that math, Jews are the beneficiaries of systemic discrimination. DEI simply can’t include Jews because DEI’s basic logic forbids it. DEI opposes meritocracy. It opposes performance. It opposes success.
Nonetheless, 84% of Jewish students and 75% of non-Jewish college students said Jews should be included in DEI training: that Jews should be included in the oppressor-oppressed matrix on the side of the oppressed. Of course they say that — what else, precisely, would they say? The premise of the question is so deeply flawed that only one answer is possible: to say that Jews shouldn’t be included in DEI would be to discriminate against them, which violates the supposed basis of DEI.
But to include Jews explodes the entire DEI superstructure. So these students are saying what they’re expected to say — yes, sure, the Jews can be included in the victim class — without recognizing the central truth of DEI: It is a scam. Victimhood is not connected to one’s level of success. Sometimes the powerless are evil. Sometimes the powerful are good. Sometimes the powerless are victimizers. Sometimes the powerful are the victims.
You can’t fight anti-Semitism with DEI. You can only increase it. The only way to truly fight anti-Semitism is to recognize what the Bible says in Leviticus: “You shall not be partial to the poor, or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.”
But that’s the one thing Chuck Schumer and the ADL will never say.
Instead, people on the Left will pretend that the true anti-Semitism doesn’t lie in the progressive oppressor-oppressed matrix, but in Elon Musk. They’ll target him as an anti-Semite even as he goes to Israel to express solidarity with the families of murdered Jews.
Yesterday, Elon Musk was asked about advertisers canceling because they don’t like his politics. He said, “Don’t advertise. If someone is going to try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f*** yourself. Go f*** yourself. Is that clear?”
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— Joel Berry (@JoelWBerry) November 30, 2023
Good for him.
All the people pushing DEI are the people seeking to boycott Musk are the people seeking to pussyfoot around Hamas’ feelings. The Venn Diagram is a circle.
And that circle is the true threat to Jews in the West.