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The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending
The Atlantic ^ | 03 04 2024 | Franklin Foer

Posted on 03/04/2024 6:28:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Stacey Zolt Hara was in her office in downtown San Francisco when a text from her 16-year-old daughter arrived: “I’m scared,” she wrote. Her classmates at Berkeley High School were preparing to leave their desks and file into the halls, part of a planned “walkout” to protest Israel. Like many Jewish students, she didn’t want to participate. It was October 18, 11 days after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel.

Zolt Hara told her daughter to wait in her classroom. She was trying to project calm. A public-relations executive, Zolt Hara had moved her family from Chicago to Berkeley six years earlier, hoping to find a community that shared her progressive values. Her family had developed a deep sense of belonging there.

But a moral fervor was sweeping over Berkeley High that morning. Around 10:30, the walkout began. Jewish parents traded panicked reports from their children. Zolt Hara heard that kids were chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a slogan that suggests the elimination of Israel. Rumors spread about other, less coy phrases shouted in the hallways, carrying intimations of violence. Jewish students were said to be in tears. Parents were texting one another ideas about where in the school their children could hide. Zolt Hara placed a call to the dean of students. By her own admission, she was hysterical. She says the dean hung up on her.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; berkeley; foer; franklinfoer; jews; liberalism; michaelmoore; obamalegacy; palestinians; rop; shj; theatlantic; thenewrepublic; tnr; ucberkeley; worldwar3
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"Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish."

It's not Republicans shouting "From the river to the sea".

1 posted on 03/04/2024 6:28:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

The American Jew, by helping Democrat obtain and maintain power, brought this ending upon themselves. If they had supported the Republican foundation of America, what they are going through now might not have happened.


2 posted on 03/04/2024 6:31:45 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Palestine will be free” is the same as the German “Juden frei”.


3 posted on 03/04/2024 6:32:46 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Jonty30

Frankenstein’s monster attacking its creator.


4 posted on 03/04/2024 6:33:27 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: yesthatjallen

Liberal Jews bought into the Charlottesville lies and ignored the Abraham Accords facts that were right in front of their eyes. They are being red-pilled at light speed, but it is far too late. Orthodox (religious) Jews never moved to stupid places like Berkeley and gave up their religion, so they aren’t having these issues. Most of them own guns and voted for Trump.


5 posted on 03/04/2024 6:34:10 PM PST by montag813
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To: Jonty30

That’s basically what Elon Musk said and he was pilloried for it, people said he was antisemitic.


6 posted on 03/04/2024 6:35:06 PM PST by packagingguy
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I have many Jewish friends.

But by and large American Jews brought this upon themselves.

7 posted on 03/04/2024 6:36:13 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Fascism: It can happen here. It DID happen here. It's STILL HAPPENING here!)
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

“Progressive” Jews are finding out what “progress” really looks like...just as Orwell’s “1984” predicted.


8 posted on 03/04/2024 6:36:53 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: yesthatjallen

show me right wing anti semitism.


9 posted on 03/04/2024 6:38:09 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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When I was in high school, I found a book about Israel that had been put on the library shelf. It didn’t have a library card; I think someone had put it there without the knowledge of the library staff.

It was about kibbutz life, and the history of Israel. It was presented in very glowing, romantic terms. Due to other factors going on at the time, I was much taken by the story it presented.

I’m quite sure I put it back on the same shelf when I was finished reading it.

In the years after, I many times thought of that book, and how that time - around the 1973 war - was kind of “Peak Israel.” The Munich Olympics massacre of the Israeli athletes had happened not long before.


10 posted on 03/04/2024 6:38:31 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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I gotta laugh at this … because every single person in my professional circles who was a Berkeley graduate is JEWISH.

Cry me a river to the sea. :-P

11 posted on 03/04/2024 6:39:33 PM PST by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: packagingguy

It’s only anti-semetic to the reactionary non-thinkers. If you can understand that there are different branches of Judaism and Jews that care about worldly power and wealth and not their faith, then you can understand that some criticisms of Jews using their religion as cover for devious things is actually correct, if the criticism being made is correct.


12 posted on 03/04/2024 6:39:35 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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Schumer, Raskin, Wasserman-Schultz, Goldman, Cohen, et al. Adios.


13 posted on 03/04/2024 6:41:34 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Jonty30

“Progress” means a boot on your face—forever.


14 posted on 03/04/2024 6:41:56 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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"In the old Jewish theory of American politics, the best defense against the anti-Semitism of the right was a united left: minorities and liberal activists locking arms. When I was young, rabbis and elders reverently told us about the earnest young Jews in chunky glasses who had jumped aboard the Freedom Rides; about Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, in his unmissable kippah, marching right next to Martin Luther King Jr.; and about the martyrdom of Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, two Jews who had been murdered alongside James Chaney, a Black Mississippian, for their work registering Black Americans to vote. A coalition of the tolerant pressed the country to live up to its ideals.

Later, I would learn that those memories were a bit gauzy. In the late 1960s, former comrades began to quietly, then brusquely, discard this spirit of common cause. Younger activists in the civil-rights movement took a hard turn toward Black Power and dismissed the old liberal theory of change as a melioristic ruse."

"Comrades".

15 posted on 03/04/2024 6:42:56 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Yep, it sure isn’t.

However, what else would the Left claim when they are doing
it. They NEVER take ownership of their flagrant racism.

It’s the core of their existence. I don’t take pleasure in
saying it either.

Either it’s Blacks or it’s Whites or it’s Asians or it’s
the Jews.


16 posted on 03/04/2024 6:45:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: yesthatjallen

At least 70% of the Jews vote Democrat. If this does not change their mind, nothing will.


17 posted on 03/04/2024 6:46:20 PM PST by Parley Baer (.)
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To: Parley Baer

Yup—a few more months of getting kicked around may get their attention....


18 posted on 03/04/2024 6:47:28 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: yesthatjallen

The article has this throwback photo from more than 3 decades ago. One thing that sticks out is the airline luggage that Seinfeld and George are carrying. Along with everything else about this era, the clothes, etc. the luggage style is also obsolete. No one carries luggage looking like that any more, perhaps a gym bag that George has, but with no other pattern.


19 posted on 03/04/2024 6:47:53 PM PST by nwrep
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To: yesthatjallen

I do not believe so. The best days are still ahead.


20 posted on 03/04/2024 6:48:32 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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