Jews Don't Count

by David Baddiel

Jews are the only objects of racism who are imagined – by the racists – as both low and high status.

Jews are stereotyped, by the racists, in all the same ways that other minorities are – as lying, thieving, dirty, vile, stinking – but also as moneyed, privileged, powerful and secretly in control of the world. Jews are somehow both sub-human and humanity’s secret masters.

A study by the non-partisan wealth research firm New World Wealth found that 56.2 per cent of the 13.1 million millionaires in the world were Christian, while 6.5 per cent were Muslim, 3.9 per cent were Hindu and 1.7 per cent were Jewish.

money doesn’t protect you from racism.

Non-Jews, including progressive non-Jews, are still very happy to tell Jews whether or not the utterance about them was in fact racist.

Racists who don’t like Jews never ask the Jew they are abusing how often they go to synagogue.

the racists say: Jews are not white. The Nazis said it all the time – the project of the Jews, as far as they were concerned, was to undermine the Aryan white races. And the exclusion of Jews from the category of whiteness

Jew remains the only minority – and now we’re talking beyond ethnic, to include disabled, trans, autistic and many other categories – where you don’t have to cast the actor in line with the real thing.

The move to reclassify Jesus as non-white is good and historically accurate. The erasure at the same time of his Jewishness is neither.

I can’t imagine anyone saying, of a prominent black person about to go on the radio and speak about Black Lives Matter, ‘Hang on – what have they done recently to help Jews in their struggle against anti-Semitism?’

to these ears, the reflex need always to follow the phrase anti-Semitism with ‘and all types of racism’ is the left’s All Lives Matter.