There is a change happening among Jews right now that I fear will divide us forever. Before, if you were a Jew, you were a Jew. You helped other Jews out, you were family no matter how long you knew them for. Political forces are working very hard now to drive a wedge into that bond. There are people that want to attach Jewishness to a set of political ideas, a code of authenticity in the brain. “Do you support Israel?” “Do you sympathize with Hamas?” “Wasn’t it awful how those Hamas savages fingered any Jewish woman they could get their hands on with their disgusting finger nails?” (That last one is a real thing someone said to me).
Tensions are very high right now, and Donald Trump has been busy fanning the flames of division:
Trump has been saying stuff like this for a long time. One of my earliest propaganda posts from 2022 was about this very subject: https://www.aaaahh.net/propaganda-8/
I greatly resent this trend. We ask to be born a Jew just as much as anybody can ask to be born a Palestinian, or a Christian, or Black, or short, or with weird ears. We grow up with our beliefs and our heritage and our history and we track our own course in life. To assign Jewishness to a nationality, a place, Israel, is coercive. And certainly, nobody is allowed to say you are or aren’t Jewish enough. Especially somebody that isn’t Jewish. You can’t make a political test of it, that’s for damn sure.
Now congress, instead of writing laws and fixing our country, is busy quizzing college boards to see if they respond with a sufficient degree of subservience to the narrative being written for us. Freedom of speech be damned!