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A few words on Jay-Z
Jay-Zâs antisemitism isnât excusable, but it is comprehensible, and it is worth taking the time to comprehend it.
Up until the 50s and declining into the 60s Jews in the US were heavily poor and heavily working class. This population of Jews mostly lived in Northern urban centers, such as New York or Chicago. After WWII, Jewish veterans received benefits from the GI Bill and in the 50s Jewish quotas at universities died out, permitting us to take advantage of higher education at rates never before possible in America, become professionals and get low-cost mortgages for homes in suburbia. As a result we largely shifted from being a poor working class community renting in urban centers to a community of middle class educated professionals living in suburban homes.
Our entry into the middle class was supported by and fed another demographic change occurring in the American Jewish community. Assimilation into whiteness.* Pressure from McCarthyism, which played on American fear of the politically radical Eastern European Jew, and pressure from WASP neighbors in suburbia led us to suppress our ethnicity and emphasize our religion. The physical layout of suburbs supported this: in the cities we had synagogues, storefronts, named libraries, settlement houses, and various secular institutions reflecting our Jewishness back onto us - along with thousands of Jewish neighbors in close proximity; our move into suburbia dispersed us and our local communities became centered on the synagogue, accessed by car. Resultantly, we started looking and acting a lot more like our WASP neighbors â just observing the sabbath on different days.**
At the same time, in the 50s and 60s the Great Migration was bringing black people to the North from the South in enormous numbers. As Jews left their homes in poor city neighborhoods and we increasingly looked and acted like WASPs, black people replaced us as tenants. Black people stuck in working class jobs in industry and service (black women very commonly held domestic and personal service jobs with egregiously poor wages) watched as Jewish neighbors took advantage of the GI Bill, went to college, got good professional jobs and moved to the suburbs.
Further stoking resentment, even as we left urban centers, we still owned and operated businesses in the poor neighborhoods we left, like supermarkets, butcherâs shops, candy stores and delis. Some of us even owned the apartment buildings that had once housed poor Jews but now housed poor black people. Many of us still worked in the city, but Jewish women, working as public school teachers, were especially visible. In short, we became hyper-visible in the day-to-day life of poor black people. We became hyper-visible as the people taking their money, giving them poor goods and services, evicting them, putting the needs of the teacherâs union ahead of the needs of black children, and employing them in our shops and homes for a pittance.
Simultaneously under pressure from antisemitism and drawn by stability, safety and prosperity, we entered the white middle class in America (who could refuse?). This process also forged us into an instrument of racial and economic exploitation in the lives of many black people. That this has created prejudice against Jews among some black people is intelligible â we have been and to an extent still are, very visibly, the white people in their lives exploiting them.
That Jay-Z â who grew up in Brooklyn where this history and social dynamic between Jews and black people was and is especially strong â is antisemitic is not a shock. Jay-Zâs antisemitism cannot be understood in isolation, though. Antisemitism as a social structure is very much alive in America in its classic form. We have been cast as a buffer for power â court jews, moneylenders, rent and tax collectors, evictors and confiscators of property. It is much easier for people to blame Jews than it is to grapple with something so enormous as white supremacist capitalism.
As pervasive and deeply seated antisemitism is, it is not a universal spiritual fact of the world. It has a history, intellectual and material, and therefore it can be fought. If white Jews and black gentiles can reckon with our shared, painful history, we open the possibility to forging solidarity in the fight against white supremacy, antisemitism and capitalism on a scale not seen in decades.
And we must try. Antisemitic prejudice from oppressed people is disheartening, but white Jews owe it to black Jews and other Jews of color, pulled in half by antisemitism from people of color, to reaffirm our dedication to fighting racism and uprooting the antisemitism of those who should be our natural allies.
*Historically contingent and exclusive of many Jews. Not entirely coterminous with Ashkenazi, nor descriptive of all Ashkenazim. This is not a discussion on whether or not any Jews are Whiteâ˘.
** See April Rosenblumâs Offers We Couldnât Refuse in Jewish Currents for a more detailed overview of the suppression of Ashkenazi ethnicity and its replacement with Ashkenazi Judaism in the lives of American Jews.
Final note: James Baldwinâs 1967 essay Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because Theyâre Anti-White continues to be the most important read on this topic.Â
I mean, the thing is, I know all of this. I didnât read those lyrics and think they came out of a vacuum. This history is true, and itâs an issue that needs to be examined and grappled with.Â
And if this were Jay-Zâs debut album, Iâd be uncomfortable and little annoyed, but Iâd let it slide in the name of young people making mistakes as they unpack their experiences.
But itâs not his debut album. Heâs one of the most famous people in the world, and heâs a grown ass 47-year-old man with three kids, and a personal networth higher than some small nation states. He has a massive platform that could be used for good, but instead he used it on a throwaway line to affirm peopleâs anti-Semitism, and now weâre all just gonna have this quoted at us for the next ten years as a example of why goyim donât need to care when white supremacists attack us.Â
Like, this is the exact opposite of âreckoning with our shared, painful history.â Itâs just planting more seeds of distrust to reinforce the same divides that are already preventing progress.Â
This was a damaging inclusion from somebody who should have known better, and Iâm not here for it.
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in my opinion & experience, the worst form of antisemitism isnât the fascistic ravings of white supremacists at neo-nazi rallies and in the far-reaching âfar reachesâ of the internet (in my experience, their platforms tend to not be as hidden as one would assume, but the rampant nazism on the internet is another story). their claims are visibly abhorrent, and easily denounced. of course âwhite prideâ is bad, of course âkikeâ is a slur, of course jews donât have âdirty blood,â of course nazis arenât good people.Â
no, the most insidious form of antisemitism is perpetuated by liberal spheres, wherein theyâre too lazy & apathetic to not be ignorant of all the antisemitic bullshit they actually believe & spread. i donât associate with white supremacists, but i do associate with many Progressive & Liberal goyim who would never consider themselves antisemitic⌠because they donât actively hate jewish people.Â
so to all the goyim reading this, hereâs a psa:
no, we donât control the banks. (hereâs a good post explaining how this stereotype was first conceived; please read it.) we also donât control the media. both of these notions are part of a larger conspiracy theory perpetuated by neo-nazis that âjews are all in on some underground organization where they plan to commit âwhite genocideâ/perpetuate âjewish supremacyâ/are reptilian lizard people who want to take over the world.â (ever joked about the reptilian conspiracy before? yep, thatâs nazis.) itâs a tactic to explicitly dehumanize us, please stop falling for it.Â
not all jews are white people from long island/connecticut/a suburb. most of our population are not white (ashkenazi), itâs just the most represented ethnic group within the jewish population in america. (remember that thing that happened during ww2 to like, a whole bunch of european jews, causing them to attempt to take refuge in america? granted, a lot of refugees were deniedâ fun fact, including anne frankâ but a lot of ashkenazim made their way to america then or during other pogroms throughout history.)
using jewish cultural/religious traditions (for example, bar/bat mitzvahs) as a way to represent white culture is insensitive and stupid. if it is a specifically jewish tradition, and just because the only jew youâve met was jacob weinstein or w/e and he was soooooo white, that doesnât give you the right to appropriate our culture. (yes, taking over jewish religious & cultural traditions to satirize & mock is exactly what cultural appropriation is, no im not being âover-sensitive.â) if you want to make fun of white culture, that is such a easy target, white people do so much dumb shit all the time. please stop exploiting an ethnic minority. i donât care how white the jews youâve met are, theyâre still an ethnic minority. (looking at you âblack-ishâ)Â
âare [white] jews white??â why does it even matter? it doesnât change the fact that theyâre jewish. race, being a man-made social construct thatâs completely arbitrary and pretty ridiculous, is messy and not everyone can either fit into the box of âwhiteâ or âperson of color.â (thatâs why the term âwhite-passingâ exists.) whether or not white jews are considered white is regional and conditional. if a white/ashkenazi jew refers to themselves as âwhite-passingâ instead of âwhite,â thatâs their prerogative as they probably have a history of being othered for their ethnicity, and not wanting to be associated with their oppressors. they may still benefit from white privilege, but they do not benefit from white supremacy, and they are an ethnic minority (if they are ethnically jewish, that is. not all jews are ethnically jewish.) Â
stop masking your antisemitism with anti-zionism. your hypocrisy and double standards arenât fooling anyone. the israeli-palestinian conflict is leagues more nuanced than ive seen any goy on this website ever make it out to be. and saying that israelis kill babies for fun or whatever is blatantly antisemitic blood libel. also, stop denouncing israelis for not actively condemning israel. itâs not their job to do so. their parents/grandparents were very likely refugees, who had nowhere else to flee. theyâre human beings, in the same way that palestinians are human beings, and this crisis can only be solved with an emphasis on human rights and with a nuanced and humane approach. NOT the transparent, black-and-white thinking plaguing our discourse (usually in a conversation many of you are actually barely informed about), that holds a specifically jewish state (the only one in the world) and its peoples to an infinitely higher standard than to other militaries and/or occupations. (i wonder why.)Â
stop comparing israelis to nazis. stop comparing israel to white european colonialism. yes, there are ashkenazi israelis, no itâs not the same. youâre not getting a point across, you just sound like an asshole.Â
if a jew tells you something is antisemitic, just listen to them, and donât try to defend yourself. antisemitism is so engrained in our culture, that you probably meant no harm. just own up to your mistake, and try to educate yourself. (and generally when people try to defend themselves, they just end up being more antisemitic in the process, so please keep that in mind.)Â
stop throwing jewish people under the bus as a way to uplift other people of color. this actively hurts jews of color, and helps no one.Â
stop saying âitâs been over 70 years [since the holocaust], i canât believe antisemitism still exists.â antisemitism has been pervasive for thousands of years. you sound ignorant as hell. if you can believe that racism still exists, then trust me, antisemitism hasnât gone anywhere.Â
jews shouldnât have to prove to you that antisemitism is still extant, and the denial of antisemitism is inherently antisemitic.
stop referring to yourself as âgoyim.â you sound dumb, and we will make fun of you for it. (instead, âgentileâ or simply ânot jewishâ is fine.)
antisemitism is a combination of religious intolerance, cultural prejudice, and ethnic persecution. sometimes âantisemitismâ and âracismâ are interchangeable, sometimes they arenât, usually itâs a bit of both. much like how islamaphobia can be a combination of religious intolerance and anti-arab racism (although obviously not all muslims are arab, and not all arabs are muslim).Â
âantisemitismâ was a term coined by germans in the 19th century because it sounded better than âjudenhassâ (meaning âjew hatredâ). (btw, not all âsemitic peopleâ can be affected by âantisemitismâ because it specifically means hostility towards/ prejudice against jews. stop bringing that up as an argument, itâs invalid.)Â
the insinuation of any kind that â[all] jews are [filthy] richâ is antisemitic.Â
witches, dwarves, goblins, and any other portrayal of an unclean and corrupt people with big, hooked noses and/or green skin who love gold/money, drinking the blood of babies, etc. is directly rooted in antisemitism. now you know.Â
[white] jews are allowed to complain about white people. regardless of their race, their culture/ethnicity/religion makes them a direct target of white supremacist violence, and they have definitely faced antisemitism over the course of their lives. white people are their oppressors, and a [white] jew complaining about white people is not equivalent to a white person complaining about white people to collect their liberal ally brownie points and to distance themselves from active racists. itâs not the same. all jews are allowed to vent about their oppressors, regardless of skin color.Â
if you know a jew who isnât actively offended by something antisemitic, every jew who does take offense isnât being oversensitive. take heed of their voices, not the one âgood jewâ inadvertently validating you.Â
saying âjewâ instead of âjewish personâ isnât actively offensive, but it does make a lot of us uncomfortable. itâs definitely not as offensive as saying âthe blacksâ or âthe gaysâ because it describes a religious group and is therefore grammatically correct, but itâs still subliminally dehumanizing, and it would be awfully nice if you were conscious of sparing us the courtesy of those extra three syllables.Â
in my experience, my friends of color have been much more sympathetic towards jewish issues and antisemitism than the white people i know. the obvious reason to this being that they are immediately able to empathize with minority struggle and are less likely to subconsciously harbor prejudice and/or consider themselves superior. this does not mean that people of color cannot perpetuate antisemitism, and any poc reading this should make an effort to be just as conscious. youâre not given a pass for being not-white, as jews arenât exclusively victims of white supremacy, and any goy has the potential to be actively antisemitic.Â
also, goy is simply the hebrew word for non-jew. itâs not inherently derogatory, and even when it is used derogatorily, donât take offense.Â
finally, donât assume that all jews will agree with me on any of these points. i am writing all of this from personal experience, and these are my opinions. not everything is black and white, and many of these issues have no right answer. (after all, a nuanced debate is at the very core of jewish belief.) if you see a conflicting opinion, iâve probably also taken said opinion into account, and that doesnât mean that you should be allowed to disregard this entire post.Â
while this post turned out to be way longer than i originally intended, if any jews feel like adding to this post, donât be discouraged to do so. but please avoid any discussion of israel on this post. i donât wanna see it. also, sorry if i sound condescending and/or angry at times, im just Tired (in every way imaginable). goyim are encouraged to reblog. .âת××× ×¨××
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