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Slouching Toward Open Season on Jews
American Greatness ^ | 22 Dec, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/22/2025 5:08:17 AM PST by MtnClimber

As leaders equivocate and extremists unite left and right, open season on Jews spreads across the West—unchecked, unnamed, and certain to grow deadlier.

Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres. At Brown University, two students were killed and nine wounded by an allegedly Muslim shooter.

An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of threats of violence from Muslim minorities. In the West, when an Islamist shoots a Jew, politicians often offer two bizarre remedies: gun control or a task force to tackle Islamophobia.

Yet, our political class rarely offers data on the overwhelming preponderance of targeting Jews rather than Muslims, much less the vast disparity in Jewish-on-Muslim versus Muslim-on-Jewish violence.

To catalog all the recent violence against Jews in the Western world would fill a book.

We know the causes. Anemic Western leaders—politicians, college presidents, media grandees, and celebrities—fear Muslim terrorism, growing Muslim voters, and their own growing anti-Semitic campus constituencies.

So, they never call out anti-Semitic violence other than with nauseating nothings like, “Such violence has no place here.” Or “We condemn such violence in the utmost terms.” Or “This is not who we are.”

The prime minister of Australia—a country that produced some of the most heroic soldiers of World War I and II and still is a bulwark of the West in the Pacific—goes through a series of linguistic contortions daily to avoid identifying the threat to Jews and how to stop it. He talks as if guns were animate and murdered Jews without the aid of radical Islamic killers.

So nothing much follows in the West, and Jews are becoming the hunted. The attacks will increase because there is no foreseeable force to combat them.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: intercession; islam; leftism

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1 posted on 12/22/2025 5:08:17 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


2 posted on 12/22/2025 5:09:19 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster
An excellent reminder from VDH that Tucker and Nick Fuentes are the outliers in Jew hate from the right. Jew hate is the norm for Dims (VDH gave some examples).

As Rush often said, the left always show you whom they fear the most.

3 posted on 12/22/2025 5:19:32 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

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4 posted on 12/22/2025 5:25:00 AM PST by sauropod
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To: MtnClimber

The alleged Moslem is a Maronite Christian. That’s Catholic. They tend to have Arabic names or Arabized Christian names.


5 posted on 12/22/2025 5:27:14 AM PST by arthurus (l| covfeve |l vIv)
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To: MtnClimber
Is the world ever gonna wake to followers of SATAN???

Do you understand we're in spiritual warfare???

"MUSLIMS" ....A mass of people who carry a "holy" book that says to murder all Jews and Christians who won't bow to their prophet.

And now we're flooding them into our country and even putting them into our government!

Can American citizens be more stupid or are we trying to destroy ourselves ???

BTW - That first Muslim president Obama said he "had a plan for America" .... and it was NOT for our good!

6 posted on 12/22/2025 5:34:02 AM PST by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: MtnClimber

Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 12/22/2025 5:40:58 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
Satan never sleeps.

Unfortunately some democracies sleep.

8 posted on 12/22/2025 5:48:00 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: MtnClimber

“ At Brown University, two students were killed and nine wounded by an allegedly Muslim shooter.”

I’ve been on the road for 24 hours, unable to follow the news.

Was the Portuguese dead guy shooter found to be a muslim, or does VDH get his facts wrong here?


9 posted on 12/22/2025 5:50:42 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: arthurus

Who exactly?

The hero at Bondi was a Muslim, Ahmed Al Ahmed. He was early on misidentified as Christian, but that was cleared up several days ago.


10 posted on 12/22/2025 5:54:22 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Deport all evil muslims. Celebrate any good Muslims, if you can find them.)
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To: high info voter
"Can American citizens be more stupid ..."

It's the Jews who supports this mess mainly. The Jewish people keep repeating the same stupid mistakes through history. So my questions is when will the jews wake up?

11 posted on 12/22/2025 6:05:00 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: MtnClimber

“”””At Brown University, two students were killed and nine wounded by an allegedly Muslim shooter.”””


This is NEW news from VDH that the Brown shooter is a Muslim.

Anybody else seen a news report saying the Brown shooter is Muslim?????


12 posted on 12/22/2025 6:08:39 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

There were leaked reports that students in the auditorium heard him yell “allahu akbar” before he started shooting.


13 posted on 12/22/2025 6:17:50 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

VDH is a cautious writer so it is interesting to see VDH say the Brown shooter was a Muslim.

What we know about Claudio Neves Valente is that we know nothing about Claudio Neves Valente’s whereabouts or livlihood from 2017 to 2025.


14 posted on 12/22/2025 6:24:40 AM PST by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: 5th MEB; 6ppc; agondonter; Alberta's Child; AndyJackson; Aria; artichokegrower; ...
Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Somehow, many on the right forgot who funds the virulently anti-American mouthpiece Al-Jazeera, or where the 9/11 murderers came from, or who has killed Americans in Syria, Lebanon, and on the Red Sea, and or whom the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and theocratic Iran have vowed to destroy. And as for October 7 and what followed, Israel waited in vain for nearly three weeks for Hamas to give up the 3,000 terrorists who murdered 1,219 Jews, wounded 3,400, and took 254 hostages before mounting a full invasion of Gaza.

Very important column from Prof Hanson, and right on with his conclusions.

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15 posted on 12/22/2025 6:34:28 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: paltz

Special Prof Hanson ping!


16 posted on 12/22/2025 6:38:03 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: MtnClimber; Uncle Miltie

The shooter in the Brown University incident, Claudio Neves Valente, was not a Muslim; he was a Portuguese national and a former student at the university. Speculation about his ethnicity and religion has been addressed by officials, emphasizing that he had no current affiliation with the university and that the attacks were not related to antisemitism.
Give it a rest. Like liberals who think president Trump is under the bed, not every bad actor in the world is muslim.
>That’s antsemitic!
Whatever. This FR antisemitism paranoia is getting old.
>It’s not paranoia if they really do hate you!
Yeah, yeah. Get it all out AIPAC.


17 posted on 12/22/2025 6:39:31 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: MtnClimber

‘No Force to Combat...’
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I see a 2nd Amendment solution to this

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JPFO


18 posted on 12/22/2025 6:39:47 AM PST by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: MtnClimber

Where are public statements from all of these students??

The teacher’s assistant, who was with the study group said he couldn’t make out what the shooter said ... and, neither could ALL of the students.

How convenient for this teacher to know exactly what ALL of the other students could/could not hear.


19 posted on 12/22/2025 6:39:53 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

But the same question that I posed after 10/7 applies to Bondi Beach.

Why did the governments of Israel and Australia allow those events to take place with such inadequate security.


20 posted on 12/22/2025 6:42:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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