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Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews
American Greatness ^ | 22 Dec, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/22/2025 5:08:17 AM PST by MtnClimber

As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. At Brown University, two students were killed and nine wounded by an allegedly Muslim shooter.

An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of threats of violence from Muslim minorities. In the West, when an Islamist shoots a Jew, politicians often offer two bizarre remedies: gun control or a task force to tackle Islamophobia.

Yet, our political class rarely offers data on the overwhelming preponderance of targeting Jews rather than Muslims, much less the vast disparity in Jewish-on-Muslim versus Muslim-on-Jewish violence.

To catalog all the recent violence against Jews in the Western world would fill a book.

We know the causes. Anemic Western leaders—politicians, college presidents, media grandees, and celebrities—fear Muslim terrorism, growing Muslim voters, and their own growing anti-Semitic campus constituencies.

So, they never call out anti-Semitic violence other than with nauseating nothings like, “Such violence has no place here.” Or “We condemn such violence in the utmost terms.” Or “This is not who we are.”

The prime minister of Australia—a country that produced some of the most heroic soldiers of World War I and II and still is a bulwark of the West in the Pacific—goes through a series of linguistic contortions daily to avoid identifying the threat to Jews and how to stop it. He talks as if guns were animate and murdered Jews without the aid of radical Islamic killers.

So nothing much follows in the West, and Jews are becoming the hunted. The attacks will increase because there is no foreseeable force to combat them.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; intercession; islam; jews; leftism; lox; vdh
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To: devane617

There are lots of JINOs (Jews In Name Only) who are leftist atheists. There are also lots of religious politically conservative Jews.

You are right that the former are pro-illegal immigration. The latter are not.

If you would be so kind as to distinguish, then an inaccurate broad brush will not taint those of us on the right side.


21 posted on 12/22/2025 6:47:23 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: mewzilla

It must be be a false flag operation to get Jews killed for the purposes of …

… what again?


22 posted on 12/22/2025 6:51:30 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Thanks for explaining. I understand the leftist atheist Jew category. Perhaps they differ little from leftist atheist “Christians.” They could be like peas in a pod, or Marx and Engels.

“There are also lots of religious politically conservative Jews.”

Are politically conservative Jews from across the religious spectrum?


23 posted on 12/22/2025 6:59:57 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

I have many Miami Jewish friends and everyone of them are wildly left. Pro illegal everything. It is not yet time for the sheep to lay down with the lion.


24 posted on 12/22/2025 7:05:20 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: ChessExpert

No. Judaism’s sects are both religiously and politically Left to Right for the most part:

Extreme Leftists: Atheist pro-palestinian communists.
Leftists: “Reconstructionist” kinda atheist Democratic Socialists of America types.
Liberals: “Reform” G-d is probably a woman and Trump is Hitler Democrats
Conservatives: “Conservative” movement Torah believing G-d fearing Jews who practice almost all the holidays, probably 50/50 mainline Democrat / Republican so far…
Far Right Wingers: “Orthodox”, try to follow all 613 (!) Commandments, vastly Republican Conservative radicals

That’s my read, with a lot of opinions in there…


25 posted on 12/22/2025 7:16:41 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: devane617
So my questions is when will the Jews wake up?

When this happens:

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a Spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son." - Zechariah 12:10

26 posted on 12/22/2025 7:26:39 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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To: MtnClimber

“To catalog all the recent violence against Jews in the Western world would fill a book.”

I don’t doubt it. It’s important.

Yet I would like to recast this somewhat to include events like the September 11th 2001 attack and the 1972 attack on the Israeli Olympic team in Munich Germany.

A portion of India became Muslim and there was so much violence that it became a separate nation, Pakistan. Yet that was not a solution as there is conflict between India and Pakistan.

I can’t keep track of the murders committed by Muslims in Africa. They are mostly the murder of Christians, but animists and other infidels will do.

Russia and Communist China have also had Muslim problems. It appears that Muslim have their eyes set on Japan.

Dearborn and London are lost, and the takeover of New York city is unfolding before our eyes. Europe is cancelling Christmas celebrations so as not to offend. In Britain and Germany Muslims rape white girls and those who complain are arrested for Islamophobia. You can’t make this stuff up.

VDH is right to ask if it is open season on Jews. However, there is a greater forest to see. Muslims intend to take over and are doing so.

Islam is the problem. Imperialism, conquest, subjugation are baked into the religion itself.


27 posted on 12/22/2025 7:32:38 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

There is no way I could get that insight on my own. Thanks.


28 posted on 12/22/2025 7:36:22 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: ChessExpert

Amen, brother.


29 posted on 12/22/2025 7:38:50 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: MtnClimber

The irrational hatred of Jews, along with the continued existence of Jews, is evidence of the truth of the Bible.


30 posted on 12/22/2025 7:51:26 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: arthurus
The alleged Moslem is a Maronite Christian. That’s Catholic.

What's your source on that? I think that claim has been debunked.

31 posted on 12/22/2025 7:52:32 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: MtnClimber

Does it/should it matter WHO they are killing? As if they kill Jews, its somehow worse.

Christians are being KILLED as well, what about THEM?

How about focusing on WHO is doing the killing... MUSLIMS! Trannies, and Furries.


32 posted on 12/22/2025 7:55:17 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Uncle Miltie
The hero at Bondi was a Muslim, Ahmed Al Ahmed.

This is an important fact, to show that we should never condemn an entire group of people over the actions of a few, no matter how despicable those actions may have been. That's hard to do sometimes, and we've all been guilty of it before, but I believe the true God wants everyone to be judged individually, and fairly, on their own. That does not mean that smart GOVERNMENT policy shouldn't possibly restrict certain groups, or religions, based on a high proclivity or probability that a group may be dangerous in an overall context, but the specific cases of penalty against anyone should be judged individually, and independently.

33 posted on 12/22/2025 8:12:27 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: Golden Eagle
The alleged Moslem is a Maronite Christian. That’s Catholic.

What's your source on that? I think that claim has been debunked.

Both claims -- that he's a Muslim, that he's a Maronite Catholic -- have been "debunked" many times.

Like a game of ping pong.

He's a Muslim. ... That's been debunked; he's a Maronite Catholic. ... That's been debunked; he's a Muslim. ... That's been debunked; he's a Maronite Catholic. ... That's been debunked; he's a Muslim. ... That's been debunked; he's a Maronite Catholic. ... That's been debunked; he's a Muslim. ... That's been debunked; he's a Maronite Catholic. ... That's been debunked; he's a Muslim. ... Etc.

34 posted on 12/22/2025 8:13:46 AM PST by Angelino97
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To: Uncle Miltie
There are lots of JINOs (Jews In Name Only) who are leftist atheists. There are also lots of religious politically conservative Jews. You are right that the former are pro-illegal immigration. The latter are not. If you would be so kind as to distinguish, then an inaccurate broad brush will not taint those of us on the right side.

Well said. Just like the Muslims, there are different sects of Judaism, that have very different core beliefs, some of which believe that violence against non-Jews is acceptable. It is important that no religion, Christians included, be praised or condemned, in total, as there is evil hiding in the dark corners of them all.

35 posted on 12/22/2025 8:16:47 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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To: MtnClimber

(Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews)

I have said repeatedly, for years, that in the Last Days
the Entire World 🌍🌏🌎 will be against Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱

But first, 7 Years of ‘Peace and Security’


36 posted on 12/22/2025 8:21:17 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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(because the Scriptures say so)


37 posted on 12/22/2025 8:23:06 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: UnwashedPeasant

Exactly.


38 posted on 12/22/2025 8:23:47 AM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Angelino97

Murderers, victims, heroes, bystander police. All of interest. I would start with the murderers.


39 posted on 12/22/2025 8:30:57 AM PST by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

The shooter was from Portugal I heard. He was 40 and there were few Muslims in Portugal in the 1980s.

I believe VDH has his facts wrong in this case.


40 posted on 12/22/2025 8:32:48 AM PST by packagingguy
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