Anti-Semitism Is Now Mainstream

Jewish students are physically blocked from going to class at UCLA, and must lock themselves in a room to hide from a violent mob at Columbia. My wife graduated from UCLA, and my father attended classes at Columbia, so these facts are personally painful.

To descend further, Whoopi Goldberg declares on “The View” that the Holocaust was not racist. A so-called comedian uses a prototypically Jewish stage name, then feels free to trivialize the Holocaust, and gets by with an apology while remaining on TV. What is going on here?

When two Israeli Embassy staffers are shot to death on a Washington, D.C. street, we can be saddened, angered, and dismayed. But we cannot be surprised. We saw it coming.

Everywhere we see “anti-whiteness” programs, in schools, in colleges, at work. I have pale skin and green eyes, but who says I’m “white”?

As a little girl in Russia, my mother hid with her family for three days from a pogrom, because Jews weren’t “white.” As  boy in Poland, my father had no hope of attending a university, because he wasn’t “white.” His eldest brother was murdered in the Holocaust, because he wasn’t “white.”

Even in the US my father had trouble getting into medical school because of a quota against “non-whites.” And years later, when I applied to medical school, an interviewer questioned my “accent,” though I was born in North Dakota.

But now I and those like me are in disfavor because we’re “white.” Say what? When it was good to be white, we weren’t. Now that it’s bad to be white, we are. Whatever the favored group is, we Jews are in the other group. Odd how that works.

Racism is like alcoholism. The only way to quit is total abstinence. We can’t just drink “a little bit.” Throw the concept of “race” into the trash can where it belongs, and let’s move ahead.