Nobody that needs to be punched in the face (politically or even physically) more than antisemitic token Jews. They’re a STI of the Jewish diaspora, and part of the racist, genocide-loving ‘progressives’ who tanked the Democratic Party. The sooner they get thrown under the bus, the better.
Thanks for this. So as a "post" middle age Jewish Dad of three adult very Zionist children raised in the Conservative movement, I've been simultaneously fascinated and nauseated by these seemingly misfit and intellectually ne'er-do-well anti-Zionist Jews. Who are they? How were they raised? What is their underlying problem/motivation? Many seem to come from Reform or unaffiliated homes sometimes with one non-Jewish parent. What most (as far as I can tell) seem to share is an upbringing in homes absent of regular Jewish religious practice, yiddishkeit and appreciation for the connection of the land of Israel to the Jewish people and the observance of Judaism. There are of many exceptions of course but its hard for me not to see this epidemic of self-loathing as largely connected to the high rates of inter-marriage and assimilation. We are not only losing many of the next generation, we are turning them against us.
And I think there certainly can be intermarried families that still practice and imbue a love of Judaism, but I do think it's significantly more likely, coupled with a less religious/more secular practice of Judaism that the end-result will be assimilation and shedding of Jewish identity.
Extremely informative article. Thank you, Mallory! I grew up in a wealthy reform Jewish neighborhood. It is like you reviewed videotapes of my childhood. And I am not even Jewish!
But I remember there was a phenomenon where most of my classmates really didn’t identify as Jewish, other than when they would occasionally get offended. Shabbat was a rarity. The result: they lived lives that were indistinguishable from their Christian peers. When a person no longer identifies with who they are, they won’t really be available to fight for their people. They outsource it. See: the public pro-Zionist Jewish people being only a fraction of American Jews.
But our mountain as goyim is different. We must awaken every non-Jew that has fallen asleep and who dreams that antisemitism is the answer.
Aww thank you so very much! What you shared definitely doesn't surprise me; there's a lot to unpack there and I'm planning on republishing another article I wrote on that very subject with more detail in the next few days -- but you are spot on.
Sharp and incisive commentary, like all I’ve read from you. I, too, have noticed that antisemites really love excusing their own antisemitism by tokenizing their “anti-Zionist Jewish” friends (really just anti-self Jewish friends) all over the place lately. Wild that they don’t realize they’re just dressing up the old “I’m not racist; I have black friends!” fallacy in gentile clothing.
An entire universe of oy veys, because if I let myself get too dark about it, I fear I’ll just shut out the entire world. Shabbat Shalom and may better days be coming BH 🙏
Thank you so, so much for this beautiful comment 💙 completely agree with you— their tokenism acceptability clause for Jews is one among countless overt denials of their self-proclaimed, high and mighty “social justice” values.
Sending you lots of love and solidarity, and echoing your prayer for better times. Shabbat shalom 🙏
There is toxicity on either end of the extreme spectrum of left and right, and in Jewish culture this plays out in particular ways whether that’s antizionist Jews or the super insular ultra Orthodox Jews that also have a lot of problems in their community.
That being said. This article resonated with me. And I recognize some of these things in my younger self, and definitely in many Jews I’ve known in North America. I wouldn’t say it’s just “daddy issues” though, but rather dysfunctional families more generally.
And I will agree that there is a particular misogyny that Jewish women face whether it be by the men in their own community, or the greater society.
LMAOOO girl WHAT? Let me be brutally clear, as I earnestly want to help you. First: Finding out you have some Jewish heritage doesn't make you Jewish any more than Elizabeth Warren's trace amount of Native American DNA makes her worthy of claiming federal benefits reserved for Native Americans. It's a sham; a costume that you are putting on to justify feeling like a valid token voice, speaking for people of whom you are unequivocally not a part.
What a sick and twisted chasm must be festering in your soul, to make you think that "genuinely identifying as Jewish" based on the conditional acceptance and validation of assimilated, secular and I can almost guarantee, very privileged "Jews" is a feeling that entitles you to weigh in with ANY credibility or weight on the situation in Israel.
What profound, gleefully ignorant privilege you have, sitting there feeling high and mighty about your pathetic fucking comrades, pontificating about a place that you've never been and presumably feel no connection whatsoever, judging them about a history and a present danger that you are oblivious to. You ARE antisemitism, bud. Fuck YOU.
Your willful ignorance is abundantly clear when you have the NERVE to casually say Jews and Arabs "got along... prior to the rise of Zionism." You don't even know what Zionism is, foolish clown. Zionism was not invented in the 20th century. Indeed, it is abundantly clear that you have little historical understanding of the region's (or Jewish) history whatsoever, as you are oblivious to the constant violence, persecution, conquest and genocide that Jews experienced in the Middle East before the modern State of Israel came into existence.
If you have even a modicum of intellectual integrity, I urge you to read this (though I'm quite sure you don't and you won't):
You should be ashamed of yourself; the audacity as a Black person to center your pathetic desire to "feel" included as a Jewish person without any of the cultural or spiritual or ancestral awareness or understanding or curiosity-- you aren't looking to get in touch with your roots. You are interested in dominating a space that is easy for you, that can be another box on your "why lil Marxist shill is soOoOoOo interesting! SURPRISE! Also a Jew--the good kind no worries lololol"
You know so little about Judaism, you're putting Passover and Rosh Hashanah seders in the same category when you don't seem to comprehend as "a descendant of European Jewish immigrants" (sure you are, sweatie) that Rosh Hashanah seders are a uniquely Sephardic/Mizrahi tradition lmfao.
I ordinarily wouldn't laugh at someone for not knowing shit about Jewish culture or tradition, but since you have the awe-inspiring delusion and entitlement of thinking you are allowed to speak on behalf of Jews and justify the murder and displacement of Israelis, I think this is a good exception. You are behaving like a Rachel Dolezal cosplaying as a Jew brat.
No one gives even a miniature shit whether you feel "validated" as a Jew by a bunch of terror-simping pick-me "Jews" with daddy issues. It's really not the flex you think it is. If you want to feel connected to Judaism, swallow your pride; you do not know a great many things about life and about this world, and you certainly don't know shit about Israel or Judaism. If you genuinely feel called, then go to a Chabad -- or go to a place that you feel challenged by specifically BECAUSE Israel is absolutely essential to Judaism as an ethnic, religious, cultural and historical homeland. You and your lame, hateful, piteous anti-Zionist friends don't get to re-write history to serve your selfish, violent narratives. Get a life, and please, STFU.
Nobody that needs to be punched in the face (politically or even physically) more than antisemitic token Jews. They’re a STI of the Jewish diaspora, and part of the racist, genocide-loving ‘progressives’ who tanked the Democratic Party. The sooner they get thrown under the bus, the better.
lmaooo well said
Thanks for this. So as a "post" middle age Jewish Dad of three adult very Zionist children raised in the Conservative movement, I've been simultaneously fascinated and nauseated by these seemingly misfit and intellectually ne'er-do-well anti-Zionist Jews. Who are they? How were they raised? What is their underlying problem/motivation? Many seem to come from Reform or unaffiliated homes sometimes with one non-Jewish parent. What most (as far as I can tell) seem to share is an upbringing in homes absent of regular Jewish religious practice, yiddishkeit and appreciation for the connection of the land of Israel to the Jewish people and the observance of Judaism. There are of many exceptions of course but its hard for me not to see this epidemic of self-loathing as largely connected to the high rates of inter-marriage and assimilation. We are not only losing many of the next generation, we are turning them against us.
Thank you for the comment! I explore this quite a bit here if you haven't read it:
https://mallorymosner.substack.com/p/has-reform-judaism-fueled-anti-zionism
And I think there certainly can be intermarried families that still practice and imbue a love of Judaism, but I do think it's significantly more likely, coupled with a less religious/more secular practice of Judaism that the end-result will be assimilation and shedding of Jewish identity.
Well said. For me the perfect example of this is Ella Emhoff.
1000%
Nothing necessarily wrong with intermarriage - I did it, and "we" gained a net 3 Jews from it.
Totally agree. My son's girlfriend is 50% Jewish and 100% Zionist.
Extremely informative article. Thank you, Mallory! I grew up in a wealthy reform Jewish neighborhood. It is like you reviewed videotapes of my childhood. And I am not even Jewish!
But I remember there was a phenomenon where most of my classmates really didn’t identify as Jewish, other than when they would occasionally get offended. Shabbat was a rarity. The result: they lived lives that were indistinguishable from their Christian peers. When a person no longer identifies with who they are, they won’t really be available to fight for their people. They outsource it. See: the public pro-Zionist Jewish people being only a fraction of American Jews.
But our mountain as goyim is different. We must awaken every non-Jew that has fallen asleep and who dreams that antisemitism is the answer.
Aww thank you so very much! What you shared definitely doesn't surprise me; there's a lot to unpack there and I'm planning on republishing another article I wrote on that very subject with more detail in the next few days -- but you are spot on.
Can't tell you how much I appreciate you!
Thank you, Mallory! I look forward to the reprint!
Sharp and incisive commentary, like all I’ve read from you. I, too, have noticed that antisemites really love excusing their own antisemitism by tokenizing their “anti-Zionist Jewish” friends (really just anti-self Jewish friends) all over the place lately. Wild that they don’t realize they’re just dressing up the old “I’m not racist; I have black friends!” fallacy in gentile clothing.
An entire universe of oy veys, because if I let myself get too dark about it, I fear I’ll just shut out the entire world. Shabbat Shalom and may better days be coming BH 🙏
Thank you so, so much for this beautiful comment 💙 completely agree with you— their tokenism acceptability clause for Jews is one among countless overt denials of their self-proclaimed, high and mighty “social justice” values.
Sending you lots of love and solidarity, and echoing your prayer for better times. Shabbat shalom 🙏
All of these people should consider moving to Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan or Syria and join the resistance. They would be welcomed with open arms.
There is toxicity on either end of the extreme spectrum of left and right, and in Jewish culture this plays out in particular ways whether that’s antizionist Jews or the super insular ultra Orthodox Jews that also have a lot of problems in their community.
That being said. This article resonated with me. And I recognize some of these things in my younger self, and definitely in many Jews I’ve known in North America. I wouldn’t say it’s just “daddy issues” though, but rather dysfunctional families more generally.
And I will agree that there is a particular misogyny that Jewish women face whether it be by the men in their own community, or the greater society.
LMAOOO girl WHAT? Let me be brutally clear, as I earnestly want to help you. First: Finding out you have some Jewish heritage doesn't make you Jewish any more than Elizabeth Warren's trace amount of Native American DNA makes her worthy of claiming federal benefits reserved for Native Americans. It's a sham; a costume that you are putting on to justify feeling like a valid token voice, speaking for people of whom you are unequivocally not a part.
What a sick and twisted chasm must be festering in your soul, to make you think that "genuinely identifying as Jewish" based on the conditional acceptance and validation of assimilated, secular and I can almost guarantee, very privileged "Jews" is a feeling that entitles you to weigh in with ANY credibility or weight on the situation in Israel.
What profound, gleefully ignorant privilege you have, sitting there feeling high and mighty about your pathetic fucking comrades, pontificating about a place that you've never been and presumably feel no connection whatsoever, judging them about a history and a present danger that you are oblivious to. You ARE antisemitism, bud. Fuck YOU.
Your willful ignorance is abundantly clear when you have the NERVE to casually say Jews and Arabs "got along... prior to the rise of Zionism." You don't even know what Zionism is, foolish clown. Zionism was not invented in the 20th century. Indeed, it is abundantly clear that you have little historical understanding of the region's (or Jewish) history whatsoever, as you are oblivious to the constant violence, persecution, conquest and genocide that Jews experienced in the Middle East before the modern State of Israel came into existence.
If you have even a modicum of intellectual integrity, I urge you to read this (though I'm quite sure you don't and you won't):
https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/was-there-peace-before-1948
You should be ashamed of yourself; the audacity as a Black person to center your pathetic desire to "feel" included as a Jewish person without any of the cultural or spiritual or ancestral awareness or understanding or curiosity-- you aren't looking to get in touch with your roots. You are interested in dominating a space that is easy for you, that can be another box on your "why lil Marxist shill is soOoOoOo interesting! SURPRISE! Also a Jew--the good kind no worries lololol"
You know so little about Judaism, you're putting Passover and Rosh Hashanah seders in the same category when you don't seem to comprehend as "a descendant of European Jewish immigrants" (sure you are, sweatie) that Rosh Hashanah seders are a uniquely Sephardic/Mizrahi tradition lmfao.
I ordinarily wouldn't laugh at someone for not knowing shit about Jewish culture or tradition, but since you have the awe-inspiring delusion and entitlement of thinking you are allowed to speak on behalf of Jews and justify the murder and displacement of Israelis, I think this is a good exception. You are behaving like a Rachel Dolezal cosplaying as a Jew brat.
No one gives even a miniature shit whether you feel "validated" as a Jew by a bunch of terror-simping pick-me "Jews" with daddy issues. It's really not the flex you think it is. If you want to feel connected to Judaism, swallow your pride; you do not know a great many things about life and about this world, and you certainly don't know shit about Israel or Judaism. If you genuinely feel called, then go to a Chabad -- or go to a place that you feel challenged by specifically BECAUSE Israel is absolutely essential to Judaism as an ethnic, religious, cultural and historical homeland. You and your lame, hateful, piteous anti-Zionist friends don't get to re-write history to serve your selfish, violent narratives. Get a life, and please, STFU.
Best wishes on your journey to Christ or Allah.
lol what a fucking legendary response, I saw that note before that loser deleted it, it was pathetic 😂😂😂