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Susan Neiman on Why Left ≠ Woke

The Good Fight

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The Problem With the Over Focus on German Crimes of the Past

Berlin has become an extraordinarily mixed place and it's the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe so including some estimated 20,000 Israelis. The focus on German crimes you know they've all learned the lesson Jews were our victims we murdered them leads people to see authentic Jewish voices as the ones who cry anti-Semitism the loudest at any occasion now this relates just two more sentences my involvement I've been very politically engaged in this in the last couple of years in Germany has also led me to think about and partly float into my thinking in left is not woke because I fear that a similar view is gaining hold in the United States.

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