(JEWISH GROUP) With White Nationalism Emboldened, American Jews Consider Exit Strategies [View all]

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THIS IS THE JEWIHS GROUP! RESPECT!


WASHINGTON — The day after the election in 2016, Nancy Goldstein, a 55-year-old Brooklyn writer and academic who has never been to Israel, opened up her computer and began the process of applying for Israeli citizenship.


In Washington, D.C., 49-year-old entrepreneur David Bennahum began the complex process of moving his family and startup business to Montreal, finally establishing all four of them and the company there in July.

The one thing they had in common: They are both Jewish. And both had looked at the campaign of Donald J. Trump and decided they would be safer as Jews and as liberals if they had an exit strategy from America.


The question of living as a Jew in America under Trump has provoked varying degrees of anxiety in the year since he tweeted out an anti-Semitic meme about Hillary Clinton — the infamous Star of David tweet — and then sought to defend it as a “Sheriff’s Star.” That’s when I first started to hear the half-panicked, half-joking conversations about exit strategies if Trump won and considerations about where to go if America were ever to become unsafe. A friend whose grandparents had fled Germany talked to her mother about going back there. A half-Jewish, half-Australian friend decided to pursue — and ultimately secured — dual citizenship and an Australian passport.

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Can't say I am surprised. I am also not surprised by Jews who are finally waking up to an uncomfortable truth. Of course, there are those who think Jews aren't a "real" minority and discussion of anti-Semitism should be on their (non-Jewish) terms! They, ignorantly (or stupidly) think the only privileges which exist in this country come in "white" or "male" variety and completely ignore, sidestep, or diminish privileges such as "heterosexual", "cisgender", and yes, "Christian", among others. It explains why more than a few supposed allies to diversity and equality completely ignored the anti-Semitism from Charlottesville, and when it became obvious they could no longer ignore it, decided to complain about Jews who didn't preform to their (again, NON-JEWISH) standards. The Jews ranged from Sanders to the Kushners. It also explains why more than a few feel "privileged" to come into Jewish spaces and say whatever they fucking please because "Jews aren't a minority worthy of respect"!