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This hyphenated life, post two / Jew me down
By Marco Greenberg
Tags: anti-Semitism, American Jewry 
What do you do when a neighbor slips in a casual anti-Semitic reference into a conversation? Is a wave of anti-Semitism about to rise? Relax. The truth is, there isn't much overt Jew hatred in the U.S.

It started innocently enough.

Just a conversation with a neighbor outside our front door in the countryside of Western, Mass. More sophisticated than strictly rural, a mix of mountains and small towns, this part of the world is populated by a curious mix of old hippies, yuppies, farmers and second-home owners - and is also home to two synagogues.
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The gossip soon began to roll, New England style. Like that famous Norman Rockwell painting where one friend whispers in the ear of another and suddenly it snow balls into a chain of unstoppable rumor.

"He always tries to 'Jew people down' said our non-Jewish neighbor, referring to another local (Jewish) resident.

Our mouths dropped open and suddenly seconds seemed like minutes.
"You do know we're Jewish?" we asked.

The neighbor paused in awkward embarrassment. "Just a figure of speech, you know what I mean," she said.

Not really we said. I started to take on the role of Ambassador of the Jewish People and described why the term was offensive. Before it escalated any further, we all backed down and the conversation took a safer turn.

How should an American Jew relate to this story? What is the real story about anti-Semitism in the U.S.?

Before calling the ADL, or sounding the alarm that we're about to encounter a new wave of anti-Semitism and racism as the economy worsens - not forgetting the legitimate fear there is about how some bigots might react to the prospect of the first African American president - let's put things in perspective.

America has long been, and I believe will continue to be, the exception among nations, a place where Jews are embraced, can freely practice their faith and have been recognized for their many contributions. Hence, in my Haaretz.com blog, This Hyphenated Life, I'm especially proud of my Jewish-American identity.

My wife and I being raised in bicoastal America, NYC and LA, could count on one hand any even remotely anti-Semitic incident. Ok, there were swastikas painted on the goal posts of my high school football field by our rival, and then at UC Berkeley I had a dorm mate who questioned whether 6 million really died, but otherwise we were and are shielded from direct exposure to anti-Semitism.

The truth is I think the overt kind of anti-Semitism is quite rare across the board in the U.S. There are a few factors that come into play to create this situation. Partly it is the more tolerant and multicultural times we live in; partly the largely urban geography of Jewish life - the historic and sizeable presence of Jewish communities in so many of the major U.S. cities; and partly because, frankly, in the age of Larry David, Adam Sandler and even Amy Winehouse, it's cool to be a Jew.

It was a very different reality for the Russians in my IDF unit who were beaten up in the Red Army for no reason other than being born a Jew, or the Iranians and Ethiopians who walked hundreds of miles from oppression to freedom. Furthermore, if you're looking for truly dangerous anti-Semites simply go look on the Web, and type in the search term 'Jew' or explore what the radical Islamic world is saying.

In America, the worse it usually gets is occasional and subtle 'code'. In the case of this small town in Western Massachusetts, when people speak of 'New Yorkers', the meaning is usually clear: Jews. In other areas, it might be adjectives like 'aggressive' or 'loud'. Is the implicit code for other minorities, e.g. African Americans as 'urban', or Hispanic Americans as 'immigrants', any less offensive?

In honor of the irreverent and brilliant comedian, George Carlin, (who was heavily influenced by the pioneering Jewish comedian Lenny Bruce), whose most infamous comedy skits was based on the seven dirty words you were not - at the time- allowed to say on television, l will dare to utter our own 'seven dirty words' in one loud scream: "Christ Killer, Heeb, Yid, JAP, Jew Boy, Jew Bastard and, finally, Jew Me Down!"

Is all the offensive language I have just listed beyond the pale or is it actually acceptable? Should we emulate the NAACP which, a few years ago, conducted a mock burial service of the notorious "N" word, in order to encourage some African Americans to stop calling themselves a term that caused so much hurt? Or can Jews 'take back' terms offensive to Jews and reincarnate them as badges of pride?

Or should we take David Mamet's dire warnings of American Jewry's self-hatred in his must-read, The Wicked Son, and consider the consequences of adopting foreign or hostile stereotypes as our own, most prominently, the idea of Jewish guilt?

When we say, 'typical Israeli', are we not really saying 'typical Jew'?
Is it a sign of self-confidence and self-irony that my old Jewish fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau, is popularly known as "Zillions, Billions and Trillions"?

Is not Heeb Magazine, a highly creative and out there publication that I happen to think is pretty damn cool, a perfect illustration of transforming the derogatory into the positive?

It's complicated stuff and it goes to the heart of the degree of confidence we have in our identity and security as Americans with a hyphenated identity. What's important is to distinguish between insidious but unconscious anti-Semitic expressions that make their way, sometimes surprisingly or unwittingly, into day-to-day speech, as I found in Massachusetts, and anti-Semitism with an agenda and a conscious power to discriminate and create hatred.

For some international perspective on the issue of whether apparently anti-Semitic expressions can be 'redeemed', I'll end with an anecdote from a visit to China. The tour guide asked me if I was Jewish. Yes, I confirmed. "Shanghai Jew," he immediately replied.

"You mean the Jews who lived in Shanghai during World War II?" I asked.
No, he smiled, it means "clever in business."

My cousin who lives in Beijing later confirmed the ubiquity of that term and also indicated to me that the expression's meaning, in terms of the attitude it expresses towards Jews, is both sweet and sour.

Also by Marco Greenberg on Haaretz.com:
This Hyphenated Life, Post One / A Hybrid Jew.
Battle of the attitude / Israeli girls vs. American Jews.
Advice to Ehud Olmert, blogger.

Marco Greenberg, is a communications strategist and co-founder of the new media consultancy Thunder11.

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  213.   IDF too? 21:10  |  Denise 19/07/08
  214.   #90..MichaelF..Saul of Tarsus 21:33  |  James 19/07/08
  215.   American in NY 21:36  |  Cake Walk 19/07/08
  216.   Natalie, Jew me down is a used phrase 21:50  |  Shuki 19/07/08
  217.   Clickfool 21:58  |  Ramius 19/07/08
  218.   211, cf- Ridiculous- I`ve Heard it often 22:33  |  dyinglikeflies 19/07/08
  219.   American? in NY, you sound like a whiner to me. 22:35  |  Ramius 19/07/08
  220.   Cake Walk #216 22:48  |  American in NY 19/07/08
  221.   Denise # 214 22:51  |  American in NY 19/07/08
  222.   Mehmet what torture are talking about 22:52  |  David Israel 19/07/08
  223.   Ramius - #206 Thank you 22:55  |  David Israel 19/07/08
  224.   American Jews don`t understand rising antiSemitism 23:39  |  John 19/07/08
  225.   amos 207 23:55  |  potobac 19/07/08
  226.   ramius 206 00:03  |  potobac 20/07/08
  227.   # 158 Dave Levy 00:14  |  christa 20/07/08
  228.   Natallie # 181 00:19  |  christa 20/07/08
  229.   # 209 Ramius 00:23  |  christa 20/07/08
  230.   Things have changed for the better 01:42  |  jackie 20/07/08
  231.   Anti Semitism 02:01  |  fubar 20/07/08
  232.   #217 John 02:35  |  Not So 20/07/08
  233.   Jewish in New Mexico 02:36  |  just someone 20/07/08
  234.   re 51 I guess they are still alive in the US 02:52  |  Alan the real one 20/07/08
  235.   re 69 Hey Mike the american-check this out 02:57  |  Alan the real one 20/07/08
  236.   jewish in nm 229 03:09  |  potobac 20/07/08
  237.   potobec 03:11  |  Danite 20/07/08
  238.   Natallie Durson 03:20  |  Jane 20/07/08
  239.   rev 167 where have all thr black hats gone 03:25  |  Alan the real one 20/07/08
  240.   re 181 you are in good company 03:27  |  Alan the real one 20/07/08
  241.   #30,To confused Arab 03:47  |  Bruce 20/07/08
  242.   To Denise #214 03:58  |  leven5 20/07/08
  243.   GRAY Obviously you read Irshad Manji saying "being Moslem means 03:59  |  PETER SM 20/07/08
  244.   DVD israel 187 mehmet and shared values with who? 04:05  |  American in NY 20/07/08
  245.   re 116 He was told he was special 04:17  |  Alan the real one 20/07/08
  246.   To just someone 04:21  |  leven5 20/07/08
  247.   POTOBAC.NOBODY outside knows what info.Pollard stole! 04:23  |  PETER SM 20/07/08
  248.   re 101 To long in the mountains jim 04:24  |  Alan the real one 20/07/08
  249.   To Christa 04:29  |  leven5 20/07/08
  250.   The truth is, there isn`t much overt Jew hatred in the U.S. 05:07  |  Rachel in USA 20/07/08
  251.   #2-Michelle- Yes in some jobs Observant Jews in who need to 05:36  |  PK 20/07/08
  252.   #4-potobac-In US on major Christian holidays it is.. 05:43  |  PK 20/07/08
  253.   Author Wrong-Anti Semites are Red White & Blue 05:54  |  PK 20/07/08
  254.   danite 238 06:13  |  potobac 20/07/08
  255.   peter sm 248 06:25  |  potobac 20/07/08
  256.   pk in brooklyn 06:38  |  potobac 20/07/08
  257.   Hey PK... I dare ya... 06:49  |  BBSNews 20/07/08
  258.   #258 - Hmmmm, BBS 10:26  |  JES 20/07/08
  259.   #247 - ANY, ANY, ANY... 10:46  |  JES 20/07/08
  260.   #8naftush We immigrated to America for freedom of religion,why sh 12:00  |  Susanna?Shoshana 20/07/08
  261.   #251RachelinUSAnot much overt Jew hating? on what planet do you 12:59  |  Susanna/Shoshana 20/07/08
  262.   I reread the article and ask,instead of a yard "sale" ,why no 14:08  |  Susanna/Shoshana 20/07/08
  263.   Response to #203 and #212 18:38  |  jj 20/07/08
  264.   #256-potobac-Pagan Religions Not the Same As Jewish Belief 18:55  |  PK 20/07/08
  265.   #257-BBS-In your neck of the woods they check for horns on.. 19:06  |  PK 20/07/08
  266.   American in NY 19:12  |  Cake Walk 20/07/08
  267.   Jesus`d? 19:16  |  Joan Stuchner 20/07/08
  268.   Anxious JES... 20:15  |  BBSNews 20/07/08
  269.   pk 264 21:22  |  potobac 20/07/08
  270.   Beneath the surface...... 22:22  |  Nach 20/07/08
  271.   #269-potobac-Are you a Pagan? 00:24  |  PK 21/07/08
  272.   Ramius # 219 i think that you did not understand Greenburgs whini 03:21  |  American in NY 21/07/08
  273.   Ramius # 219 2nd try, your whining about what? 03:22  |  American in NY 21/07/08
  274.   PK # 264 Your god versus other gods 03:31  |  American in NY 21/07/08
  275.   JES, I didn`t get your email or phone call... 09:03  |  BBSNews 21/07/08
  276.   ANY gets to the heart of it... 09:46  |  BBSNews 21/07/08
  277.   Hybrid Pt. 2 11:02  |  Ilana 21/07/08
  278.   About David Israel, observations 11:23  |  mehmet 21/07/08
  279.   pk 271 12:50  |  potobac 21/07/08
  280.   mehmet speak only for yourself 14:49  |  david Israel 21/07/08
  281.   More Black coats and black hats 15:40  |  American in NY 21/07/08
  282.   To Gray 16:34  |  utagawa 21/07/08
  283.   No one throws stones in Brooklyn 16:47  |  David Israel 21/07/08
  284.   I agree with Michelle 17:12  |  alanna 21/07/08
  285.   Ramius continued 1/2 17:18  |  American in NY 21/07/08
  286.   The Hyphenated-Jew 23:29  |  eddie - Haifa 21/07/08
  287.   Ramius 2/2 3rd try 01:42  |  American in NY 22/07/08
  288.   This hyphenated life, post two / Jew me down 04:09  |  Annie 22/07/08
  289.   There IS anti-semitism in America 08:23  |  Shlomo Regev 22/07/08
  290.   273 09:10  |  Pat X. 22/07/08
  291.   Hindu 20:55  |  Czarkazem13 22/07/08
  292.   Shlomo Regev #289 00:34  |  American in NY 23/07/08
  293.   # 287 American in NY..Cut The Crap.You are Anti-Semitic 04:14  |  .. 23/07/08
  294.   So tell me something dot dot... 05:51  |  BBSNews 23/07/08
  295.   .. 293 06:17  |  potobac 23/07/08
  296.   Dot Dot #293 Learn to read 14:27  |  American in NY 23/07/08
  297.   # 296 American in NY..A reply 21:07  |  .. 23/07/08
  298.   Ditty dot 03:34  |  American in NY 24/07/08
  299.   .. 297 04:41  |  potobac 24/07/08
  300.   Jew Me Down 06:56  |  Harriet Epstein 25/07/08
  301.   IDF, US Citizen 04:07  |  JForward 26/07/08
  302.   jforward 301 05:47  |  potobac 26/07/08
  303.   JForward Jewish loyalty 02:59  |  American in NY 27/07/08
  304.   #274-American NY-Your comparison between Bin Laden & PK unfounded 00:01  |  PK 28/07/08
  305.   #279-potobac-Jewish culture came before Greece & Rome 00:14  |  PK 28/07/08
  306.   pk 02:04  |  potobac 28/07/08
  307.   Discrimination is GOOD 04:25  |  Kucku Muruku 30/07/08
  308.   Potobac#4 18:19  |  Mickey 19/08/08
  309.   John #224 18:37  |  Mickey 19/08/08
  310.   pk 305 05:38  |  potobac 08/09/08
  311.   mickey re quibbling about numbers 05:52  |  potobac 08/09/08
  312.   Jewin` Down on the Up-n-Up? 18:45  |  Eliana 23/09/08
  313.   eliana 312 23:15  |  potobac 23/09/08
  314.   Israel and Ted 23:17  |  Don 28/10/08
  315.   The phrase "Jew me down" 18:21  |  Georganne Alex 23/01/09
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