Teaching Intellectual Humility
Over time, I realized I wasn’t teaching them how to win arguments. I was teaching them something far more important: intellectual humility—an appreciation for what they don’t know or can’t know.
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David L. Bernstein
A passionate advocate of the free expression of ideas and a supporter of Israel’s quest for peace and security, David L. Bernstein is the founder of the North American Values Institute (NAVI), formerly Jewish Institute for Liberal Values (JILV), which opposes radical ideology in K–12 education. He is author of Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews (Wicked Son, 2022). He is past president and CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and former executive director of the David Project. He spent 13 years at the American Jewish Committee in senior roles. David is a Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) and a Strategic Advisor for the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM). He is a prolific speaker, podcaster and writer, having written hundreds of opinion pieces in the Jewish and general press.
Breaking the Cycle of Identity Politics + Anti-Semitism
The anti-Semitism on the right is like a heart attack—it’s violent and fast moving. The right has guns and is hence more dangerous to our immediate security and wellbeing. The anti-Semitism on the left is like a cancer—it’s slow moving and corrosive. It threatens to disenfranchise Jews from politics and society. And both forms seem to be feeding off each other.
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