Being a minority within a minority can be hard. Growing up in an Anglo-Jewish world where my Jewish identity was often questioned because my parents made the active choice to leave Orthodoxy and become Reform Jews. For Jewish minorities of Colour or converts its much tougher.

Its why what I've read over the last few days makes me incredibly uncomfortable. Its important to take a stand and say some things. For some people doing this it might be conscious, for others unconscious. Either way it needs to be called out.

I happen to disagree very strongly with some of @nadinebh_ politics and statements. I disagree with many peoples politics. But no one should feel the victim of any kind of racism, bigotry or intolerence.

None of those strong disagreements give me permission to focus on her identity as a Jew. They certainly do not give me permission to focus on parts of her identity that I have no lived experience of.
The same goes for other people who seem to be a particular target for discussion

I cannot put myself into the same place as a person who colour in December 2019. There are widely held honest views that many people of colour hold about Boris Johnson and the Conservative Party and their attitudes to anti-black racism and other forms of bigotry.

Being forced to pick between bigotries that you personally experience clashing is not something I have had to deal with. For me it was easy. I experience antisemitism and sadly I had to make that my priority over other things I deeply care about in December.

The bigotry you experience is different to prioritising political choices on things you care about. We should know that only too well. I think anyone pretending that this must have been an easy position for anyone with intersectional identities is kidding themselves.

There are others too. I've learnt a lot from @BlewishAnd over the last few months and I am thankful for this. I am better off for having listened to perspectives that I hadnt come across before. Listened to real pain and anguish.

On converts to Judaism I was always taught that once someone has converted it is as if they were born Jewish and that is how they should be treated. I have family in this situation. Their future & destiny is as much tied to my own & they have the same right to speak on our future

Even if they disagree with me on things. I have had the pleasure of growing up with many people whose parents or a parent were not born Jewish. They debate with me all the time about issues on antisemitism or Judaism or their own exclusion. I am better off for those discussions.

You treat people you disagree with, with respect. In very passionate, often angry debate you find the fine line between people who strongly disagree with you & people who hate you for who you are. I think some people need to think about where that line is. Its an important line.

My proximity to Labour's antisemitism crisis has accelerated my antenna for being able to distinguish where that line sits and between the two.

PS. You can still believe they got it wrong. Just as you can believe that I got it all wrong. Alot. Even criticise. Thats fine. But demonstrate some empathy. All of us you disagree with deserve basic respect in that there is no hate here. Distinguish between hate and disagreement

For context. Reform, Liberal and Masorti combined make up roughly 25% of synagogue affiliated Jews. Modern Orthodoxy roughly 50%.