Critical Race Theory Demands That Jews Deny Their History and Identity

In recent years, critical race theory has made its way out of the academy and into America’s public discourse, especially with such successful books as Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility and Ibram X. Kendi’s How to Be an Antiracist; it even was mentioned in a presidential debate. Among the many disturbing aspects of this set of ideas is that it tends, as James Lindsay puts it, to “shoehorn Jews into its broken analytical framework.” Worse, Lindsay adds, “it both hides and misunderstands anti-Semitism, which allows for a particular, pernicious variant of it to come into existence under a full-throated denial that it’s anti-Semitism at all.” He explains: