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 old anti-Semitism was more a right wing rather than a left wing phenomenon.”
Not true - you are right to be disappointed in VDH.
You only have to look at the pamphlets distributed during the revolutions of 1848 to see the virulent anti-Semitism on the left, in response to the rise of capitalism and the industrial revolution.
Richard Wagner, who participated in one of those 1848 rebellions and was exiled as a result, was an extreme anti-Semite.
Marx wrote about “the Jewish problem.”
VDH calls himself a historian - but I don’t know about that.
The KKK were all Democrats.
I know. That surprised me as much as it surprised almost everyone else here who read that.
Someone needs to direct VDH’s attention to William Jennings Bryan, the Presidential candidate of the People’s Party, otherwise known as the Populist Party, - and famous for a speech that culminated with a ringing peroration on “Americans being crucified on a cross of gold.”
Marx wrote about the Jewish Question, calling for the cultural genocide of Jews. Marx, whose family converted to Lutheranism before he was 5, was the first communist antisemite
let me see....a certain type of people own the media, Hollywood, and fill up academia and yet they claim discrimination....not seeing it...
No, I don’t think it started in the 60’s but rather that major objectives were finally achieved.
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