Connect the antisemitic dots " Putin could have written the Protocols."

[Behind the Aegis]

5. It's the "are you a good Jew or a bad Jew?" situation.

Jews, especially those of us on the left, have to always declare our position on Israel for other self-appointed guardians of the left to determine if we are a "Jew or a kike". They need to determine if we are one of the "good ones". It is nothing more than anti-Semitism gussied up to look like "progressivism". It isn't; it's bigotry.

Two years ago, at the first pride event in our town in small, pissant Oklahoma, I asked a vendor where the rainbow Star of David stickers were, after all, they had a rainbow cross, rainbow crescent, a rainbow Buddha, and a few other rainbow religious stickers. He told me they didn't take the Star of David ones to events because there were "too controversial". Anti-Semitism.

Rooting out anti-Semitism on the right is like shooting fish in a barrel, on the left, WE are in the barrel avoiding the shots from supposed allies. The only anti-Semitism that offends them is when it originates from the right, and even then, it is often only "outrageous" if it is tied to another form of bigotry.

I know there are a few non-Jews and Jews who do find anti-Semitism, of all stripes, concerning, but it is really depressing to see anti-Semitism take a toll on Jews, even if it by having to declare a position that is irrelevant to the conversation.