The Slow Normalization of the Unthinkable |
We are all busy living our lives—busy with our parenting, communal, and everyday obligations, absorbed by everything around us. So busy, perhaps, that we don’t fully see the reality closing in—not only in New York but worldwide. What we’re seeing isn’t isolated anymore.
New York, the melting pot where immigrants of all backgrounds coexisted, is now where many Jews face something unthinkable: intimidation disguised as activism and antisemitism dressed in modern language. This is no longer just politics.
When people surround Jewish spaces—under whatever banner—Jewish families feel it as intimidation. What’s worse is the normalization.
When leaders excuse or explain instead of calling it out, it’s like saying hostility is acceptable if dressed up.
This is what people call “polite antisemitism”—it doesn’t always show........