People Keep Seeing Through My Jew-Hate Disguised As Hate For Jewish Security

By Marc Lamont Hill, activist

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Washington, February 10 – I’m a proud anti-racist, a fighter for social justice who seeks to uphold the rights and narrative of oppressed minorities. As such, I carry heightened sensitivity to accusations that I express, or even harbor, discriminatory attitudes. I must therefore dress up my animus toward Jews as opposition to Zionism, a movement that I must therefore, in turn, define in the most distorted, malicious terms. Only thus can I conceal my loathing for those of the Hebrew persuasion. Unfortunately, it turns out that opposing the movement for Hebrew liberation and sovereignty offers too flimsy a mask behind which to hide that loathing, and far too many observers have perceived the truth.

It certainly does not help that I have expressed admiration for, and defended, avowed antisemite Louis Farrakhan, as a stalwart fighter for the rights of the African-American community, as long as that comes at the expense of whites. Still, with that as the sole data point, one might have thought I could use my phobia of Jewish control of Jewish security and safety as sufficient cover for my actual sentiments. Numerous other public figures pull off the same feat; the mainstream, left-leaning media tends to take a soft approach to progressives. Apparently, however, my robust denunciations of the world’s only Jewish state, and by extension of all who I assume to support it merely by dint of their common heritage, fail to shield my underlying antisemitism from detection.

At first I thought perhaps the veil of intolerance for Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral homeland, a veil that I kept in place as best I could, was simply too thin, meaning I had to apply more layers of anti-Zionist social justice rhetoric: that Jewish liberation perforce means dispossession of brown Palestinians, and how that mirrors US racial politics; that Jews in the US who fail to denounce Zionism with enough gusto are complicit in ethnic cleansing; that American Jews must, by default, bear suspicion of colonialist sympathies unless and until they demonstrate otherwise, and until then must not gain entry to respectable progressive circles. That assumption led me to embrace Minister Farrakhan harder, for example, and to impugn the progressive credentials of any Jew who challenged me on that. But somehow, and I remain at a loss to explain this, the veil still failed to cover my Jew-hate.

One colleague suggested a period of prolonged silence on any topic relating to Jews or Israel, so that my previous rhetoric may fade from public consciousness. But I don’t think I could suppress my true feelings for long.

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