Invalidating someone’s opinion based on their perceived place in the intersectional hierarchy—their “positionality”—is, in fact, the ideological foundation of cancel culture. Mainstream Jews, as well, have not been immune from making standpoint claims in defining antisemitism for society. Popular Jewish writer Sarah Tuttle-Singer, for example, tweeted, “Here is a complete and comprehensive list of the people who get to decide what is or isn’t anti-Semitic: 1. Jews.” They’re wrong to do so as well.

