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Victor Davis Hanson: The West Is Sick of the New Woke Jihadism
American Greatness ^ | 13 Jun, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/13/2024 4:37:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The more violent campuses and streets become, the more clueless the mobs seem about the cascading public antipathy to what they do and what they represent.

What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting?

What are the students at Stanford University vandalizing the president’s office really demonstrating against?

What are the throngs in London brazenly swarming parks and rampaging in the streets really angry about?

Occupations?

They could care less that the Islamist Turkish government still stations 40,000 troops in occupied Cyprus. No one is protesting against the Chinese takeover of a once-independent Tibet or the threatened absorption of an autonomous Taiwan.

Refugees?

None of these mobs are agitating on behalf of the nearly 1 million Jews ethnically cleansed since 1947 from the major capitals of the Middle East. Some 200,000 Cypriots displaced by Turks earn not a murmur. Nor does the ethnic cleansing of 99% of Nagorno-Karabakh’s ancient Armenian population just last year.

Civilian casualties?

The global protestors are not furious over the 1 million Uighurs brutalized by the communist Chinese government. Neither are they concerned about the Turkish government’s indiscriminate war against the Kurds or its serial threats to attack Armenians and Greeks.

The new woke jihadi movement is instead focused only on Israel and “Palestine.” It is oblivious to the modern gruesome Muslim-on-Muslim exterminations of Bashar el-Assad and Saddam Hussein, the Black September massacres of Palestinians by Jordanian forces, and the 1982 erasure of thousands in Hama, Syria.

So woke jihadism is not an ecumenical concern for the oppressed, the occupied, the collateral damage of war, or the fate of refugees. Instead, it is a romanticized and repackaged anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: antiisrael; antiwestern; islamist; jihadism; marxism; vdh; victordavishanson

1 posted on 06/13/2024 4:37:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The issue is never the real issue. The real issue is always the marxist revolution.


2 posted on 06/13/2024 4:37:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

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3 posted on 06/13/2024 4:44:19 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


4 posted on 06/13/2024 4:45:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber
...an anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.

In other words, good, clean fun for Democrats and other leftists.

5 posted on 06/13/2024 4:47:19 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: MtnClimber

mobs? students? throngs? CRIMINALS. Coalitions of marxist and mohammedan criminals intimidating, defacing, destroying, murdering.


6 posted on 06/13/2024 4:48:47 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

It’s beyond time for all this to be stopped...


7 posted on 06/13/2024 4:59:42 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: MtnClimber

America’s leftist Jews need to wake up to the Muslim threat to Western Civilization. They do not want to assimilate. It’s a real issue regardless of political correctness.


8 posted on 06/13/2024 5:12:17 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: MtnClimber

More clearly, marxism and islamism both first require the Destruction of Western Civilization before they can implement their respective dystopias.

Israel is the harbinger.

You’re next.


9 posted on 06/13/2024 5:22:26 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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To: MtnClimber
What are the mobs in Washington defiling iconic federal statues with impunity and pelting policemen really protesting?

Half of them dont even know! They chant 'from the river to the sea' and don't know what river or what sea.

10 posted on 06/13/2024 5:25:42 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: MtnClimber
Instead, it is a romanticized and repackaged anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic jihadism that supports the murder of civilians, mass rape, torture, and hostage-taking.

When it is pointed out to them they are supporting rapists, torturers, and murderers, they get all huffy and walk away.

11 posted on 06/13/2024 5:27:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Jews have a leftism problem.

But really, there are so few Jews on the planet (~16M) that they are nearly beside the point. By contrast, there are 1,600,000,000 muslims, 100 muslims per Jew.

Half of the world’s Jews live in Israel, and ALL of them (including the leftists) have awakened to the mortal threat of Islam, and are doing what they can about it. They are nearly 100% mobilized and doing what they can and are allowed to about the threat.

American Jews have about the same amount of leftism as does Israel (a whole bunch), but since they do not know somebody who was recently murdered by mad mo’s followers, and are not running to bomb shelters regularly, they retain their awful and stupid leftism that could get them killed. Still, there are not enough Jews in America to amount to anything.

Jews are the first line of Western Civilization. “First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people” is not a funny or passing phrase. muslims will try and may succeed in eliminating most Jews. But the very next day, they start in on YOU.

So I believe your warning is best absorbed and acted upon by ALL “keffir”. Rephrased, let me recommend,

“The world’s non-muslims need to wake up to the muslim threat to Western Civilization. It’s a real issue regardless of your politics. It is a fundamentally permanent religious war that will attempt to kill YOU, now and always.”

As my favorite movie quote goes (adjusted to the circumstance),

“Everyone know where the jihadist threats are. The only question is: What are you prepared to do about it?”


12 posted on 06/13/2024 5:37:38 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Israel, in order: https://freerepublic.com/tag/unclemiltieadventure/index)
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To: Rummyfan

“They chant ‘from the river to the sea’ and don’t know what river or what sea.”

There was a politicly clueless Lefty where I worked. I saw his van had a bumper sticker reading, “Free Tibet.” Shocked, I asked him about it. He went off into this meandering monologue about selecting a bumper sticker that represented him to the public. I asked him what it meant. He had no idea. Nor did he know where Tibet is on the map.


13 posted on 06/13/2024 5:38:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: JBW1949

I have h are zero calls to defund this. Stop the money that stop the problem. Instead we are shoveling taxpayer dollars into printing DT wars against Russia in Syria and Ukraine… supporting rape wars by continuing to fund the dem agenda.
Meanwhile our borders are not just open, but are aiding and abetting child sex trafficking.
But hey… at least we have white suburban women now voting Republican because we agree the murder of the most innocent life in the womb is conservative. #EarnMyProlifeVote.


14 posted on 06/13/2024 6:10:36 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with.)
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To: MtnClimber

Leftist hatred and hypocrisy in full view.


15 posted on 06/13/2024 6:15:32 AM PDT by Chainmail (You can vote your way into Socialism - but you will have to shoot your way out.)
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To: MtnClimber

We need to take an Israeli approach to terrorism, and not just on issues where Israel (or Jews) is the focus.


16 posted on 06/13/2024 6:21:40 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: MtnClimber

Jihadism, Babylonian Talmudism.


17 posted on 06/14/2024 8:45:53 AM PDT by 1st I.D Vet
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To: MtnClimber

There is a fourth leg to this tripod, and it is one that has appealed to student-age people from time immemorial. It is simply that The Cause, whatever it is, offers absolution for committing acts that would otherwise be forbidden, specifically acts of violence, brutality, and sadism. There is a certain catharsis in burning out a store, for example, and blaming the consequences on someone else provides a sense of liberation from them. The perpetrators will be moving on, after all; the residents will do the suffering.


18 posted on 06/14/2024 9:08:06 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill; All

Victor Davis Hanson is a renowned classicist, military historian, and political commentator. He is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Among numerous other awards, Victor was presented the National Humanities Medal in 2007. In this episode, Robinson and Victor discuss his latest book, The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation (Basic Book, 2024), which was released on May 7th. More particularly, they cover the historical connection between annihilation and genocide, how we should interpret the past through today’s moral standards, genocides in the present, and the likelihood of World War III.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMFRC5RGFG8


19 posted on 06/15/2024 5:39:44 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life
A bump to the top. I finished VDH's End of Everything last week and it was an amazing read. Highly recommended. And no, I still cannot pronounce Tenochtitlan.
20 posted on 06/15/2024 7:42:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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