Everybody Hates the Jews – by Bari Weiss – Common Sense with Bari Weiss
The far right says Jews aren t white enough that they appear to be white, but are, in fact, loyal to the people who are sullying the real America. This was certainly the motivation of the white supremacist who walked into Tree of Life and massacred 11 Jews. Meanwhile, the left says the opposite. It says we Jews are too white to be oppressed. It says, indeed, that we are the exemplars of white privilege, capable, as we are, of changing our Lifshitzes into Laurens and passing. And to make matters worse, Jews support Israel, which, they insist, is not Jews indigenous homeland but the last bastion of white colonialism in the Middle East.
In this way, Jews are being successfully transformed into neo-Nazis in the public imagination at the very moment that we are being targeted by actual neo-Nazis.
But unlike the alt-right, whose hatred is unabashed and familiar to a people who survived Hitler, those who promote this big lie the lie of the Jew as the white man and the uber-imperialist are our leading intellectuals, magazine editors, book authors and influencers.
I’ve often thought of converting to Judaism, but that would require me to learn Hebrew which, let’s face it, is not going to happen. There’s also the issue of bacon. I could become a Reform Jew, but that would not really count in my book. So it’s gentile life for me it seems. Catholicism is quite a bit like Judaism in fact, at least in its original form. And especially with Pope Francis at the top, to take the opposite point of view, you do not need to learn Latin or much of anything, really.