Posted on 07/27/2020 10:58:14 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: The column was co-authored by Bruce Abramson.
Anyone concerned with Jews and Israel should be horrified by the Democrats newly released 2020 platform. It directly threatens the Jewish state, employs double-talk calculated to stoke antagonism between the American left and Israel, and pays passing lip-service to opposing antisemitism, but in the gaslighting way Linda Sarsour and Ilhan Omar do; to deny it where it exists and point fingers elsewhere. In both narrative and policy, the platform crosses over the line into deep antisemitic territory. Its a dangerous acceleration of an approach first tested when Joe Biden was Vice President and in which he played an active role.
Upon entering office, President Obama immediately terminated the decades-old US policy ensuring no daylight with Israel. Beyond leaking Israeli intelligence and sabotaging operations, Obama introduced a radical redefinition of Two-State Solution that inverted decades of American priorities: Palestinian statehood was not an enormously risky incentive in a process aimed at creating peace and security for all, but an unconditional matter of justice and right, wrongfully withheld by Israel.
This launched a correspondingly inverted set of narratives, policies, and loyalties. Though claiming to be pro-Israel, Obama and then Democrats generally - relentlessly demonized Israels center-right Likud party and its popular leader, Bibi Netanyahu. When that attempt at scapegoating didnt suffice a solid majority of Americans deplored the Iran deal they blamed American Jewish disloyalty, money, and influence. The viciousness of these attacks was magnified by the reality that most American Jews actually supported the deal, because most supported Obama.
The rising strain of antisemitic tropes and threats in national Democratic politics, was thus already being foreshadowed and normalized by the Obama Administrations attacks on Israel and Jews. Their narrative is now the norm among Democrats across the spectrum: the establishments anti-Israelism is deniable as anti-Netanyahu or anti-Likud while the progressives antisemitism is sanitized as intersectionality or anti-Zionism. As for actual policy shocks, their 2015 Iran Deal strengthened, enriched, and normalized the Islamic Republic over Israels fearful pleas. Their 2016 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) neutered Israels ability to engage with pro-Israel members of Congress. Their parting shot, UN Resolution 2334, criminalized the mere act of living in Judea while Jewish.
Outgoing Secretary of State Kerry announced that when Democrats were back in power they would punish Israel for its stubborn refusal to be bullied into suicidal positions for the sake of peace. Bidens platform delivers on that threat.
The platform proudly reaffirms the Iran Deal and the MOU. It equates Americas liberal, democratic ally Israel with corrupt, anti-American, terrorist PA. It equates Jewish homeownership in disputed areas not with Arab homeownership in those same areas, but with Arab terroreffectively casting a Jew simply residing in a place deemed off-limits as justification for murder. It reserves this antipathy for indigenous Jewish territories in which Jews have lived for more than 3,000 years and over which the state of Israel possesses legal claims far superior to those of any other entity. Though studiously avoiding the words illegal occupation, it characterizes Jewish life in the historic Jewish homeland as criminal and intolerable. Democrats thus deny Jewish history, selectively apply law to discriminate against Jews, endorse ethnic cleansing of Jews, and champion the principle of judenreina geographic area off-limit to Jews.
This is the position of a major American political party as regards the most Jewish of all places on Earth Israel, Judea, Jerusalem. It advances the agenda of a collective that has displayed no purpose other than Jewish genocide. All within living memory of the mass slaughter and expulsion of Jews from European and Arab countries. This platform is a crisis as grave as any Jews have confronted at any time in our history.
There is no equivalent American policy applicable to any other ethnic or religious group anywhere in the world. No one would even dare to suggest such an atrocity. And there is an exquisite cruelty to the Democrats agenda redolent of ancient empires seeking to grind the Jews under their heels: it is their demand that Israel execute their evil bidding. In every respect the Democrats agenda is intended to break Israels back; to punish the Jews for daring to survive.
In obscene, almost cinematic irony, the Democrats released this platform the very same week they trumpeted their NOBAN Act the Houses vote against a Trump immigration policy they call the Muslim Ban. Consider: against a backdrop of Democrats raging about a purported Muslim Ban that does not ban Muslims from entering or living in any part of any country, the Democrats proudly pronounce their commitment to outlawing Jews from living in Judea - a certifiable Jew Ban.
Employing anodyne platitudes call it the banality of evil Democrats have articulated a brutally antisemitic program treating Jews and Israel as pariahs, uniquely worthy of discriminatory treatment. It makes mockery of Israel as a sovereign state and an American ally. It directly aligns the Biden campaignand the entire Partywith Israels mortal enemies.
An administration pursuing this agenda would continue to promote antisemitic narratives hostile to Jewish life in America and pose an existential threat to the Jewish State.
“engage in an antisemitic canard”
Not antisemitic at all. It is a fact. You need to read up on your history of the people and what they supported in the past century, for example.
I asked a question.
So now any honest question which addresses the issue is antisemitic?
Even the Germans learned that it wasnt prudent to continue on the way they did during the last century. Problem is, they have gone completely spineless.
Maybe we should call the Jewish people a click? Would that do?
OK now. This. What would a Jewish family who has been life long Democrats do to a family member who got up and said he/she were going to become conservative and vote for the conservative-Republicans, in elections?
It’s clear and has been how the democrats feel toward Israel. I cannot figure how anybody could vote democrat given their platform.
Nu? So stop voting Democrat, already.
And did I lump all Jewish people into that? Or is that something all of the social justice warriors get all offensive about even though (they) the democrat party has indicated they will do as the article says?
So..what say you? Are the majority of Jews that are involved in the struggle to acquire money and power that they would sell their country down the hole and in the meantime, march themselves right back into another holocaust?
Need I mention George Soros? And another question concerning him. How is it that the Jewish havent brought him in front of a court and convicted him of crimes for his actions during WW2?
bttt
Nazis were socialists. Neo Nazis are socialist too.
Christians, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9xivoAv8-U
Bible in a Year:
I know whom I have believed.
When Carol wrote that her husband went into the outstretched arms of Jesus, hundreds of people responded, with many thanking Carol for their openness. One person remarked that hearing about dying from a Christian point of view was healthy, for we all have to die someday. Another said that although shed never met the couple personally, she couldnt express how much encouragement shed received through their witness of trusting God.
Although Papa John sometimes felt excruciating pain, he and Carol shared their story so they could demonstrate how God upheld them. They knew their testimony would bear fruit for God, echoing what Paul wrote to Timothy when he suffered: I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day (2 Timothy 1:12).
God can use even the death of a loved one to strengthen our faith in Him (and the faith of others) through the grace we receive in Christ Jesus (v. 9). If youre experiencing anguish and difficulty, know that He can bring comfort and peace.
How have you experienced Gods joy even in times of deep sorrow? How do you explain this? How could you share what you learned with others?
Heavenly Father, fan into flame the gift of faith in me, that I might share with love and power my testimony of how You work in my life.
WOW did I mess up.... Completely wrong thread.....
I had to update the link - thought I got the other link in there. Guess not. Thanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hkQy4PwZLg
Mark
Thanks - I have seen that video before. Terrifying. “Peace and Security.”
And the mantra just keeps getting repeated. Even while defending Israel.
It’s just a matter of time before it becomes a reality and everyone is happy. Or at least those who think the confirmation of the 7-year covenant is going to make things better.
I keep seeing Soros referred to as a Nazi sympathizer. Soros has plenty to be convicted for since becoming an adult, but when Germany lost the war, he was 14 years old.
Mark
Yes, perhaps only 98% will vote for Biden instead of 99%.
Ok, sarcasm off, but seriously, what makes you say this? A poll, anecdotal evidence?
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