After [El Paso] there is no longer any room for nuance. The President is a white nationalist terror leader. His supporters – ALL OF THEM – are by definition white nationalist terror supporters. The MAGA hat is a KKK hood. And this evil, racist scourge must be eradicated from society.

sadly, i wasn’t joking about their ideas towards…
the point is that there is more and more of this, and less and less push back
and the targets are not allowed to push back, or confirm the narrative..

They’re doing that because (1) they lack the liberal education to have some passable sense of what is salient and what is not in the teaching of American history, and (2) they think their job is pushing political propaganda and (3) their politics are perfectly rancid, in a way that likely reflects on their character.

Now, if it’s their excuse that they’re teaching something other than American history, they’re still advocating indefensible allocations of time. Modern Israel is a small country and its history does not pre-date 1897. You want to write about occidental history, your pre-amble begins with Constantine. You got 16 centuries to cover.

She’s teaching that, and we hand diplomas to youths who cannot locate in their minds the half century in which the Civil War was fought. Your government at work.

Again, why? Sol Kravitz winning the Nobel Prize for physiology is of professional interest to people on life sciences faculties. It’s also a human interest story that would (back in the day) sell some newspapers and magazines. Now, a downstream technological application of Sol Kravitz’s work might be of significance in the course of national life. But in that case, you’d discuss the technological application, not Sol Kravitz.

No clue who is the ‘they’ to whom you’re referring. I doubt the history of American Jewry takes up much time in the average high school history teacher’s lesson plans, but, of course, I’ve been out of school a long time and I wasn’t living in New York or Miami. If my own memory of high school is true and representative of common experience, Jewish history is limited to reading Anne Frank’s diary and stage productions thereof. E.L. Doctorow’s ragtime, which was current literature at the end of my adolescence, has a Jewish family front-and-center. Again, English class, not history class.

Israel’s a country that defends itself with force and doesn’t have much time (collectively) for the talking cure. That sort of disposition is anathema to most liberals in every sort of venue. In the U.S., that revulsion is mitigated by a counter-valing vector, which is the prominence of Jews in producing journalism and nonfiction for general audiences. The sort of leapfrogging loyalties that are bog standard for the word merchant element in this country (and their dependents and hangers-on) are more difficult to sustain when the kewel Other is someone who wants to kill you. American public discourse is not distorted by this counter-valing vector; that vector removes a distortion which is everyone among the international bien-pensant class.

So why did they devote so much space to the Jews?