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Why does the left seemingly hate Israel?
Anchorage Daily News ^ | 5/22/21 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 10/11/2023 9:57:21 AM PDT by DallasBiff

With more than 3,000 rockets having been fired into Israel by Hamas recently, the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war.

It is not just that they fear that “The Squad,” Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of antifa, and woke institutions such as academia and the media are now unapologetically anti-Israel. They are also terrified that anti-Israelism is becoming synonymous with rank anti-Semitism. And soon, the Democratic Party will end up as disdained as the British Labor Party under Jeremy Corbyn.

The new core of the Democrats, as emblemized by Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, has in the past questioned the patriotism of American Jews who support Israel, and occasionally has had to apologize for puerile anti-Semitic rants.

The left in general believes we should judge harshly even the distant past without exemptions. Why then, in venomous, knee-jerk fashion, does it fixate on a nation born from the Holocaust while favoring Israel’s enemies, who were on the side of the Nazis in World War II?

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The neo-demos hate Israel, that's the future of their movement.
1 posted on 10/11/2023 9:57:21 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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Because Israel is America’s strongest ally so the left despises ANY country that supports America since they themselves despise America


2 posted on 10/11/2023 9:58:35 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DallasBiff

Because the hate GOD.


3 posted on 10/11/2023 9:59:01 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMceERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: DallasBiff

Because the Jewish faith is founded on “The Law” from God, whom the left despises.


4 posted on 10/11/2023 9:59:23 AM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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To: DallasBiff

evil always hates good


5 posted on 10/11/2023 9:59:59 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DallasBiff

Why does the left seemingly hate Israel?

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Because it has several traits that cause indigestion amongst the Left:

1) It is a nation with a cultural identity that can only tolerate multiculturalism to a very small/fine degree.

2) It has a religion as the foundation of the above, said cultural identity.

3) Most real Christians have a strong affinity for Israel.

4) See #4.


6 posted on 10/11/2023 10:01:13 AM PDT by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: DallasBiff
seemingly

?

7 posted on 10/11/2023 10:02:43 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: DallasBiff

The dems hate Israel because they hate hearing:
“We do not need you.”


8 posted on 10/11/2023 10:04:46 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: DallasBiff

the LEFT are allied with the muslims in destroying Western Civilization


9 posted on 10/11/2023 10:05:11 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: DallasBiff

“They are also terrified that anti-Israelism is becoming synonymous with rank anti-Semitism.”

Because that’s what it is. Duh. That “I hate Zionism but not Jews” nonsense is all weasel words


10 posted on 10/11/2023 10:05:44 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: DallasBiff

I have wondered too because Israel often appears woke and more liberal than the “conservative” movement here.


11 posted on 10/11/2023 10:06:44 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (w)
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To: DallasBiff

The left claims to be atheist, but they really believe in satan/allah, the master of lies and the great deceiver who seem to be one and the same.


12 posted on 10/11/2023 10:07:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: desertsolitaire

yes

Money Laundering through Israel for decades


13 posted on 10/11/2023 10:11:23 AM PDT by nevermorelenore ( If My people will pray ....)
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To: DallasBiff

You forget, the masses hate who their media masters tell them to hate. The war frenzy and outrage machine’s transmission is out there on the highway. The war hysteria machine was thrown from hate Russia to hate Israel and bomb Iran in one news cycle. It’s an amazing phenomena to watch. I’m sure the Zman is not as impressed.


14 posted on 10/11/2023 10:11:37 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: DallasBiff

There’s no “seemingly” about it.

L


15 posted on 10/11/2023 10:12:02 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: DallasBiff

16 posted on 10/11/2023 10:12:28 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: DallasBiff

I don’t remember much of this antagonism against Israel, and for the Islamic countries until G.W. Bush invaded Iraq. To me, the Arab support began as anti-Bush, and thus anti-Republican until it became so widespread among the left that they didn’t realize how far away from Israel they had become.


17 posted on 10/11/2023 10:13:50 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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the LEFT are allied with the muslims in destroying Western Civilization

Then the Muslims will cut off the heads of the Left.

18 posted on 10/11/2023 10:14:11 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

The number of rockets fired on the first day a 24 hour period was 5000. I think the number now is around 7000 since the invasion began.


19 posted on 10/11/2023 10:27:49 AM PDT by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: DallasBiff
Well, leftist hate everything including themselves, which explains why a large number of Western ethnic Jews are leftists.
20 posted on 10/11/2023 10:29:54 AM PDT by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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