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Strolling While Jewish
SteynonLine ^ | April 23, 2024 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 04/24/2024 10:10:09 AM PDT by Twotone

Happy Passover, the holiday when American Jews attempt to pass over an Ivy League campus and British Jews attempt to pass over a Central London thoroughfare. Surveying the scene at Columbia, Powerline's Scott Johnson posts a picture of Nazis preventing Jews from entering the University of Vienna in 1938.

We are enjoined not to go full Godwin's this early in the column, but the photograph prompted this thought: A century ago, the Jews of Germany were the most assimilated in Europe. They had prospered under the Kaiser, and seemed set to do even better in the Weimar Republic. They were industrialists, intellectuals, scientists, artists... A quarter of the thousand richest men in Prussia were Jews. As we heard on a pertinent Tale for Our Time, if you were an ambitious Jew born in the Bukovina or points east, you dreamed of Berlin and Vienna.

And then...

What Germany was to the Jews of a century ago, America is today. New York is the world's most Jewish city, and Brooklyn is famously the most Jewish place on earth, with more Jews than either Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. As in Germany, Jews are the businessmen, brain surgeons, physicists, film producers. I take it as read that the day is fast-approaching when London, Paris, Toronto, Copenhagen will be Jew-free. But New York?

Well, it depends whether you think Jewish students being advised for their personal safety to leave Columbia University and take cover elsewhere is just an unfortunate one-off ...or whether America is in the midst of a sea-change in its general attitude to Jews. As I wrote fifteen years ago:

(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitsm; columbia; london; marksteyn

1 posted on 04/24/2024 10:10:09 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Jews the world over: “Never again!”

Democrat Party: “Not so fast!”

Democrat Party, universities, media: home base of Jew hatred.


2 posted on 04/24/2024 10:43:43 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Twotone

Whatever you do, our jewish neighbors,BE SURE and continue to vote for the party that desperately wants to disarm you such that you are defenseless against the next October 7th.


3 posted on 04/24/2024 11:12:34 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Twotone

Strolling while Christian...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/5-arrested-for-spitting-at-christians-in-jerusalem-police-minister-its-not-criminal/


4 posted on 04/24/2024 1:44:43 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

You really have to wonder about human beings. Can’t we all just get along? ;-)


5 posted on 04/24/2024 1:48:32 PM PDT by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: Twotone
It turns out that "Mark Steyn, demography bore," was exactly right.

"The UK's Jewish population is old and minimally fruitful; the Muslim population is youthful and growing:"

1981:
Jews: 330,000
Muslims: 553,000

2021:
Jews: 277,653
Muslims: 3,868,133


6 posted on 04/24/2024 2:24:18 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad

And I imagine many are simply moving - maybe back to Israel - for “safety.” If there’s any to be had these days.


7 posted on 04/24/2024 2:28:33 PM PDT by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: Bonemaker

Same with blacks. Voting for their slave masters.


8 posted on 04/24/2024 2:35:08 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Deo volente
Democrat Party, universities, media: home base of Jew hatred.

Unfortunately true.

9 posted on 04/27/2024 6:07:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Twotone

Shameful...

10 posted on 04/27/2024 6:37:11 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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