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A New American Ideology Has Dangerous Implications for Jews
(Tablet) Bari Weiss - A new American ideology has attained cultural dominance, capturing America's elites and our most powerful institutions. For Jews, an ideology that contends that there are no meaningful differences between cultures is not simply ridiculous - we have an obviously distinct history, tradition and religion that has been the source of both enormous tragedy as well as boundless gifts - but is also, as history has shown, lethal. In this new ideology, the things about us that make us different must be demonized, so that they can be erased or destroyed: Zionism is refashioned as colonialism; Jewish businesses can be looted because Jews "are the face of capital." Jews are flattened into "white people," our history obliterated, so that someone can suggest that the Holocaust was merely "white on white crime." This ideology has taken over universities, publishing houses, the media, museums and is now making quick work of corporate America. It does not matter how progressive you are. To believe in the justness of the existence of the Jewish state - to believe in Jewish particularism at all - is to make yourself an enemy of this movement. Jews who refuse to erase what makes us different will increasingly be defined as racists. The writer is a former opinion editor and writer at the New York Times.