ARTICLE: Critical Race Theory and the ‘Hyper-White’ Jew

“In the critical social justice paradigm, Jews, who have never been seen as white by those for whom being white is a moral good, are now seen as white by those for whom whiteness is an unmitigated evil.”

– Sapir Journal | Pamela Paresky

ARTICLE: My Cheshbon HaNefesh for Cowardice in the Face of Wokeness

“At the altar of woke ideology, not only have some made a mockery of the deliberative tradition, some have even ditched their moral compass. In the name of racial justice and ‘Jewish values,’ Jews, even rabbis, bully other Jews. These ‘kindly inquisitors’ shame and ostracize others for daring to think differently. Some proclaim that we need ‘to get everyone on the same page on racial justice.’ They accuse white Jews of having ‘privilege’ for uttering non-woke perspectives. The normal laws of civility don’t apply.”

– Jewish Journal | David Bernstein

ARTICLE: Critical Race Theory Should Not Have the Only Seat at the Table

"Even those who fight on behalf of what’s labeled as CRT are not necessarily fighting for the Black voices that push back against some of its tenets. They are fighting instead to maintain the simplistic idea of the oppressor and the oppressed as the foundation for our society. And in this model, people of color are the oppressed and those who are white (or “conditionally white” or “white adjacent,” terms often applied to Asians and Jews) are always the oppressor no matter how hard they work against oppression.”

– Jewish Journal | Monica Osborne

ARTICLE: Ethnic Studies, the Third World Liberation Front and my Grandmother

"Ethnic studies focuses on critiquing the many biases and blind spots of American institutions. Yet what is happening as ethnic studies integrates itself into our institutions of public education? Ironically, it is institutionalizing its own set of uncritical narratives and biases… Ethnic studies should help students see complex reality, instead of simply replacing one set of biases with another."

– Jewish Journal | Max Samarov (StandWithUs)

ARTICLE: Speaking out on Critical Ethnic Studies as a Sephardic Jew

“It is the antisemitism propagated and encouraged by professors, by campus groups, by student governments and tossed aside by administrations [that scares me most]… which vulnerable students are internalizing and accepting… the one which politicians and activists are supporting, the one that is allowed to thrive and that now has inevitably seeped into our lower education system with California’s Critical Ethnic Studies Curriculum Model.

College campus antisemitism has become a hot topic, but one so many wrongfully isolate. The push for a Critical Ethnic Studies is a consequence of this, a natural ending point to a toxic cycle forming. It is all part of the growing movements in American society attacking… foundational values this country… the fact that we are all created equal and our worth is not placed on limiting racial hierarchies.”

– The Times of Israel | Isaac de Castro

ARTICLE: A Call Not to Ratify California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum

“Classrooms are microcosms of society and offer golden opportunities for teachers to facilitate positive and productive relationships among their students as they develop their cultural competence… It involves inviting students to explore their own complex identities and family histories as a means to develop a strong sense of identity and an ethno-relative perspective on the world—a foundation for identifying with the life experiences of those around them. It does not mean dictating what it means to be black, or Hispanic or Jewish, as California’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum seeks to do.”

– Algemeiner | Melissa Landa PhD

ARTICLE: Where things stand with California’s ethnic-studies curriculum

“The threat [of hatred and one-sided political agendas in Ethnic Studies] is amplified by the fact that a significant faction in the field of ethnic studies, represented by the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, institutionally promotes anti-Zionism and discriminatory boycotts against Israel. Too often, this faction engages in outright anti-Semitism by framing Jews as “white, privileged, colonial oppressors.”

– Jewish News Syndicate | Roz Rothstein (StandWithUs)

ARTICLE: Protesting the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum

“The reason why the third version of the ESMC still venerates Jew-haters is because it was built by anti-Semitic architects. It is also dangerous because it embraces an idea that leads to anti-Semitism, the idea of people who are innately “oppressors” and people who are the victims of those oppressors. For centuries, anti-Semitism has largely been a conspiracy theory about “all powerful, nefarious” Jews who seek to oppress people. Any curriculum that embraces these concepts is inherently dangerous for Jews.”

– The Jewish Journal | Micha Danzig

ARTICLE: The California ethnic studies antisemitism firestorm is far from over

“Our work is not done…. wished-for changes, along with the alterations made so far, are only the start of the process. Regardless of the contours of the final draft in California, it is not the end of the issue. For instance, many of the activists responsible for the antisemitic and anti-Israel content that plagued the first draft remain intent on indoctrinating rather than educating. They seek to marginalize mainstream Jewish voices under the false banner of ‘saving Ethnic Studies.’”

– The Forward | Seth Brysk (ADL)

ARTICLE: California’s ethnic studies curriculum is a serious issue for all of us

“Painting Jews as part of the ‘oppressor class’ erases Jews as a minority, and is an erasure of our ongoing battle against anti-Semitism. The cornerstone of these arguments is one that completely nullifies Israel’s right to exist. This makes sense in the misinformed world of intersectionality: If you paint the Jews as white, privileged ‘oppressor’ colonialists, then you can successfully align with the anti-Israel (and BDS) activist narrative that says Israel has no legitimacy.”

– Jewish News Syndicate | Rabbi Steven Burg

ARTICLE: Jews Have Until Thursday to Influence Ethnic Studies Curriculum

“There ought to be no discussion about Jews and privilege that doesn’t begin by talking about the historically enacted and repeated genocidal ideology that revolves around Jews and privilege. For an ethnic studies curriculum to go traipsing through that discourse without a single mention of its ugly and bloody history is not a lesson about anti-Semitism. It is a repetition of it. By itself, that should effectuate a vote of no confidence in the entire franchise.”

– Jewish Journal | Pamela Paresky PhD and Joel Finkelstein PhD