Letters to the Editor
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Right-wing Jews breed anti semitism
[Read the article: Taking back the debate over Israel]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks again Gary for publicizing this. It's about time for progressive Jews to speak out against right-wingers.
On a separate point, Jewish exceptionalism and warmongering have bred a virulent anti-semitism in the US. From a non-Jew's perspective, it's is a self-defeating cycle that seems part of Jewish identity: you position yourselves as different and better, you exclude others, you are hated by others for that, you exclude more, you're hated more, etc. The Abe Foxman style anti-semitic paranoia actually seems to create anti-semitism.
I'm open to discussion here. We need to open the discussion and get through these conflicts. Bottom line: the mother of all division is thinking you're inherently better than someone else. This drove the genocide of Rwanda, and the Holocaust, and other genocides. From an outisder's perspective, until Jews denounce as a community that they are inherently special or diffeent than others, they will be the targets of quite human and commonsensical disdain.