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The Return of the Malevolent Jew: the Academic Nazification of Israel
AmericanThinker.com ^ | Richard L. Cravatts

Posted on 11/16/2014 6:52:47 AM PST by RoosterRedux

The Nazification of Israelis -- and by extension, Jews -- is both breathtaking in its moral inversion and cruel in the way it makes the actual victims of the Third Reich’s horrors a modern-day reincarnation of that same barbarity. It is, in the words of Boston University’s Richard Landes, “moral sadism,” a salient example of Holocaust inversion that is at once ahistorical, disingenuous, and grotesque in its moral and factual inaccuracy.

In reflecting on the current trend, he perceived in the burgeoning of anti-Israelism around the world, Canadian Member of Parliament Irwin Cotler once observed that conventional strains of anti-Semitism had been masked, so that those who directed enmity towards Jews were now able to transfer that opprobrium to the Jew of nations, Israel. How had they effected that? According to Cotler, they did so by redefining Israel as the most glaring example of those human predations, what he called “the embodiment of all evil” of the Twentieth Century: apartheid and Nazism. He defined the process of grafting this opprobrium on Israel as “ideological anti-Semitism,” one which “involves the characterization of Israel not only as an apartheid state -- and one that must be dismantled as part of the struggle against racism -- but as a Nazi one.”

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


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; antisemitism; bds; bostonuniversity; canada; irwincotler; israel; richardlandes
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To: Gaffer
The non-religious Jews, the lost ones, unfortunately did not receive proper religious training at home. They are the grandchildren of immigrants with Bundist ties in the old country, where being an observant Jew was a crime and Communism became the religion of all. This was all they knew; they had been robbed of their rich religious and cultural heritage. When they came to America in the early 1900s, it was a hostile environment for being a religious Jew. People were obligated to work on the Sabbath and holidays or risk being fired. Kosher food was not readily available and it was expensive. Religious practices, even if they had been brought over from Europe, took a second deadly hit. And so, the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of these immigrants barely know what it really is to be a Jew or the extraordinary significance that Israel has for us. What you don't know has no value for you.

On the other hand, the Orthodox Jews are very conservative in their outlook. They often decide on a candidate based at least partially on "Is he/she good for Israel?" So you cannot, with any validity, lump all American Jews together and call them liberals. I just hope that some day the areligious Jews will somehow come back to their roots and take up appropriate values, that they will heed the call of G-d when He promised to gather His chosen from their exile (including a SPRIRITUAL exile such as we have in America).

21 posted on 11/16/2014 7:53:23 AM PST by EinNYC
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To: RoosterRedux

BUMP.


22 posted on 11/16/2014 7:58:43 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Gaffer

Agreed. Jewish Liberalism is, in a way, just an advanced case of White Guilt. When nearly everyone tells someone that “you are the problem, and you have to change,” most accused people start thinking, “I must be the problem, and I’d better change!”

And those who resist those social pressure are usually those who cling to a Higher Standard. Just as Christians who take the Bible seriously are more resistant to White Guilt, Conservative Jews are more resistant to Jewish Guilt. As a greater percentage of American Jewish people have become secular, they have slid into that same self-hatred, and bought into the lies of those who want to project their own problems and failures onto the Jewish people.

Just as Europe is the future of an America that doesn’t get serious about fighting off socialism, liberal Jewish Americans are the future of white Americans who buy into White Guilt.


23 posted on 11/16/2014 8:03:19 AM PST by Amity
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To: EinNYC
So you cannot, with any validity, lump all American Jews together and call them liberals.

And I realize that and thus the reason for my post #7.

That notwithstanding, the PERCENTAGE of liberal Jews in this country voting for Democrats is appalling and does not reflect an abundance of overall conservatism in my opinion. Percentages and media coverage are what rules in today's world, and, collectively, Jews in this country are tagged with "liberal" without question.

24 posted on 11/16/2014 8:04:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Slambat

I talked to a Jewish holocaust survivor, she seemed a rabid leftist. I asked her if something like NAZI Germany could ever happen in the United States.

Her answer was: No, it could never happen here. Things are different here.


25 posted on 11/16/2014 8:04:35 AM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: SkyPilot

“Let’s face it - the core of the Democrat party has always been Socialistic an Marxist.”

That is not historically true. Actually, the Democrats were quite conservative until FDR came under the influence of socialistic academics. Being of weak principles himself, he was easily bent.

Early in the 20th Century, both major parties were influenced by progressivism and populism. Both were mixtures of those influences with conservative, constitutional principles.


26 posted on 11/16/2014 8:19:10 AM PST by docbnj
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To: marktwain

We are also dealing with the very strong tendency of people to vote against their own best interests. Jews should by all logic be conservative Republicans. So why do a strong majority vote for socialistic and pacifistic positions? It makes no sense. Judging by the Israeli press, the Israelis are more and more impatient with American Jews, who just don’t seem to get it.

I think that the explanation is that most of the Jewish population in America came from Europe at a time when socialistic ideas were all the rage. They have ever since acted like living fossils, applying the same emotional and intellectual habits that they had in the 1890s. To most of them, this is ”progressive.”

People in groups change fundamental political ideas as slowly as they change religion. Immigrants change first their clothing, then their language, eventually their food, and finally their religion. Many Jews were already on the verge of dropping religion when they got to America, because it was losing traction already in the Europe they left behind. The substitute was politics, and so they are politically focussed on the left end of the spectrum— except for many brilliant and more alert among them, who have changed their thinking. It takes much strength of character to do that, but it has given us some of the best conservative thinkers and spokesmen on the scene.


27 posted on 11/16/2014 8:40:04 AM PST by docbnj
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To: RoosterRedux

Why was it so easy and popular to demonize Jews in the 1930’s? - not only in Germany but in the US as well?


28 posted on 11/16/2014 9:04:32 AM PST by mom.mom
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To: Amity

You nailed it.


29 posted on 11/16/2014 9:21:48 AM PST by Inkie
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To: mom.mom

Depression made is easy for people to accept the scapegoats they were offered, both in the U.S. and in Germany.


30 posted on 11/16/2014 9:56:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: docbnj
I will concede your point that the Democrats of yesteryear would be "conservative" compared to the left wing, one world, racist, 3rd world enabling, sovereign border destroying, military destroying, tyrannical, Christian hating, debt enslaving Democrats of today.

However, the "Progressives" always sold tyranny under the lie of "compassion" and "peace."

Woodrow Wilson was a disaster for this nation. Democrat. Self-labeled "Progressive" and Socialist. He proceeded FDR by decades.


31 posted on 11/16/2014 12:41:31 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: marktwain

“Her answer was: No, it could never happen here. Things are different here.”

Quite a few people fell for that one. People thought a
tyrant like the Obama would never happen either.


32 posted on 11/16/2014 8:23:32 PM PST by Slambat
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33 posted on 11/17/2014 7:05:25 AM PST by SJackson (incompetent and feckless..the story of the Obama presidency. No hand on the f***ing tiller, Hillary)
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To: docbnj; Amity; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; Eleutheria5; Netz; Jewbacca; Gaffer; RoosterRedux; ...
Actually, the Democrats were quite conservative until FDR came under the influence of socialistic academics.

Apparently you overlooked Woodrow Wilson, at least with respect to social and economic policy. Wilson was a socialistic academic himself, a Princeton president who wrote books and articles lambasting the Constitution as an anachronistic impediment to his proposed "progressive" agenda. Then, as President of the US, he introduced the country to such novelties (at the time) of a peacetime federal income tax, direct election of the Senate, a Federal Reserve System, and tougher antitrust laws and enforcement.

On foreign policy, though, you could view Wilson as an interventionist war monger, who went far beyond even what most "conservatives" today would embrace.

34 posted on 11/17/2014 8:14:45 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93

Fair point. Thanks - I learned something.


35 posted on 11/18/2014 4:36:54 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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