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Some examples of Critical Race Theory (generalist) talking about Jews. This is the usual routine: arguing that they are, in fact, white (privileged), saying they deny it, and suggesting anti-Black racism is vaguely part of how they got white.
It's not common to see it just bust in and say that one should be anti-Semitic, partly because they know it's wrong and partly because they always argue the other way so they can co-opt Jewish oppression and victimhood to CRT before splitting Jews racially and calling some white.
CRT this co-opts anti-Semitism and then says European Jews (Ashkenazim, mostly) are actually white, have white privilege, and get away with denying it because of oppression, diaspora, & the Holocaust ("Jewish privilege"). But calling Jews privileged is the basis of anti-Semitism.
While they have some stuff that's more direct and out there, like this, a lot of it isn't well cited (normal in CRT, honestly). You'll see the same themes, though.
But notice another name...
But notice another name...
This is Brodkin 1998. This is an interesting book that *is* well-cited within the CRT literature. You'll notice that the whole point of the book is to put Jews into that privileged white category. This is anti-Semitism pretending not to be anti-Semitism.
Brodkin comes at the issue of Jewishness by using "the white-black binary" and anti-capitalism as lenses. It's a strange way to structure the case. Jews are, in some sense, positioned as black-ish people forced to be white.
Much of her angle is to insist that society accepted Jews before blacks. She'll go on to argue that many Jews betrayed solidarity and engaging in anti-Black racism in their efforts to clamor for whiteness. Earning privilege by being racist traitors.
After a lengthy discussion of how evil capitalism (and racist Democrats) shaped whiteness in immigrants, Brodkin turns to arguing that Jews saw their advantage in terms of Jewishness, not whiteness.
Brodkin continues in this vein for some time, arguing that Jews began to construct their own whiteness through both distinction and Americanness.
The book is really a hot mess, but it argues by the end that not only did Jews become white, but that they did so through racism at times and to gain privilege, and that privilege (whiteness) corrupted them and should be resisted. (She also cites Gramsci...).
Brodkin argues that Jews became white to gain privilege in American society, did so through racist betrayal, and gained so much corrupting privilege that they started to define whiteness itself. But... this reproduces precisely the anti-Semitism that characterized the 20th c.
This thesis of Jewish privilege and indifference, once privileged, is all throughout the Critical Race Theory literature. Here, Jews are characterized that way with regard to Palestine, making out that Jews are worse than the whites who upheld South African Apartheid.
So, Critical Race Theory doesn't (often?) come straight out and say, "you should hate Jews." It just reproduces anti-Semitism through whiteness and adds a layer of extra privilege in being able to hide behind the Holocaust (really).
Read more: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/10/critical-race-theorys-jewish-problem/
Read more: https://newdiscourses.com/2020/10/critical-race-theorys-jewish-problem/
And this doesn't even touch insanity like this, which directly tries to co-opt and repurpose the Holocaust for pushing Critical Race Theory agendas that have nothing to do with it, i.e., making the Holocaust about CRT, not Jews. https://www.jpost.com/opinion/a-new-exhibit-uses-george-floyd-to-universalize-the-holocaust-650404
Btw, Brodkin is THE authority on the issue. Cited by 2284, according to Google Scholar.
