The hatred started even before Israel went into Gaza.
It was only days after the gruesome murder, rape, and kidnapping of over a thousand Israeli civilians that American radicals began tearing down posters of the victims. The anti-Israel crusaders then took to city streets to harass Jews and motorists alike.
They’ve now found fertile soil on college campuses, starting with the “elite” ones, where students are evidently the daffiest. Amidst the protests are scenes that should have remained in 1930s Germany, with protesters calling for the annihilation of Israel, and attacking Jewish students and faculty alike.
How did the progressive left start spewing so much anti-Semitic bile? Weren’t they supposed to be the champions of tolerance?
Their problem really isn't with Jews in particular. It's that they see Jews as part of the oppressive white, Western ruling class that must be dismantled. It’s been a rising theme over the past decade here in America.
We've seen cities burn after police killings of black criminals. We’ve seen mobs tear down statues of Christopher Columbus and Thomas Jefferson, and, somewhat ironically, a monument to General Ulysses S. Grant, who won the Civil War and prosecuted the KKK.
Dr. Seuss books were banned, sports teams renamed, and Native Americans stricken from butter advertisements. Even a rock was declared racist and removed by the University of Wisconsin.
Why? Because if you teach students that the success of Western civilization was built on the oppression of others, this is the inevitable outcome. To the equity zealots, our civilization’s success can only be explained by the subjugation of minorities.
That's how they view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Not as Jews vs Muslims, but as just the latest salvo in white Westerners oppressing darker-skinned races. To them, Israel is an extension of Western colonialism, and the Jews living there are just as guilty as the white settlers who founded America.
It must've been a rude, sad awakening for many liberal Jews to see their own movement turn on them with such venom. After all, we were routinely told that conservatives were the real anti-Semites. I mean, David Duke ran as a Republican … and don’t forget those anti-semitic tiki torch kids in Charlottesville.
To my Jewish friends, I say welcome to the newly oppressed majority. You're not just white, but too often wealthy and powerful too. A triple threat to DEI dogma.
The far left embraces an ideology that puts racial identity over equal rights, merit, and objective truth. We now clearly see where they place Jews in that hierarchy, and it has little to do with religion.
When campus radicals rail about "white supremacy" and "decolonization," they aren't just talking about the KKK. To them, all of Western civilization is an oppressive, racist system that must be punished.
Lost in the racial hysteria is the fact that Western civilization, built on Judeo-Christian values, has done more to advance human rights and lift people out of misery than any other culture in history. No country better exemplifies this than the United States, which has freed and fed more people than any other country has ever done.
And Israel is the only country in the Middle East that embraces these Western ideals, while the rest are still stuck in the seventh century. “Queers for Palestine” would be lynched and murdered in Gaza as soon as they unfurled their banners, yet somehow it's the Jewish state that's the problem.
Truthfully, it’s hard to generate too much sympathy for Palestinians who pass out candy when Jewish girls are raped, murdered, and paraded through their streets. After the war, they’ll hopefully spend more time building a functioning society and less time celebrating suicide bombers.
The values of our civilization aren’t tied to any one race or religion. They’re universal ideals that to defend and uphold for all people.
– Ken
Excellent commentary Ken. I wonder what percentage of protesters are actually students versus paid troublemakers. University leadership and professors have no one to blame but themselves for creating a hateful environment on campuses across the US. When you teach hate to children you get hateful actions in return. Time to start revoking teaching credentials of professors and institutions who create that sort of environment.
These student Leftists and “community organizers” agitating hatred for Israel, for Jews, and for Western Civilization in general exemplify the Talmudic dictum that essentially states that those who are merciful to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful. 🧐
See: http://www.acpr.org.il/ENGLISH-NATIV/06-issue/shochetman-6.htm
It’s identical to another twisted vein in which leftwing liberals demonstrate overwhelming concern and sympathy for psychopathic death row mass killers while they could tell you nothing about, nor even shed a single tear for, any of the victims of such murderers.
Lastly, this topic also brings to mind this rather famous quote …
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
― Winston S. Churchill
Reference: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/34274-an-appeaser-is-one-who-feeds-a-crocodile-hoping-it
It would seem that agitating pressure groups like “Queers 4 Hamas” are simply feeding ravenous crocodiles … 🐊 🐊🐊
G’day everyone … have a Blessed weekend too. 😏