Read on Twitter
Thread. Keep in mind how many commentators on here--not trolls but high-profile writers, intellectuals, pundits, professors etc.--took this position simply because they wanted to oppose Trump on the antisemitism executive order. They're erasing non-religious Jews to own the cons. https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1278752852119179264
But it also makes sense. Anyone who is Jewish and took that position was declaring their membership in Political Judaism, which is staunchly opposed to Theological Judaism, the latter of which holds that secular Jews are just as Jewish as religious ones.
I talked about this recently in another thread, but: Political Judaism's threat to Theological Judaism and Jewish continuity is very real--in America. You saw it with the reaction to Trump's EO on antisemitism. But outside the US Political Judaism is almost nonexistent.
The good news is Political Judaism isn't much of a threat to Jewish continuity in other countries. The bad news is how popular it is in the US. It's currently the only country where a large percentage of its Jewish community is trying to destroy any kind of theological Judaism.
