Jews Don't Count

by David Baddiel

It is my position that racism should not be a competition: that all racisms should be regarded as equally bad. ‘Should’ is the key word here. There is an inequity, even if that inequity may be felt differently in different quarters. For example, some Muslims feel strongly that Islamophobia doesn’t get the attention that antisemitism receives in the news media in general. But this polemic is very specifically about progressives: it’s not about the mainstream media. And it’s written from the point of view, to use a phrase much beloved of progressives, of my lived experience: the lived experience of a Jew who feels as most Jews do that the reaction of progressives, to antisemitism, is that it doesn’t matter very much.