Abi Collins’s Reviews > Jews Don't Count > Status Update

“When it is pointed out to him that sometimes anti capitalism blurs into antisemitism, his first instinct is to protect the anti capitalism and dismiss the antisemitism with irritation.”

“Being white is not about skin colour, but security. It means you are protected because you are a member of the majority culture. Protected, that is, from prejudice, discrimination, second-class citizenship, dispossession, and genocide. Which Jews have not always been.”

“It doesn’t matter how rich you are, because the racists will smash in the door of your big house that they know you don’t deserve anyway and only own because you’re Jews.”

AMEN

“The difference between the active quality of traditional far-right anti Jewish racism, and the passive nature of the progressive neglect of Jewish sensibilities.”

“Jews are the only objects of racism who are imagined, by the racists, as both low and high status.”

This book may kill what’s left of my spirit but my god is it good