Rising antisemitism cannot be unlinked from the biased education arising recently even at elite universities. Jews are classified as “oppressors” in the simplistic and popular oppressor/oppressed framework. In California, the “Ethnic Studies” curriculum will be a required class by 2030. Ethnic Studies has gained wide support from Jewish leaders who insist that if the proper “guardrails” are implemented, Ethnic Studies theoretically would not be antisemitic.
But this only partially ignores what is actually being taught in Ethnic Studies – the oppressed/oppressor framework is about teaching “narratives,” not truth or academic inquiry. Jewish leaders insist they can win the “narrative” by persuading their colleagues that Jews are just as good as any other minority, but that cannot cure the antisemitism inherent in the model Ethnic Studies curriculum.
“Assimilation allowed the children of Jewish immigrants to change their position on the racial hierarchy from that of their immigrant parents, though they remained vulnerable to antisemitism.”
Ethnic Studies model curriculum, Sample Lessons and Topics, p. 381.
Keep in mind this is the approved version of Ethnic Studies, not the first three rounds that were thrown out for being too antisemitic. It is hard to imagine a single sentence packed with more antisemitism than this one from the model curriculum. The model curriculum explains that Jewish people were on the low end of the “racial hierarchy” apparently, but somehow “switched position” with some other group. What races did Jews topple over on their way up the racial climbing? Has any other people besides Jews been able to perform this magical leap of racial advancement.
This is just one sentence. Jews are also singled out as the only group who is a hybrid minority who is able to “blend in” sometimes as white people. Jews are associated with this sinister concept of “conditional whiteness” six times.
So why is it surprising that there is a negative perception of Jews when we are teaching it in our own schools?
Rising antisemitism cannot be unlinked from the biased education arising recently even at elite universities. Jews are classified as “oppressors” in the simplistic and popular oppressor/oppressed framework. In California, the “Ethnic Studies” curriculum will be a required class by 2030. Ethnic Studies has gained wide support from Jewish leaders who insist that if the proper “guardrails” are implemented, Ethnic Studies theoretically would not be antisemitic.
But this only partially ignores what is actually being taught in Ethnic Studies – the oppressed/oppressor framework is about teaching “narratives,” not truth or academic inquiry. Jewish leaders insist they can win the “narrative” by persuading their colleagues that Jews are just as good as any other minority, but that cannot cure the antisemitism inherent in the model Ethnic Studies curriculum.
Just take a look at what the model curriculum has to say about the experience of Jewish people in the United States:
“Assimilation allowed the children of Jewish immigrants to change their
position on the racial hierarchy from that of their immigrant parents, though
they remained vulnerable to antisemitism.”
Ethnic Studies model curriculum, Sample Lessons and Topics, p. 381.
Keep in mind this is the approved version of Ethnic Studies, not the first three rounds that were thrown out for being too antisemitic. It is hard to imagine a single sentence packed with more antisemitism than this one from the model curriculum. The model curriculum explains that Jewish people were on the low end of the “racial hierarchy” apparently, but somehow “switched position” with some other group. What races did Jews topple over on their way up the racial climbing? Has any other people besides Jews been able to perform this magical leap of racial advancement.
This is just one sentence. Jews are also singled out as the only group who is a hybrid minority who is able to “blend in” sometimes as white people. Jews are associated with this sinister concept of “conditional whiteness” six times.
So why is it surprising that there is a negative perception of Jews when we are teaching it in our own schools?