Jews Don't Count

96 pages

English language

Published Dec. 21, 2021 by HarperCollins Publishers Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-00-839947-4
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4 stars (1 review)

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you.

It is the comedian and writer David Baddiel’s contention that one type of racism has been left out of this fight. In his unique combination of reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes, Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the history of anti-Semitism. He outlines why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews don’t count as a real minority.

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A needed provocative book on antisemitism

4 stars

I really enjoyed reading "Jews don't count", David Baddiel is a British and Jewish writer and comedian who has always been open about being Jewish and confronting progressive people and collective with their knowledge and position on antisemitism. And it is exactly what this book is doing: it is providing many examples where antisemitism is not considered in the same way we consider other forms of racism in progressive circles. One example given in the book is the musical The Color Purple from Alice Walker where the actress Seyi Omooba was removed from her role for homophobia but no one raised the antisemitic statements made by Alice Walker. With all these examples Baddiel asks: why are we considering antisemitism as a second-class racism? Why aren't we applying the same concepts to antisemitism than for other forms of racism? And what I really appreciated, is that the book aims at asking …