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Working on a book about the legacy of neoconservatism. Columnist for The Nation, contributing editor at Jewish Currents, writer for many lefty mags. KLEE-on
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Yes, my article is explicitly built around it, lol
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It sounds what you’ve experienced is rooted heavily in transphobia which is a very real and widespread bigotry backed as policy by the current US government, and you have all my sympathies for that. But antisemitism, to the extent it exists in the U.S., isn’t analogous at all
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Nothing was inflicted on me as a Jewish kid
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I get out constantly, more often than I probably should
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In any case, the state of the discourse around this is such that my default assumption when people say they experienced antisemitism is skepticism, because what they’re describing is usually more like “I got into a nasty argument about Israel with someone and they seemed to hate me”
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You’d think someone would be discriminating against me, or shouting slurs at me on the street, or threatening me as a Jew, or giving me a dirty look. But in my 41 years as an American Jew I basically don’t have stories like that. Maybe I’m just really lucky, or maybe this is hype and panic.
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I keep waiting to encounter some actual antisemitism in my own very Jewish American life and it never seems to happen. Yes I see Free Palestine stuff, yes there’s occasional offensive graffiti, yes I see it on social media, and of course I saw Elon sieg heil. But none of that makes me feel unsafe.
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The alt-text is so funny
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I for one am always happy to be paid for this sort of thing!
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It's the second panel here, starting at 23:22, if you want to watch Jamie get mad at trans people out of nowhere cjh.org/end_of_an_era/
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don't forget link!
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It's been... fascinating to see who has shrugged off the allegations, to say the least
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Liberties has gone further left than you might expect on Palestine lately... Celeste Marcus, the managing editor, has called it a genocide publicly and often
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I thrive on this stuff, I'm very sick
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also a city!
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I'm talking about the Hunter Biden laptop
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I said it on October 7, 2023, and have said so many times in reputable publications since. Have you?
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Nope. But if you used to know him, it’s easy enough to figure out who he means
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This piece basically blood libels the Brooklyn left while the author pats himself on the back for having the “courage” to separate himself from it. It’s a form of reinvention I’ve become very familiar with in my book research.