How Intersectionality Breeds Anti-Semitism

A few years ago, the general term for the progressive rejection of liberal ideas about race, now described as “woke,” was “intersectionality.” The less vague of the two terms, “intersectionality” was first articulated by the legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw. The theory, as Tal Fortgang explains, holds that all instances of oppression must be viewed together rather than separately, and the force of bigotry grows in proportion with the number of “intersecting” oppressed identities. In practice this means that every form of oppression must be subsumed into every other. Thus the EPA’s grant, recently canceled by its new Republican director, to a group claiming that “the path to climate justice travels through a free Palestine.”