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On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies
New York Times via Yahoo ^ | October 20, 2023 | Jennifer Medina and Lisa Lerer

Posted on 10/21/2023 3:06:39 PM PDT by grundle

Progressive Jews who have spent years supporting racial equity, gay and transgender rights, abortion rights and other causes on the American left — including opposing Israeli policies in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — are suddenly feeling abandoned by those who they long thought of as allies. This wartime shift represents a fundamental break within a liberal coalition that has long powered the Democratic Party.

In Los Angeles, Rabbi Sharon Brous, a well-known progressive activist who regularly criticizes the Israeli government, described from the pulpit her horror and feelings of “existential loneliness,” her voice breaking. “The clear message from many in the world, especially from our world — those who claim to care the most about justice and human dignity — is that these Israeli victims somehow deserved this terrible fate.”

In Atlanta, a Jewish mother involved in local politics wrote an open letter lamenting that her child’s progressive private school had not addressed the attacks in Israel with the same kind of empathy it showed after local killings of Asian Americans. “Our people are butchered, and no one speaks to it?” she wrote. “I don’t know if I’m seething or just sad.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; US: Georgia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; notmiscellaneous; shj
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To: grundle

It is rather naïve to support people who have sworn to kill you. Coexist with Evil and Evil will win.


21 posted on 10/21/2023 3:32:03 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold,them to be. dead, fingers.)
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To: dfwgator
And yes, the Nazis were far left.

Careful, I think only you and I know that.

22 posted on 10/21/2023 3:38:11 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Olog-hai

Marx wasn’t Lutheran either! Just the father of commie atheism!!!!


23 posted on 10/21/2023 3:39:31 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: grundle

I’ve listen to Broward county Jewish Democrats blame Republicans, white supremacists and militias.
Even defend the “Squad”.
Zero sympathy.


24 posted on 10/21/2023 3:39:59 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: grundle
her voice breaking. “The clear message from many in the world, especially from our world — those who claim to care the most about justice and human dignity — is that these Israeli victims somehow deserved this terrible fate.”

BLM, and leftists before them, have long celebrated the murder of whites as deserving their fate. They cheer and call for murder of white South African farmers.

For all I know, this Jewish woman was cheering along with her leftst friends, until they came for her people. Now she is surprised because she expected a pass for Jewish victims.

White leftists always think they'll get a pass.

25 posted on 10/21/2023 3:40:41 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Honorary Serb

Yes, that’s true. It was his father that converted to Lutheranism.


26 posted on 10/21/2023 3:40:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Navy Patriot
The NSDAP are the German Left. We despise bourgeois nationalism.

— Goebbels
This should be common knowledge, really.
27 posted on 10/21/2023 3:42:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: beef
The Rainbow Coalition is at best a very uneasy alliance.

Didn't Jesse Jackson coin "Rainbow Coalition" in the 1980s?

I was laughing at the time. During the Regan Era, the far left seemed so weak and pathetic. I had no idea they would grow so strong.

28 posted on 10/21/2023 3:43:09 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: grundle
So many things to say. Where to start?

Briefly, “progressive” doesn't mean what those who self-identify as this think it means. As it stands, I would define a “progressive” as a cynic who is devoid of realism but nonetheless convinced of the superiority of their beliefs and opinions, and who supports governance by those they believe to be ‘elite’.

Conversely, I would define a true conservative as a humble and optimistic realist who values individuality and government by the people for the people.

Although unclear to too many Americans of Jewish heritage, Hitler belongs in the first group. Fascism and progressivism are ideological cousins.

29 posted on 10/21/2023 3:43:13 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: grundle

Guess the cackling apostate jew cows on The View might not be too happy. Good!


30 posted on 10/21/2023 3:44:32 PM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: grundle

I hope Israel Israel wakes up in time before drifting further and further to he left, some call it progressive but its nothing but another name for socialism or liberalism and as usual in time, can and will damage a country beyond repair. With Israel being as small as it is, it would not take much of this stupid trend to do it in.


31 posted on 10/21/2023 3:46:17 PM PDT by Saintgermain
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To: Angelino97

Stalin eventually had most of the Jewish Bolsheviks, who helped bring about the Russian Revolution, killed.


32 posted on 10/21/2023 3:47:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grundle

First mistake: The Left is not the Jews’ ally and never will be.


33 posted on 10/21/2023 3:48:14 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Olog-hai

Should be is not is.


34 posted on 10/21/2023 3:48:46 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Navy Patriot

Not until it’s too late. The big lie of national socialism being somehow “right wing” started with Stalin IIRC.

I’ve also read a plethora of quotes from Mussolini that make it plain that fascism is merely repackaged communism.


35 posted on 10/21/2023 3:49:55 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: grundle

Biden doesn’t care about the Jews or the Muslims, only where his next pile of cash is coming from.


36 posted on 10/21/2023 3:53:08 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: Olog-hai

Karl Marx said, “antisemitism is the socialism of fools,” thus confirming that socialism basically repackaged the demonization, conspiracy theories, and other garbage of antisemitism.


37 posted on 10/21/2023 3:53:41 PM PDT by Burma Jones
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To: Angelino97

“I was laughing at the time. During the Regan Era, the far left seemed so weak and pathetic. I had no idea they would grow so strong.”

They grew strong precisely because we were laughing at them and refusing to take them seriously. Had we taken them seriously and stomped on them real quick and good we might be living in a different world now.
But hindsight is always 20/20.


38 posted on 10/21/2023 3:55:55 PM PDT by oldvirginian ("Had I known what the North had in store for us, I would have continued fighting." Gen R E Lee )
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To: Burma Jones
Not a Marx quote; also misattributed to August Bebel. Very popular among the Social Democrats in Germany in the 19th century though.
39 posted on 10/21/2023 3:56:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai
It's been too late for a Century.

The New York Slimes and the Western Media pushed "Right Wing" Nazis for Stalin with Walter Duranty's Fluffing of everything Stalin and everything Communist, and won the Pulitzer "Prize" for it, with all of Socialist Democrat America as the audience.

40 posted on 10/21/2023 4:03:30 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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