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American Jews enjoy and suffer from, respectively, “white privileging and white fragility,” stated Sahar Aziz, director of Rutgers University Center for Security, Race, and Rights (CSRR), during its February 21 webinar. While Jews in America and beyond face a global surge in antisemitism following Hamas’ brutal October 7, 2023, attack upon Israel, CSRR and its factually-challenged director have once again displayed anti-Jewish, jihadist apologetics.
Aziz spoke with her likeminded colleague, Noura Erakat, Rutgers University associate professor of Africana studies, in a webinar titled after her 2019 book, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. She concurred with Aziz, stating that Jews have effectively “become white in the United States,” like groups such as Irish Americans, who have entered mainstream society following past prejudice. American Jews should recognize that they “are privileged vis-à-vis their Muslim, their Palestinian, their Arab counterparts and colleagues,” Aziz said of groups increasingly notable for their hatred of Jews and Israel.
“With privilege comes responsibility and not the abuse of that privilege to oppress other people,” Aziz lectured supposedly powerful, oppressive Jews while Muslims worldwide have celebrated jihadists such as Hamas. She contrasted in America “how easily vilified and dehumanized the Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab communities” are while Jewish “voices are centered, their experiences are centered.” “White fragility is all about feelings of the white privileged group and to hell with the bodily autonomy, the liberty, the life, the dignity, and the physical safety of black bodies,” she said without showing concern for Jewish bodies.
Given Aziz’s denial of Islamic and leftist antisemitism centered around hatred of Israel, she considered Jew-hatred largely a matter of history. Many people “are speaking in anachronistic terms and in contexts that are not even in the United States and also happened in the past,” she said. She seems to think antisemitism died with Adolf Hitler in 1945 and has no relation to Iran’s modern Islamic Republic.
Such denialism prompted Aziz laughably to assert that Jews should join her Israel-hating coalition to win allies against what she saw as the main antisemitic threat. This intersectionality was a precondition if Jews “want people to pay attention and to care about the various ways in which your community may be oppressed” from “traditional Eurocentric, white nationalist antisemitic” threats. Erakat similarly wanted “to imagine our struggle as a united struggle against white supremacy” alongside “Jews who face antisemitism…stemming from white supremacy.”
Few Jews would see Erakat as an ally, given her venom against Israel, slandered by her as an “exclusively Jewish state that necessitates the ongoing removal of Palestinians, their dispossession, and containment.” Israel lacks “meaningful equality for the Palestinian citizens of the state” under “apartheid,” she said, even as Israel’s Arabs increasingly identify with Israel and volunteer to perform both military and nonmilitary national service. This undermines her assertation that in Israel to “discriminate, you don’t have to say no Arabs welcome or no Palestinians welcome, you can say other things like military service required, which becomes a smoke screen.”
Correspondingly, Israeli self-defense, a responsibility that any state must fulfill in response to aggression, held little appeal for Erakat. Currently protesting Israeli actions to destroy Hamas, “anti-war activists are being accused of antisemitism for being anti-war activists for calling for an end to genocide,” she said. Yet the extraordinarily low levels of civilian casualties during Israel’s Gaza offensive refute her absurd genocide charges while Hamas theft of humanitarian aid is the reason that Gaza Arabs are “starving”.
While Erakat demanded that Israel cease its military actions, hostile moves towards Israel did not bother her. “This is a moment to rescind from the Abraham Accords,” she said, citing the peace agreements negotiated between Israel and various Arab states in 2020. “Egypt has threatened to rescind from Camp David, which is good,” she added in praise of indications that Egypt might abandon its 1979 peace treaty with Israel.
While Erakat made the debunked claim that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) recognized Israel in 1988, she undermined any such recognition by demanding a Palestinian “right of return.” Under this concept, millions of descendants of some 600,000 Arabs who fled what became Israel during its 1948 independence war could demand a “return” to Israel as so-called “refugees,” resulting in a demographic destruction of Israel’s Jewish state. Numerous legal arguments rebut her contention that Palestinians “are denied the right of return as established by customary law, human rights law as well as [United Nations] General Assembly Resolution 194.”
Even as Erakat advocated destroying Israel, it remained unalterably an aggressor in her mind. Since October 7, 2023, Israel has attacked Lebanese targets “in an effort to draw Lebanon into the war,” she said, ignoring the attacks upon Israel by Hamas’ fellow jihadists in Lebanon from the Iranian-backed Hezbollah. It “would be in Israel’s interest to expand the war to have the U.S. become involved to be able to finish the job under the cover of a massive war,” she said, as if Israel had some nefarious objective other than to live in peace.
Yet Zionist Jews fighting to survive in Israel, and not their Palestinian and other jihadist tormenters, appeared to Erakat as selfish. “The way that we have thought about Palestine all this time is to center Zionist settler sovereignty as the ultimate priority around which people can get the crumbs once that’s taken care of,” she said. Given Arab rejection of Zionist offers to accept an Arab state alongside a Jewish state in the territory of what was the post-World War I League of Nations Palestine Mandate going back to 1937, her statement is ludicrous.
Perhaps the only thing more shocking than the topsy-turvy views of academics such as Erakat and Aziz is the fact that they are so prominent throughout publicly and privately funded higher education. Jews and others with the slightest pro-Israel inclinations will never receive fair treatment from this duo inside or outside of the classroom, a mockery of the university as a free exchange of ideas. Tax and tuition payers in New Jersey and beyond must find ways to end this intellectual farce.
American Jews should recognize that they “are privileged vis-à-vis their Muslim, their Palestinian, their Arab counterparts and colleagues,”
What a load of garbage. In the city where I was born, the council estate where my mum raised us without a father, it was all white people and someone painted “Keep Brum White” on a wall.
Today that estate (project) is majority white while the middle class houses surrounding it are vast majority Pakistani owned.
Privilege?
This is anti Semitism subsidized by New Jersey taxpayers
How can we change this ? I know. I am a retired professor. I need to talk to you.
Dr Zilbergeld
Israel-hating trash is endemic at Rutgers, especially the women’s study dept.
How to convince enough potential students that a college education, in most of these places, has gone from being not really useful, to a downright impediment ?
I think this is evidenced by the fact that so many college educated people see nothing wrong with denying voting rights to those who disagree with them. Colleges no longer teach students how to think. They teach students what to think. It seems to me that people who do not have a college education are actually better off.. they still have minds of their own.
This can be changed in the blink of an eye Get in touch.
Dr George Zilbergeld
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas both insist that every square meter of land that they control be 100% juderein and make sale of land to Jews a capital offense. The “moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas” wrote his doctoral thesis (do “oppressed people” have doctoral theses?) denying the Holocaust, and also denies the First and Second Temples in Jerusalen ever existed (odd, the Romans who destroyed the Second Temple celebrated the even with the Arch of Titus in Rome, which stands to this day). Abbas (and the genocidal Hamas regime in Gaza) were elected to four year terms in 2005 and have not faced voters since then.
When Arabs controlled Gaza, Judea and Samaria from 1948 to 1967 they never made any attempt to establish a Palestinian state, although they did ethnically cleanse Jewish Communities in Gaza, the Etzion Bloc and the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, which was reduced to ruins. All Jews, including non Israelis were barred from visiting the Western Wall and other Jewish holy places. No virtue signaling celebrities, the United Nations or countries such as Spain, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium or the United States State Department ever protested any of this.
When Arabs speak of “Apartheid”, “Genocide” and “racism”, they’re expressing more projection than in all the screening rooms of their apologists in Hollywood.
You’re absolutely right. So well said.
Why do all my comments go to “moderation”? Yet all of them have been posted in end. Am I on a list or something? Would you prefer I not comment at all?
Any profs speaking up against Privileged Muslims?
So get on with it Erakat. What are you waiting for. You have a waiting army of jihadi Muslim ferals in Dearbornistan along with the thrill seeking idiot privileged wannabe Antifa white kids who can’t wait to “get some”….until they get a hangnail or something.
Aren’t you sick of conferences in the rarified atmosphere of Rutgers.
Just asking, tough guys.
Once upon a time Rutgers used to be one of the original Ivy League Schools, believe it or not. Perhaps that is why we are seeing this overhang of antisemitism and outright Jew-hatred in New Jersey, of all places. Jews were part of the founding of this Republic and have been critical to the growth and maintenance of our Constitutional Republic. The Arab world on the other hand has been nothing but an impediment to peace and is forever attacking the basic tenets our our Constitutional Republic. So why are ANY tax dollars being used to fund these purveyors of anti-Americanism?
Excellent question and excellent post. Personally, I could barely tolerate the introductory remarks based on the premise that “Palestinians ” are presumed to be AntiSemitic with absolutely NO Evidence ! And that Israel is perpetrating an “Ongoing Genocide. Both stated with straight faces. As if we are all deaf, illiterate and blind….as I recall Oct 7, the Israelis were having a peaceful Music Festival with lots of young people dancing. No Palestinians were being slaughtered. No bloodshed at all until Hamas showed up with ‘Palestinian civilians’ and committed the most horrifying, barbarous attack on Jews since the Holocaust and here they come crying Wolf! as usual, and most Americans are not buying it ! Our heartfelt sympathy is with Israel.
They need to be sued for Antisemitism.. $$$$Millions of dollars. That will force them to positive action.
I don’t remember a Jewish connection to 9-11.
Educated but grotesquely ignorant. So much so that they are a danger even to themselves.
Sophomores even with advanced degrees. Something is terribly wrong with upper education here. They suffer too much leisure and they are overly compensated for the piddly amount of work, teaching they actually perform.
Iow, they are dumbbells with advanced degrees. To have presented like this is definite proof they have not earned their degrees.
She would have you believe that she is a left wing intellectual. In truth she is a primitive Muslim whose holy book tells her that it is unacceptable that Jews live better lives than Muslims, and are more highly regarded, and so she is having a fit.
She should move her privileged butt back to Cairo, Egypt, where she was born. We allowed this piece of trash to move and live here so that she could divide and demean our population? Why? Who needs her?
Arabs usually insist they are white.
Why are the Jewish people so incredibly overrepresented amongst winners of the Nobel Prize and in the higher professions?
Trigger warning for Truthophobes: I am about to allude to logic. Maybe cultures are not equal and those raised in a culture that emphasizes education end up overachieving. It is my own “privilege” that I get to benefit so much from the contributions of the Jewish people.
Lan Astaslem
Arab racism (like Sahar Azis, or 70% of “Palestinians” who support Oct 7 atrocities) are the cause of the conflict and genocide campaign since 1920.
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Genocide vs Pallyweid
The world must be reminded of the Palestinian genocide campaign against Jews.
Y Medad, The Jerusalem Post, March 14, 2024.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-791802
There was a genocide campaign. It was conducted not against ‘Palestine’, but in Palestine, in the Mandate of Palestine.
And people aren’t worried yet that these folks are slowly taking over our institutions and our country? They should be.
The difference between these people and fascist intellectuals of the thirties is like the difference between Stupid Stevie and Stevie in Family Guy..
It is the same evil and the same banality either way, small people puffing themselves up in resentment against their own insignificance,.
The roots of Nazism lie not in what is blond and what is mighty like that blond lion of Germany , but in what is small and resentful and Carrie’s that sense of entitlement..
He left have made a religion out of that banality.
That is to say the feminist of intelligentsia in full embrace with the incel armies of Hamas.
That alone defines the banality of who they are.
the irony of the article and the ignoramus in question ” aziz ” is that a wealthy philanthropist jew has probably been paying her salary . as mr. s d greenspan [ philanthropist ] found out to his dismay when all the antisemites came out from under a rock at columbia , and he is a dyed in the wool democrat supporter . as are most jews in america . jews in america are their own worst enemy and have backed the wrong team for years . they will now pay the price for their stupidity . unfortunately it is too late . they have poured millions down the drain supporting democrat miscreants and their marxist ideologues . they have contributed to their own destruction .