By: Ginette Weiner

Is “white Jewish privilege” a thing?  WWII brought us the “privilege” of persecution and slaughter while the world looked on.  And today we have the “privilege” of record numbers of hate crimes against Jews worldwide.

The new coalitions of perpetual victims needed a bogeyman to blame for their woes and – surprise, surprise – they picked the Jews, whom they now malign as “privileged whites.”  Victor Hanson in the National Review described an “emerging new, new anti-Semitism…[that] serves as a unifying progressive bond among ‘marginalized’ groups such as young Middle Easterners, Muslims, feminists, blacks, woke celebrities and entertainers, socialists, the ‘undocumented,’ and student activists. [Its] overt messages derive from both the old and the new. There is the same conspiratorial idea that the Jews covertly and underhandedly exert inordinate control over Americans…but [it] has added a number of subtler twists, namely that Jews are part of the old guard whose anachronistic standards of privilege block the emerging new constituency of woke Muslims, Blacks, Latinos, and feminists.”

Is “white Jewish privilege” a thing? We had the “privilege” of being persecuted for centuries by Christians for rejecting Jesus and by Muslims for rejecting Muhammad; denied the right to vote, hold citizenship or own property; crowded into ghettos; denied admission to universities; rounded up and killed in pogroms; scattered to the ends of the earth, and butchered by the millions in the Holocaust. Islamic Jihad Hamas’ genocide gang raped females so violently, their pelvic bones were broken before they were shot, burned families alive, their charred remains found huddling each other.   And today we have the very special “white privilege” of record numbers of hate crimes against Jews worldwide – more so than any other religious group.

Yet, despite centuries of hatred and ostracism, we not only survived; we thrived. Why? Because we do have one privilege, unique to Judaism. We have Jewish values and culture which emphasize higher education, achievement, cherishing our children and helping others by contributing to all of the communities we are allowed to live in. We should be proud, not apologetic about our disproportionate-to-our-numbers achievements in higher education, in socio-economic success, in laureate accolades of our contributions to the world’s well being.

So, to the Jewish NYC ‘progressives’ who voted for Mandami, who calls for the end to Israel as a Jewish State, whose Dem. Socialist party chants “death to the IDF”, to all who reject their Jewish heritage in favor of their new religion of progressivism, who re-victimize and dishonor the graves of the millions of Jews murdered and butchered just because they were Jews, I have a news flash: You can be progressive without voting for those who falsely malign Israel, who dislike, do not respect Jews, Jewish culture, Jewish achievements, who blame the Arabs’ and the world’s woes on Jews, who blame Jews as oppressors. You can find a million other ways to work towards a more ‘equitable’ society, other than throwing Jews under the bus.

Jews, were over 50% of the whites who went to Mississippi in 1964 to challenge Jim Crow laws. Jews were at the forefront of fighting institutionalized racism. Though it still exists in more subtle forms, most employers now look to fill positions with minorities. Universities, trade schools are open to all.

The Far (& not-so-far) Left, Socialists, Islamists and self-claimed ‘Progressives’ are forming alliances. When giving speeches, running for office, “Israel has committed genocide” is their obligatory, Brown Shirt Badge. Mamdani, Seattle’s new Mayor elect, even the Mayor of Toronto, spit this out as fact. Socialist Bernie Sanders traveled to the UK to support fellow Socialist Jeremy Corbyn, whose Jew hate was so beyond the pale, he was ousted because of it. Sanders is a Jew in name only, who drags out his Holocaust family members only when he needs them, and almost always when confronted with giving out factually incorrect misinformation about Israel. On his Senate web page Sanders wrote: “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

What constitutes genocide?  JNS: Melanie Phillips, “Dismantle the United Nations”: “The claim of genocide is of course as ludicrous as it is grotesque. Genocide is the intentional annihilation of a people. That’s precisely what Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah openly and repeatedly declare is their aim in the planned eradication of Israel and the killing of every Jew. In defending itself against this mass slaughter, Israel has gone to unprecedented lengths to protect Gazan civilians by repeatedly moving them en masse out of harm’s way, allowing in thousands of tons of humanitarian aid and enabling the Gazan population actually to increase over the course of the war by more than 2%. Despite these demonstrable facts, the United Nations has made feverish attempts to accuse Israel of the crimes being committed against the Jewish state.”

A Zionist is anyone who believes in the simple right of Israel to exist as a Jewish State. Period.  Do you seriously think the global attacks on Zionists, on Jewish children and adults walking to their synagogue will stop if there is a “palestinian” state, if Israel is no longer a Jewish nation or simply no longer? If so, I have that same Brooklyn bridge for sale, the one offered throughout centuries to Jews who thought becoming a totally assimilated, global pluralist would keep them safe. And in case you don’t know, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is widely circulated, published, and accepted as authentic, and is a best-seller, throughout the Middle East. “It is arguably more popular in the Arab and Muslim world than anywhere else globally since WWII.”

Only in the La La land of over and under-educated progressives does this truth go ignored:  The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Victims? Israel’s Arab enemies are victims of their morally bankrupt choices, repeatedly rejecting every single fair peace offer, and then blaming Israel for all of their woes, instead of building communities of peace and prosperity.

If being “woke” means having one’s consciousness raised, then I suggest waking up, and taking a long hard look in the mirror, instead of blaming the Jews.  I am a retired Social Worker, a secular, loud, proud, Zionist Jew. I did more to help others help themselves, take responsibility for their choices, and facilitate ‘equity’, than any naive progressives or elites will ever do in their lifetime. I marched in Wash. D.C for women’s and civil rights, for pro-choice, attended one of the very first meetings of NOW at Hunter College. My Western values came from Jewish values, core values which transcend time—hard work, equal opportunity for all, treating others as you want to be treated.

Wake up to your own false victimization that is truly keeping you down. Wake up, thank Jews who have given so much to the world, particularly to the groups who now embrace anti-Semitism but call it anti-Zionism.  Wake up to your own vile bigotry. And if you cannot wake up to these truths, do us all a favor and go back to sleep.

Ginette Weiner, is a published commentator in Jewish and mainstream newspapers. She holds an MSW & a Certification in “Defending Israel from Media Bias”, 23rd Mission to Israel, Honest Reporting, 2015.