How to Fight Anti-Semitism Quotes

“Europe is very good at building memorials for dead Jews. It is still learning how to protect the living ones. Vigils honor the dead, but they don't do much for the living. Solidarity does.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“It's hard to imagine "Fuck Jews" as being anything other than a statement of anti-Semitism.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“No country is immune to criticism, nor should it be. But when that criticism takes the form of singling out just one country, unfairly, bitterly and relentlessly, over and over and over, that’s just wrong—and we all know it.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“Under Lenin’s one-party state rule, this took the form of the Yevsektsiya, the Jewish section of the Bolshevik Party, run by—who else?—Jews. It was a perfect solution. The state could ban Judaism and criminalize Zionism, and Lenin could point to the fact of the Jewish section to prove that the Communists were actually philo-Semitic. Jews could join—and persecute other Jews—to prove that they were committed members of the party.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“To tolerate anti-Semitism is to tolerate lies. A culture in which anti-Semitism thrives is a culture in which truths have been replaced with lies.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“The Jews are doing something. Not something wrong, of course, but something different.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“Likewise in our culture. When our society’s immune system is healthy and functioning normally, the virus of anti-Semitism is kept in check. But when our social immune system is weakened—as it is right now, and dramatically so—the virus will out, as it has so many times before in some of the most seemingly civilized cultures on the planet.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“In 1977, the white supremacist Joseph Paul Franklin killed one worshipper and wounded two more in his attack on Congregation Brith Sholom Kneseth Israel in St. Louis. In 1984,”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

“When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone knows what should happen to racists.”
― Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism