Israel is Undermined by Critical Race Theory
Social Justice Ideology Targets Jews
The world is fractured over the Israel-Hamas conflict, reflecting changing attitudes toward the State of Israel, especially in America. Pro-Palestine college protests have not merely opposed civilian casualties in Gaza, but called for eliminating Israel entirely under the mantra “from the river to the sea.” These are essentially calls for genocide against the chief victims of the Nazi Holocaust!
Many far-left students and political opportunists have been conditioned by social justice ideology to view the entire world through an oppressor-oppressed lens. Critical Race Theory (CRT) applies this theory to race, ascribing all disparities in wealth and achievement to racial oppression.
However, the Jewish experience in America doesn’t fit CRT at all: Jews have thrived in the US (as have Asians). Family and community ties are better predictors of positive outcomes than skin color, revealing the deep flaws inherent in CRT. Thus, social justice activists label Jews as “Super White” traitors to the cause of the oppressed, or to deny their racial identity. (They displayed this when Whoopi Goldberg infamously claimed Hitler’s genocide against the Jews was “not about race.”)
The dangers of this race-based CRT ideology are displayed in bold antisemitism by left-leaning college activists. LGBTQ+ advocates are standing with Hamas, chanting “Intifada,” and condemning Israel. Yet these same groups would be persecuted in most Muslim nations, and enjoy relative freedom in Israel. The horrific assaults against Israeli civilians are shrugged off as justified, and Israel’s very right to exist is under attack. Hamas and gays are strange bedfellows indeed….
This incongruous alliance is explained by the neo-Marxist ideology of social justice, which claims that all people are divided into classes of oppressed versus oppressors. Nuances of Jewish history are overcome using oversimplifying comparisons with colonization, apartheid, or even American slavery. It is by virtue of CRT that Jews are now condemned, sandwiched between the experience of US blacks in slavery and the Palestinians in Gaza, the Holocaust eclipsed.
BLM and other proponents of CRT do not openly criticize Jewish people, but neither do they acknowledge Jews as fellow victims of oppression. As with Asians excelling in America, any group that succeeds is attacked as oppressive. This sentiment was foreshadowed long ago by James Baldwin when he wrote, “The Jew profits from his status in America, and he must expect Negroes to distrust him for it.” CRT gives legs to that racist sentiment.
The survival of the State of Israel is linked to social justice ideology and the culture wars raging in America today. The outcomes of both battles hang in the balance, and will determine whether the Judeo-Christian worldview survives.
(Previously published at Christian News Journal.)
All CRT is nothing more than Marxism dressed up in racial politics. The Marxist found that class envy doesn’t work here in the United States. So it morphed into this BS theory of CRT where there is the oppressor and the oppressed. If your born white your an oppressor and if your not born white your oppressed unless your culture believes in merit and is successful in life. IE Asians It’s a sad commentary on the intellectual elites in this country that they falling for the communism lies. They believed in the Soviet Union prior to WW 2. The NYT hide the stories of Stalin’s atrocities as he starved the people of Ukraine or slaughter millions of his own country men. We could go on for hours with thousands of more examples. CRT=communism. It’s that simple.
I am teaching through Genesis in my Sunday School class, and we are in chapter 12 where God makes promises to Abram if he would leave his father's house and go to the land of Canaan. Abram's faith and obedience results in what we know as the Abrahamic Covenant. The promises concern the land, the seed and the blessing. One of the promises is that those who bless Abraham will be blessed and those who curse Abraham--and his descendants--will be cursed. In Genesis, we also read that this is an everlasting covenant which is one reason that after all these years Israel and her land is in the news. As others have noted, anyone who predicts what will happen in the Middle East will likely be wrong. I too cannot predict tomorrow's news, but I do know how the story will end. And it has little to do with world powers and leaders but everything to do with our Sovereign Lord. It is dangerous territory, as history has shown, to bet against and to bear arms against His chosen people.