International headlines referring to Ari Fuld as a settler not only dehumanize the victim of this murder, but seek to rationalize the murder itself.
The fact that some Ashkenazi Jews have recently enjoyed ‘white privilege’ in America does not negate our distinct racial and ethnic identity.
Every chance we get, we need to remind people that Zionism is a successful indigenous movement of a dispossessed and colonized people.
When he attended Daniel Pearl’s funeral, Muhammad Ali demonstrated that he had long ago moved well past that hate. Hopefully that is the Muhammad Ali who Michael Bennett ends up emulating.
Asserting that anti-Semitism in America is new and that Jews are white is insulting to anyone who understands Jewish history.