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How Anti-Semitism Is Dangerously Ignored

(Financial Times-UK) Robert Shrimsley - Why are Jews excluded from diversity or ethnic minority monitoring? How, with the Holocaust still a living memory, do so many feel content to dismiss the fears of one of the most persecuted peoples in history, to regard anti-Semitism as something that matters less than other prejudice? Anti-Semitism is on the rise and yet people who ought to be allies and who normally stress the need to listen to the experience of other minorities, seem to suspend those rules when those voices are Jewish. The question is less about why anti-Semitism exists than why good people care less about it. The key is that Jews are not seen as underprivileged or marginalized. They are also "too white" for campaigners. This means they are beyond the interest of social justice activists.
2021-02-11 00:00:00
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