Bari-I’m so sorry for what’s happening in our world but especially in this country. I feel the antisemitic vibe as well. Great essay. Everyone hates the Jews because they hate God whether they are aware of it or not . God will never turn his back on the Jews. I am going to read your book. Congrats on it and I’m so glad you are speaking up about The NYT who are an absolute joke in journalism. There’s not a lot of journalism going on right now. My beautiful brilliant niece went to college ended up wanting to be a journalist. She thinks she knows the truth -she leans far left, she believes the mainstream media. She thinks Palestine is victim of genocide. There is no searching for truth -only searching for anything to support what she already believes . That’s not journalism . I do believe though that she belongs to God and return to Him in time she will. God is the only answer for us all. I applaud your bravery once again and I stand with you in truth and love.
“Perhaps most significantly, in the name of equality and justice this ideology insists that it is better to have everyone worse off than to be unequal in any way. If some people lose the race, the race must be dismantled.”
This sums up the our country’s policies. Equity trumps all, including the intelligent, mothers, Title 9, parents’ rights, college entry admissions, and the list goes on…. VOTE and speak up!
Bari, your writing and podcasting is first rate, but I think that you whiffed on the Texas Republican Party slogan when you thought it antisemitic. Allen West, the Texas GOP’s newly elected chairman, has said previously that the slogan has no connection to the QAnon theory, and instead comes from a quote he often recites at speaking events: “The devil whispers into the warrior’s ear, ‘You cannot withstand the coming storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’”
I don’t think that Ms. Weiss propounded a principle of equivalence here. Merely, she stated the obvious: that there is antisemitism on both the Right and the Left, albeit not the same kind of antisemitism. The antisemitism of the far Right is more traditional (if that is the word), relying mostly on age-old stereotypes and caricatures. That of the Left, however, is an offshoot of postmodern progressivism, tricked out in the rhetoric of anti-racism, white supremacy, colonialism and so on.
Nor is it fair to say that Ms. Weiss has charged either the Right or the Left as a whole with antisemitism. What come through clearly here is the fact that antisemitism is on the rise not exclusively but mainly on the Left. Antisemitism has next to no presence in the conservative mainstream. But it has a visible and growing presence on the Left—as the career of Ilhan Omar illustrates.
The word “antisemitism” belongs at the place where discrimination is defined or explored or addressed or discussed at Institution X. Do you see or hear the word at your institution? Are you the only person at your institution that speaks or types the word?
Bari, while I agree there are people that hate the jews on the left and the right, it is the far left that is much more vocal and pursuing policies that are anti-jew. The right or conservatives are not doing this in mass. In addition, I would say that not everyone hates the jews. Evangelical Christians are some of the biggest supporters of Israel and the Jews.
We also need to grapple with the issue of Islam in all of this. If anything, the embers of antisemitism have been burning hotter amongst Muslims than anywhere else after WWII. To the point that it's been an almost reflexive belief that somehow Israel, and it's few million Jews, are the dominant reason that their "civilizations" are in the regressive, repressive, backward state that they're in.
Which, of course, is ludicrous when one considers the Muslim world has been in a centuries-long decline that predates Israel, America, and every other boogeyman their countries conjure to deflect blame from their myriad failures to properly educate themselves and modernize.
My rubric (which I admittedly may make mistakes in following, like all of us) is that I'll support the countries that people want to live in over the country they don't. People want to live in America. People want to live in Israel. People want to live in Europe. They're great places that allow for good living, and human progress. Moreover, people who are genuinely oppressed by a country don't climb all over themselves to move to that country. Jews were not moving to Germany in the 1940s, which makes it all the more puzzling that the Muslim world so vociferously speaks against the countries that they just have to move to.
Thank you so much for sharing these horrific incidents, hard as they are to stomach. There seem to be a lot of quarrels in this comment section but you're doing a great mitzvah by uniting Jews at a time when they're increasingly needing it. Some day soon those currently blissfully ignorant will understand that; hopefully not too late.
While the crimes you reported are mostly erased in the media's eyes, we in the underground hub of alternative journalism are all with you.
!_Fellow White People! We must band together to fight Anti-Liberalism_!
Too late, we're just trying to survive ourselves our declared openly Erasure, and Mx. Weiss spent most of her life along with the NYT et al in building the monster that now wants to eat them too.
Bari-I’m so sorry for what’s happening in our world but especially in this country. I feel the antisemitic vibe as well. Great essay. Everyone hates the Jews because they hate God whether they are aware of it or not . God will never turn his back on the Jews. I am going to read your book. Congrats on it and I’m so glad you are speaking up about The NYT who are an absolute joke in journalism. There’s not a lot of journalism going on right now. My beautiful brilliant niece went to college ended up wanting to be a journalist. She thinks she knows the truth -she leans far left, she believes the mainstream media. She thinks Palestine is victim of genocide. There is no searching for truth -only searching for anything to support what she already believes . That’s not journalism . I do believe though that she belongs to God and return to Him in time she will. God is the only answer for us all. I applaud your bravery once again and I stand with you in truth and love.
Wow. Three and a half years later, this essay has been totally vindicated. It was prophetic.
This is why I keep coming back to substack and TFP. So I don’t feel so alone. Thank you Bari for being a voice that provides clarity.
I stand with you, Jews everywhere, and Israel
You go Bari. Keep up the good work. Dora Horn is one of my heroes as well. She’s the real deal. Read her WSJ editorial on Harvard/anti-semitism.
So depressing.
“Perhaps most significantly, in the name of equality and justice this ideology insists that it is better to have everyone worse off than to be unequal in any way. If some people lose the race, the race must be dismantled.”
This sums up the our country’s policies. Equity trumps all, including the intelligent, mothers, Title 9, parents’ rights, college entry admissions, and the list goes on…. VOTE and speak up!
Bari, your writing and podcasting is first rate, but I think that you whiffed on the Texas Republican Party slogan when you thought it antisemitic. Allen West, the Texas GOP’s newly elected chairman, has said previously that the slogan has no connection to the QAnon theory, and instead comes from a quote he often recites at speaking events: “The devil whispers into the warrior’s ear, ‘You cannot withstand the coming storm.’ The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’”
I don’t think that Ms. Weiss propounded a principle of equivalence here. Merely, she stated the obvious: that there is antisemitism on both the Right and the Left, albeit not the same kind of antisemitism. The antisemitism of the far Right is more traditional (if that is the word), relying mostly on age-old stereotypes and caricatures. That of the Left, however, is an offshoot of postmodern progressivism, tricked out in the rhetoric of anti-racism, white supremacy, colonialism and so on.
Nor is it fair to say that Ms. Weiss has charged either the Right or the Left as a whole with antisemitism. What come through clearly here is the fact that antisemitism is on the rise not exclusively but mainly on the Left. Antisemitism has next to no presence in the conservative mainstream. But it has a visible and growing presence on the Left—as the career of Ilhan Omar illustrates.
Your brilliant essay got it right, Bari Weiss. The avalanche of anti-Semitism is coming from both the right and the left. In other words, everywhere.
The word “antisemitism” belongs at the place where discrimination is defined or explored or addressed or discussed at Institution X. Do you see or hear the word at your institution? Are you the only person at your institution that speaks or types the word?
Bari, while I agree there are people that hate the jews on the left and the right, it is the far left that is much more vocal and pursuing policies that are anti-jew. The right or conservatives are not doing this in mass. In addition, I would say that not everyone hates the jews. Evangelical Christians are some of the biggest supporters of Israel and the Jews.
Hey, look what I found. Teachers spewing anti-Semitic garbage. And they hope to educate other on this subject too. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-23/l-a-teachers-union-israel-palestinian-conflict
We also need to grapple with the issue of Islam in all of this. If anything, the embers of antisemitism have been burning hotter amongst Muslims than anywhere else after WWII. To the point that it's been an almost reflexive belief that somehow Israel, and it's few million Jews, are the dominant reason that their "civilizations" are in the regressive, repressive, backward state that they're in.
Which, of course, is ludicrous when one considers the Muslim world has been in a centuries-long decline that predates Israel, America, and every other boogeyman their countries conjure to deflect blame from their myriad failures to properly educate themselves and modernize.
My rubric (which I admittedly may make mistakes in following, like all of us) is that I'll support the countries that people want to live in over the country they don't. People want to live in America. People want to live in Israel. People want to live in Europe. They're great places that allow for good living, and human progress. Moreover, people who are genuinely oppressed by a country don't climb all over themselves to move to that country. Jews were not moving to Germany in the 1940s, which makes it all the more puzzling that the Muslim world so vociferously speaks against the countries that they just have to move to.
Bari,
Thank you so much for sharing these horrific incidents, hard as they are to stomach. There seem to be a lot of quarrels in this comment section but you're doing a great mitzvah by uniting Jews at a time when they're increasingly needing it. Some day soon those currently blissfully ignorant will understand that; hopefully not too late.
While the crimes you reported are mostly erased in the media's eyes, we in the underground hub of alternative journalism are all with you.
Anti-Whiteness? Good!
Erase Whiteness? OK, double plus good.
>Wait...Jews are White!?!?
!_Fellow White People! We must band together to fight Anti-Liberalism_!
Too late, we're just trying to survive ourselves our declared openly Erasure, and Mx. Weiss spent most of her life along with the NYT et al in building the monster that now wants to eat them too.