Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

by David L. Bernstein

Moreover, according to noted Black economist at Brown University, Glenn Loury—in a May 2021 discussion with Bari Weiss titled “Anti-Racism and Anti-Semitism Collide”—the notion of equity can generate resentment against successful groups. Loury stated that “One consequence of a fixation on group disparities understood to be the necessary consequence of oppression or racism is that the groups that do well will come under suspicion. Their success will be thought to be the flip side of the disadvantage of the groups that do poorly. If African Americans are underrepresented in this or that venue because of systemic racism, and Jews are let’s say overrepresented in those very same venues, how can it be otherwise but that the over-representation of the Jews is somehow the bitter fruit, the necessary consequence of that very system of oppression that excludes African Americans?…. That de-legitimation of the success of groups that do well is very very dangerous. It strikes me that it does fuel resentment and envy and a kind of antipathy that can easily express itself in violence.”