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THIS IS NOT YOUR GRANDFATHER’S ANTI-SEMITISM
Powerline ^ | 12 Nov 2023 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 11/12/2023 5:11:07 PM PST by Rummyfan

The tide of anti-Semitism is not abating. To the contrary, it seems to be growing larger by the day, and it is fair to say that rather than a tide, a tsunami is the better imagery. Did everyone misjudge the latent anti-Semitism amongst us? I think not, because what we are seeing now differs from the old-timey anti-Semitism of the 20th century, which involved ugly, resentful stereotypes of Jews as rootless cosmopolitans, grasping financiers, or (for some medieval Christians) “Christ-killers.”

The primary charge against Jews and Israel right now emphasizes they are “settler colonialists”—an ideological construct that didn’t exist until the day before yesterday. This ought to be a very big “tell” of the insincerity and larger source of what is going on. In short, this is not your grandfather’s anti-Semitism. And because it is rooted in a broader progressive ideological banner, it effectively mobilizes a lot of terrible human beings who might not be sufficiently motivated by Jew-hatred alone.

One way to begin to understand this more clearly is to think about the popular meme that shows a glowering Trump (my favorite kind of Trump) with the legend, “It’s not me they’re after—it’s you. I’m just in the way.” We can paraphrase this by saying, “It’s not Israel we’re after—it’s the entire project of Western civilization. Israel is just in the way.” It is not for nothing that Iran, for example, has been calling the United States “the great Satan” for 40 years now. If they were to succeed in destroying Israel, we know who would be the next primary target.

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1 posted on 11/12/2023 5:11:07 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

“They” know what they will do to the Jews.
And we know what we must do to them.


2 posted on 11/12/2023 5:20:53 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Rummyfan

These people could give a rats ass about Palestinians and this sure as hell has nothing to do with land..these vermin have always hated Jews but now feel emboldened and are using this war as a means to attack Jews


3 posted on 11/12/2023 5:25:28 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: WXRGina

ping


4 posted on 11/12/2023 5:30:17 PM PST by logitech (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. )
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>> “Christ-killers.”

That would be the equivalent of the Globalists, not the Jews


5 posted on 11/12/2023 5:30:56 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Rummyfan

The first thing to to is to hold accountable “them which say they are Jews and are not, but are the Synogogue of Satan.”

How could anyone love God but hate Jews? It doesn’t seem possible to me.


6 posted on 11/12/2023 5:38:41 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Rummyfan

Oh boy, someone is really missing the point....maybe it is me.

But as a pretty old person, I remember America as a very diverse country in which there were some who did not like the Jews, some who did not like the Irish, some who did not like the Italians, some who did not like blacks and some who did not like the Chinese.

But they were scattered though out our country and except for the Klan, were not an organized blood thirsty army,.

The difference today, and it is a dramatic difference which will tear the country apart, is that we have allowed millions of immigrants to enter the country whose religion requires them to kill Jews.

Think of that. Millions whose religion requires them to kill jews.

Even small children, male and female, are indoctrinated with that belief. They must kill Jews.

This is not going to end well. To prevent the ultimate goal, which is to kill every last Jew, we must fight a religious war, and religious wars are violent and bloody.

To refuse to fight a religious war will end up even more bloody,

Trump just announced his plan and I support him, but I think it will eventually become a guerrilla war.

Hamas has shown us what to expect.


7 posted on 11/12/2023 5:52:13 PM PST by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the government can not make worsReligous wars, and this is a rele.)
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To: Rummyfan
Sad to say but for years Jewish liberals fanned this radicalism. And now the scorpion has turned on them, as
scorpions always to. The Jewish leftists should mull over the story of Danny Pearl, a Jew, who was beheaded
by Islamists. Danny's last words were "Buh, but, but I'm on your sideeeeeahhhhhhh …"

8 posted on 11/12/2023 5:59:19 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: old curmudgeon
>>Hamas has shown us what to expect.

The call out for the past four weeks was to kill all the Jews & Christians.

*”Saturday people first, then the Sunday people.”

9 posted on 11/12/2023 6:40:39 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Deaf Smith

Chilling.


10 posted on 11/12/2023 6:43:13 PM PST by Jane Long (AWhat we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: Rummyfan

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11 posted on 11/13/2023 4:04:31 AM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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