Last month I wrote about how most members in the House of Representatives voted a for a resolution that equated anti-zionism with antisemitism. With their votes, they signaled their total support Israel’s destruction of Gaza and also entered a longstanding intra-Jewish debate about what it means to be Jewish, crudely putting their weight on the scale in favor of the Jewish nationalist idea of Jewish identity: zionism as Judaism. The resolution carried no legislative power, it was all performance — and the performance had a distinctive antisemitic tone: a bunch of braindead goyim in Congress were telling Jews like me how act in order to be considered good Jews.
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