Woke Antisemitism Quotes

“Like all intellectual monopolies, postcolonialism denies the validity of other explanations, and in its certitude becomes an illiberal and dangerous source of extremism and hate.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“The more we defer to an irrational set of beliefs, the more extreme and more dangerous those beliefs become over time.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“Everyone loves viewpoint diversity. It’s diverse points of view that they despise.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“In other words, it was not ok to use the rightwing, white supremacist idiom naming specific institutions that Jews supposedly control, but it was ok to use the progressive idiom making strikingly similar claims.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“A society that begins to make it harder for people to express their beliefs is an ominous indicator that the society could turn on its Jews. There is nothing inherent about illiberalism spawning antisemitism, but there is—given Jewish history—something inevitable about it.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“Jewish organizations hitherto known for their openness to varied points of view, disputatiousness, and commitment to critical thinking, have taken the leap of faith into identitarian deference.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“Marc Dollinger (…) stated that “there is widespread support for the Black Lives Matter movement among white Jews…. This is something we didn’t even see in the ’60s (...).” I didn’t see the current level of Jewish support as impressive at all: so much Jewish backing struck me as pure performance, mass virtue-signaling powerfully enforced by a Progressive minority, so that the only possible course of action for any individual or group was unconditional endorsement.
That’s what happens when, as Ungar-Sargon said, the Jewish community is morally adrift and defers to others for moral authority.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“Like so many other social justice concepts, intersectionality has some utility in describing social dynamics, but activists have transformed a simple heuristic into a grand axiom and then into an article of faith.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews

“I realized that the average student wasn’t much interested in debating competing claims—they were largely conflict-averse—about who is right or wrong. They believed everyone and every group had its own story, and no story was better than any other. I thought this “everyone is right” worldview was astoundingly shallow. My friend Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin told me that he tells his high school students who express similar sentiments: “Don’t be so open-minded that everything falls out.”
― David L. Bernstein, Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews