{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Honest Take","title":"Broken Mirror: Internalized Antisemitism, the Non-Jewish Gaze, and Why Jewish Pride is the Answer to Jew Hate | With Ben M. Freeman","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4498,"description":"The founder of the Jewish Pride movement says Jews have spent so long fighting for the right to exist that they've forgotten how to be proud that they do. Ben M. Freeman — a gay Jewish kid from Glasgow who had to come out twice, first as gay and then as an unapologetic Zionist — joins Ben Chertoff to make the affirmative case: that Jews are not a religion but a people, an ancient civilization indigenous to the Land of Israel, and that pride, not defense, is the real answer to Jew-hatred. Along the way: internalized antisemitism and his \"three D's,\" the \"non-Jewish gaze,\" why he reframes \"Eastern European Jews\" as \"Jews who lived in Eastern Europe,\" the UN's own criteria for indigeneity, and why he says anti-Zionism is antisemitism — no asterisk.\n\nKey Takeaways\n\nPride, not defense, is the point. Freeman's whole project is affirmative: \"Jewish pride is the root to fighting Jew-hatred.\" You can't fight antisemitism, he argues, unless you're first proud to be a Jew.Jews are a people, not a religion. His \"hill to die on\": Judaism is equivalent to Jewishness — an Am, a civilization with a religion — and defining Jews only as a faith is a Christian import that creates endless contradictions.Internalized antisemitism has three forms. Diminishment (making yourself smaller — \"I'm Jewish, but…\"), denial (disowning your Jewishness), and deployment (weaponizing it, as anti-Zionist Jews do). Diminishment is the most common.Only Jews define Jewish identity — the \"non-Jewish gaze.\" Because the non-Jewish world both isn't Jewish and has been structured against Jews, its definitions of \"palatable\" Jewishness are illegitimate; allies should amplify Jewish perspectives, not speak over them.The indigeneity case. Applying the UN's criteria (he discards the \"non-dominant group\" one as post-colonial nonsense), he argues Jews meet them — continuous connection to the land, a land-rooted calendar and festivals, Hebrew beneath every diaspora language, Jews buried with soil from Jerusalem....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/MWvudMeeQbLLprkXao5bQURkY3G_5oMcfe3JeW4xoBg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Nzg1/NjYxZjIyMzBiODU5/OTczZmQzNjUzMmZi/YWIwNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}