Posted on 01/18/2024 6:31:42 AM PST by SJackson
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Jews are feeling increasingly afraid and unwelcome. Last week, girls on the basketball team of a Jewish private school in suburban Hartsdale, New York, were jabbed and hit with antisemitic slurs by players from Yonkers’ Roosevelt High School. “I support Hamas, you f—-ing Jew,” a Roosevelt player snarled. The game had to be called off in the third quarter, and the Jewish girls needed school security to help them leave.
Antisemitic incidents were already on the rise in 2021 and 2022. Now they are up nearly 400% year over year since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack against Israel, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt explains, “I am not talking about, you know, stores producing IDF T-shirts. I’m talking about a coffee shop on Long Island, an ice cream parlor in the Bay Area, a restaurant in Chicago.” It reminds him of his grandparents’ barbershop, which was vandalized by the Nazis in Germany. “I can’t believe this is happening in our country today.”
Believe it.
The mainstream media choose to downplay it and the Democratic Party is, at best, divided. Antisemitism has often come from the Right, but it appears now to be coming from the Left.
When the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania caused outrage by saying at a congressional hearing in December that calls for Jewish genocide don’t necessarily violate campus policy — “it depends on the context” — Democrats’ reactions were mixed.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) had no problem with moral clarity. “There is no ‘both sides-ism’ and it isn’t ‘free speech,’ it’s simply hate speech,” Fetterman said. It should be “reflexive” to “condemn antisemitism.”
But former President Barack Obama, the titular head of the party, had a different response. He reached out to Harvard and made a behind-the-scenes effort to save President Claudine Gay’s job.
On Dec. 13, the House of Representatives voted on a resolution to condemn antisemitism on campuses and demand the resignations of the presidents of Harvard and MIT for tolerating it. Democrats split, with 84 supporting the resolution and 125 opposing. Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) called it a “gross overreach” to tell colleges whom they should hire.
Sorry. If the discrimination had been against black students, the vote would have been unanimous, and Democrats would have clamored to pull federal funding from the colleges. But Jewish students can pound salt.
Jewish hostages, too. The public’s indifference to the eight American Jews captive in Gaza, the media’s silence and President Joe Biden’s tepid efforts to get them released, are telling.
Recall that during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, 52 American diplomats and citizens were taken hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and endured 444 days of captivity.
During that ordeal, Americans tied yellow ribbons around trees and Walter Cronkite announced on the nightly CBS news how many days the hostages had been captive. Carter’s failure to get them out contributed to his landslide loss to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
That’s unlikely to be a factor this November because this time, so few Americans care.
Granted, there are only eight hostages, and they were not serving the U.S. in an official capacity when they were taken. Even so, the silence is troubling.
In 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama made it a cause celebre when 200 Nigerian school girls were abducted. They weren’t Americans, but she said, “In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters.”
Prominent Democrats today are not holding signs saying “Bring Back Our Hostages.” Families of the American hostages released an ongoing TV ad on Jan. 7 to fill the void and build awareness.
Over the centuries, hatred of Jews has come from many directions. The latest wave appears linked to progressive opposition to Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, according to a study done by Arie Perliger, director of security studies at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. All Jews must bear the guilt, the thinking goes.
By failing to condemn antisemitism, politicians, academics and their media allies are doing our enemies’ bidding. One week ago, ISIS released a 67-minute diatribe calling for the destruction of Jews worldwide to avenge Israeli strikes against Gaza. The message was “kill them wherever you find them.”
Meanwhile, Jewish families privately talk at the dinner table about Anne Frank, hiding in attics, and where this new wave of antisemitism could lead.
It’s time for all Americans to denounce it.
Maybe Jewish people will stop giving so much money to leftist causes . Probably not though
The Hamas attack in Israel brought it out in the open, but these are people who hated Jews all along.
Who says the Nazis were right-wing? Leftists, because they are liars. The Nazis were socialists, and about as left-wing as it gets.
BTTT
But will they stop being leftists? Probably not.
That is because the ADL has been set up to look for antisemitism on the Right as a tool to attack conservatives. There are zero resources or even thought of looking for it on the Left. So when the Left engages in it, he's shocked.
This whole diversity and tolerance thing isn’t working out too well.
Liberal Jews can’t see, dismiss or deny that they have true friends in the Christian/conservative circles who would never do them such harm and hate.
By failing to condemn antisemitism, politicians, academics and their media allies are doing our enemies’ bidding.
The core of destruction of liberty never sleeps.
After so much gone wrong some people keep selection the bad leaders.
This is what happens when you can no longer recognize evil.
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; Isaiah 5:20
Its about time Jews were honest with themselves and admitted this is a problem emanating from the LEFT. No, not the Right. Not MAGA. Not the hills and hollers and backwoods. This comes from the heart of the LEFTIST Establishment.
and no, its not just “the kids” either.
The Democrats get a whopping 50% of their money from Jews. Time for them to reassess who their friends and who their enemies really are.
Yep. Leftists desperately try to pretend the National SOCIALISTS were somehow not.......wait for it.....SOCIALISTS.
Well they were. No, it wasn’t just a title meant to fool anyone. They were actual honest out and out SOCIALISTS.
Last I checked, Socialists were on the Left.
Shut up. Look Right. Focus on Trump and Latin Catholics.
Folks, the KKK was a militant Democrat organization, like Antifa, but with cleaner uniforms.
As Hitler said, they didn’t socialize factories or banks, they socialized human beings. What he meant was that he would allow the existing owners and managers to continue to run the business rather than parachuting in a bunch of party flunkies to take over, BUT the business had to do what the government wanted, make what the government wanted them to make and price controls were put in place. If the existing owners and managers didn’t toe the line then the government would take over and/or haul them off to the camps.
The Nazis brand of socialism actually worked better than the Commies brand because the existing owners/managers knew what they were doing a helluva lot better than party flunkies did. It was still woefully inefficient and wasteful though.
But yes, fascists ARE socialists. They are not mutually exclusive at all. The “evidence” Leftists try to cite - ie that the Nazis and Commies fought each other does not in any way prove they were not both socialists. The nastiest fights in politics are often between people competing for the same or similar niches rather than between polar opposites.
https://mises.org/library/why-nazism-was-socialism-and-why-socialism-totalitarian
We're not that far away from this in America.
The inevitability of socialism and socialists, is, they tear each other apart.
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