At least they’re getting open about it: “Anti-Zionists” have dropped the pretense that they love Jews and only hate Israel because they are so principled.
A meeting of the notoriously hard-woke Park Slope Food Co-op — where debates about the politics of parsley are as bitter as locally grown horseradish — took an ugly turn the other night when one speaker informed an attentive audience that the real problem in America today is “Jewish supremacism.”
We call it ugly, but many listeners burst into applause at the vile remark.
This was a debate about banning Israel-made hummus — not about Jews, Judaism or intercommunal relations.
So much for the endless lectures these last few years about how confusing anti-Zionism with antisemitism is a big mistake and unfair to the deeply moral folks who never miss a pro-Palestine Passover seder.
So what does “Jewish supremacy” have to do with anything, or even mean?
It’s a recent gloss on the older lefty boogeyman of “white supremacy” — sleeker and more precisely targeted at a visible and vulnerable population for maximum impact.
It speaks to a host of false antisemitic assumptions: Jews hate non-Jews and want to enslave them; Jews run the world financial system; Jews bamboozle hapless Christians into serving their nefarious interests.
It seems the phrase started out on the right, among fever-line yappers like Candace Owens, but the left gleefully grabbed it.
A recent march in Manhattan by the proudly pro-Hamas group Within Our Lifetime targeted a Jewish-owned restaurant, where the mob harangued diners, calling them “f—ing pedophiles” and the “Epstein class” amid yells of “no one’s better than anyone.”
On Wednesday, in London’s historically Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, a terrorist stabbed two visibly Jewish men, after weeks of arson attacks on Jewish targets that have left the community reeling.
The Park Slope Food Co-op — the beating heart of lefty right-thinking Brooklyn — cheers when an active member demands that the organization root out “Jewish supremacism,” which ultimately just means “Jews,” or at least Jews who don’t denounce themselves and the wider Jewish community.
What to even say at this point, when antisemitic hate crime is now a daily occurrence in New York City?
In normal times, we’d expect the city’s leaders to take a forceful stand against this poison, but in 2026 New York must look to someone who doesn’t live in Gracie Mansion to answer that call.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
