Posted on 08/23/2019 7:46:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Earlier this week, my colleague, the wise and empathetic Carly Pildis, wrote a thoughtful and powerful piece about the political future of American Jews. In it, she argues that the Democratic Party, notwithstanding a handful of problematic and relatively inconsequential congresswomen, is still the most safe and welcoming space for Jews, while the president is guilty of rhetoric that is downright anti-Semitic.
It is in the spirit of Carly’s call for dialogue that does not shy away from unpleasant assertions that I would like to offer two observations about the political future of American Jews.
The first has to do with the unthinkable descent of the Democratic Party into being not just blind to anti-Jewish bigotry, but an engine of it. We can argue about when and exactly how this happened—I’ll leave the ultimate timelines to historians—but to keep things simple let’s connect only the most recent dots.
Shortly after Trump was elected, the left moved into resistance mode. The feelings here were entirely understandable—I myself found Trump’s election deeply worrisome. But, very quickly, the energy began to be channeled into causes and outfits with deep and clear anti-Semitic associations—including, most prominently, the Women’s March. Over the course of two years, the leaders of this organization sang hosannas to Louis Farrakahn, flagrantly used Nation of Islam as security, and used their influence to reframe Israel as the world’s biggest state criminal—quite a feat when you have such a calamity happening next door. Jews expressed their discomfort, but time and again were ignored—even told by some of their own leadership, by some of our own rabbis, that to want people in shared spaces simply not to foment vicious hatred of us was to selfishly “center ourselves.”
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If they will not stand with you when it is convenient to them, they will not stand with you when you are burning at the stake.
The Jews learned this at great price Pogram after Pogram.
Support the Leftists and Progressives at your own Peril.
The feelings here were entirely understandable—I myself found Trump’s election deeply worrisome. But, very quickly, the energy began to be channeled into causes and outfits with deep and clear anti-Semitic associations—including, most prominently, the Women’s March.
And that’s because, to those who were so shocked and troubled by Trump’s election, that making their political statement against Trump, overrides every other consideration.
The dem message is simple
Let the pogroms begin
And what of the liberal view, expressed especially by Ocasio-Cortez, that the camps for illegal aliens are concentration camps, evoking images of the Holocaust? Isn’t that political pandering of the worst kind, to make Jews think that Trump is Hitler, the Third Reich is here in America today, etc?
Sorry, but the Democrats have chosen Islam over the Jews.
Anyone that does not recognize that is deluding themselves.
Jewish people are “safe and welcome” in the Democrat party?
Wake up and smell the coffee. THAT day is long past.
The values of these Jewish people may not have changed materially, but the Democrat party sure has, in very basic and emphatic ways. The “working man” concept, so beloved of the days of FDR and the New Deal, is long gone, displaced with technocrats and the intellectual theorists that posit a gender-fluid, globalist, “equality for all” (except for the unregenerate individualists that resist all call for the common good).
Compromise with evil is still evil.
As a Conservative Jew, I say that Liberal Jews, who stay in the RAT anti-Semitic Party, are choosing Liberalism over Judaism. God will judge them accordingly.
The sub-head to the title is sometimes all that people will read - in this article here is what it says: “Just because Trump said it doesn’t mean it’s not true: The Democratic Party is becoming unsalvageable”.
“Choose This day Whom You Will Serve...As For Me And My House, We Will Serve The LORD.”...Joshua Ben Nun.
The Democratic Party was anti-Semitic long before the Squad rose to prominence. The Squad are just more open about it.
Not hard to predict that the last and greatest numerical group in the future migrating to Israel will be American Jews. If they fail to leave, they will be killed. That pretty much summarizes the article message.
Do you understand what a pogrom is???
Yes I know what a pogrom is.
Then you should recognize they always begin by demonizing your enemy
bump
The Dems took God off their platform by vote in 2012.
https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/the-city-gates.cfm?id=402
Need I say more?
As President Reagan said: lI didn’t leave the Democrat Party, the Party left me.”
THREE Times!
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