Posted on 12/06/2023 5:24:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
Ever since Hamas’ savage pogrom against Israeli civilians, protests against Israel have featured blatant antisemitism and eliminationist rhetoric like “from the river to the sea” or “death to Jews,” typically heard from fringe cranks rather than students at prestigious American universities.
These despicable displays and attacks on Jews––the latter up 388% in the U.S., and 1350% in London––have many causes, the most obvious being the widespread decay of educational standards, and the corruption of curricula by leftist political ideologies.
But the significant presence of “international students” from Muslim nations has exacerbated these scenes of a hate now colluding with another one––the left’s visceral hatred of the West and Marxism’s most successful rival, the United States. This collusion represents a lethal threat to our security and interests.
Traditional Christian hatred of Jews smeared them as “Christ-killers” who poison wells and use the blood of murdered Christian children to make Passover matzah. But starting in the 19th century, modern antisemitism demonized Jews as the stooges and villainous agents of the modern capitalist economies. The antisemitism that fueled Hitler’s “final solution” was not about deicide or the “blood libel,” but rather the national-socialist hatred of free-market capitalism; and the scientism of Darwinian racism with its fear of the racial pollution of the superior Nordic race by lesser ethnicities––the “settled science” of the early 20th century.
Traditional Muslim antisemitism, on the other hand, is a product of Islam. In the last few decades, however, it has been rationalized by Western apologists as having “nothing to do with Islam.” Rather, it reflects malign ideas from Europe, and the West’s “colonial” outpost Israel. Attacks on Jews in Europe, for example, by Muslim immigrants are regularly explained in terms of Israel’s “occupation” and its alleged crimes against the Palestinian Arabs. Over two decades ago historian Tony Judt rationalized murders of Jews as “a direct outcome of the festering crisis in the Middle East.”
Moreover, such scapegoating of Israel has also become more deeply embedded in the West’s foreign policy establishment. Testifying before Congress in 2010, General David Petraeus confirmed Osama bin Laden’s pretext for 9/11––“the creation and continuation of Israel”–– and attributed the U.S.’s difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan to the Arab-Israeli conflict that “foments anti-American sentiment,” the “perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel,” and “anger over the Palestinian question.” Not a word about the 14 centuries of Islamic Jew-hatred and aggression against Christian Europe, and the doctrines and precepts mandating both.
No wonder, then, that these rote clichés provide the ignorant slogans and posters of today’s American “woke” students and their Muslim colleagues. They rationalize for both groups the protestors’ antisemitism, and Hamas’s butchery of Jews, and they furnish excuses for positive, sometimes celebratory references to the Holocaust and the flaunting of swastikas.
Or consider the comments made recently at an Oakland City Council meeting calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Jim Geraghty posted many of the despicable comments against adding to the resolution a condemnation of Hamas: “I support the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, including through Hamas, the armed wing of the unified Palestinian resistance,” or “The notion that this was a massacre of Jews was a fabricated narrative. . . . Many of those killed on October 7, including children, were killed by the IDF.” Of course, the Council capitulated to such preposterous lies and pretexts for murder.
The fact is, Islamic antisemitism is as old as Islam itself. It’s not a modern phenomenon in the Middle East, nor an import from European fascism empowered by the trauma allegedly inflicted by colonial occupation and imperialist oppression, as Barack Obama said in his cringing 2009 speech in Cairo....
I can’t believe we now have open islamism from some members of our US Congress.
BTTT
Bkmk
Anyone remember
The movie
“Not Without My Daughter”
Starring Sally Field
Here’s the trailer on YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0TSmbayUJCo&feature=shared
Interview with the lady, the book and movie were based on.
https://youtu.be/377Fxi6XyJc?feature=shared
I can’t find the full movie on YouTube
Some sites have multiple videos to watch the movie.
But I can’t find the whole movie without paying for it.
Not Without My Daughter is a 1991 American drama film
based on the book of the same name, depicting the escape
of American citizen Betty Mahmoody and her daughter from
her abusive husband in Iran.
The war in Israel is not about religion.
The war is about Iranian hegemony
The largest TOTALITARIAN COLLECTIVE on earth and lesser collectives ALERT!
Believe it, you had 8 years of BHO and his cohorts.
America was captured and changed, yep, past tense.
Look at the donations to islam, in particular Iran
“The war in Israel is not about religion.”
I disagree. Their filthy political ideology dressed up as religion has been calling for the extermination of Jews since it was founded. islam is NOT a religion. It never has been.
L
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