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| Why do antisemites hate God's chosen people? |
| 2024-04-28 |
| [American Thinker] The anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and conflated pro-Hamas antisemitism on university campuses in America is astounding. Spitting on, threatening, intimidating, and menacing Jewish fellow students is beyond unacceptable and symptomatic of a malignant antisemitic spiritual plague in America — a scourge that is emerging after festering in the political, social, and collective spiritual marrow of America for many decades. The most shameful aspect of this is that universities are one of the roots. The other political-social taproot of this American antisemitism is the subliminal and liminal anti-Israel messages of politicians like Barack Obama and the likes of radical leftist politicians of the Squad. It might have helped our country and the world at the time if Barack Obama and the Squad had praised and promoted the Abraham Accords. It is one thing to vigorously disagree with Israel policies. But after the ghastly, evil attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, and Israel’s declaration of war on Hamas, it is a pure expression of evil terrorism for a university student or other American to say, "I am Hamas" or to threaten more murderous attacks on Israeli citizens or American Jews. American politicians’ silence or advocacy of moral equivalency on the Hamas issue says volumes. WHAT ARE THE SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGINS AND DYNAMICS OF STUDENT ANTISEMITISM? As a teenager, I vividly recall my rebellion against my parents’ rules, their authority, their strict religious beliefs, and the connection to rules about my dress and behavior. I had adolescent heroes and antiheroes. None was ever an antisemite. As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, I have had some understanding of adolescent rebellion. I studied Anna Freud’s work and admired her observation that adolescents can become enthusiastic about community activities at times and at other times long for solitude. They can be submissive to a chosen leader or defiant to any authority. They can be extremely self-absorbed or materialistic and simultaneously idealistic (Freud, A., The Ego And Mechanisms of Defense, 1936) — but not, in my experience...violently antisemitic in their rebellion! In my own work, I observed that al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other terror groups exploited adolescents by an appeal to expand and magnify "normal" adolescent rebelliousness toward a search for independent identity, even an extreme negative identity as a terrorist (Olsson, P., The Making of a Homegrown Terrorist, 2014). I hope Hamas infiltrators are not so using American university students today in America! I can recall the violent university student rebellion against the Vietnam War, which grew deadly at Kent State and other locations. I agreed with the rebellion and defiance, but never the violence. I have studied the Holocaust and support the emotionally charged 1948 admission of Israel as an independent state to the United Nations. I understand Natan Sharansky ending his recent essay in the April 26 Wall Street Journal, entitled, "The Fight for Freedom, From Exodus to Gaza," with these arresting words: Let us, then, persist in hope and pray for the freedom of all the enslaved, captured, tyrannized, and oppressed. Let us also not forget that freedom is a precious gift, and that we must rise up to secure it every single day, in every generation. Israeli warriors are so doing against Hamas, just as Sharansky says. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #12 Most of them choose a variety of hates like they are froyo toppings. They hide some of the inconvenient hates, but hate drives their existence. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-04-28 14:14 |
| #11 Watch: Protesters call for Islamic state in Germany First they came ... |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-28 13:27 |
| #10 And hard evidence Jews don't control the world. It wouldn't be as screwed up as it is now. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2024-04-28 12:24 |
| #9 People can find reasons to justify all sorts of beliefs. There is, for many people, a strong shot of dopamine that the body produces when a person feels strong hate. That gives the mind an incentive to 'do it again'. Of course you could just listen to some good music and eat chocolate to get the dopamine hit. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-04-28 12:23 |
| #8 Raphael Sotak. God rest his enormous cossack soul. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-28 09:03 |
| #7 In high school a giant Russian - 7' 375 pounds - slapped my on the back (I'm still recovering) and said "Your name is pronounced Moor-check!" I still say Mur-seck because that's what my parents taught me. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-28 09:00 |
| #6 ^ It can't get any better than that, TW. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-28 08:57 |
| #5 I’d welcome you as a cousin, M. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-04-28 08:50 |
| #4 Im half Slovak, have been told I'm a Jew my whole life. No problem to me. Im not sending anything to the DNA mills but I'm fine with the idea I have some of that excellent DNA. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-28 08:37 |
| #3 It's uncool to hate n*ggers. Jews are fair game for anyone who thinks they don't have any Jewish ancestry. So uncomfortable when they find out otherwise. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-04-28 08:34 |
| #2 Nothing succeeds like success ... |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-28 08:26 |
| #1 When they make themselves their own god or use the facade of a religion to assume the same, they tolerate no others. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-04-28 08:11 |