Friday, September 14, 2018

Julia Salazar's Fluid Identities

Julia is running for Brooklyn's State Senate candidate. She is an energetic agitator in extreme left circles, sometimes selling herself as a Sefaradi Jewess from Colombia, a Latina immigrant, sometimes Zionist and others anti-Israel. Jewish she is NOT. A journalist made an enquire who really was this 27 years old politician, and it appears that she was born in Miami to upper class Colombian father (Catholic, of course) and an Italo-American mother. She was engaged in many left wing movements under different names and identities. Lately she accuses the Israeli spokesman of touching her - "a very uncomfortable moment till I liberated myself". Politics is a most serious business, elected officials manage the public budget, direct the police department, decide about salaries and taxes, influence foreign policy, etc. How can anyone put his life in the hands of this lying self-promoter?

PS: She won the elections and represents Brooklyn. OK, lying may be too strong, rather that she is a bit confused. Thoughts: American Jews succeeded in making so vague and vaporous the Jewish identity, that anyone laughing at a Jewish joke may believe he/she is Jewish. She is "socialist" but does that word have for her a concrete meaning? Apart from being against Trump. 

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