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For starters, let’s be very judicious with our use of the word, lest it follow the word, “racism” into irrelevance.
Exactly. The crusade against "hate speech" is what makes the woke Left so detestable. Why would any right-thinking person want to mimic that tactic and mindset?
Moreover, the specific focus on campus anti-Semitism by some on the Right is misguided. Elite college campuses have been peddling anti-white bigotry for decades, in the form of humanities and social "science" courses that blame white people, "racism", and "colonialism", for every evil in the world. How exactly are anti-Israel or anti-Jewish attitudes any worse or any more bigoted than this?
The writer is correct. The very idea of restricting speech, deplatforming people, etc. is anathema to our basic values. You defeat bad ideas with good ideas. That, and blind justice and equality before the law. It is absolutely disgusting to me how certain racial groups are favored over others when it comes to enforcing the law. Everyone should be treated equally. If you violate the law, I don’t care what sex you are, what color, where your ancestors came from, or any other irrelevant factor - I only care that you get some kind of a consequence for violating the law. On the flipside, everyone should be protected equally from having their rights violated, regardless of all of those other irrelevant factors. This is pretty basic stuff, and that is disgusting beyond belief to me that we have gotten away from it (and, yes, I blame the Democrats for this - they have politicized every single aspect of life, and have done nothing but Pitt one group against another for the last several decades at least).
It happens that I am Jewish. I have been very fortunate in my lifetime to have experienced very little prejudice because of that fact. But I am very happy to not be attending an American university these days, because the Jewish students there most certainly are being treated badly simply because of their ethnic heritage. Mind you, it is not due to their religion, because many of these students are not at all interested in, or certainly they do not outwardly display their interest in, their religion. It is all about their ethnic heritage. This is no different than a black person being denied their rights simply because of their skin color. It is absolutely my opinion that we have had, at least until January 20 of this year, a spectacular failure in national leadership in this subject area. I am very happy to see the general change in attitude, as well as in enforcement, but I am aware that nothing in politics turns on a dime - it took decades (and three terms of Obama) to get to this sorry state of affairs, and it won’t be unwound in only four years.
Israel is on a land bridge between three continents, and has been fought over and conquered by empires from all three continents. Peace there has always been difficult to maintain.
The first thing we need to do to eliminate anti-semitism is call anyone who disagrees with the actions of the 1948 UN created nation of Israel, “anti-semitic”. We need to make sure that any time anything negative is said about the 1948 UN created nation state of Israel, we pretend that we understand that negative accusation to apply to ALL Jews. Then we should also tell people they aren’t real Christians for not wanting to pay for bombs that end up killing children.
I think if we follow these simple steps, we should eliminate anti-semitism in a couple months.
“On the right, many supporters of Israel, including prominent Republican politicians, argue that America has a theological duty to support the Jewish state. Their view is based on a complex interpretation of biblical prophecy.”
God said that he would Bless those who blessed Israel, and curse those who cursed her. Doesn’t sound so complex to me.