Jewish communities in the United States are facing a new threat from the radical Left following the rise of progressive politics, a document published by the Tel Aviv think tank Reut Institute warns.
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According to the institute, progressive discourse "enables, often unwittingly, a de-facto negation of the right of Jews to define their own identity."
The document's primary author, Daphna Kaufman, explained that "it stems from a conceptual mismatch in which Jews are cast uniformly as powerful white oppressors based on binary sets of such 'conceptual categories," like class or skin color.
"Fitting the Jewish experience into these conceptual categories can flatten Jewish identity and fail to capture core elements of the Jewish experience, resulting in an erasure," she wrote.
As a result, any attempt to define the Jewish community in the US as a minority is met with sharp opposition because its characteristics do not match the criteria outlined by progressive politics.
The Jewish community's challenge is to come to an agreed-upon definition of the threat that progressive discourse creates, Kaufman explained. Such a definition is crucial in order to unite against the threat, she said.
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