On an earlier post about Cuomo’s continued targeting of the Jews of NYC, frequent reader Ivan left this comment:
Yeah. So, tell me how I can get my a-hole neighbor, who is the religious chair of our synagogue, to recognize the firm connection between the Biden sign on his front lawn, and some variation of boxcars headed east? Or, perhaps, to get him to recognize that leftism and Judaism are mutually incompatible, so he needs to choose one or the other as his religion. In my reading of history, I’ve been unable to find a leftist takeover that worked out well for Jews….
I recommend this article from Tablet.
Stop Being Shocked
American liberalism is in danger from a new ideology—one with dangerous implications for Jews
It is by Bari Weiss
The most recent major outrage in the Jewish community, now several news cycles behind us, came on the Shabbat before Yom Kippur—the holiest day in the Jewish calendar—when many American Jews seemed dumbfounded by what was to me predictable news: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, progressive superstar, had pulled out of an event honoring Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister assassinated because of his efforts to make peace with the Palestinians. Rabin was, as Bill Clinton said at his funeral, “a martyr for his nation’s peace.”
Many Jews were shocked. If Rabin, the symbol of progressive Zionism, is out of bounds, are any Israelis acceptable? What about the 95% of Jews who support the Jewish state? Why would the congresswoman from the Bronx—representing the political party to which upward of 70% of American Jews have been consistently loyal—possibly do such a thing?
The answer, for anyone paying any attention, is the Democrats have gone full Soviet Anti-Semite as they swung hard, hard Left. It is no coincidence that Congresswoman AOC, the Left’s charismatic She Guevara, palls around with two of the most egregious Jew-haters in Congress.
Did you see that the Ethical Culture Fieldston School hosted a speaker that equated Israelis with Nazis? Did you know that Brearley is now asking families to write a statement demonstrating their commitment to “anti-racism”? Did you see that Chelsea Handler tweeted a clip of Louis Farrakhan? Did you see that protesters tagged a synagogue in Kenosha with “Free Palestine” graffiti? Did you hear about the march in D.C. where they chanted “Israel, we know you, you murder children too”? Did you hear that the Biden campaign apologized to Linda Sarsour after initially disavowing her? Did you see that Twitter suspended Bret Weinstein’s civic organization but still allows the Iranian ayatollah to openly promote genocide of the Jewish people? Did you see that Mayor Bill de Blasio scapegoated “the Jewish community” for the spread of COVID in New York, while defending mass protests on the grounds that this is a “historic moment of change”?
I did, and my readers did, because I have been posting about almost all of these incidents and more that were not covered in her list.
The thing is, Democrat Jews if they acknowledge these events, treat them as on-offs and not part of a trend.
Democrats are very good at that. Joe Biden has lots of gaffs in which he says something racist, but somehow those gaffs never get strung together into a trend that concludes Biden is a racist. Joe Biden seems to always be adjacent to scandals and corruption, but somehow that never gets strung together into a trend that concludes Biden is a corrupt piece of shit. Double that for the Clintons.
Democrats have incident after incident that is or heavily implies anti-Semitism, but somehow they never get strung together into a trend that concludes the Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism.
That is the thesis of this article by Weiss.
There is also the X factor of Donald Trump, which is impossible to overstate. Understandable hostility toward him has prevented many Jews from seeing the problem on the other side. To even look away from the obscenity in the White House for a moment strikes many, as they have told me, as irresponsible or beside the point.
I share with the majority of American Jews’ disgust toward Trump and Trumpism, which has normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society. That truth doesn’t detract from another: There is another danger, this one from the left. And unlike Trump, this one has attained cultural dominance, capturing America’s elites and our most powerful institutions. In the event of a Biden victory, it is hard to imagine it meeting resistance. So let me make my purpose perfectly clear: I am here to ring the alarm. I’m here to say: Do not be shocked anymore. Stop saying, can you believe. It’s time to accept reality, if we want to have any hope of fixing it.
Weiss is still on the Left so of-course she is going to dig at Trump. But what she is saying here is for the most part correct (ignore the part about normalized bigotry), Americans Jews have become so inflicted with TDS that they can’t see the anti-Semitic forest for the Democrat trees.
No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly describes its mixture of postmodernism, postcolonialism, identity politics, neo-Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and the therapeutic mentality.
The new creed’s premise goes something like this: We are in a war in which the forces of justice and progress are arrayed against the forces of backwardness and oppression. And in a war, the normal rules of the game—due process; political compromise; the presumption of innocence; free speech; even reason itself—must be suspended. Indeed, those rules themselves were corrupt to begin with—designed, as they were, by dead white males in order to uphold their own power.
And so the things about us that make us different must be demonized, so that they can be erased or destroyed: Zionism is refashioned as colonialism; government officials justify the murder of innocent Jews in Jersey City; Jewish businesses can be looted because Jews “are the face of capital.” Jews are flattened into “white people,” our living history obliterated, so that someone with a straight face can suggest that the Holocaust was merely “white on white crime.”
It is why California attempted to pass an ethnic studies curriculum whose only mention of Jews was to explain how they, along with Irish immigrants, were invited into whiteness.
The Jews, despite our history, have been relegated to the role of oppressor, because in this new mindset, history started yesterday and 1619 at the same time. So the Jews were always rich and powerful, never an oppressed minority. Jews are landlords, even when they are not, and landlords must be abolished. Jews are not white, and too white all at the same time.
The whole article is worth a read.
American Jews need to wake up to this reality.
Maybe it coming from a Lefty Jew who doesn’t have a nice thing to say about Trump will help.
Otherwise, I’m not sure what event will get American Jews to walk away from the Left and embrace actual Judaism again.
I’m absolutely convinced that most American Jews would march into a death camp to the cadence of “Orange Man Bad” with the words above the gate saying “Black Lives Matter” with an upside-down B.
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