This is a great example of the weaselly tendency in intellectual discourse. "Oh, you thought by 'indigenous' he meant the widely understood definition of the word? No, no, he meant this other thing, about, uh, post-colonialism." https://twitter.com/abesilbe/status/1282673681139933184

"No, no, when he said he wanted to 'say this as plainly as possible: Jews are not an indigenous people,' he wasn't actually trying to say it plainly! It's weird you misunderstood that. Actually, it's 'an ugly and calumnious online character assassination.'"

Textbook gaslighting.

Great cherrypicking too. Many, many reasonable people we disturbed by what Andy wrote (like, for example, his boss, one of the most prominent Reform rabbis in the world) and expressed that in reasonable ways. But these letter signers decry a "vitriolic defamation campaign."