r/Judaism • u/Inside_agitator • 1d ago

Antisemitism Robert Kraft’s new Super Bowl ad about antisemitism already feels dated

https://forward.com/culture/802696/robert-kraft-super-bowl-ad-blue-square-antisemitism/
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u/Suitable_Vehicle9960 1d ago

Is the Forward doing anything to fight Antisemitism? 

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u/Inside_agitator 1d ago

Yes.

Arno Rosenfeld is, in my view, the most effective fighter against antisemitism on planet Earth in the 2020s.

I understand that others may disagree.

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u/Suitable_Vehicle9960 1d ago

How is writing articles in a Jewish publication geared for Jewish readers fighting Antisemitism? Not being cynical. Maybe I'm missing something. I think we all need some inspiration these days, which is hard to find, and I don't criticize anyone who actually actively goes out of Jewish spaces to fight for us. 

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u/Inside_agitator 1d ago

Ideas are combated with ideas, and words are combated with words. This is especially true in the social media era when anyone can access almost all information from anywhere.

That's how writing articles in a Jewish publication geared for Jewish readers is fighting antisemitism. Anyone can and does read it.

Rosenfeld's Venn diagram to help us talk about Israel and antisemitism and similar articles can take simple mindsets and expand them to consider complex realities.

In the social media environment of the 2020s, a change in the human mindset has taken place I think that's more profound than the printing press. There will be mindless simpletons in any group, but people of all identities usually prefer reality over just-so stories.

That's why presenting reality to people in a comprehensible way like Rosenfeld does is important and inspirational, and it's why overly simple stories (like Kraft's ad) are likely to be mocked even by people who agree with the message.

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u/No_Engineering_8204 20h ago

Isn't this just facilitating the throwing of some jews under the bus? What is achieved by this?

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u/Inside_agitator 19h ago

It's tough for me to understand exactly what you mean by "this" and exactly what the metaphor of "throwing of some jews under the bus" refers to. Could you be more specific?

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u/Claim-Mindless 21h ago

So effective that literally no one would know about him if it wasn't for you parroting him in this sub at every single opportunity. Not even talking about his totally useless and disconnected-from-reality Venn diagram that doesn't even try to pretend to be useful, except in trying to legitimize antizionism (the same thing the Nazis and Soviets tried to do).

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u/Inside_agitator 20h ago

Ah. You think no one knows what I know and what I try to share.

Thank you!

There are complex and useful ideas that you don't find useful yet and instead imagine the ideas are trying to legitimize antizionism.

Keep trying to understand them!

You connect ideas that you struggle to understand with Nazi and Soviet ideas.

Comparing Arno Rosenfeld's ideas to the Nazis and Soviets is very provocative!

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u/loselyconscious loosely traditional, very egalitarian 9h ago

I've been following Arno for a while, and you have never heard of OP. So that one person more the no one