The Left studying Israel? You may as well ask a leopard to remove its spots. The world, and by extention the Left, has never forgiven Israel for winning the '67 War. Let them all geh in drerd.
Excellent analysis, again. Yes, the Left depends on victimhood and tearing down success in order to "level the playing field," rather than trying to lift up others to success. Besides, if they adopt the lessons/values for success, they would cease to be the Left--they'd be officially in alignment of the Right. Also, I'd add one more thing regarding your listing of Jewish success: Jews did all of what you wrote WHILE ALSO facing real discrimination: "No Jews Need Apply," and "No Jews Allowed," and quotas for how many Jews could be admitted to universities.
I feel like the center Left is not of this ilk. I agree if we limit it to the woke Left. But perhaps the center Left has something to offer. Not sure what these days, but I keep hoping.
Perhaps, but it is the far-Left and woke-Left that keeps pulling the Democrats further and further from center, whereas the Right is actually pulling more center and vociferously denouncing the far-Right (there is plenty of evidence of that, but I won't list it right now). Mamdani is, hopefully, not a trend of how far the Democrats are pulling from Center, but I fear that it is.
As usual right on! I’ve taught school in the heart of dysfunctional culture- urban black neighborhoods- that the left loves to make excuses for instead of giving these kids the kind of education that might keep them out of jail and off welfare. The left blames racism and perpetuates dysfunction.
As Ruth Wisse pointed out decades ago, the liberal betrayal of the Jews started decades ago. And recent events have show the liberals cannot learn. Indeed, they have even betrayed liberalism. They are cognitively blind, morally corrupt, and we should no longer be talking to them. But we should be pounding our enemies, starting with the worst of them, the Palestinians. Send them all to Glastonbury. They can camp out there and the UK can feed them. And the deranged liberal youth of this now demented isle can put them up in their homes. But keep their hands away from Britain's nukes. Or the UK will go the way of Iran.
I appreciate this cogent and morally correct article from the first sentence to the last. I have to say I was thrilled that the author pointed out—more than once—that thousands of Jews were thrown out of Arab countries. As they love to say, they hoped we would all just fall into the sea.
Agree with the sentiments in this article. What next, the lefties will create caricatures of the Jews looking like the cartoons in Julius Streicher's "Der Stürmer" showing big noses and all the other Nazi stereotypes of what they said Jewish people looked like?
I'm not religious, however I truly appreciate Jewish tradition in terms of metaphor / philosophy / guidance, etc. The chosen-ness I believe, is not about being superior. We are supposed to be a "light unto the nations". This implies that everyone has the capability of imitating and succeeding, perhaps each in their own way. Why not?
True, it's always about the individual's relationship with G-d. It's about whether we see His worth and His love. Our efforts are a reaction to His excellence.
Because the left doesn't actually seek justice and equal opportunity. It is itself a totalitarian movement and ideology which seeks absolute power and to violently suppress those who resist. In fact, it's necessary for the sake of its own power to keep ordinary folks from succeeding. They want us all dependent upon the state which they will control. To gain power they need to perpetuate a permanent underclass to which they can exploit as the "oppressed" victims of capitalism. The success of the Jews is a threat to the narrative they need to gain power. In fact, a strong middle-class America is a threat to their power. The "progressives" are marxists and should not be confused with old school traditional liberals.
This is an excellent article by Alister Heath, a British journalist for the Daily Telegraph:
There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.
I'm an atheist and yet this resonated with me. My spin, naturally, would be a bit different: the Christians and Muslims of today hate that the Jews not only survived but live well, even though we rejected their prophets. I don't care if they have a different take on things, but they seem to hate it that we are different ... probably because our success might be taken as a nullification of their raison d'être.
I have personally visited Israel and I have seen how the poor people in Israel live. There are many charities that help these poor people.
Not everyone is rich !! On the other hand there are many uber rich Jews in Western countries especially the US who hate the Jews in Israel, they contribute to extreme Leftist hate against the Jews around the world.
The Christians that you speak about, that hate Jews or Israel are far too educated to understand the actual Truth of the Bible.
God never replaced the Jews with Christians ! God already knew that his son will have to die to atone for the sins of mortal mankind.
Even if there was just a handful of humans who lived on earth, he still would have come to give his son to save theirs from eternal death.
Moses wrote about his coming and Isiah wrote about his coming too.
Islam was started by a man in the 7th century and all he ever said or did was to kill the Infidels who didn’t cower to his teachings or rule.
Okay, I too have been to Israel and I never meant to imply that all Jews are wealthy and successful -- perhaps we can say that is the way Jews are perceived by others, and maybe that there's a lot of success despite horrendous circumstances. Good point though.
As far as the uber rich Jews who hate Israelis, I have no use for them. It's a damn shame. Some middle class Jews also hate Israel and I have no use for them either.
As I said, the whole religious thing does not resonate with me, so please excuse. I don't buy the idea of god's son dying to atone for anyone's sins. I find that idea the opposite of what we would call justice, and entirely different from the concept of Moshiach (to the best of my understanding). But hey, different strokes . . .
Thanks for not shutting me out and continuing to reply back.
Yes different strokes indeed.
Can I tell you Two things that you may not agree with ?
1. When the Messiah came, He never brought anything called “religion” with him to the Jews in Israel.
All He ever taught about was a Direct link between God the Creator and Man the Creation.
The justice that you mention is the justice that we as humans think about. The justice that God gives is far superior, can never be comprehended by mankind.
2. Please do me a favour, in your own words and in your quiet moments just as an experiment and just for one single week, not as a prayer but as a challenge, just say within your mind not actually speak it out “if there is a God out there who really loves me, who actually died for my sins, please reveal yourself to me in a miraculous way”
Did you also know that out of all the man made religions of this world, that almost every religion can “convert” to Christian or Christianity except a Jew ?
1. Solid point about justice. 2. I'm debating within myself whether or not to take your challenge, only because I'm not certain I can do it with a full heart. AND . . . But anyway, what exactly do you mean that people of every religion can convert o Christianity, except Jews? In what way is it not possible?
The Torah was given to the Jews who then gave it to the Christian’s. Jews worship the same God that is worshipped by the Christian’s.
Therefore a Hindu, a Bhuddist,
a Muslim even a Christian in name only when they accept the true God, becomes a Christian because that person cannot become a Jew.
When a Jew comes to the realisation that God is real, they become a Messianic Jew.
You do not need to do it with a full heart but when you ask the real God (if he actually exists) to reveal himself to you, He will understand that you are seeking the truth but with some hesitation.
Please try it and see how surprised you are going to be when He comes to you.
I think it was on one of Noam Weissman’s podcasts that I heard, “We are the people who kiss books.” I don’t think the new Left gets that. I doubt that the kids who don’t know what river or what sea they’re talking about kiss books.
It's not jealousy. It's conscious manipulation of liberals, and especially blacks, to maintain white guilt and black confirmation that they will always suffer persecution and discrimination no matter what they do.
The college DEI movement assures the continuation of white guilt (to which Jews are especially prone) and that underprivileged blacks will buy into the idea that perfection, math accuracy, being on time, etc. violate black tradition.
The point is to assure that there's always students majoring in DEI or taking DEI courses to make it easier to graduate from a prestige institution. This also assures that DEI professors' tenure until retirement is always funded.
If colleges wanted to help underprivileged blacks succeed at lucrative capitalist careers, they would give these students free classes and housing until they are up to speed on chemistry, math, etc. (In reality, Ivy League upperclassmen look forward to making money right upon graduation, not being community organizers.)
Meanwhile demonstrators hide their identities and go after Jews, the minority least likely to own guns and the only minority likely to offer really useful suggestions and emotional support to underprivileged classmates if these classmates were open to hearing it . Sure beats waiting for reparation$$$ to kick in.
The Left studying Israel? You may as well ask a leopard to remove its spots. The world, and by extention the Left, has never forgiven Israel for winning the '67 War. Let them all geh in drerd.
After all that is happened , you ask for logic?
The left and much of the world is enveloped in illogical, irrational and nonsensenical thinking.
You’re right that because of massive envy ,they gain solace by blaming
the Jew.
What else is new?
Excellent analysis, again. Yes, the Left depends on victimhood and tearing down success in order to "level the playing field," rather than trying to lift up others to success. Besides, if they adopt the lessons/values for success, they would cease to be the Left--they'd be officially in alignment of the Right. Also, I'd add one more thing regarding your listing of Jewish success: Jews did all of what you wrote WHILE ALSO facing real discrimination: "No Jews Need Apply," and "No Jews Allowed," and quotas for how many Jews could be admitted to universities.
I feel like the center Left is not of this ilk. I agree if we limit it to the woke Left. But perhaps the center Left has something to offer. Not sure what these days, but I keep hoping.
Perhaps, but it is the far-Left and woke-Left that keeps pulling the Democrats further and further from center, whereas the Right is actually pulling more center and vociferously denouncing the far-Right (there is plenty of evidence of that, but I won't list it right now). Mamdani is, hopefully, not a trend of how far the Democrats are pulling from Center, but I fear that it is.
I hear you loud and clear. Mamdani: I can only hope there will be a backlash if he wins.
As usual right on! I’ve taught school in the heart of dysfunctional culture- urban black neighborhoods- that the left loves to make excuses for instead of giving these kids the kind of education that might keep them out of jail and off welfare. The left blames racism and perpetuates dysfunction.
As Ruth Wisse pointed out decades ago, the liberal betrayal of the Jews started decades ago. And recent events have show the liberals cannot learn. Indeed, they have even betrayed liberalism. They are cognitively blind, morally corrupt, and we should no longer be talking to them. But we should be pounding our enemies, starting with the worst of them, the Palestinians. Send them all to Glastonbury. They can camp out there and the UK can feed them. And the deranged liberal youth of this now demented isle can put them up in their homes. But keep their hands away from Britain's nukes. Or the UK will go the way of Iran.
the UK is already well on the way to becoming Iran....
Maybe Jews should re-think Leftist values.
I suppose . . . I've changed so many of my ideals since October 7 that I have whiplash!!
I appreciate this cogent and morally correct article from the first sentence to the last. I have to say I was thrilled that the author pointed out—more than once—that thousands of Jews were thrown out of Arab countries. As they love to say, they hoped we would all just fall into the sea.
Agree with the sentiments in this article. What next, the lefties will create caricatures of the Jews looking like the cartoons in Julius Streicher's "Der Stürmer" showing big noses and all the other Nazi stereotypes of what they said Jewish people looked like?
Forget the left.
You forget the Jews' unpardonable character flaw: You are Almighty God's Chosen People and He is blessing you.
I'm not religious, however I truly appreciate Jewish tradition in terms of metaphor / philosophy / guidance, etc. The chosen-ness I believe, is not about being superior. We are supposed to be a "light unto the nations". This implies that everyone has the capability of imitating and succeeding, perhaps each in their own way. Why not?
True, it's always about the individual's relationship with G-d. It's about whether we see His worth and His love. Our efforts are a reaction to His excellence.
I agree
Because the left doesn't actually seek justice and equal opportunity. It is itself a totalitarian movement and ideology which seeks absolute power and to violently suppress those who resist. In fact, it's necessary for the sake of its own power to keep ordinary folks from succeeding. They want us all dependent upon the state which they will control. To gain power they need to perpetuate a permanent underclass to which they can exploit as the "oppressed" victims of capitalism. The success of the Jews is a threat to the narrative they need to gain power. In fact, a strong middle-class America is a threat to their power. The "progressives" are marxists and should not be confused with old school traditional liberals.
Exactly. It's a new and dangerous breed.
You will like reading this
This is an excellent article by Alister Heath, a British journalist for the Daily Telegraph:
There’s something about Israel that makes people uncomfortable, and it’s not what they say it is.
They’ll point to politics, settlements, borders, and wars. But scratch beneath the outrage, and you’ll find something deeper. A discomfort not with what Israel does, but with what Israel is.
A nation this small should not be this strong. Period.
Israel has no oil. No special natural resources. A population barely the size of a mid-sized American city. They are surrounded by enemies. Hated in the United Nations. Targeted by terror. Condemned by celebrities. Boycotted, slandered, and attacked.
And still, they thrive like there’s no tomorrow.
In military. In medicine. In security. In technology. In agriculture. In intelligence. In morality. In sheer, unbreakable will.
They turn desert into farmland.
They make water from air.
They intercept rockets in mid-air.
They rescue hostages under the nose of the world’s worst regimes.
They survive wars that were supposed to wipe them out, and win.
The world watches this and can’t make sense of it.
So they do what people do when they witness strength they can’t understand.
They assume it must be cheating.
It must be American aid.
It must be foreign lobbying.
It must be oppression.
It must be theft.
It must be some dark trick that gave the Jews this kind of power.
It must be blackmail.
Because heaven forbid it’s something else.
Heaven forbid it’s real.
Heaven forbid it’s earned.
Or worse, destined.
The Jewish people were supposed to disappear a long, long time ago. That’s how the story of exiled, enslaved, hated minorities is supposed to end. But the Jews didn’t disappear. They actually came home, rebuilt their land, revived their language, and brought their dead back to life — in memory, in identity, and in strength.
That’s not normal.
It’s not political.
It’s biblical.
There’s no cheat code that explains how a group of people return to their homeland after 2,000 years.
There is no rational path from gas chambers to global influence.
And there is no historical precedent for surviving the Babylonians, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the Holocaust, and still showing up to work on Monday in Tel Aviv.
Israel doesn’t make sense.
Unless you believe in something beyond the math.
This is what drives the world crazy. Because if Israel is real, if this improbable, ancient, hated nation is somehow still chosen, protected, and thriving, then maybe God isn’t a myth after all.
Maybe He’s still in the story.
Maybe history isn’t random.
Maybe evil doesn’t get the last word.
Maybe the Jews are not just a people… but a testimony.
That’s what they can’t stand.
Because once you admit that Israel’s survival isn’t just impressive, but divine, everything changes. Your moral compass has to reset. Your assumptions about history, power, and justice collapse. You realize you’re not watching the end of an empire. You’re witnessing the beginning of something eternal.
So they deny it.
They smear it.
And rage against it.
Because it’s easier to call a miracle “cheating” than to face the possibility that God keeps His promises.
And He’s keeping them still!
Anyway, thanks for posting!
Ah but in the US, UK and most Western countries those who on the side of Liberals giving money and helping with protests were and are the Jews 🤷🏽♂️
New York voted for an Islamist and allegedly most of the votes were from the Jewish people !!
Same here in UK too. The Jewish people support the UK Labour Party more than the Conservatives party.
Jews were marching for BLM, LGBTQ ++ and then what did they get after October 2023 ? Antisemitism with a vengeance.
I'm an atheist and yet this resonated with me. My spin, naturally, would be a bit different: the Christians and Muslims of today hate that the Jews not only survived but live well, even though we rejected their prophets. I don't care if they have a different take on things, but they seem to hate it that we are different ... probably because our success might be taken as a nullification of their raison d'être.
I have personally visited Israel and I have seen how the poor people in Israel live. There are many charities that help these poor people.
Not everyone is rich !! On the other hand there are many uber rich Jews in Western countries especially the US who hate the Jews in Israel, they contribute to extreme Leftist hate against the Jews around the world.
The Christians that you speak about, that hate Jews or Israel are far too educated to understand the actual Truth of the Bible.
God never replaced the Jews with Christians ! God already knew that his son will have to die to atone for the sins of mortal mankind.
Even if there was just a handful of humans who lived on earth, he still would have come to give his son to save theirs from eternal death.
Moses wrote about his coming and Isiah wrote about his coming too.
Islam was started by a man in the 7th century and all he ever said or did was to kill the Infidels who didn’t cower to his teachings or rule.
Okay, I too have been to Israel and I never meant to imply that all Jews are wealthy and successful -- perhaps we can say that is the way Jews are perceived by others, and maybe that there's a lot of success despite horrendous circumstances. Good point though.
As far as the uber rich Jews who hate Israelis, I have no use for them. It's a damn shame. Some middle class Jews also hate Israel and I have no use for them either.
As I said, the whole religious thing does not resonate with me, so please excuse. I don't buy the idea of god's son dying to atone for anyone's sins. I find that idea the opposite of what we would call justice, and entirely different from the concept of Moshiach (to the best of my understanding). But hey, different strokes . . .
Thanks for not shutting me out and continuing to reply back.
Yes different strokes indeed.
Can I tell you Two things that you may not agree with ?
1. When the Messiah came, He never brought anything called “religion” with him to the Jews in Israel.
All He ever taught about was a Direct link between God the Creator and Man the Creation.
The justice that you mention is the justice that we as humans think about. The justice that God gives is far superior, can never be comprehended by mankind.
2. Please do me a favour, in your own words and in your quiet moments just as an experiment and just for one single week, not as a prayer but as a challenge, just say within your mind not actually speak it out “if there is a God out there who really loves me, who actually died for my sins, please reveal yourself to me in a miraculous way”
Did you also know that out of all the man made religions of this world, that almost every religion can “convert” to Christian or Christianity except a Jew ?
1. Solid point about justice. 2. I'm debating within myself whether or not to take your challenge, only because I'm not certain I can do it with a full heart. AND . . . But anyway, what exactly do you mean that people of every religion can convert o Christianity, except Jews? In what way is it not possible?
The Torah was given to the Jews who then gave it to the Christian’s. Jews worship the same God that is worshipped by the Christian’s.
Therefore a Hindu, a Bhuddist,
a Muslim even a Christian in name only when they accept the true God, becomes a Christian because that person cannot become a Jew.
When a Jew comes to the realisation that God is real, they become a Messianic Jew.
You do not need to do it with a full heart but when you ask the real God (if he actually exists) to reveal himself to you, He will understand that you are seeking the truth but with some hesitation.
Please try it and see how surprised you are going to be when He comes to you.
Pro Palestinianism will set back every major social progressive cause at least 10 year. Women's rights, environmentalism, LBGTQ, ...
I think it was on one of Noam Weissman’s podcasts that I heard, “We are the people who kiss books.” I don’t think the new Left gets that. I doubt that the kids who don’t know what river or what sea they’re talking about kiss books.
It's not jealousy. It's conscious manipulation of liberals, and especially blacks, to maintain white guilt and black confirmation that they will always suffer persecution and discrimination no matter what they do.
The college DEI movement assures the continuation of white guilt (to which Jews are especially prone) and that underprivileged blacks will buy into the idea that perfection, math accuracy, being on time, etc. violate black tradition.
The point is to assure that there's always students majoring in DEI or taking DEI courses to make it easier to graduate from a prestige institution. This also assures that DEI professors' tenure until retirement is always funded.
If colleges wanted to help underprivileged blacks succeed at lucrative capitalist careers, they would give these students free classes and housing until they are up to speed on chemistry, math, etc. (In reality, Ivy League upperclassmen look forward to making money right upon graduation, not being community organizers.)
Meanwhile demonstrators hide their identities and go after Jews, the minority least likely to own guns and the only minority likely to offer really useful suggestions and emotional support to underprivileged classmates if these classmates were open to hearing it . Sure beats waiting for reparation$$$ to kick in.
I now own a gun. Just saying.