The intellectual roots of feminism’s antisemitism

(RNS) — When people chanted “globalize the intifada,” I used to think they meant the violent kind, exported. I’ve revised that theory.

What’s actually globalized is a whole ecosystem of genteel intifadas.

There’s the bookstore intifada, where managers will place the latest anti-Israel books on the front table — which I’ve seen over and over in different cities. There’s the entertainment intifada, where A-list performers slip “Free Palestine” into award speeches . There’s the therapeutic intifada , where clinicians reportedly now screen out Zionist patients before they screen for insurance.

Last month gave us a new entry: the caffeine intifada, when a Brooklyn chain called Poetica Coffee served U.S. Rep. Dan Goldman his coffee, let his 7-year-old use the bathroom, and then, once he’d left, posted online that they’d refunded his $9.82 because his money “probably” came from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee .

It turns out that every corner of progressive culture has a price of admission, and Jews are finding it progressively more difficult to pick up that tab.

Add feminism to the list. That’s the case Kara Jesella makes in her new book, “ Feminist Antisemitism:…