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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-716691
The Intersectionality of Antisemitism
(Jerusalem Post) Ruthie Blum - Fiamma Nirenstein's latest book, Jewish Lives Matter, paints an aptly bleak portrait of the way in which Jew-hatred has had a resurgence in the West under the guise of human rights. As Nirenstein illustrates, this inversion of good and evil was given a serious push by champions of the Palestinian cause, whose false claims against the Zionist enterprise provided the perfect cloak for any antisemitism that was dormant, or at least kept under wraps, in the aftermath of the Holocaust. She writes, "Although Jews could only be identified by a very manipulative observer as the white oppressor or masculinist, this is precisely what has happened. The so-called intersectionality purportedly aimed at realizing human rights for all has become the catalyst for the current wave of antisemitism." The intersectional ploy of linking the Palestinians to a progressive agenda against all oppression is outrageous, since the Palestinian Authority, which has total control over its media, openly discriminates against women, gays and blacks. Nirenstein also notes "the new version of antisemitism that puts the Jew in the same category as the white supremacist....Jews have been strangely expunged from the list of the persecuted and added to that of the persecutors."