8/1/2025 (Av 7, 5785)


{my review of} Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism, by Shane Burley amd Ben Lorber


In Chapter 5, there are a few quotes that really stands out to me.


“‘Antisemitism’ economic justice organizer Dania Rajendra says, ‘is a powerful explaination for a society looking for 

answers about why the richest nation in the history of the world often feels so terrible to live in, to work in, to be neighbors in.’ 

The problem is, this answer is wrong. There is a small minority of elites who regularly push through policies to enrich themselves and 

impoverish the rest, but it’s not the Jews or any other shadowy cult―it’s the rich.”


“The Left too, is not immune from antisemitic forms of anti-capitalism, often thought of as ‘punching up’ because it alleges to direct its 

frustrations at the top. From ‘Google Jewish Bankers’ signs at Occupt Wall Street to grumblings against ‘Jewish landlords’ at tenant organizing 

meetings, these conspiratorial caricatures distract progressive movements from the concrete conditions we’re up against as a society, leading down a dead-end road.”



The last line gets me. I don’t know if they meant the phrase “dead-end road” to be taken literally, but after reading a lot of “People Love Dead Jews” 

it makes me think of the roads filled with Jewish bodies after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. The road of antisemitism does lead *somewhere*- 

its just that the place it leads is towards Jewish death.