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The Left's Hatred of Jews Chills Me to the Bone
The Telegraph ^ | 28 April 2016 | Stephen Pollard

Posted on 04/28/2016 11:03:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan

As a young boy, I used to think my grandma very strange. In her bedroom she kept a suitcase, packed and ready for use at a moment’s notice. “Just in case,” she’d tell me when I asked where it was that she was always waiting to go to. “You never know when they’ll turn on the Jews.”

Her house in Northwood was epitome of suburban comfort, and I couldn’t understand what on earth she meant. Until, that is, I learned some history – including the history of the Jews. Which is, in short, that pretty much everywhere, they have turned on the Jews.

From my teens through my twenties and thirties, the fact that I am Jewish meant little to me beyond the Jonathan Miller sense of being Jew-ish. I adored beigels, matzoh balls, Seinfeld and Woody Allen more than your average gentile would think they deserved. And that was about it. If you’d asked me, I’d have told you that after the Holocaust, real, serious anti-Semitism – the sort where Jews were killed for being Jews, rather than the odd nasty comment – was a thing of the past, in civilised Europe, at least.

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KEYWORDS: antisemitism; leftists
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1 posted on 04/28/2016 11:03:03 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

This is always a topic that has continually astounded me...as a Protestant individual.
Also fascinating is how as a non-Jewish person I find myself much more a friend to Israel than my leftist Jewish friends!

2 posted on 04/28/2016 11:13:43 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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Terrific article that is just simply...true. Like gravity. One can construct any number of theories as to the whys but the effect remains. Anti-Semitism is a European tradition in its way but in the case of the Brits, I believe there is a special residual resentment for the activities of the Irgun who blew up the King David hotel in 1946 resulting in the deaths of some 91 people, mostly Brits. A terrorist act, by any measure and certainly by contemporary standards. No “freedom fighter” sentiments need apply.


3 posted on 04/28/2016 11:59:44 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Satan.

Satan is running the world until Jesus Christ comes back. We handed it to him in the Garden of Eden This is why the Apostle John weeps because no one is worthy. Then Jesus Christ stands up as the One worthy.

That is why Satan is the “prince of this world” according to Christ in the Gospels, and Satan is the “god of this world” in one of Paul’s Epistles.


4 posted on 04/29/2016 12:13:58 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear; metmom; CynicalBear; SkyPilot; tuffydoodle; tang-soo; righttackle44; ...

ping


5 posted on 04/29/2016 12:15:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Rummyfan

The Left is a cult of hatred which is demonic in nature. They will hide behind a sanctimonious veil so they can wage their agenda against those they hate. One thing you can use to detect who they are is how they misrepresent the truth. They oppose those who speak the truth and will use whatever power they have to shut people up.


6 posted on 04/29/2016 2:07:01 AM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: Blue Jays

Understand completely!

Except that now I have far fewer Leftist friends.

That rainbow overlay thingy on Facebook helped a lot!


7 posted on 04/29/2016 2:15:48 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man.)
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To: Blue Jays

Yep
That is what i fail. To comprehend,
Why do American Jews stand against the best interests of Israel?


8 posted on 04/29/2016 2:43:43 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
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“Why do American Jews stand against the best interests of Israel?”

In my experience, most American Jews support the concept of Israel, and would most definitely state that they want stability and peace for Israel, but they also very much identify with being ‘thoughtful’ and social justice oriented, and so find it difficult when it comes to the Palestinian issue. Plus, I think for some the necessary militarization of Israel is problematic. It's actually a discussion that should be had out in the open, IMHO.

The rise of anti-semitism in Europe is very disturbing. To me, all of it is bizarre. For instance, how can the left be so adoring about the sociopolitical philosophy of Marx, an ancestral Jew, but be at the same time anti-semitic? Conversely, how can so many Jews be left-leaning when so much anti-semitism comes from the left?

All of it sickens me. Incidentally, again IMHO, no group uses identity politics as much and as divisively as the left - and you are seeing it in this campaign as the race card, the gender card, the formal education level card, and the class warfare card are all being pulled out - as usual. It's important to remember that identity politics was at the root of some of the most tragic events (e.g. genocide) in human history, and using it like the left does is extremely irresponsible - at best.

9 posted on 04/29/2016 3:18:35 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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My Jewish lady friend suggested it comes from interbreeding. Not many left after the Holacost.


10 posted on 04/29/2016 3:27:00 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Rummyfan

History began when the Torah was upon the earth. It establishes God’s Presence upon the earth and is the Link between Heaven and earth. This is why evil ALWAYS hates the Jews. Implacably. Kill the Jews, who have transmitted the Torah through Time, and you kill God. Evil MUST hate the Jews. Their reaction was breathed into their dust by God at the Dawn of Time and they are powerless to stop or hide it.


11 posted on 04/29/2016 3:30:54 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Well except they were repeatedly warned there was a bomb and blew off the threats because it was just a bunch of silly Jews.

And the goal of the bombing was not to kill people, but rather destroy the secret police files contained in a storage room — which the blast did indeed do.

Still horrific and ill advised, yes. But not terrorism, just war.


12 posted on 04/29/2016 3:39:27 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Rummyfan

I recently read the book “Exodus” by Leon Uris, and was struck by how he described Jews in America as being relatively safe (remember it was set right after the Holocaust), and yet today they support the party that is essentially demanding that the potential agents of their destruction be allowed to come to America.


13 posted on 04/29/2016 4:05:06 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (Better Call Saul (Alinsky). "Make them live by their own rules")
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That’s being Jewish in Britain for you. Fearful, unarmed, surrounded by muzzies, and looked down upon by Her Majesty’s government.

Here in America, jihadis often wind up suddenly dead, which may dampen the Koranic enthusiasm of the others.


14 posted on 04/29/2016 4:08:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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And yet most Jews will still vote Democrat, because their worship of Socialism is greater than any other consideration. They love socialism more than Israel, and more than their own lives and the lives of their children.


15 posted on 04/29/2016 4:12:58 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: Rummyfan

Jealousy of Jews comes from the fact that God gave His commandments to the Jews first.


16 posted on 04/29/2016 4:21:57 AM PDT by abclily
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Sir Walter Scott wrote of anti antisemitism in IVANHO that took place at the time if King Richard


17 posted on 04/29/2016 4:25:12 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....)
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To: Rummyfan

Anybody ever read Marx’s opinion of Jews? It was all there in the Manifesto, people!


18 posted on 04/29/2016 5:00:19 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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To: Rummyfan

The left hates the Jews for the same reason that Islam hates the Jews which is the same reason that Satan hates the Jews,

They know that when the Jews are elevated to the end of Gods plan it means all of their ends,

Satan knows this, his disciples in Islam know this, but as for they left, they just feel it,


19 posted on 04/29/2016 5:19:43 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: captmar-vell

or not


20 posted on 04/29/2016 5:27:55 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....)
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