Wendy Needham retweetledi
‘A young Jewish woman was pressured by her CEO to accept being assigned a non-Jewish name at work, in the directory, email & office interactions to avoid offending clients. In Australia, where a trans person’s chosen gender & chosen name must be accepted to avoid offence. If I live to be 100 I will not get over today’s testimony.’
These are the words of one of our Australian followers in response to yesterday’s hearing of the Australian Royal Commission on Antisemitism. She adds, ‘I tried imagining the fallout if anyone had told India Willoughby that he had to use his male name. Then I realised I didn't have the brain capacity to hold the hypocrisy & insanity of both these things.’
One minority is expected to erase itself to avoid offence, while another is protected from offence by institutional force. That is a profound double standard. We say: antisemitism is not a burden for Jews to manage, but an entrenched conspiracy theory that society must confront.
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