"#American and #French #Jews enjoyed a period of openness: #antisemitism was in decline, both countries moved toward a form of #multiculturalism, there was a general consensus that the #Holocaust was bad and that #Israel was a force for good.
The past 25 years... saw a rise in antisemitism on both the right and the left. Islamists, Holocaust deniers and conspiracy theorists targeted Jews each in their own ways. Openness fasttracked #assimilation, and a waning of engaged secular #Jewishness. Israel was on its way to becoming an international pariah state, and Jews lost their status as a historically persecuted minority and were promoted to the status of privileged whites.
“The space for benevolent feelings toward Jews became narrower and narrower,” he said. “And when this space is narrower and narrower, it’s more difficult to make #humor, not only for your group, but also for people other than those that belong to your group.”
https://www.jta.org/2025/09/14/ideas/alex-edelman-and-fans-of-long-story-short-may-disagree-but-a-french-intellectual-says-jewish-humor-is-dying