You should work somewhere where half the workforce is black, as I have, and you will be astounded at the anti-Semitism and anti-white bigotry. It’s not openly 100% but it’s close.
Ian McKinney
2 years ago
What utter tripe. How did this pass unherd’s editors??
James Joyce
2 years ago
“The other major strength I would posit the United States has is its colour blind liberal ethos. Our schools and our system of laws stresses that group generalisations and discrimination are both irrational and harmful. We’re taught to see people as individuals first and members of groups second.”
This article shows an absolutely shocking lack of insight into America. Utter tosh! Excuse me, have you been on Mars for 50 years? The exact opposite of what you say above has become mainstream, accepted dogma by some of America–those with the loudest voices, the elites, the technology platforms, and has been rammed down the throat of the plebs. Your mild qualification “That may be under threat now….” does not recognize reality. It’s not as bad as you think, it’s worse. Much worse.
Samuel Ross
2 years ago
Firstly, let me say that this author is a “cup half full” kind of fellow. Kudos to him for that. That said, libs in the US are wokist more than liberal. They think that color and ethnicity are the MOST important parts of a person’s identity. And please, tell me what “far-right” anti-Semitic violence you see on the world stage today? It’s mostly from the left/liberal/woke/progressive and from Muslims (admittedly, not so much in the US of A). And when it comes to anti-Israel propaganda and lies, the BBC in England is as bad as any government channel in Pakistan!
Nicky Samengo-Turner
2 years ago
The Israeli new relationship with the Gulf states and Arabs is, thank God, a masterful piece of skill on behalf of Israel, that will more than help to contain Islamic extremeism…
Doug Pingel
2 years ago
Perhaps the Author should take his blinkers off before he next puts pen to paper.
Why – he is correct – USA Muslims and Jews get along better than anywhere else. And also it is because the level of education in the Groups – where in Europe and UK the unskilled made the biggest migrations.
His bit “But the event serves as a reminder that the American far-Right hardly has a monopoly on anti-Semitism.” shows a great deal of ignorance as such a ‘Hard Right’ is almost negligible. Most of the Right have no issue with migrants of any kind who come with education or skills.
Howard Ahmanson
2 years ago
It would be interesting to go through history and see the times that Jews got along better with Muslims than they did with Christians. There were a lot of times and places where that was true. And a lot of Jews today remember.
Till the Pan-Arabism movement swept the Arabia and North Africa, really about the 1950s, the Jews and Muslims functioned in every city in the ME. In the 60s when the Israeli wars began it really took off in a really bad way anti-Semitism became universal and so the great pogroms of all the Islamic lands…..
L Walker
2 years ago
Wrong, wrong. anti-Semitism in the US is overwhelmingly from the left. Before you write another piece like this, do better research. And as has already been pointed out when we have more Muslims we will have more attacks in Jews. To believe otherwise is to be suffering from delusions.
Wrong. There aren’t enough Muslims in the US to cause the problems as seen elsewhere. Just wait until there are as many Muslims as Jews…
There are. A lot of them are African American. Their form of Islam has little tendency to Judeophobia, and none to terrorism.
You should work somewhere where half the workforce is black, as I have, and you will be astounded at the anti-Semitism and anti-white bigotry. It’s not openly 100% but it’s close.
What utter tripe. How did this pass unherd’s editors??
“The other major strength I would posit the United States has is its colour blind liberal ethos. Our schools and our system of laws stresses that group generalisations and discrimination are both irrational and harmful. We’re taught to see people as individuals first and members of groups second.”
This article shows an absolutely shocking lack of insight into America. Utter tosh! Excuse me, have you been on Mars for 50 years? The exact opposite of what you say above has become mainstream, accepted dogma by some of America–those with the loudest voices, the elites, the technology platforms, and has been rammed down the throat of the plebs.
Your mild qualification “That may be under threat now….” does not recognize reality.
It’s not as bad as you think, it’s worse. Much worse.
Firstly, let me say that this author is a “cup half full” kind of fellow. Kudos to him for that. That said, libs in the US are wokist more than liberal. They think that color and ethnicity are the MOST important parts of a person’s identity. And please, tell me what “far-right” anti-Semitic violence you see on the world stage today? It’s mostly from the left/liberal/woke/progressive and from Muslims (admittedly, not so much in the US of A). And when it comes to anti-Israel propaganda and lies, the BBC in England is as bad as any government channel in Pakistan!
The Israeli new relationship with the Gulf states and Arabs is, thank God, a masterful piece of skill on behalf of Israel, that will more than help to contain Islamic extremeism…
Perhaps the Author should take his blinkers off before he next puts pen to paper.
Why – he is correct – USA Muslims and Jews get along better than anywhere else. And also it is because the level of education in the Groups – where in Europe and UK the unskilled made the biggest migrations.
His bit “But the event serves as a reminder that the American far-Right hardly has a monopoly on anti-Semitism.” shows a great deal of ignorance as such a ‘Hard Right’ is almost negligible. Most of the Right have no issue with migrants of any kind who come with education or skills.
It would be interesting to go through history and see the times that Jews got along better with Muslims than they did with Christians. There were a lot of times and places where that was true. And a lot of Jews today remember.
Till the Pan-Arabism movement swept the Arabia and North Africa, really about the 1950s, the Jews and Muslims functioned in every city in the ME. In the 60s when the Israeli wars began it really took off in a really bad way anti-Semitism became universal and so the great pogroms of all the Islamic lands…..
Wrong, wrong. anti-Semitism in the US is overwhelmingly from the left. Before you write another piece like this, do better research. And as has already been pointed out when we have more Muslims we will have more attacks in Jews. To believe otherwise is to be suffering from delusions.