[nathanbedford]

I suppose anti-Semitism could equally be described as bigotry against Semites of both flavors, that is, Arab or Jew but the French due not seem to be equal opportunity bigots. Their animosity to the Jews has been identifiable through the centuries, the Dreyfus affair being known to us all. The anti-Semitism of Vichy France during the war years is rather well-known.

I have been trying to figure why leftists in the Western world are turning more and more toward anti-Semitism and pro Arab sympathies. Jews have a long history of association with socialism and therefore one might assume that they would be welcomed for that reason in the ranks of leftists. History doesn't always conform to presumption, Soviet Russia was not always kind to Jews.

Jews have been and historically stiffnecked people, and in the age of leftist collectivization, anything that upholds individual integrity is to be damned.

The leftists are making common cause against the Western world with Arabs and the price of admission to that club is apparently anti-Semitism, or at least being anti-Israeli.

I concede, I am at a loss to uncover the root of its present manifestation.

[af_vet_1981]

I concede, I am at a loss to uncover the root of its present manifestation.

Antisemitism is hatred of the Jews (not Arabs) because it is not intrinsically racial. The adversary hates the Holy One of Israel and goes about as a roaring lion seeking the ruin of souls; this is the root of its present manifestation against Israel and the Jews in the Diaspora.

[af_vet_1981]

I concede, I am at a loss to uncover the root of its present manifestation.

Antisemitism is hatred of the Jews (not Arabs) because it is not intrinsically racial. The adversary hates the Holy One of Israel and goes about as a roaring lion seeking the ruin of souls; this is the root of its present manifestation against Israel and the Jews in the Diaspora.

[Chickensoup]

I have been trying to figure why leftists in the Western world are turning more and more toward anti-Semitism and pro Arab sympathies. Jews have a long history of association with socialism and therefore one might assume that they would be welcomed for that reason in the ranks of leftists. History doesn’t always conform to presumption, Soviet Russia was not always kind to Jews.

Jews have been and historically stiffnecked people, and in the age of leftist collectivization, anything that upholds individual integrity is to be damned.

The leftists are making common cause against the Western world with Arabs and the price of admission to that club is apparently anti-Semitism, or at least being anti-Israeli.

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two words Arab money

It buys a lot of goodwill and positive press, it funds organizations that have marching orders.

In the fifties and sixties and seventies Jewish interests had money and connections in publishing, presses, and tv and cinema. They were able to manage public perception. Take the Ann Frank Story as an example. My Jewish step grandfather said at the time of its publishing that it was a managed diary. It was managed for promotion and sympathy. recently the un-redacted version came out, IIRC. It would not have been as sympathetic.

Now Jewish connections are with older media sources that are losing power and the Arabs/Islamics are using newer sources and have their own version of the JDL in Cair and others. They have also, like the Jews, cast themselves as a victim group. Actually come to think of it they are following the Jewish model to a T. Except for that overt threatening component of terrorism vs the subtler form Mossod.