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| Victor Davis Hansen - The New New Antisemitism |
| 2022-12-30 |
| [PJMedia] The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon — perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog. On campuses, Middle-East activism, course instruction, and faculty profiles are now virulently anti-Israel — and indistinguishable from anti-Jewishness. When columnist Ben Shapiro spoke at Stanford University in 2019, left-wing posters were plastered around campus depicting Shapiro as an insect menace. A "BenBGon" bug spray bottle in Nazi fashion unsubtly suggested that a chemical agent is the best remedy to make sure Jews "be gone" from the premises. The avowed socialist Representative Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., retweeted the old propaganda boast, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." Tlaib knew well "to the sea" could mean only the extinction of Israel itself and its 7 million Jews. She deleted her tweet, but only after an outcry of protest. Anti-Zionists and leftist Palestinian activists Linda Sarsour and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — "it’s all about the Benjamins" — often made no effort to hide their antisemitism. Yet now a dangerous new, new antisemitism is trending, predominantly among African-Americans — especially prominent politicians, celebrities, and billionaires. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 Stalin is Red. If you are a Jew, He don't give a damn! Said his doctor, "Who knew?" |
| Posted by: Bob Sholurt5710 2022-12-30 23:53 |
| #10 they now believe the majority would agree with them. I fear they are not wrong. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-30 15:06 |
| #9 It’s not new, James, but has reached a tipping point where it is no longer just spoken of privately because the majority would find it offensive; they now believe the majority would agree with them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2022-12-30 14:58 |
| #8 "new antisemitism is trending" Is this actually new, or is noticing it new? |
| Posted by: James 2022-12-30 13:01 |
| #7 So Whoopie Goldberg only took a Jewish name to enhance her acting career. Where are the culture approtiationists? I guess it's OK if you denigrate the culture later. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-12-30 12:43 |
| #6 I nominate him/her/they to the Whoopi Goldberg chair of the U Cal Berkeley University faculty. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-12-30 12:30 |
| #5 /\ I'm afraid you'll have to repeat this semester O.F. You're simply not grasping the facts. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-12-30 11:28 |
| #4 ^ It's hard to be wrong in everything you write, but you, Sir, have accomplished it. Well done! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-12-30 11:24 |
| #3 I think Trump had a recent dinner with 2 Nazis. I don't think Justin Fuentes and Kanye West can properly be described as leftists. The leftists don't give a damn about Jew or Gentile, they hate righties which includes very, very few Jews. This entire article misses the reason Ben is hated, it is not because he's a Jew, he'd be equally hated as a Gentile on college campuses. |
| Posted by: Omineling Forkbeard1962 2022-12-30 10:39 |
| #2 Leftists hate anything that works, as opposed to their clearly brain-damaged fantasies. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-12-30 05:47 |
| #1 Probably because the Wakandans gravitate to the i-slam due to their latent affinity to criminality and anarchy. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-12-30 05:43 |