A Component of DEIA: Antisemitism
- Deric Hollings
- Apr 18
- 20 min read
When addressing care for mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”), specifically regarding Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), I invite people to use thinking and beliefs which are rational (in accordance with both logic and reason).
Here, “logic” is the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable, and “reason” is a statement offered in explanation or justification. For instance, a modus ponens syllogism uses the following logical form: If p, then q; p; therefore, q.
If person X says thing Y that person Z could deem offensive (p), then person X absolutely mustn’t say thing Y (q). Person X says thing Y that person Z could deem offensive (p). Therefore, person X absolutely mustn’t say thing Y (q).
Although this moral and ethical proposition follows logical form, I argue that this sort of moral absolutism isn’t reasonable. Thus, I consider this syllogistic belief as that relating to irrationality. Nevertheless, I have little doubt that at least one person on this planet disagrees with my outlook.
Noteworthy, my worldview is subjective (characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind). Thus, not everyone agrees with what everybody else deems as rational or not. No matter how you may’ve been misled, not everyone is equal in their outlook.
For instance, I don’t support standards of diversity, equity, inclusivity, and accessibility (and derivatives thereunto; e.g., BRIDGE) which are uncommonly represented by the acronym DEIA, though commonly attributed to the acronym DEI – as I’ve oft written my opposition to DEIA:
DEIA is something akin to a projective device (a word-association technique used in motivation research. Key words are mixed with neutral background words and individuals are asked to make associations without being aware of which terms are the key words).
For example, I could ask person X what he thinks this term means, as I’d receive one definition. I could then ask person Y what she thinks it means, and receive a completely different descriptor. Therefore, it may be helpful to settle on a relevant depiction, as one source thusly states:
DEIA is not an abstract concept; it is a framework for building institutions where everyone belongs and is able to thrive, while addressing systemic barriers that have historically excluded marginalized communities.
· Diversity ensures representation among qualified persons across race, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, socioeconomic status, military status, shared ancestry, parental status, persons who live in rural communities, and more so that institutions reflect the communities they serve.
· Equity recognizes that inequalities exist and works to dismantle the barriers that disproportionately harm marginalized communities, ensuring fairness in access to resources and opportunities.
· Inclusion ensures that institutions are not just diverse, but that all individuals, especially those historically excluded, can fully participate and contribute without fear of discrimination or bias.
· Accessibility expands opportunities for individuals of all abilities by removing physical, technological, and systemic barriers that may prevent full participation in society through reasonable accommodations, inclusive work and public spaces, and more.
Despite my objection to DEIA, to which many people refer as “woke”, individuals within the United States (U.S.) who retain positions of power tend toward an outlook favoring prejudice. For context, the American Psychological Association (APA) thusly defines prejudice:
1. a negative attitude toward another person or group formed in advance of any experience with that person or group. Prejudices can include an affective component (e.g., nervousness, anger, contempt, pity, hatred) and a cognitive component (assumptions and beliefs about groups, including stereotypes). Prejudice is typically manifested behaviorally through discriminatory behavior.
Prejudicial attitudes tend to be resistant to change because they distort our perception of information about the target group. Prejudice based on racial grouping is racism; prejudice based on perceived sexual orientation is homophobia and biphobia; prejudice based on sex or gender (including transphobia) is sexism; prejudice based on chronological age is ageism; and prejudice based on disability is ableism.
2. any preconceived attitude or view, whether favorable or unfavorable.
Regarding element two of this definition, person X may have a prejudicially favorable perspective of his own race. Still, quite often, people take issue with element one of this definition which regards discrimination. For clarity, the APA thusly defines this term:
1. the ability to distinguish between stimuli or objects that differ quantitatively or qualitatively from one another.
2. the ability to respond in different ways in the presence of different stimuli. In conditioning, this is usually established in experiments by differential reinforcement or differential conditioning techniques.
3. the unjust and differential treatment of the members of different age, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, national, ability identity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic, and other groups at the individual level (e.g., behavioral manifestation of prejudice involving negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of the members of targeted groups) and the institutional/structural level (e.g., operating procedures, laws, and policies) that favor certain groups over others and has the effect of restricting opportunities for other groups.
Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and therefore involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of the members of rejected groups. By contrast, reverse discrimination is the favorable treatment of the oppressed group rather than the typically favored group.
I reject the term “reverse discrimination,” because I maintain that it infers a perverse qualifier. Whereas prejudice relates to one’s negativistic attitude and discrimination regards differential treatment, there’s no need for a special quality for one type of discrimination from another.
It’s merely discriminatory behavior, irrespective of the targeted demographic. Personally, DEIA is a form of prejudicial attitude favorably viewing some groups and unfavorably perceiving others. It thus results in discriminatory treatment regarding perceptively unfavorable groups.
For a relatively brief moment in time, I considered DEIA as societally disregarded form of bigotry (obstinate or narrow-minded adherence to one’s own opinions and prejudices). Thus, on November 8, 2024, regarding Joe Biden’s administration, I stated in Aged Like Milk:
[A]fter Election Day 2024, something happened. I awoke to find out that a white man had electorally beat the brakes off of a non-white woman. [Kamala] Harris lost to Donald Trump—the president-elect of the U.S.
Surprisingly still, one source reports, “Turnout for Trump spiked among Hispanic/Latino, Asian voters.” A separate source states, “Trump was able to make slight inroads with [b]lack voters nationally, who made up about 1 in 10 voters across the country.”
It appears that so-called BIPOC [black, indigenous, people of color] individuals have begun to unite. Only, it would seem as though – at least partially – DEIA was on the ballot and the citizenry of the U.S. have begun to stand against the blatantly discriminatory practices which have plagued our nation for years.
It didn’t take long for the Trump administration to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Biden administration ostensibly instituted prejudicial and discriminatory DEIA measures advantaging people who weren’t straight white men.
Yet, the Trump administration took a similar approach that apparently used prejudicial and discriminatory DEIA standards which advantaged Jewish people over non-Jewish people. For instance, I stated in Thas a Dog That Don’t Hunt No Mo’ (April 1, 2025):
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) proposes, “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Ostensibly, antisemitism is increasingly related to solely Jewish people. However, even if antisemitism strictly relates to Jews, the Jewish people still don’t constitute a racial identity in the U.S. Nevertheless, the U.S. Department of State adopts the IHRA definition and adds:
[C]riticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic. Antisemitism frequently charges Jews with conspiring to harm humanity, and it is often used to blame Jews for “why things go wrong.” It is expressed in speech, writing, visual forms and action, and employs sinister stereotypes and negative character traits.
With understanding that the U.S. government currently infringes upon the First Amendment, I recently listened as Rabbi Levi Shemtov testified at the Senate Hearing on Antisemitism on College Campuses, ostensibly supporting such infringement. At that time, Rabbi Shemtov stated:
Antisemitism is not just an age-old prejudice, it is a contemporary crisis manifesting on campuses across the nation. It is not enough for individuals or institutions to merely claim they are not antisemitic. As my father once taught me, it is not enough for people, especially public figures, to be neutral or not be antisemitic. One must be anti-antisemitic!
I’ve heard this irrational rhetoric before. It’s antiracism masquerading as an “anti-antisemitic” proposition. Thas a dog that don’t hunt no mo’! It was logical, though unreasonable, when expressed by [Ibram X.] Kendi and [Robin] DiAngelo. Likewise, it’s irrational when stated by Rabbi Shemtov.
Remember: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
In that blogpost, I noted that the Trump administration’s apparent support for DEIA measures infringes the First Amendment. I illustrated this by references to antisemitism as constituted by matters of speech (i.e., “expressed hatred,” “expressed in speech, writing, visual forms,” etc.).
Although one may not like or love expressed negativistic opinions about Jewish people, such freedom of expression is legal within the U.S. Perhaps it may be useful to provide a concrete example of a negativistic view some people hold about Jews. First, allow me a disclaimer.
I’m not a religious scholar, as I plead ignorance (lack of knowledge, education, or awareness) regarding Judaism. Also, although I maintain that the state of Israel has engaged in genocide, ethnic cleansing, and war crimes, I hold no prejudicial or discriminatory ill will towards all Jews.
Besides, I know that the U.S. has fully supported and, in some cases, actively partaken in some of the same crimes of which I accuse Israel. I disavow such actions! All the same, I stated in Doing Right or Wrong, as They See It (August 19, 2025):
Personally, Israel’s actions since the October 7, 2023 attacks (“October 7th”) by Hamas have been wrong, bad, evil, immoral, and unethical. In particular, I oppose Israel’s apparent standard of collective punishment which one source defines thusly:
Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group or whole community for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member or some members of that group or area, which could be an ethnic or political group, or just the family, friends and neighbors of the perpetrator, as well as entire cities and communities where the perpetrator(s) allegedly committed the crime.
While Hamas has taken credit for October 7th, not all Palestinians or Gazans are responsible and accountable for that event. Nevertheless, Israel has all but decimated Gaza – not solely members of Hamas, to include men, women, and children who aren’t members of Hamas. Per one source:
Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out.
But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time.
Gaza was a bustling, living place until less than two years ago, for all the challenges its residents endured even then. Its markets were crowded, its streets were full of children. That Gaza is gone – not buried under volcanic ash, not erased by history, but razed by an Israeli military campaign that has left behind a place that looks like the aftermath of an apocalypse.
Bearing witness to the apparent international crimes and saying nothing at all, or actively supporting U.S. involvement in such ostensible criminal activities, is a curious matter about which one could self-disturb if not daily practicing a helpful psychotherapeutic modality [REBT].
I don’t advocate collective punishment. While Israel and its Israel Defense Forces (IDF) may be guilty of crimes, not all Jewish people bear this guilt. Still, if citizens of Israel are members of the IDF, then there’s a case to be made regarding guilt assignment through legal processes.
That relatively lengthy disclaimer aside, I now present an example of a topic I’ve recently discovered being labeled as antisemitic. According to one source:
The Tzoah Rotachat (Hebrew: צוֹאָה רוֹתַחַת, romanized: Ṣōʾā Roṯaḥaṯ, lit. ‘boiling excrement’) in the Talmud and the Zohar is a location in Gehenna where the souls of Jews who committed certain sins are sent for punishment.
The Babylonian Talmud lists the cause for a Jew being sent to Tzoah Rotachat as those who scoff at the words of the Chazal are judged in Tzoah Rotachat. The Babylonian Talmud also hints that the punishment has more of a physical implication to it. In Eruvin 21b.10, Rashi writes that he who engages in “excessive scoffing” is met with the second part of the same “straining of the flesh”, essentially being judged excessively (straining) of his body.
The presence of Jesus in boiling excrement is one of the often-claimed references to Jesus in the Talmud. Onkelos raises up a spirit named Yeshu by necromancy, and asks him about his punishment in Gehinnom. Yeshu replies that he is in “boiling excrement.”
According to Gittin, “Onkelos bar Kalonikos, the son of Titus’s sister, wanted to convert.” (Babylonian Talmud, Gittin 56b.18)
Onkelos then went and raised Jesus the Nazarene from the grave through necromancy. Onkelos said to him: Who is most important in that world where you are now? Jesus said to him: The Jewish people. Onkelos asked him: Should I then attach myself to them in this world? Jesus said to him: Their welfare you shall seek, their misfortune you shall not seek, for anyone who touches them is regarded as if he were touching the apple of his eye (see Zechariah 2:12). Onkelos said to him: What is the punishment of that man, a euphemism for Jesus himself, in the next world? Jesus said to him: He is punished with boiling excrement. As the Master said: Anyone who mocks the words of the Sages will be sentenced to boiling excrement. And this was his sin, as he mocked the words of the Sages. The Gemara comments: Come and see the difference between the sinners of Israel and the prophets of the nations of the world. As Balaam, who was a prophet, wished Israel harm, whereas Jesus the Nazarene, who was a Jewish sinner, sought their well-being.
— Gittin 57a:3-4
According to Jews for Judaism, the Jesus (Yeshu) in this passage is different from the Jesus of the Christian New Testament; Jews describe Jesus as a 1st century BCE Jewish sectarian who rejected rabbinic Judaism by creating a new religion that combined Judaism with Hellenistic paganism. Writing for the Jesuit America magazine, Gilbert S. Rosenthal wrote, “even if Jesus of Nazareth was the intended subject of some of these troubling passages, they reflect the opinion of one man, not the consensus of Jewish thought then or now.”
Online citation of the plausible Jewish reference to Jesus Christ being boiled in excrement is labeled as antisemitic, because doing so apparently assumes prejudicial attitudes against all Jews and could therefore result in discriminatory treatment regarding all Jewish people.
In other words, using a modus ponens syllogism, if people identify Jesus being boiled in excrement according to some Jewish individuals (p), then all Jews will suffer antisemitism (q). People identify Jesus being boiled in excrement according to some Jewish individuals (p). Therefore, all Jews will suffer antisemitism (q).
This is a logical proposal, as it follows a predictable syllogistic form. However, I argue that it’s unreasonable. My mere citation of opinions held by some Jewish individuals doesn’t castigate all Jews, given that I denounce collective punishment. Thus, the syllogistic belief is irrational.
Remember, I began this blogpost by stating that “my worldview is subjective” and “not everyone agrees with what everybody else deems as rational or not.” Therefore, some people may erroneously regard me as an anti-Semite, even though I’ve not expressed antisemitism herein.
If you have a personal issue or perhaps claim a collective problem concerning differing beliefs, and appeal to a component of DEIA whereby some groups have the right to free expression while others ostensibly don’t, then I argue that you’re the one with a bigoted outlook, not me!
If you want to know who truly wields power within a society, take a look at who can and can’t be criticized—what beliefs are and aren’t deemed acceptable. From a DEIA perspective, so-called “marginalized communities” with power to suppress free speech are the oppressors!
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