Posted on 04/30/2024 9:41:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Recently, I focused on normal adolescent rebellion and by extension abnormal adolescent rebellion and negative identity formation among American university students who embrace Hamas, death to Israel, and antisemitic violence toward their Jewish classmates.
My post drew some interesting pithy comments that furthered my thinking about the surge of violent antisemitism in American and foreign universities. Here are some of the key ideas related to a deeper understanding of the recently emerging form of antisemitism in America and the world.
1. ENVY. Envy of Israeli Jewish persons’ successful pursuit of excellent education. Envy of Israeli Jewish persons’ successful pursuit of wealth and business success. Envy of Jewish people’s religious and spiritual resilience and its impact on solid family and community ties.
2. RESENTMENT. Resentment of Israeli Jews’ successful democratic processes and leadership that genuinely seeks to continually improve the prosperity, freedom, culture, agriculture, research, and educational ethos of its citizens. This resentment turns to violent antisemitic envy when comparison is observed to the theocratic, self-serving, and power-promoting leadership of the PLO, Hamas, Hezb’allah, and the ultimate theocratic gods in Iran.
3. PROJECTION. When Hamas, Hezb’allah, and Iran trumpet hate toward the Great Satans in Israel , America, and the West, they are revealing the extreme of their massive psychological projection. In essence, the ultimate conflict in Gaza and the Mideast is the unresolvable conflict between un-reformed Islam, really Islamism, and democratic ideals of personal freedom and genuine democratic social-cultural pluralism. Islamist antisemitic hate is one of its more virulent forms.
American and Western diplomacy with its “two state solution” does not effectively recognize the above barriers, which Trump’s Abraham Accords had begun to break down.
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There is also the fact that this is part of the never-ending war between good and evil.
Sounds right to me.
The existence of a Jewish race is a reminder that God also exists, and is a living force in the world. Some feel it would be better to stamp it out.
Surely this is similar to childish rebellion against parents.
Rebellion against parents is in part a natural thing, I think, and usually corrects itself later in life. Rebellion against God, not so much.
Apparently, judging by the number of women in these protests, their long in the tooth Me Too protests over massages gone wrong have morphed into Mohammed Too over prohibiting goats on the massage table
I think of this stuff in another way. A while back Schumer on the Senate floor said that he and others had marched with the college students for a women’s right to choose and had marched with gays for their rights and now he was surprised at their virulent Anti-Semitism. “Moron, “ I said to the television, “how many of the young women and men on campuses have had their own babies’ heads cut off in abortion clinics on the Democrats’ advice and now you’re surprised that they don’t care about Jewish babies in Israel being beheaded? Why would they care about the heads of Jewish babies? They’ve had their own children beheaded!” Hook-up culture is big on campuses. But how long before the kids figure out: “I’m just being used like an object.” The kids are told it’s normal to act out homosexually. They aren’t filled with PRIDE from this as the liars tell them, but self-loathing and they loathe others and lash out at them.
Society used to know that lust and anger are closely related vices. People who surrender to vice and unnatural vice can turn into absolute monsters. Liberalism is the death of common sense. Pray for our brainwashed, confused, lost, ANGRY young people.
There’s a saying of Orwell: All liberal thought is a playing with fire by people who do not know that fire is hot.
There is no intellectual justification or reason for it.
It’s demonically fueled hatred.
This round of protests only began to catch fire when the media were able to sell the idea of Israel being the aggressors and Palestinians being the victims. Adolescent mentality (of any age) is disposed to buy into the false dichotomy of the world being made up of perpetrators and victims. Simple immature black and white thinking as it were. And the normal response of one with any empathy at all, is to identify with the victim.
Being embedded in conflict scenarios, this world view is a vehicle for the activation of the individual’s own aggression. By identifying with the victim, he is enabled to adopt a posture of righteous anger. This anger engages the person’s own aggression. That is why protests that may start out peaceful, generally devolve rapidly into aggression, even violence if not swiftly curtailed. We are witnessing this on various campuses even as we speak.
The anti-Jewish leaders of the Left and of Islam utilize this process effectively to ignite antisemitism, where before it may have not existed, or have only been latent, and to recruit supporters for now and future purposes. College age students, being credulous and easily manipulated, are easy prey.
This is a behaviorist description that only applies somewhat.
This is a spiritual domain.
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