A Morally Pure Judaism Without Actual Jews
This is a moment of reckoning for American Jews, on and off university campuses. Political alliances built up over many years have been shattered. Friendships have been forsaken and family relationships strained. Jewish loyalties and convictions long taken for granted have been questioned, abandoned, or reaffirmed. As a scholar of American Judaism and a teacher of American college students for nearly half a century, I confess that I’ve been surprised to see slogans and tactics employed decades ago by antisemites and the New Left – and widely discredited since then — refitted and deployed in the wave of protests against “American complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.”
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