You know something? Since I have a feeling this is going to turn into some ad-hominem jib-jab flame war about "you dont understand us Jews" or "you're an anti-Semite" or "I'm the authority on Jews, not you" or whatever, I'm just going to explain the Jewish situation as I see it in this country. And if I'm wrong, feel free to point it out. And try to use logical positivism and empirical evidence plz.

American Jewry is dying. It's slowly coming to an end. Right now the Jewish-gentile intermarriage rate is up to about 50%. <link> As a result, Israel seems to be attempting to tighten up its immigration laws as a means to encourage Jews to stick to marrying only other Jews. In other words, if it's not already this way now, being 1/4th Jewish will not be sufficient in order to earn your "right to return." It also seems as though the Jewish religious community is making it harder to convert to Judaism, and this is as a means to encourage group unity. Meanwhile, most Jews of my generation are growing increasingly disattached to the state of Israel and Zionism in general. There is a lot of evidence to support this. In one particular poll, it was shown that less than half of Jews in America under 35 years of age would view Israel's destruction as a personal tragedy. <link>

According to Rabbi Kapner, author of "Judaism as a Civilization," "Judaism is the result of natural human development. There is no such thing as divine intervention; Judaism is an evolving religious civilization; Zionism and aliyah (immigration to Israel) are encouraged"

If this is true that Judaism should be seen as an "evolving religious civilization," then the foundations that hold together American Jewry are falling apart. Jews are diluting their blood and thus destroying the last bastion that enables them to say "I'm Jewish." Jews are becoming disillusioned with Zionism. Jews don't really care that much about anti-Semitism at this point either. At one point, anti-Semitism was a very serious charge. Nowadays, however, the accusation is being thrown at everyone, from the son of two holocaust victims to a former President of the United States. And speaking of Jimmy Carter, he managed to go to Brandeis University, the most Jewish University in all of America, and 2,000 students gave him a standing ovation despite the amazing witch hunt against him from the Zionist community. After his speech, 2/3rds of the students left before Alan Dershowitz could give his rebuttal. Basically, the term "anti-Semitism" has been cheapened, and most everyone in the United States is feeling a little bit "Holocausted out."

Judaism is coming to a long and slow end in America. And we have a distinct lack of anti-Semitism to thank for this. In Europe, Jewish identity was strong, and anti-Semitism was indirectly responsible for Jews to read books and practice scholarship. In many ways, this explains the long line of Jewish scholars in Europe and the vast contributions Jews have made to sciences and humanities. Without a group identity so tight-knit, they would have no need to push themselves so far.

In America, anti-Semitism is very low, and thus Jews are breeding out their own identity. This is definitely a paradoxical idea, that anti-Semitism could be good for Jewish identity. But Albert Einstein, an ardent Zionist himself, echoed the exact same idea numerous times in his own personal writings. In one essay, he wrote, "Anti-Semitism will be a psychological phenomenon as long as Jews come in contact with non-Jews—what harm can there be in that? Perhaps it is due to anti-Semitism that we survive as a race: at least that is what I believe."

Note that Einstein said the word "race."

My feelings on anti-Semitism are that anti-Semitism is irrational and wrong. It happens, though, that anti-Semitism actually helps the identity of Jews, and that openness and friendliness is actually the greatest way to destroy the Jewish civilization. I'm not particularly inclined to want to destroy anything, but nevertheless, the paradox is valid. And because of this, an obsession with anti-Semitism occurs, where anyone who says anything remotely politically incorrect about the Jews is painted as a gigantic anti-Semitic racist worm. Meanwhile, a Jew like, say, Susan Sontag, can claim that the white race is "the cancer of human history" and no one will care. Organizations like the ADL love anti-Semitism. They seek it out and love to exploit it. They know that it makes Jews feel as though they can't trust gentiles and must breed only with other Jews. It's a great survival tactic. Without anti-Semitism, the ADL would not exist, and so they'll do whatever they can to prolong the problem, including contrive their own imaginary anti-Semitism.

My attitude is: I just don't care. If someone says something like "the Jews ruined Hollywood," I don't see it as legitimately anti-Semitic. It shows no real hostility towards Jews: only their taste in film. And if someone says, "The Jews are influencing the NY Times," hell, I would actually agree! Certainly not all the Jews are, but the top representatives of American Jewry are doing a lot to maintain their own legitimacy. Ultimately this won't even be a problem in about 50 years. Isonomist wishes it would, because she's an addict for anti-Semitism. Without it, her whole mission of being Mrs. Cultural Marxist America would come to an end and she would feel utterly naked and stripped of all pretensions.

It's a pathetic situation, but that's the reality. I'm sorry to bum everyone out, here.