@Alon @BenRossTransit it sounds like you are referring to antizionism more than antisemitism. sure, oct 7 gave a lot of the most horrific sort of antizionists license to express an awful, bloody glee. but you misunderstand what i am talking about. i think an era is definitively over, for the jewish diaspora more than israel, thanks to israel’s response. israelis already feel the world hates and misunderstands them, and their government is working to prove them right. 1/

@Alon @BenRossTransit but the jewish diaspora, in the west, in the aspiring west of eastern europe with its long, dark history, has been able to rely on a kind of caution and immunity conferred by the moral absolute of the holocaust. i think that’s gone. i think the transformation will be tectonic over time. it will polarize the diaspora into a much more distinctive and aggrieved community on the one hand and integrationists who increasingly disavow their historical jewish identity. 2/

@Alon @BenRossTransit like so many right wing projects, right wing israelis are creating the world that proves correct their own cynicism. the polarization of israeli politics will infect the hitherto squish ambivalence of the typical liberal diasporite. those who embrace a jewish identity will increasingly be conflated with zionism and its now very brutal branding, and will face much less apologetic disdain from liberal-to-left quarters and more openly presented swastikas from the right. 3/

@Alon @BenRossTransit those who disclaim jewish identity in order to disavow zionism will test our grandparents’ proposition that whatever you think you are, they will always know you as a jew. /fin