Yes I agree w this

Can’t raise expectations too high - voters might actually expect something

More seriously tho, it’s a real issue - like the voices yelling most loudly for a “new” left Jewish (or whatever) literature are often those who out of their privilege have been ignoring the real work done by decades. Why not lift some of that up?

Haha yes no one gets to beat up on misguided Jewish liberals but us

Thanks Laura - the author also fails to note that most serious American Jewish literature today is pretty critical of Zionism. It has other problems but Zionism is not one of them. And yes the author also seems to not have read minor Jewish writers like Gold, Paley and much of Roth

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Venezuela is not communist (it’s a highly capitalist country), and Cuba has a higher life expectancy, literacy and lower infant mortality rate than the US, despite being far poorer. Ofc whether Vietnam and China are communist is up for debate but certainly they are not ruled by neoliberalism

Exactly - it’s a brilliant critique among other things of the appearance of equality that is the ideological foundation of market liberalism

but an unfolding of natural forces & expression of human agency: almost no one looks at millions who die preventable illnesses of poverty, pollution & neglect w the same horror as they regard the gulag or inquisition 2/2

www.democracynow.org/2025/11/7/tr...

From the Douthat, Andrews and Sargeant interview www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

agree - I don’t mean to say antisemtism is only a response to Israel. Right-wing & Xtian antisemitism are real forces in the US, & some anti Zionists do indeed cloak their antisemitism in a critique of Israel (including some v influential ppl). But Israel’s crimes only give fuel to such voices

If anything endangers Jews in the diaspora, particularly in the US, it is the reckless and wanton wars Israel commits against Palestinians and its neighbors.