accept and not challenge, when others speak about their experiences. Except, it seems, when Jews do. Non-Jews, including progressive non-Jews, are still very happy to tell Jews whether or not the utterance about them was in fact racist. This is partly because anti-Jewish racism is not, in many people’s minds, racism at all. It has, after all, a different name, and one hears talk all the time of “antisemitism and racism.” That has value, in some ways, because not all racisms are the same. Racism against people of color is different in kind to racism against Jews.
