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I think this is hyperbole, and to the degree that it's true, is it less true of European Jews?
That seems like a pretty specious comparison. I would agree that Israelis are paranoid, but they literally are surrounded by people who are out to get them! As for other Jews, well, they know people like our resident Jew-haters are around, loudly proclaiming what they think of Jews and less loudly implying what they'd like to happen to them. Are you paranoid if there really are people out to get you? And yet the vast majority of Jews are not "rootless cosmopolitans" with a dozen passports.
Jews have historically generally been pretty leftist and involved in leftist organizations, including pro-immigration organizations. Is that because they hate white people, or because their religion tends to be a liberal-leaning religion? The "impression" that Jews are all disloyal parasites because of the ADL is no different from any other generalization constructed by taking the worst attributes of the worst people in the group you don't like and claiming they define the very character of that group.
It's not written into law, if that's what you mean, but both the actions and public statements by European governments are not consistent with equal protections under the law.
Sort of, in that you could get away with saying things about Europeans that you would not get away with saying about Jewish people... but it's also true there's been a spooky shift in public sentiment lately.
But either way, by your logic, all this should mean is that Europeans should also be collecting passports.
Not sure if that's worse than all the talk of dismantling white supermarket cisheteronormative capitalist patriarchies, especially that anti-Jewish sentiment is still yet to reach the heights of power that the anti-cis-het-white-men sentiment is spoken from.
If that was the reason, I'd expect them to be at their mist liberal where they are most religious, and I'm seeing the opposite.
...not what I said.
First of all I literally finished off with saying that judging Jewish people by orgs like the ADL will leave you with a skewed view of them, but more importantly: where did I say anything about disloyal parasites? I gave the ADL as an example of Jewish paranoia, and no amount of "people out to get them" justifies the levels of finding Nazism in ham sandwiches that they engage in.
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You are vastly underselling this- the thrust of Jewish influence in all areas of American politics and culture has been enormously weighted towards social movements advocating for non-whites and social criticism of white culture, religion and racial identity. From Hollywood to Academia to the NGO apparatus, these criticisms and cultural movements defined the Twentieth century. But then Israel comes along and violates every cultural theory and social norm Jews have advocated among Gentiles for a century, the sheer hypocrisy is too much, they won't get away with it without both the American Left and Right abandoning them. The lack of introspection among Jews and Israelis is astounding, they always blame everyone else in the entire world except for their own behavior.
It is very, very easy to see why the cultural and social movements that Jews spearheaded for the past 100 years is in undeniably stark contrast with Israeli geopolitical ambitions and Israeli treatment of the Palestinians. The sheer hypocrisy is the cause of the seismic shift in opinion on Israel and proliferation of anti-semitism, not unavoidable historical circumstances.
I thought criticism of Israel wasn't the same as criticism of Jews. It's interesting how they're distinct or the same group depending on the convenience for your current line of attack.
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