I’m Done Asking for Sympathy, Lefty Friends

Gabe Zichermann
5 min readOct 25, 2023
cc Nenad Stojkovic

I’m done trying to get your sympathy, thanks very much.

Like many liberal Jews, I’ve been concerned with the increasing antisemitism in progressive circles over the last 20 years. Of course liberals like me made common cause with progressives for two core reasons:

  1. We thought we had a shared belief in progress, humanism and the idea that raising everyone’s standard…

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Gabe Zichermann

Author and Public Speaker on Gamification, The 4th Industrial Revolution, the Future of Work and Failure. More about me: https://gabezichermann.com