In the aftermath of "From the River to the Sea" anti-Israel protests on many college campuses and in the streets comes a perfectly timed book by Johns Hopkins University Professor Benjamin Ginsberg titled "The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, The Right, and the Jews."
Professor Ginsberg is especially hard on progressives and urges American Jews to move away from their longtime support of Democrats to form a new political alliance, especially with evangelical Christians.
While U.S. presidents have given lip service in support of Israel - and yes, the Jewish people and their ancestral homeland cannot be separated - in practice, some Republican and many Democratic presidents have pressured Israel to make concessions to her sworn enemies that would spell the death of the Jewish state.
In Israel's ongoing attempt to eliminate Hamas in Gaza, Politico reports: " Biden administration officials have spent weeks quietly drafting a multiphase postwar game plan that envisions a revamped Palestinian Authority (PA) ultimately taking over the Gaza Strip."
It takes a leap of faith to ignore what Hamas and other terrorist groups have as their objective and to believe that a "revamped" PA would not be overtaken again by Hamas, or another terror group.
Antisemitism extends back to ancient Egypt. The explanations are familiar - from the "chosen people" reference in Scripture to blaming Jews for "killing Christ."
Ginsberg gets to what I think is the real source of antisemitism. He writes that because of the Jewish people's rigorous emphasis on education and achievements, Jews often rise to the upper echelons of the societies in which they live. And yet, he says, such success breeds resentment and jealousy. Underachievers need someone to blame and for some this tiny minority is an easy target.
In view of this, Ginsberg wonders why a large majority of Jews still vote for Democrats. "Since 1932," he writes, "Jews have unfailingly given a plurality of their votes to Democratic presidential candidates. ... On seven occasions (they) received more than 80 percent of the Jewish vote."
Jews were once mostly loyal to Republicans, but since Franklin Roosevelt, their allegiance has shifted. Given Roosevelt's barring of thousands of Jewish refugees from entering the country (the excuse was they might be Nazi spies) and his refusal to bomb the rail lines leading to Auschwitz, their continued support of Democrats is hard to fathom.
While Jews largely voted for and supported Roosevelt, in part because the president had so many Jews in high government positions, Ginsberg writes, "the president was leery of being identified too closely with Jews. FDR asked his Jewish advisors to keep a low profile."
During the "red scare" of the McCarthy era, many of those accused of communist sympathies or membership in the Communist Party, especially in Hollywood, were Jews.
Modern antisemitism is egged on by members of "The Squad" in Congress. One of those members, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn), has equated the United States and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban. That was too much for some of her Democratic colleagues, who denounced her comments.
College campuses appear to be breeding grounds for modern antisemitism. A survey by the Anti-Defamation League found " 73% of Jewish college students surveyed have experienced or witnessed some form of antisemitism since the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year alone. ... Of the non-Jewish students erroneously assumed to be Jewish, nearly half (46%) stated that they had been targeted based on their assumed Jewishness."
The worldwide media fuels some of this by either adopting a moral equivalency position between Israel and her enemies, failing to report on Islamic leaders who claim a religious mandate to eliminate Israel and exterminate Jews, or slanting their coverage in favor of the Palestinians.
Ginsberg's book should be required reading for those who are unclear about the roots of antisemitism and how Jewish hatred continues to poison the politics and culture of many countries, including our own.
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1940s zionists were basically just nazis in yamulkes.
On October 7th in Israel a few dozen Hamas fighters were killed, yet over 300 Israeli soldiers were killed as well as about a hundred police and
Security officers. That doesn't even add up. That's
Because most of those Israeli soldiers were killed
By friendly fire from Helicopters. It's funny how
The news gets completely buried. The Journal hasn't even reported on the Active Air Force member who burn himself alive in front of the
Israeli embassy, yelling Free Palestine. You know
You are fake news when you refuse to report a story like that.
Representative Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has said that Spygate is "lie-gate", a "piece of propaganda the president wants to put out and repeat". He accused President Trump of repeatedly spreading baseless lies by quoting that "people are saying ..." or "we've been told ...". Michael Hayden, a retired general, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said that Trump, through Spygate, was "simply trying to delegitimize the Mueller investigation, the FBI, the Department of Justice, and he's willing to throw almost anything against the wall".
So the CIA spies said that they didn't spy on Trump? Didn't make up the lie about the Hunter
Laptop being Russian disinformation? The bamanazi FBI, IRS, CIA, and Justice Department
Has been totally weaponized against Republicans.
They are raiding churches and arresting pro-life folks for Christ's sake. President Trump is about to
Clean house.
Spygate is a disproven[1] conspiracy theory peddled by 45th U.S. president Donald Trump and his political base on many occasions throughout his presidential term. It primarily centered around the idea that a spy was planted by the Obama administration to conduct espionage on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign for political purposes. On May 17, 2018, Trump tweeted: "Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI 'SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.'" In that tweet, he quoted Andrew C. McCarthy, who had just appeared on Fox & Friends repeating assertions from his own May 12 article for National Review.
Now tell us how Bush and Cheney repelled down
Through the twin towers.......to the tune of Mission
Impossible and set explosives at the World Trade Center.
During and after his term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. The Washington Post's fact-checkers documented 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidential term, an average of about 21 per day. The Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims from January 2017 to June 2019, an average of 6.1 per day.[2] Commentators and fact-checkers have described the scale of Trump's mendacity as "unprecedented" in American politics,[13] and the consistency of falsehoods a distinctive part of his business and political identities. Scholarly analysis of Trump's tweets found "significant evidence" of an intent to deceive
Safe and Effective. If they lie about that.....they'll lie
About everything. How many times did Fauci, Comey, Mueller, McCabe, Brennan, Wray, etc.
Lie to congress......and no repercussions.
Oh.....and Clapper.....what a scumbag.....he looked
Like a goblin who should be working at Gringotts.
I think I'm starting to like these Bidumb illegals, they are taking democrats off the street all over
The country....and then these illegals get life in prison......that's a win win with blue states having to
Pay to keep them incarcerated for 50+ years. If we
Could only keep the democrats from giving these illegals ballots.
Google lost 90 billion dollars in one day......hahaha
Serves them right. Destroy all democrats.
The woke Google Gemini AI generator is offline...
Ha ha ha......the liberals destroy everything they touch. The founding fathers were black, Vikings were black, even nazis were black. Political correctness gone wild......what a bunch of kooks.
God I hate Google.
The US has given long range missiles packed with cluster bombs to Ukraine.....munitions that are banned in 112 countries.....are we really the good
Guys in this conflict? The war lords in the US need to stop funding these foreign wars.
Since October 7th, the US as sent 15,000 bombs to
Israel......including 2000 pound bunker buster bombs to basically make Gaza a big pile of rubble.
History will show the US as party to genocide and
All of you war pigs are to blame.
Let the government shut down and keep it that way. Any government that refuses to control the
Border doesn't need to be funded.
If there is a God, all the victims of these Bidumb
Venezuelans.....will be Bidumb voters.
If some leftist kook would have burned himself alive over a possible Trump second term....I'm
Pretty sure that the Journal would be reporting on it. Does the Journal get funding from Soros and American zionists?
I'm living in my own private Idaho.....State Journal...
And it's freaking awesome!. The commies may own the Op-ed page........but these pages are mine.
Patriots come here for the real news and the truth.
I think if they knew the 75 years of conflict that Israel would cause.....America, the Brits and the UN
would have come up with a different plan. A small sliver of land and a small minority of people are the cause of most wars. It really needs to stop.
Cal is the last of the neo-cons. He's all alone in the world after the the Bill Kristols, the Bush and Cheneys, the Romneys and other RINOs have been
Driven to obscurity. That's it Cal.....fight the good fight......but these new generations on both sides of the aisle, consider Israel as the antichrist.
1% of the population, 13% of the Senate, Overrepresented in government and the Federal Reserve with monopolies in movies music tv radio newspapers banking stock market gold diamonds etc. And responsible for this Google Gemini AI
Which is trying to erase the white man from history. Every bit of information you receive has already been approved by some jew. This is why the Journal hasn't reported about the active Air Force member who burned himself alive in front of the Israel embassy.....yelling free Palestine as he died.
35 years of middle east wars......why? Oil? No....
Israel. With control over the media the American jews have totally played Americans with pro-Israel
Propaganda. They play down the USS Liberty. They
Play down the theft of our enriched uranium by Israel. And they play down the spy Jonathan Pollard
Who gave our national secrets to Israel. All while
Duping Americans into thinking that Israel is our
Loyal ally. This is the same corrupt media who has
Spread 7 years of lies about Trump. Trump has been nothing but good to Israel yet the media hates him and dump on him daily. Hopefully
Trump comes to the realization that Israel is our enemy and cuts them off.
Americans have been so purposely uninformed by
The media, the politicians and in school that only
A small minority could tell you what Nakba means.
Nakba is when armed European jews marched into
Palestinian towns and massacred thousands. And
Displaced millions. The jews really learned well about nazi tactics.
In the 1940s, thousands of European jews fled
The holocaust and moved to Palestine where they
Militarized themselves with the aid from Hollywood
And US weaponry. They then proceeded to create their own holocaust on the unarmed Palestinians.
Here you had and army of "white" Europeans who had no recent family history in Palestine and no land ownership.....who moved in like stormtroopers and murdered thousands of brown people and stole their land and moved into their homes. This
Is not two thousand years ago, this is not two hundred years ago.....this is recent history. Israel
Built it's cities over the mass graves of massacred
Palestinians. Yet the leftist media democrat propaganda machines narrative is that Hamas are
The perpetrators of violence. Until this Palestinian
Holocaust is acknowledged.....there can be no honest debate.
I'm starting to like the new format at the Journal....
Lord knows that I never run out of opinions.
I really should be getting paid for this.
6 million Palestinian refugees since 1948. And untold thousands murdered in the several years
Prior and since Israel became a state. That sure sounds like a Holocaust to me. Any American who
Supports that is just as evil as the perpetrators of this Holocaust. Israel supporters are in denial over
The atrocities that brought about the Jewish state.
If there were a God, he'd come back and wipe them off the face of the earth.
How far do you go back to return an ancestral homeland? A thousand years? Two thousand?
It's only been a few hundred for the Indians....
Surely America should be returned to them if Israel went back to the jews. Cal somehow forgets that
Generations of Palestinians lived and died in the region for hundreds of years. People pushed off of
Their land and displaced in the years prior to 1948
And since, are still alive.....no matter how hard you try, you cannot rationalize that theft. Israel should never have happened and never been US policy.
There can be no two state solution.....the problem is solved when one side is eliminated. And that is just what Israel is trying to do. But make no mistake.....Israel is the bad guy.
Jews were and still are communists, remember the
Rosenberg? Remember the jews in Germany who
Rioted in the streets supporting communism and
Caused the rise of the nazis?
Israeli soldiers are burning the food aid that the US
sent to Gaza......now that's a special kind of evil.
You know I have seen that 1977 video of Biden saying that "bussing will make your schools a racial jungle" many times......but the leftists at Google have scrubbed it from the internet......
Only in America.
The Idaho State Journal......where they only give you the news that they deem necessary.
Two days later and still no Journal report on the
Active duty Air Force self immolation......this is a
Newspaper right?
A number one, top of the list, king of the hill....
A number one.........I keep it now.
I think I need my own vlog......Eugene Tha God.
I can't imagine what it would have been like back in
The 40s when people were reliant on the local paper for news. And now when you cannot even
Count on the local paper to inform you of what is
Happening.....they prove their own irrelevance.
They are to busy hyping up some fake news story about a trans dying from a fight that they won't tell you what's really going on. I take it that the Journal
Loves Israel exterminating Palestinians.....with
American made bombs?
Something just as evil as leftist propaganda and fake news, is purposely ignoring a story because it
Would make the neo-warhawks uncomfortable.
It's not every day that an American military man
In uniform.....burns himself to death in front of the
Israeli embassy. Back in the 60s when the monks were doing it, it seemed to be big news. An active Air Force man in uniform.......burns himself alive
While yelling Free Palestine......and the Journal
Doesn't even report it. Unbelievable.
Where is the Christian state? Why is Israel so privileged to have a Jewish state, yet the US is
Considered a judeo-christian state? What gives
Israel the right to keep out non-jews yet the US
has to be open to every religion and every race?
Dual standards aren't fair to anyone..
I'm flattered.
No one can any longer hide behind the canard that “We only oppose Zionism- we have no animosity towards Jews or Judaism per se.” In Los Angeles, San Diego, Cincinnati , New York and London anti-Israeli activists targeted local Jews and synagogues. These attacks started even before October 7.
Look up Tantura Massacre.
"The New American Antisemeticsm what???
The leftists in the party want you to hate Israel.
They convinced you to ban gas cars and fossil fuels and to castrate your sons into phony little girls......surely you can toe the anti-Israel line?
If all that's true then you're saying you got something in common with the leftists in the party?
Even some leftists are smart enough to realize that Israel is committing genocide on the Palestinians.
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