The only whites black people are not allowed to cross are the Jews

We have known that for decades.

Philip Weiss is papering over the deep chasm that has always separated Jews from non-whites, who often think Jews are the worst of the whites.

Front-page attack in New York Times says BDS movement is driven by minorities’ ‘hostility toward Jews’

NYT

"You guys are racists!"

"Oh, yeah? Well you guys are anti-Semites!"

The article quotes a supporter of the BDS movement saying, "Zionism is a political identity, Judaism is a religious identity, and it does a disservice to both to blur the line.”

That is how pro-BDS Jews see it and how pro-BDS non-Jews say they see it.

The full passage in the Times goes like this.

Jannine Salman, the member of Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine who made the banner, said that anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism, was the motive — and that the recent formation of a campus chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, which favors divestment, should drive home the point.

“There is a bifurcation: Zionism is a political identity, Judaism is a religious identity, and it does a disservice to both to blur the line,” Ms. Salman said. “When there was the anti-apartheid boycott in South Africa, was that anti-white? Absolutely not. This is like that.”

Two points.

The situation in South Africa is fluid, constantly threatening, and not so simple as she claims.

And the Arabs in Palestine have always been very up front about wanting to drive the Jews out or exterminate them on the ground.

The Times continues with this.

Supporters of Israel say the most dangerous possibility is that the current campus atmosphere is delegitimizing the country, making it acceptable to question whether Jews are entitled to a nation.

And that, of course, is exactly the point.

The BDS movement is anti-colonialist, and the anti-colonialists oppose the colonization of terrain outside Europe by eurowhites, regardless of whether or how thickly the terrain was previously populated by non-whites and regardless of how the indigenous non-whites came to be where they were when the whites showed up.

Add to that that the BDS movement opposes ethnic nationalism on principle and you can see the strands of thought coming together to oppose the very idea of a Jewish homeland, a Jewish settler state not just in Palestine but anywhere at all.

Personally, I think the Times is not wrong to see anti-Zionism as intimately related to minority anti-Semitism.

An apt and revealing quote.

At Northwestern University this year, for example, the student government debated a divestment resolution for more than five hours, as students with clashing views sat on opposite sides of the room. Some of the talk was openly hostile, with charges of racism and colonialism.

“Discomfort is felt by every person of color on this campus,” said an Egyptian-American senior, Hagar Gomaa. “To those who say this divestment bill makes you uncomfortable, I say: Check your privilege.”

Wow, "Check your privilege"?

As Maureen Down has sagely written, though in quite another context, "Bitch is the new black."

And you don't have to be a girl to be a bitch.

Why, that Egyptian sounds just like an American minority telling off some Christian white guy, eh?

Jews do not want to be on the receiving end of that kind of talk.

American gentiles, sure, have at 'em.

But talk to Jews like that?

Wow.

Reminds you of Jesse Jackson complaining about Hymie-town while Louis Farrakhan applauded, years ago.