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Feb 17, 2022·edited Feb 17, 2022

Intersectionality itself is fraudulent, part of the mind games played in academic jargon and now spreading like a blight across the landscape. Classifying Jews as "white" (not in the phenotypic sense, but in the sense of "oppressor white Euro-Christians") is only one aspect of this fraud. Another is the way that JVP et al. are the "useful idiots" of CAIR and the like.

Once you reject this racket and become honest with yourself and others, Zionism and Israel become straightforward. It doesn't mean you're "right-wing" or necessarily agree with Israeli policies. It does mean you accept peoplehood and the necessity and legitimacy of a state. It means avoiding double standards and double talk.

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Feb 17, 2022·edited Feb 17, 2022

The Times may have chosen odd representatives to illustrate the generational gap, but they're getting the idea from the Pew study on this topic which they cite. This shows, for instance, that 48% of the youngest group feels very/somewhat attached to Israel vs. 67% among the oldest group, etc. etc., https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/05/21/u-s-jews-have-widely-differing-views-on-israel/

Obviously that leaves a lot of room for age-diverse cohorts on either side of the divide while still being a meaningful gap. The other patterns that emerge when you look at the results are, not surprisingly, that Republicans and Orthodox Jews tend to be more positive about the Israeli government (although Conservative Jews are more likely to say that caring about Israel is essential to their Judaism), but also that educational attainment is negatively correlated with support for the government. It's certainly possible there's an immigrant element to this too -- they didn't report the crosstabs on it, but they collect the data, so you could ask.

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Team A is why one sees no outrage and concern into Semitism in the legacy media, academia and popular culture and emanating from communities that are deemed oppressive in intersectional jargon

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