Jews Don't Count

by David Baddiel

So actually, when I say “Sometimes you hear it out loud,” what I really heard was the silence.

Well, not any racist abuse, it turns out. No steward intervened when this happened; and no life-ban was imposed on the man shouting “Fuck the fucking Jews.” The world had moved on. But it seems that it had forgotten something; it had left one racism behind.

if you are straight,

Huh? A Britishism?

“white’ and “straight,”

Ok.

maybe Butler was very keen not to alienate anyone in this particular speech. Not to leave any group out. But she did.

Which meant that all these various groups who the Labour Party was pledging to fight for were present and correct in the visuals, and the exclusion, or forgetting, of Jews from this sacred circle was hammered home.

Jews are somehow both sub-human and humanity’s secret masters. And it’s this racist mythology that’s in the air when the left pause before putting Jews into their sacred circle.

Some might even say they belong in the damned circle of the oppressors.

Some DO say just that. In the minds of some, every Jew is Netanyahu. Every single one of us. {angry emoji}

John Cusack.

Well, good to know; phuq him.

The difference between progressives and the far right can be summed up in two words: Cusack apologized.

{eyeroll}

“did not have an antisemitic bone in his body,”

There's that bone again! ROFLMAO

The Y-Word

In The States, it's The K-word.

Yid is considered not as bad hate speech as the P-word or the N-word.

You don't know this, but the American k-word is MUCH worse.

But Jews are not white. Or not quite.

Our artistic tradition—look at Punch and Judy, look at witches, look at pantomime, look at Bond villains—depicts evil as swarthy and hook-nosed.

In fact, this exclusion of Jews from whiteness is fundamental to the ideology of white supremacists.

Great Replacement,

Jessica Krug

claiming her own Black and Latina heritage.

But in September 2020, she came out as white. Like the more well-known Rachel Dolezal before her, she had been living a lie.

much of the reporting around Krug didn’t just say that she was white: she was described, freque...

Because Jews do not have struggle and difficulty, Jews cannot be victims. Despite what two thousand years of history tells us.

Which is when this becomes really problematic: when you cartoon the Jewishness, and you yourself are not Jewish, what is that if not minstrelsy in another form?

It felt, in fact, erased.

Or, perhaps, understood? Possible.

The point being that the reclamation of Jesus as non-white is a party to which Jews—certainly, Jews perceived of as white—are not invited.

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 antisemitism?”

William Levitt. Damn him. He made us white. And he did so by excluding blacks and Latinos. We are all still paying for the crime of William Levitt.

It sounds good. It sounds right. But to these ears, the reflex need always to follow the phrase antisemitism with “and all types of racism” is the left’s All Lives Matter.

Boom!

I don’t know that Jews are now prepared to make the same sort of fuss as other minorities.

Thanks to "'ye," the time has indeed come.

With very little what you might call people fuss.

That JUST changed.