Christopher Kaufman
Published on February 14, 2025
The Jews now face a combination of prejudice and institutional animus that is familiar.
For most of my adult life, I’ve lived by the belief that African Americans lack the institutional power to commit racism. But as the son of an Ashkenazi Jewish mother and an African-American father, I’ve always been conscious of the flip side of this idea. It is this: If black people cannot be racist, then, the converse must also apply. White people cannot experience racism.