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Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) CEO Sacha Roytman wrote the following reflection on a display of antisemitism he observed during a recent visit to New York City:
Today, I visited the most antisemitic bookstore in New York City — McNally Jackson. I love books and bookstores. In Israel, as we are a small nation with below 9 million people speaking Hebrew, our bookstores aren’t as big as in the U.S. So each time I visit NYC, I go to buy books.
Bookshops are a part of our culture. They can either choose to promote a pluralist society, helping people forge their political identity, or be politically engaged and join the cultural cancellation movement.
Today, when visiting McNally Jackson in SoHo, I witnessed what an intellectual and cultural cleansing of Jewish and Israeli history and heritage looks like. All the books in the Middle East section promoted a single antisemitic narrative. Each book presented Jews and Israelis as colonizers. One even praised Hamas and portrayed it as a legitimate regime in Gaza.
I was also shocked to see a book on the Holocaust positioned side-by-side with a book called The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. This is what’s called Holocaust trivialization and distortion.
What McNally Jackson is doing is nothing less than an attempt at the cultural ethnic cleansing of Jews, trying to eradicate the importance of the Holocaust and the 3,500-plus years of Jewish history in Israel and the deny all crimes committed by Palestinians and neighboring Arab nations.
Today I visited the most antisemitic bookstore in New York City @mcnallyjackson. I love books and bookstores. In Israel, as we are a small nation with below 9 million people speaking Hebrew, our bookstores aren’t as big as in the US. So each time I visit NYC, I go to buy books.… pic.twitter.com/mvVJjiGS7r
— Sacha Roytman (@SachaRoytman) May 31, 2024
