Posted on 10/12/2023 4:18:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Among the trendy Left, and particularly on elite academic campuses, hatred of Israel, and by association of all Jews, has long been on the ascendant. The Anti-Defamation League traces the origins of the “Boycott, Divest, Sanctions” movement against Israel to the early 2000s. By the time we get to the most recent ten years, every elite academic institution has multiple student groups and scores of faculty members advocating for delegitimizing Israel as oppressors of the Palestinians, or even as an “apartheid state.”
And thus the current wave of atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israel has brought out statements of support from some 30+ student groups at Harvard, from the Student Bar Association at NYU, from a group of students at Stanford, and many other such around the country.
In the bigger picture, the treatment of Israel and Israeli Jews by Muslims is not at all unique. Around the world, the fact is that the Islamic religion and its members are not tolerant of members of other religions. And by “not tolerant,” I mean, absolutely willing to kill to force the non-believers to conform. I’m not saying that all adherents to the Muslim faith are so intolerant; but many are, and the rest support the intolerant ones, either explicitly or implicitly. The world is full of news — very sparsely reported by our dominant press — of persecution and killings of members of any and all other religions by Muslims when they are in a dominant position. Although our press systematically suppresses information on this subject — as they do with almost everything that it is important to know about — this activity is sufficiently widespread that it is inexcusable for well-informed people not to know about it.
So the thing that is unique is not the violence by Muslims against Jews in Israel, but rather the widespread acceptance in trendy Western Left circles that Israel is not just going somewhat too far in trying to control violence in its midst, but is somehow the worst among all possible oppressors.
It will be useful here to have a small roundup of recent violence and persecution by Muslims of members of other religions living in their midst. The following is just a small sample of recent news.
Armenia/Azerbaijan.
Have you read about the recent developments in Nagorno-Karabakh? I have seen almost no reporting in our press, although this is going on right now.
Armenia and Azerbaijan are two countries in the South Caucasus region. The Armenians are Christians, and the Azerbaijanis are Muslims. Both countries were previously part of the Soviet Union, and became independent when the Soviet Union collapsed around 1991. During the Soviet era, borders had been drawn that left the two ethnicities intermingled, with an Armenian ethnic enclave, Nagorno-Karabakh, surrounded by Azerbaijan territory. Here is a map:
Since 1991, the Azerbaijanis have repeatedly attacked Nagorno-Karabakh. But this has all come to a head in just the last 30 days or so. The Azerbaijanis have launched some kind of final assault on Nagorno-Karabakh and essentially driven out the entire remaining Armenian population of over 100,000. Here is a report from The Intercept on October 4. Excerpt:
NEARLY THE ENTIRE population of 120,000 ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh has been forced to flee their homes after the latest Azerbaijani military assault, according to Armenian authorities and the U.N.
It makes any Israeli conduct seem extremely tame by contrast, but inspires almost no attention, let alone criticism, from the trendy Left here in the West.
Gatestone Institute coverage.
While press coverage of Muslim persecution of members of other religions is sparse in the mainstream press, there is a site called the Gatestone Institute that focuses on the subject. A writer there named Raymond Ibrahim files one post after another. If you follow him, you cannot help but be regularly horrified.
In his most recent post on October 1, Ibrahim had reports from countries including Pakistan, Kenya, Indonesia, Nigeria, Uganda, and many others including even Sweden. Here is just a tiny sample:
Pakistan: All hell broke loose on Aug. 18, after some Christians were accused—falsely, it was quickly revealed—of desecrating a Koran in Jaranwala. Thousands of enraged Muslims rampaged against the region's Christians, prompting hundreds to flee their homes. Among other damage, the rioting Muslims set 25 churches aflame, destroyed or damaged 400 Christian homes, and desecrated at least one Christian cemetery.
Nigeria: A few of the incidents in August of the genocide of Christians include:
Aug. 9: Muslim terrorists killed a Christian woman, Gloria Isa, as she slept at her home.
Aug. 23: Muslim gunmen "shot to death" the Rev. Jeremiah Mayau, a 61-year-old pastor of a Baptist church. According to a press statement, "The incident occurred when the cleric was [working] on his farm. It was barbaric."
Aug 10: Around 2 a.m., Muslim Fulani herdsmen launched a raid—the third of its kind on the same Christian majority village where people were sleeping after a long day's work. They slaughtered 21 villagers.
Uganda: Rioting Muslims stoned a pastor unconscious during the funeral of a former Muslim turned Christian. While officiating, Pastor Davidson Okirori, 39, cited the Koran, the Hadith, and the Bible, in order "to witness the love of Christ to Muslims who had gathered at the funeral," he later said from a hospital bed (where he was recovering from wounds to his head, back and arms) . . . Separately, on Aug. 11, Muslims thrashed another preacher and 20 other Christians at an open-air evangelistic event. After Pastor Robert Faisali Miya cited Koran verses that "acknowledge the uniqueness of Christ," Muslims began chanting the jihadist slogan, "Allah Akbar [Allah is greatest]," and a Muslim sheikh, Hiisa Mubaraka, ran to the podium and knocked the evangelist down. According to an eyewitness, "Others were saying that Allah has granted to them authority to kill all infidels.
And this is just a small sample of one Ibrahim post. He posts multiple of these every month. Go to this link for a collection of them.
Ibrahim focuses mostly on attacks by Muslims on Christians, but the attacks are not at all limited just to Christians. Since World War II, almost all Jews have been driven out of the entire Middle East and North Africa (where previously around a million of them lived). And for some truly harrowing reading, you might want to learn about the treatment of members of the Baha’i faith in Iran.
I won’t try to justify everything that Israel has done, but I think there is no doubt that Israel needs to take aggressive steps to control ongoing violence and atrocities against their citizens. The steps taken by Israel are not remotely comparable to the real genocides and ethnic cleansings regularly carried out by Muslims against members of all other religions in their midst. Why the trendy Left never criticizes any of this, and reserves its ire uniquely for Israel, I cannot explain.
The average IQ in most muslim countries is low and the average IQ in Israel is high. It looks to me like there is much envy in the muslim countries and they express it as being oppressed by Israel. I saw this when I was in Bahrain in the hourly prayers (with English subtitles) on the Saudi TV channels. Their prayers were often filled with passages like this: “Allah, why have you forsaken us and favored our Jewish brothers? When will you give us the spear we need to kill them?” This statement of oppression resonates with the marxism that is the belief system of the Ivy League leftists.
The marxist left believes that if you are not a victim then you are an oppressor.
You forgot to mention that Israel is helping Azerbaijan
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"I'm so liberal I hate myself and all the people of my ethnic group. In fact, given the chance, I would send myself and those like me to the gas chambers."
Yes, thanks for adding that.
Leftwing professors. They should all burn in hell.
He quotes the ADL which routinely blasts Christian and Catholic groups as “extremists” and implies associated antisemitism when the members of these groups have been the most steadfast supporters of the Biblical Israel and its modern incarnation.
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It is so ironic that the New Left, largely led by Leftist Jews, fails to grasp that they are included as hated “White Oppressors” by the same minority groups they profess to support.
Filling the universities and colleges with totalitarian, woke indoctrinated POCs are the Left’s chickens come home to roost.
They have so much in common with the Germans who are individually some of THE brightest people on earth and collectively fall for one completely idiotic self destructive bit of lunacy after another.
Larry Ellison, Soros, Bloomberg, Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), in fact, 139 of the Forbes' 400 richest Americans are Jewish.
4 current Governors: Polis (Colorado), Pritzker (Illinois), Green (Hawaii), Shapiro (Pennsylvania).
NINE Senators (Schumer, Wyden, Cardin, Sanders, Bennet, Blumenthal, Schatz, Rosen, Ossoff).
26 current US Representatives
of the above, TWO of those (both US Representatives) were Republican). Larry Ellison is the only one of the richest people who were Jewish that I could find who seems to support Republicans more than Democrats.
All that is from about 2% of the US population. Clearly this 2% has a lot of extremely bright and talented people. Without their money and brains, where would the Democrats be? They could be absolutely gutted. AND YET look who hates them....I mean really hates them. Its the Left. How much "Yay Palestinians" right after a massacre or attacks on Jews or expressions of hatred for Jews do you see coming from the Center Right in America? ZERO. Its all from the Left. So naturally, American Jews overwhelmingly support and are......Leftist Democrats. (hand slaps forehead) Its truly incredible.
Careful there friend, pointing out the positions that people of a certain tribe hold in the halls of power, finance and entertainment can be very very dangerous to say out loud...
I am a life long Friend of Israel and Friend of the Jewish People.
However, when I see the words Anti-Defamation League, I get really angry.
The ADL is a blatant neo-Marxist political organization that works hand-in-glove with the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Democratic Party, and the Main Stream Media to destroy American Conservatives and the Republican Party.
This hatred seems to have started in the 1980s in places like UC Berkeley and has been spreading since then.
Back in the 1990s I was in the North Bay and heard that Hillaty Clinton’s “Politics of Meaning” guru, and 1960’s radical buddy “The Rabbi Micheal Lerner” ( who never seemed to have attended any legit Rabbinical School) was giving a talk at Berkeley.
Figured I should stop by and check it out.
I was stunned when he was shouted down and all but physically attacked by radical PLO supporting students and activists calling for his death.
It was kind of hysterical.
Lerner was trying to tell them he was one of them and recited a long list of subversive activities he was involved in that would have had him arrested for treason in the 1960’s as street cred but to no avail.
He was Jewish so he had to die.
I thought I was going to have to step up and help defend that POS from the mob.
Then I look at what most support politically and all I can do is shake my head. How can a group that is so smart collectively act so incredibly stupid politically? The exact same phenomenon is true of Germans. Look at all the scientists, scientific discoveries, philosophers, inventors, composers, engineers, etc. The Germans are very bright and talented. Then you see Nazism, Pacifism, Gaia Worship, Socialism, Strict Gun Control, a ban on Homeschooling, etc etc etc. They too are utterly moronic and even insane when it comes to politics. How the hell does this happen?
Interesting information...reinforces the fact that for the Democrat Jews, their true religion is leftwing politics, not Judaism.
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