Remixing anti-Semitism
To the post-1967 progressive mind, we had become Europeans, when, until Israel’s independence, were considered neither fully white nor adequately oriental, even though it was not uncommon for Jews to be derided as ‘Muslim’.
The problem is that the contemporary judgment of the left, committed as it is to the colonial critique of Zionism, oversimplifies this history, forgetting it, impeding the Arab connection. It also fails to acknowledge any other Jewish ethnicity than Ashkenazi, further severing any ties between Jews and the Levant.
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