Do you know why today’s “social justice” campus activists would tell Jews to “go back to Poland?” Because for a period of time between the 18th and 20th century, Jews were only permitted to live in the Pale of Settlement, encompassing areas across Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Lithuania. Life in the Pale was harsh and economically austere, but Jews were forbidden from living outside of it. Whether they’re aware of the roots or not, today’s “humanitarians” are repeating antisemitic tropes that are not just about telling Jews to return to a place, but to return to a condition. That condition is one of persecution and limited upward mobility. It’s similar to saying “go back to segregation” or “go back to slavery,” which reflects a social condition rather than a place. This just goes to show how the far left embody the characteristics, behaviors, and values of the far right they claim to oppose. Their objective is not to end oppression for all, but rather, to trade roles of the perceived oppressor and oppressed—keeping some ethnicities down and lifting others up—on the basis of race. What they’re saying isn’t “leave the Middle East,” what they’re saying is “go back to persecution on the basis of your ethnicity.” The word for that is one I think they’ve heard before: racism.
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