Posted on 12/29/2022 6:11:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
Black antisemitism is spreading in strange, dangerous ways. Why?
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan.
A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog.
On campuses, Middle-East activism, course instruction, and faculty profiles are now virulently anti-Israel—and indistinguishable from anti-Jewishness.
When columnist Ben Shapiro spoke at Stanford University in 2019, left-wing posters were plastered around campus depicting Shapiro as an insect menace. A “BenBGon” bug spray bottle in Nazi fashion unsubtly suggested that a chemical agent is the best remedy to make sure Jews “be gone” from the premises.
The avowed socialist Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) retweeted the old propaganda boast, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Tlaib knew well “to the sea” could mean only the extinction of Israel itself and its 9 million Jews. She deleted her tweet—but only after an outcry of protest.
Anti-Zionists and leftist Palestinian activists Linda Sarsour and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)—“it’s all about the Benjamins”—often made no effort to hide their antisemitism.
Yet now a dangerous new, new antisemitism is trending, predominantly among African-Americans—especially prominent politicians, celebrities, and billionaires.
The old trope that blacks inordinately were prejudiced against Jews due to past inner-city stereotypes of exploiting Jewish landlords has been recalibrated. It is now repackaged by black elites claiming that their careers are overly profitable to and orchestrated by “the Jews.”
It has been difficult to find any major black leader who has not trafficked in antisemitism
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The left has always hated the Jews and the “black leaders” mentioned in the article are on the left side of the left.
VDH ping
Blacks are surrogate Jews.
The Civil Rights movement used black folk as a means to force Country Clubs to permit Jews to join
“The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan.”
I expected better from VDH.
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I reject that premise. It's always been a left-wing/Democrat phenomenon.
I was wondering how long it would be until someone else saw this too.
What about all anti-white crap & rhetoric?
Cant I just hate everyone equally?
It will never be addressed, except to blame whites for moving away from them.
The fruits of identity politics are showing. Balkanizing the US causes internal strife.
Blacks and Jews will keep voting largely for Democrats.
My give a damn for either is broken.
Agree. KKK was right-wing? Please.
[[The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon—]]
Bull Crap! The left created the kkk, then gaslighted America to beleive the group was right wing extremists.
The right wing are the ones who support Israel. The left wing are the ones who always fight agaisnt supporting them.
Yup me too. I like him, but he is way off here.
You are not allowed to notice that, but if you do notice it, you aren’t supposed to say anything.
VDH is usually better than this. The KKK was a leftwing phenomena.
Wow. Good job. Eight posts about the leftwing KKK out of 15. Woodrow Wilson was strongly supported by the KKK, and likely supported the KKK as well.
“ Woodrow Wilson was strongly supported by the KKK, and likely supported the KKK as well.”
Wilson re-segregated the US military. He was was undoubtedly the worst President of the first half of the 20th century.
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ditto
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Yet Leftist leadership has almost always been disproportionately Jewish. I don't know who first said these, but they ring true:
* Out of 100 Jews, only 5 will be radicals. But out of 10 radicals, 5 will be Jews.
* Jews live like WASPs, but vote like Puerto Ricans.
The latter obviously means that even when Jews live in wealthy neighborhoods and go to top schools, they still identify as the impoverished, oppressed masses.
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