Prejudicial Statements

Recently, many analysts I like have been using phrases like:

"Jewish Billionaire Class"

"Brooklyn Jewish Class"

These statements appear to be prejudicial ("antisemitic"), although the first being limited to billionaires might not be.

It's not too hard to turn these into phrases that would not be prejudicial simply by adding the word 'Zionist.'

 So:

Jewish Zionist Billionaire Class

Brooklyn Jewish Zionist Class

It does add one more word, precisely because Zionists are not necessarily Jewish, and non-Jewish Zionists are different in some ways, such as being enabled to emigrate to Israel.  Also Jewish Zionists might have more personal commitment to the Zionist project, so Jewish qualifier may be apt, though it 'sounds bad' and should probably be avoided for that reason unless really necessary.

So if emigration to Israel or some other critical distinction is not an issue, then we could possibly in many cases leave out the 'Jewish' qualifier.  Hence:

Zionist Billionaire Class

Brooklyn Zionist Class

These are preferable IMO except in a narrow set of cases.  Personally I'd avoid using the word 'class' as well, since it adds nothing except implications.  Thus we have:

Zionist Billionaires

Brooklyn Zionists

(As I understand, there ARE anti-Zionist Jews in Brooklyn, including the orthodox and other kinds.)

Few in the world understand and deploy these distinctions as adroitly as journalist and publisher Phillip Weiss of Mondoweiss.

Note how he consistently uses phrases like 'American Zionists'.

However, when he gets to the big 5 Jewish Zionist organizations, he also deploys the phrase:

Organized Jewish Community

That's probably OK, because the organization of the whole may be different from the organization of the parts...  But JVP and IfNotNow are organized' too they're just the organized part of the anti-Zionist part (which is a small part...and it might be ridiculous to suggest they carry as much weight...but if we'd like that situation reversed perhaps we should not insist on it with our words).

Anti-Zionist Jews might not be the larger part of Jews, but there is no reason why we have to insist that it is through our rhetoric.  If we do, we're making a case for Zionists.