The Jewish stake in resisting the war on school-board critics and fighting the teaching of CRT
The Department of Justice’s attempt to frame protests against critical race theory as “domestic terrorism” is wrong. It’s also a defense of ideas that give a permission slip to antisemitism.
Yet rather than being among the leaders of the fight against these terrible ideas, much of the organized Jewish community has gone silent or actually supports critical race theory so as to retain their good standing as liberals and sympathizers with the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Anti-Defamation League—the one group tasked specifically with the job of defending Jews against anti-Semitism—is not only not fighting critical race theory but has joined with those falsely labeling anti-CRT activists as “extremists.”
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
(October 15, 2021 / JNS) In our bifurcated political culture, most Americans not only have forgotten how to listen to those who disagree with them but have also stopped being willing to credit opponents with good motives. That’s part of the reason why just about anything that someone thinks is awful is quickly labeled by somebody as being morally equivalent to the Nazis.
