The problem with the intersectionality movement isn’t that it excludes, but rather who it excludes, and the lack of principle underlying it (“Intersectionality excludes and includes. Jews must learn the difference.”)
If the intersectionality movement were truly concerned with women’s rights, it would praise Israel. A majority of Israel’s undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students are women, and Israeli women have become national leaders (Golda Meir), Nobel Prize-winning scientists (Ada Yonath) and even “superheroes” (Gal Gadot).
It would condemn the Palestinians for condoning female genital mutilation, honor killings, marital rape and plural marriages; for glorifying terrorism by naming public squares and girls high schools after Dalal Mughrabi, a terrorist who murdered 13 Israeli children; and for allowing rape victims to be intimidated into silence lest they be criminally charged with adultery or even pressured to marry the rapist so he can avoid prosecution.
If intersectionality were concerned with LGBTQ rights, it would align with Israel, where LGBTQ rights are respected, and condemn the Palestinians, where the LGBTQ community is persecuted.
If intersectionality were concerned with civil rights, it would laud Israel, a democratic, multicultural melting pot of Holocaust survivors; Jewish refugees from the Arab world; immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia, France and the United States; and Arab Muslims, Christians, Druze and Ba’hai; all of whom have full civil rights. It would condemn the Palestinians, whose autocratic leaders vow that no Jew shall remain in a Palestinian state.
If intersectionality were concerned with peace, it would extol Israel, which offered the Palestinians a state born in peace during talks in 2000, 2001 and 2008, and condemn the Palestinians for rejecting peace and responding by bombing Israeli children in schools, buses, discos and pizzerias.
When intersectionality rejects Israel, it’s based not on principle, but on anti-Semitic bigotry.
Stephen A. Silver,
San Francisco
Intersectionality is a bogus new linkage which blames the Jewish state for basically everything.
You want the simple answer? Because western culture has taught that Jews killed their Jesus G*d for over two thousand years. That has allowed Jews to be the perpetual outsider that all groups can rally against sooner or later. It’s tradition.
You’re not a really good group unless you can start excluding people. At a base level what you have has no value unless you can deny it to others.
Jews are the perpetual other.
In every western culture and in every time Jews are the oppressed. Yes there are islands of relative peace for us. But sooner or later every group needs a boogie man and that’s us. Thousands or millions dispossessed, exiled, raped and exterminated.
I have a big belly laugh when my lefty Jewish acquaintences think their pro gay or feminist or civil rights positions make them a part of anything. They are always to be excluded at a base level unless they become token Jews who turn on their own. That’s what the dyke March thing was about.
When Israel was formed Jews went to the United Nations and had a “legal” vote. When we came to collect on the promises made to us five Nations, all un members, launched a war of genocide. And then did it twice more.
Anybody go to jail for waging wars of aggression? Any reparations paid? Any sanctions assessed? Was there any penalty at all for attempting to slaughter jews en masse?
Two years after israels war of independence, which was essentially five Nations telling the United Nations to go screw themselves, north korea invaded South Korea. The us had tens of thousands of troops there when it happened and then sent hundreds of thousands to get it back because “international law” and South Korean freedom was worth all those lives and all that money.
In 1948 the Americans and British put ships off the Israeli coastline to evacuate any survivors left after the genocide. But not one soldier on the ground to stop it.
See the difference?
The un didn’t step in to prevent the Arabs from launching the genocide they clearly threatened and positioned tens of thousands if troops to carry out- any of them. They only stepped in each time the Arabs failed to exterminate the jews because because they thought Jews not laying down and dying was unfair.
It’s like the cops waiting for the rapist to get it over with, when it doesn’t go as planned charging the woman with assault for not just going along with the rape, apologizing to the rapist for the woman’s bad manners and then getting angry with her for not going on a date with him to show there were no bad feelings. And making her pick up the tab. Cause of course she was just asking for it.
That’s the unreal world of the Jew. And it’s been going on for a couple thousand years.
It would condemn the Palestinians for condoning female genital mutilation……
and for having a so called religion based on Jew and Christian Hatred
I chuckle at the frustrations of Jewish leftists. You’re asking for reason and tolerance from the LGBT movement, from Black Lives Matters, from Jihadis, from Mexican irredentists, from open-borders enthusiasts? These are all people who are fundamentally unreasonable and intolerant.
I can picture you in Germany, in 1933: we’re good Germans, we fought for the Kaiser, we love Wagner and Goethe! Why can’t you love us back?