On Jews being united
NOVANEWS
Gilad Atzmon writes:
In an article in the Times of Israel entitled “What all anti-Semites have in common”, Andres Spokoiny, president and chief executive of the Jewish Funders Network, tells us everything we shouldn’t know about the current state of the Jew-gentile divide.
“Today,” Spokoiny complains, “many Jews are willing to overlook and even excuse anti-Semitism when the bigots hate a certain type of Jews.” In the good old days, anti-Semitism was a uniting force. “Anti-Semitism used to be the big Jewish unifier. Jews were always fractious and quarrelsome, but when it came to anti-Semitism, everybody agreed. Anti-Semites hated us without distinction, so in the face of a common threat we would recognise the danger and unite.” Spokoiny is nostalgic, he wants to see the Jews reu...