Jews ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’ in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ideology
by Robert Benne, Juicy Ecumenism:
One would not think that Jews would be the target of the malign machinations of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology and movement. After all, American Jews are historically political and cultural liberals, stalwarts for racial justice, and are themselves a minority. Why would they be targets of DEI?
They have become targets in recent weeks, not only in our country but in much of the world.
Domestically, the most enthusiastic of those who target Jews have been those associated with elite universities. It has been shocking to witness large rallies at which students chant “From the river to the sea,” “globalize the intifada,” “against the genocide,” “down with apartheid and colonial Israel,” and many others.
Not only has there been linguistic assaults, there have been actual physical abuses.
We now can understand the DEI logic against Israel specifically and Jews in general. Israeli Jews and Jews elsewhere who support them are oppressors because they now have the strength to fend off those who wish to liquidate them. They are now subjects of their own history, not objects, which has been their historic experience. Further, they are often classified as white, which in intersectional thought makes them doubly oppressive. Even further, many have settled in the land of their age-old heritage, joining those who have never left. A good portion of those who settled in Israel were driven out of their Iraqi, Yemeni and other Middle Eastern homes after Israel’s victory in the war of 1947-48. So they are colonialists, a third intersectional sin. Fourth, Israel and many American Jews are deeply involved in capitalist economies.
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