Braden Eric Peters, who performs as Clavicular, landed in Tel Aviv. Within hours, the people who perform the fight against antisemitism were not fighting him. They were fighting each other.

I am tired of the spineless populism dressed up in pseudo-intellectual argument about what the “idealistic Jewish position” should be on the ‘‘Clavicular affair.’’ The whole discourse is a sordid little pantomime, so devoid of truth, so inflated with performance, that arguing with any of it is a category error.

It is as shallow as the pundit they are all obsessing over.

What we saw was not analysis. It was not strategy. It certainly was not Jewish thought. It was a screaming, self-branding tantrum, the same narcissistic virtue signaling that has swallowed the “fight against antisemitism,” an ecosystem so self-obsessed it is completely oblivious to the damage it causes.

It feeds on its own drama and drains the meaning out of the real existential issues the Jewish world is facing.

A sphere addicted to spectacle, allergic to self-awareness, incapable of distinguishing between Jewish responsibility and low-end tabloid personal branding.

Then I read Tamara Tayar in the Jerusalem Post, “The Clavicular controversy exposes a culture of silence.” I felt compelled to respond. Not to join the circus, and not because Clavicular deserves another minute of our attention, but because ignoring her would feel like failing to validate something real. Her warning is legitimate.

Her fear is rooted in........

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