Are you worried ab danger to Jews? Me too. You know what’s super dangerous? Diverting public attention away from white nationalist antisemitism in/tied to our *government*, so people focus only on AS expressed by Black persons. Who may I remind you are not running this country.>> https://twitter.com/purplechrain/status/1283403878566965249

Antisemitism is real, no matter who does it. Black non-Jews didn’t invent it. They don’t have a special corner on this market. THE IDEOLOGICAL INHERITORS OF THOSE WHO *DID* INVENT IT ARE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY. Now you have something to be scared about. >> https://www.howtofightantisemitism.com/ 

Danger to Jews is real.

However, not all of us notice what one of most dangerous moments for Jews is every day in the US:

When Black Jews walk out of the house.

Like Ricardo Henry Hylton, z”l. >>

https://twitter.com/aptly_engineerd/status/1282434739425566721?s=20

@aptly_engineerd

I’m not saying this to downplay the reality of attacks on Jews qua Jews, or to shame non-Black Jews for feeling concerned about their own safety.

I’m saying it because this gets to to heart of why antisemitism hasn’t ended, & what it would take to end it. >>

Part of *why* many Jews found relative safety in what’s now the US is that when Jews who had European ancestry arrived, they were automatically made safer *by the fact that it was Black people who were designated for white abuse.* (disclaimer - >>

I have to leave it to others who are better able to talk about the original & continuing white abuse of First Nations people.)

But no matter how real that safety was & is, versus the unrelenting danger affecting Black Jews and non-Jews: it is temporary safety. It’s not deep. >>

It goes away as soon as times change, & it becomes politically expedient to target Jews.

Antisemitism may be cyclical, but that doesn’t mean it’s permanent. What would end it is a massive transformation in both consciousness & the social realities that affect all people. >>

This transformation can only come when s of all races work in deep connection w non-s, fighting together, protecting each other. Not being satisfied by any short-term offers of safety at the cost of solidarity. Not being sidetracked by fearmongering designed to divide us.

If this info about antisemitism is new for you, you can learn more in my 2007 Left manual on antisemitism,

The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere
https://www.aprilrosenblum.com/thepast 

and my other writings: https://www.aprilrosenblum.com/essays