Tim Wise
1 min readJun 22, 2021

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This is a good piece and I agree with much of it. No doubt, as a Jew, when I have been targeted as such by anti-Jewish bigotry the racialization of my Jewishness has been a central part of it, despite, as you note, Jewishness not being racial. I disagree with the assumption that all anti-Zionism is prejudice against Jews -- there is a valid philosophical and practical case to be made against Jewish nationalism as with other forms of nationalism, especially ethno-religious nationalism -- but I won't belabor the point here, as the piece isn't really about that.

But putting all that aside, could you possibly change the title? The title literally makes it sound like the piece is going to be "making the case" for racism against Jews. Obviously thats not what you want to convey! I almost skipped reading the piece because of that, and frankly only clicked on it initially out of curiosity, wondering how Medium had allowed some Nazi to publish a piece that was going to make the Hitlerian case for racism against Jews.

Anyway, just a thought. Take care.

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Tim Wise
Tim Wise

Written by Tim Wise

Senior Fellow, African American Policy Forum, critical race theorist, and author of 9 books on racism and racial inequity in the U.S.

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