The Vanishing Jew

I have never felt more like a European Jew in America than I did this past week. The weak reaction of the Jewish community to the Whoopi Goldberg suspension left me feeling confused, embarrassed and alien. Cries of "this is not what we asked for!" when ABC announced that Goldberg was being taken off air for a two week time-out after she spread misinformation about the Holocaust and expressed ignorant prejudice towards Jews on their show The View, and later that same day on Stephen Colbert's Late Show, deeply surprised me. They are not the responses that would have come -- or did come during such incidents -- from Jews in the UK, where I'm from. It made me wonder how America would have reacted to, eg, the treatment of Wiley in the press and by the music industry following his 48-hour antisemitic rant in 2020. It made me think of how America might have voiced their thoughts after the Labour party lost the leadership in a landslide victory for the Conservatives in 2019.