I suggest this article may perpetuate "the very oppression we're supposed to be fighting." By commanding people to "stop comparing our issues to Black Lives Matter" or any other oppression, it prevents the very concept of empathy and solidarity which we need to counter all of these oppressions.

The command I would follow is: "You shall not oppress the stranger, having yourselves been strangers in the land of Egypt." Exodus 23:9. The lesson is to learn from your own heritage of oppression to oppose such oppression against anyone else.

This is the lesson too few of my fellow Jews have learned, separating the oppression of Jews from others, and thus justifying the oppression of Palestinians in Israel and the racist treatment of African refugees.

This is the lesson W.E.B. DuBois bemoaned was not learned when "artificial distinctions" prevented the alliance of "freed" blacks with poor whites during Reconstruction.

This is the lesson that was not learned when Irish racists in the West joined with white racists in the South to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act, while the Afro-American League and other groups jumped on the anti-Asian bandwagon.

This is the lesson we have still failed to learn today. The answer to racism is not "anti-racism" - it is solidarity. "Solidarity," said Ricardo Flores Magon (the anarchist from Oaxaca who started the Mexican Revolution) "is the consciousness of the common interest, and the actions which follow from that consciousness."