Jews are too close to power- that's why we feel we can't risk offending them. Fear of being called antisemitic (or transphobic) has shut many people up because there are consequences.
We can make jokes about the gay mafia in creative industries and the establishment can pretend that it supports BLM, because black people are nowhere near power. But jokes about the Jewish mafia and open support for Jew Power?
We can't admit that we find the customs of dress and behaviour of the Chosen People, deliberately designed to make orthodox Jews stand out from the rest of us plebs, plus the stigma of 'marrying out', diluting the purity, a bit insulting. That carrying around a massive chip on one's shoulders when almost no one alive had anything to do with what happened to one's ancestors is a drain on everyone.
The Tory government’s use of antisemitism as a weapon against peaceful protests for peace shows the power and scope of the Tribe. It swung into action immediately after Oct 7th.
The high profile UK journalists, who make it known that they are Jewish (does any other non visible group or religion feel compelled to do this?) are complaining that the Israeli victims are being forgotten by calls for a ceasefire, that only Jewish people are remembering them, show that a) they think that indiscriminate bombing without trying to understand, negotiate nor have a trial is a fair reaction (great religion folks) and b) Palestinian women and children's deaths already out number Israeli by 10 to 1; so Jewish lives must be at least 10 times more important than non-Jewish ones.
An offence to one Jewish person is said to be an insult and a danger to all Jews. The Tribe is determined to be distinct from the rest of us and not regard all people as just people.
I think the trans agenda and banning of hate speech was the warm up for this. It should not be illegal to say things that might offend people. Saying a man is not a woman might offend a transexual. So what? It is impossible to give offence; only to take it
Saying you one supports Palestinians in their struggle against oppressors apparently makes one antisemitic and offensive to Jews in the same way standing up for women and women only spaces makes one a transphobic TERF, offensive to transexuals. Only it doesn't. And we have every right to stand up for anyone and everyone and say whatever allegedly offensive things we like.
The obsession with identities is also to blame. Encouraging identification as a victim, as Jewish, a woman, cat, dog, teapot is unhelpful- all identities are divisive and restrictive psychological constructs. We are all human beings for god’s sake, different in form but part of one consciousness.
We respect people but we don't have to respect their ‘identities’ nor their beliefs. Like Dawkins says of the Icelandic culture and tradition of murdering whales; they need to get a better culture.
When one believes that one is chosen by God and belongs to a very powerful, influential but allegedly victimised tribe that can dispossess, humiliate and kill with impunity those not in the tribe; it's time to get a better belief.
Jews are too close to power- that's why we feel we can't risk offending them. Fear of being called antisemitic (or transphobic) has shut many people up because there are consequences.
We can make jokes about the gay mafia in creative industries and the establishment can pretend that it supports BLM, because black people are nowhere near power. But jokes about the Jewish mafia and open support for Jew Power?
We can't admit that we find the customs of dress and behaviour of the Chosen People, deliberately designed to make orthodox Jews stand out from the rest of us plebs, plus the stigma of 'marrying out', diluting the purity, a bit insulting. That carrying around a massive chip on one's shoulders when almost no one alive had anything to do with what happened to one's ancestors is a drain on everyone.
The Tory government’s use of antisemitism as a weapon against peaceful protests for peace shows the power and scope of the Tribe. It swung into action immediately after Oct 7th.
The high profile UK journalists, who make it known that they are Jewish (does any other non visible group or religion feel compelled to do this?) are complaining that the Israeli victims are being forgotten by calls for a ceasefire, that only Jewish people are remembering them, show that a) they think that indiscriminate bombing without trying to understand, negotiate nor have a trial is a fair reaction (great religion folks) and b) Palestinian women and children's deaths already out number Israeli by 10 to 1; so Jewish lives must be at least 10 times more important than non-Jewish ones.
An offence to one Jewish person is said to be an insult and a danger to all Jews. The Tribe is determined to be distinct from the rest of us and not regard all people as just people.
I think the trans agenda and banning of hate speech was the warm up for this. It should not be illegal to say things that might offend people. Saying a man is not a woman might offend a transexual. So what? It is impossible to give offence; only to take it
Saying you one supports Palestinians in their struggle against oppressors apparently makes one antisemitic and offensive to Jews in the same way standing up for women and women only spaces makes one a transphobic TERF, offensive to transexuals. Only it doesn't. And we have every right to stand up for anyone and everyone and say whatever allegedly offensive things we like.
The obsession with identities is also to blame. Encouraging identification as a victim, as Jewish, a woman, cat, dog, teapot is unhelpful- all identities are divisive and restrictive psychological constructs. We are all human beings for god’s sake, different in form but part of one consciousness.
We respect people but we don't have to respect their ‘identities’ nor their beliefs. Like Dawkins says of the Icelandic culture and tradition of murdering whales; they need to get a better culture.
When one believes that one is chosen by God and belongs to a very powerful, influential but allegedly victimised tribe that can dispossess, humiliate and kill with impunity those not in the tribe; it's time to get a better belief.