Ritchie Torres
One of the most insidious manifestations of antisemitism in America is the proliferation of “anti-Zionist” purity tests, which has the real-world effect of excluding many Jews from civic and political spaces. Many on the left rightly condemn disparate-impact discrimination yet turn a blind eye to anti-Zionist bans that disparately impact and discriminate against the Jewish community. Why has the anti-Zionist litmus test become the lone exception to the progressive rule against disparate-impact discrimination?