In Democratic circles, anti-Semitism is becoming normal
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As people scramble to explain the sudden resurgence of socialism not only on America’s college campuses but also in the corridors of political power, it is worth noting the concomitant resurgence of anti-Semitism in those redoubts. The coincidence is not, as the Marxists like to say, an accident. The truth is that unfettered socialism, though based primarily on a demand for the abolition of private property, always comes riding on a current of anti-Semitism. Picking apart the conceptual reasons for this link is a complex business that I will leave aside here. But it is worth noting how impeccable a provenance the union enjoys. Consider this observation:
What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering . What is his worldly God? Money . . . . Emancipation from huckstering and money , consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time [and would] make the Jew impossible. . . . In the final analysis, the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism.
Louis Farrakhan in his ‘Jews are termites ’ mode? Nope. That’s old Karl himself in his classic anti-Semitic effusion of 1843, ‘On the Jewish Question.’
It’s worth keeping Marx’s views in mind as you ponder the rise of figures like Ilhan Omar, the young and comely Somali refugee who just took Keith Ellison’s House seat in Minnesota. Like many new Democrats, Omar was nurtured by the far-left Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. ‘Israel has hypnotized the world,’ Omar said on Twitter, ‘may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.’
Then there is the man she replaced, Keith Ellison, now the Attorney General-elect of Minnesota. ‘We can’t allow another country to treat us like we’re their ATM,’ Ellison said of Israel. ‘That country has mobilized its Diaspora in America to do its bidding in America.’
And let’s not forget the Democrat ‘It Girl’ herself, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , who has gone back and forth on the question of whether Israel has a right to exist at all but has been as never-varying as Dewar’s Scotch in referring to Israel’s ‘ occupation ’ of Palestine.
The efflorescence of anti-Semitism is always a bad sign in a culture, not least because it harbingers a spirit of thuggish intolerance and breakdown of faith in society’s mediating civil institutions. The old saw of being ‘anti-Israel, not anti-Jew’ does not quite ring true here, as the lefties’ language echoes the anti-Semitic tropes of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
I am of two minds about where our country’s new flirtation with socialism is heading. Perhaps it is a predictable by-product of affluence, a toxic gas emitted by the mighty engine of the free market. Much of the rhetoric and histrionics might be put down to the enforced childishness wrought the breakdown of our educational institutions. It is clear, for example, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez generally has no idea of what she is talking about. It’s not, probably, a lack of native intelligence. It’s just that, when it comes to political and historical realities, her mind is an impressionable tabula rasa.
But even if educational deficit helps to explain the resurgence of socialism, I am not sure that would be consoling. I have increasing sympathy for those who, casting their eye over the vicious and intractable opposition to the inherited processes of our political dispensation, see the potential for a great unravelling, what the political commentator James Piereson called a ‘ shattered consensus .’
Donald Trump’s gospel of ‘principled realism,’ his gentle and patriotic version of broad-church, America-first nationalism, offers a healing alternative. The angry Left, which has yet to accept the results of the 2016 election, refuse to take their seats at the table he has set for them. The increasingly violent confrontations with journalists, politicians, and talk show hosts is one troubling sign of that recalcitrance. The normalization of anti-Semitism is another.
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The veiled antisemitism exposed in the movie "Gentleman's Agreement" (the 1947 movie starring Gregory Peck) has come out of the closet, and the latent antisemitism boiling within is now seeping and pouring out of its cauldrons, especially when the real haters are able to argue that they "don't hate Jews" only "apartheid" Israel (the only genuine democracy in the Middle East surrounded by theocratic dictatorships and monarchies that discriminate against anyone who does not follow the required religion, about which nations the "double standard" bigots and left-soaked media provide little criticism, if any).
Apparently it is now acceptable to elect openly antisemitic lawmakers to represent the Democratic Party, who back the declared terrorist organization Hamas, praise BDS which is aimed at delegitimizing and destroying Israel, and state they will vote for the termination of military aid to Israel.
As it is acceptable to elect a white suprememacist? Why don't you bitch about them? Or is Israel your only concern these days?
Whataboutism. Dismissed.
Is supporting BDS anti-semitic?
Yes. BDS, started by a Palestinian terrorist with the purpose of strangling Israel, is promoted to disenfanchise and destroy what Israel was created for by the UN and as dictated for at least as far back as the Balfour Declaration that just had its 100th anniversary. Promoting the destruction of Israel is antisemitic. Twenty-six American States have already passed anti-BDS legislation, the latest being Kentucky.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/kentucky-becomes-26th-us-state-to-pass-anti-bds-law/?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_medium=email&utm
(Bolded by me to make sure you don't miss that, Steve.)
BDS Is Continuing To Spread Hate And Anti-Semitism Across The US
How about this?
SUPPORT FOR THE 'OCCUPATION' CAUSES ISRAEL'S RIFT WITH THE DIASPORA
Is an Israeli soldier disparaging himself? At some point in time, you have to realize that condemning the actions of the Israeli government is not the same as condemning Jews.
That's proof that Israelis, as well as Americans, enjoy freedom of speech. As the saying goes - different strokes for different folks. The point of time that you say I will come to a realization has long passed, and I have in the past criticized the Israeli government, its leadership, the Judiciary, the IDF, the settlers and especially the ultra-Orthodox Haradim extremists (just as I am critical of extremists of any religion or non-faith). BUT I absolutely support Israel's existence, and its right to do what it has to to defend its nation, its land and its people, and if it takes a strong government and leader to do that, that's just fine with me.
What is amazing about all of this is the history of Jewish support for liberal policies and movements. It is truly disgraceful
The excessive humanitarian efforts that Israel does for those anywhere in the world who have suffered from a natural disaster, for children who need a heart operation even if they are the children of enemies who have been programmed to kill Jews, for the huge number of medical and agricultural and technological advances Israelis have discovered or invented for the benefit of the rest of the world - all those things mean fuck all to the Jew-haters, even though they hypocritically enjoy those benefits that enhance their cellphones, computers. car safety, medical procedures and treatments, etc.
If it were true instead of just being more Heartland Institute anti liberal propaganda, it would be disgraceful.
You seem to have forgotten when Obama refused to support Israel at the UN:
Or when Obama insulted Netanyahu:
Or the anti-Semitism so common on college campuses:
ttps://www.adl.org/resources/reports/schooled-in-hate-anti-semitism-on-campus
So not going along with Israel on their every whim is now anti-Semitism?
Every whim? Such as?
In Democratic circles, anti-Semitism is becoming normal
Now I presented this to you a couple of weeks ago with no response, allow me to attempt once more:
The word "antisemitism" and referring to those who practise it has taken on its own meaning that differs from and separates it from the standard dictionary definition of "Semite". It then followed that the word "anti-Semite", although literally would normally be defined as being against all Semitic people, is now specifically defined as being "anti-Jew" or "anti-Judaism". It would have been clearer had the word been "antiJew". A similar thing exists with the word Islamophobia, which literally means FEAR of Islam, but its meaning is clearly understood to be HATRED of Muslims. It's a matter of semantics, and the development of the meanings of words.
As you wish Buzz, but you all pump the same blood like it or not and that was the point.
Sorry, it's not just that black or white simplistic as Russian bot memes meant to divide low IQ Americans would have you believe.
Funny how racist divisive propaganda all comes from the far right wing.
LOL. We ALL pump the same blood, Luther, whether we're white, black, yellow or red, so what does that mean? You're just twisting semantics to try to deny that through common usage the meaning of the words are now quite clear.
Oxford Dictionary:
anti-Semite (also antisemite):
A person who is hostile to or prejudiced against Jews.
anti-Semitism (also antisemitism):
Hostility to or prejudice against Jews.
In truth they are both at fault and then again neither is at fault, it is only the stupidity of humans at work.
No they are not clear Buzz, at one time you were all one peoples more or less.
As all humans all it takes is 1 degree of difference for the killing to begin.
But as you wish as I said.
If your position starts out with, "I'm not anti-semitic, anti-Jew, or anti-Israel, but . . . "
you probably are.
Sound familiar?
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