Albo and Wong, our Prime Minister and foreign Foreign Minister have blood on their hands. They allowed the antisemitic occupation of the bridge, reversed the Libs plan to move our embassy to Jerusalem, recognised the fictional “State of Palestine”, imported thousands of ‘palestinians’ from Gaza, prohibited Israeli politicians from visiting Australia and continually pander to the hard left antisemites in the Labor Party for political gain. They are beyond disgusting. A pox on them both.
If seven or eight of the people attending the Hanukkah celebration were carrying concealed, the slaughter would never have happened. These Islamic terrorists are cowards. They will only attack soft targets. The problem isn’t too many guns – the problem is not enough guns. Our politicians are bloody idiots. The Liberals disarmed us in 1996, and now Labor wants go even further. As the joke goes, when seconds count the police are only minutes away. But what is the first response of these morons? More punitive gun laws which affect the law abiding but are ignored by criminals and terrorists. We don’t need gun control- we need moslem control. And new politicians. To those who leap in with their gotcha point that the brave hero is a Moslem I say ‘so what. Does Schindler’s list, one good German, prove Nazi Germany wasn’t evil? Of course not - and one Moslem hero doesn’t negate the fact that Islam is an evil dangerous ideology which has no place in in a free society
The coalition of Marxists and Moslems attacking the free West faces two major hurdles on its road to world domination - an armed populace and free speech. On the well-tried leftwing principle of never letting a good disaster go to waste the evil Albanese socialist thugs and their Islamic allies get a two-for-one opportunity to use the Bondi slaughter to silence us AND disarm us. The Moslems will ignore the new gun laws and, as a bonus, the so-called ‘hate speech’ laws will morph into anti blasphemy laws protecting their disgusting ‘religion’ from criticism. For the West to remain free all conservative movements worth their salt must become explicitly anti Islam and anti communist. Their manifestos must explicitly aim at the total destruction of both evil philosophies.
Agree 100%. I'm lucky to have been born in America where we have the 2nd Amendment. Every Jewish household should have at least one firearm for each adult, with frequent visits to the range to become proficient with the weapon, and to learn proper and safe handling. I have a carry permit and being a retired law enforcement officer I have additional authority under federal law to carry. I always carry when attending services for Shabbos or any Jewish themed event. If there is armed security at the location, notify them you are carrying and present your credentials or permit. A good axiom to remember is that when every second counts, the police are only minutes away. How long did the Bondi Beach shooters fire before police arrived? Ten minutes.
Agree with you totally. Every Jewish child should be taught self-defense and when old enough how to handle firearms. I wish the AJC would spend some of their money on setting up such courses for Jewish youth. One of the failings of Jewish education is that it dwells on the Holocaust, the Pogroms, and the exiles we have gone through. This leads to a victimization mentality among our youth. It is long past time for American Jewish educators to also focus on Jewish fortitude. Teach our children about Joshua, Judah the Maccabee, Bar Kochba of old and about those that fought against the Nazis in WW2 as partisans, and of course those who fought for and continue to fight for Israel.
Absolutely! I would include Jews who fought for America as well. My oldest son went straight into the Army before going to college, became an Army Ranger, and served 3 tours in Afghanistan and 1 tour in Iraq. He remains in the U.S. Army Reserves and followed my career path into law enforcement. Recently saw a low budget but entertaining movie on Amazon Prime called "Guns and Moses." Two memorable lines from the movie were when the Rabbi says, "He ate the brownie," and "I trust in G-d...and a Glock."
Need to check out that movie. When I need a dose of encouragement, I watch Exodus and Defiance (which is dramatization of the Bielski brothers who saved 1000s of our fellow Jews during WW2 and were partisans). What bothers me is the lack of support from even most of our Rabbis to encourage that all Jews can defend themselves. They seem to want to rely on the 'kindness of strangers' for their protection.
Our 23rd PM Labor Bob Hawke 1983-1991 (2nd longest serving PM) was always an overt unwavering supporter of Israel. Australia has a proud historical connection with the UN early days and foundation of Israel.
Sadly the Woke Marxist university brainwashed generations have seized factional power in the Australian Labor Party and Federal & State governments controlling majorities and antisemitism is unchecked if not actually ignored. Albanese, current PM, was a dedicated member of the Australian Communist Party & seriously involved in changing its name to The Search Foundation. His mate in this name change was a key organiser of the recent disgraceful pro-pal. march (featuring Labor & Greens politicians) walking across Sydney Harbour Bridge blatantly waving Hamas, Hezbollah and Isis flags.
I you have to invoke the Third Reich National Socialist to make your point, your better delete your account, and visit Home depot for some rope.
Wake up white-bread, just because a genocidal party labels itself "socialist" that doesn't make it as such. Exactly in the same vein as a movement labeling itself an(ti)-fa(cist) does not mean anything if they proceed to act like fascists.
There was a Communist Pary member in Germany, Gunter Reimann, who wrote the definitive book on the Third Reich's industry policies: "Vampire Economy"
In it the author painstakingly describes Hitler's economic policies in action and they were just like the USSR's.
All business decisions of corporations were turned over to Nazi Appartchiks: Hiring, Firing, Price setting, exports, imports, bank borrowings, factory operations - EVERYTHING just like the USSR.
You are right Refael - it wasn't Socialism it was Communsim.
In the U S every single poll shows the Right supports Israel way more than the Left. The Left is also allied with Islam all over the world.
Sam is either a troll, stupid or a liar or perhaps all three. He is also intellectually lazy and no one inlcuding his pet goldfish should listen to his nonsense.
“J Galt 3” is unnecessarily rude and ill-informed.
SAM is actually 100% correct re antisemitics in Australia - we have prominent extreme RIGHT Wing openly antisemitic fascists aka “The Nazi Party” and the more prominent extreme LEFT Wing Woke overtly anti-Israel/Pro-Hamas/Gaza/“palestine”
marxists currently The [Federal] Commonwealth Government of Australia and all but one State government & all their huge bureaucracies, plus numerous local councils, prominent business leaders, community organisations, indigenous groups, teachers, et al.
Tricky subject as US concepts of Right & Left are not quite the same as in Australia -here there are numerous degrees in both. The Liberal/National Coalition party (that to date always supports Israel) is referred to by the now Left dominated media (and various socialist Leftists propagandists) as various Right forms of Conservatism, whereas members of the Coalition vary in describing themselves as right-wing/centre moderates/left of centre etc.
The very extreme right here are the overtly antisemitic Nazi Party - various symbols & gestures have been outlawed but prosecutions to date are minimal… extremist imams’ rhetoric appears to be tolerated by the extreme Left socialist party members and their now majority in parliament as “Freedom of Speech” that in itself is being threatened by extensive hate speech in regular university student/pro-gazan antisemitic/antiZionist “protest “ marches supporting Hamas/Iran etc that disrupt businesses and general public every weekend tacitly supported by woke Left wing state govts esp. Victoria etc…Nazis tend to attach themselves to often genuinely concerned citizens occasionally marching against (currently huge) annual immigration…
Beautifully and brilliantly written! Thank you sir for your insight and kindness. I have never heard of this obscure writer and academic before but I would venture to say that if not for her ethnic identity and worldview she would be unemployed and unemployable. Jew hatred is a great scam!
One of the great ironies of history: The mass persecutions, ethnic cleanings and genocides of Jews over the past few centuries are what made Israel the powerhouse it is today. Jew haters are too stupid to understand that they continue to make the case for a strong Jewish state better than any Zionist ever could.
If Jews had been fully accepted by their host countries over the centuries, the pull of the ancient homeland would have gradually dissipated into memory and legend - and that’s assuming assimilation were not complete.
"The Austrailian left has an anti-semitism problem?" The worldwide leftists have this problem. What always gets me about them is that they are actively channeling Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich and are so deaf, dumb, and blind that they don't realize that the Nazis would be so very proud of them.
It isn’t the right coordinating the post-Oct 7 vilification of Jews, it’s the left and their latest anti-Western allies, Islamists. I agree that the US right has a growing problem with antisemitism though; it’s become almost mainstream with Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and their ilk.
I always find your posts very interesting read as an Australian israeli but happen to dissagree with you that Israelis suffer less than palestinians due to the violence. Living in Israel i wonder what palestinians you are talking about as some Arabs in israel consider themselves as ethnic palestinians and i know that descendants of jews whom were born during the british mandate by that logic also could consider themselves palestinian jews but do not as they were born after 1948 and are proud to be israelis whom are forced to endure violence from Gazans ever since Israel left and beyond ! Suffering is hidden by many jews because otherwise israeli born jews could not get up every morning and be innovative with functioning lives.
Re the [unprecedented Woke] influential power of these left-wing so-called ‘progressive intelligentsia’ in our universities and bureaucracies on politicians & the public, I can only emphasise this warning quote from “The Wake Up Call: Global Jihad & the Rise of Anti Semitism” by Canadian author Israel Ellis:
“[This] bizarre alliance between Western Marxist activists and Jihadist movements- united not by shared values but by a shared enemy: liberal democracy, the West and the Jewish state - threatens the very foundation of our civilization”.
Nonsense! Out here in the world, it’s a known fact that Australia has an Israel problem. Same as Ireland, Spain and so many other countries. It’s the modern day “Jewish Problem” wrapped up all tidily in the flag of the world’s only, tiny Jewish state, complete with blood libels, conspiracy theories, and a wide assortment of other concoctions of outright hate and fabrications.
Antisemitism is not. "racism"--it is pure unadulterated BIGOTRY. Bigotry is based in the banal human emotion of jealousy. Bigots are people who feel inadequate in themselves and look to scapegoat others for this uncomfortable feeling. Jews--are falsely perceived as universally successful and have been the subject of this for thousands of years.
If she actually opposed racism, misogyny and homophobia, she would be against islam, hamas and "palestine".
The left needs to explain how it makes sense to support the most racist, misogynistic and homophobic culture on earth in the name of opposing racism, homophobia, misogyny and all forms of oppressive harm.
“If you are a Zionist you have no claim or right to cultural safety. … It is the duty of all those who oppose racism, misogyny, homophobia and all forms of oppressive harm to ensure that every space Zionists enter is culturally unsafe for them.”
Thank you for your support! The world needs more allies like you, brave enough to speak out against personal, cultural, ethnic, religious, and national inspired hatred.
"the Left’s ability to sniff out racism at all levels is, in general, . . . Not content to stamp out all visible and audible expressions of racism, the Left has lately started cracking down on “systemic” forms of racism that exist below the level of consciousness, and are invisible to the naked eye."
What you are observing is Critical Race Theory (CRT) in operation. It is infesting not only the intelligentsia but also the media, our educational institutions, and inspiring government policies both at the national and international levels (e.g. so called humanitarian NGOs, the UN, and its agencies).
"if you want to qualify as a cutting-edge intellectual in this country, you’re better off positively flirting with antisemitism than daring to say that you consider it an unequivocally bad thing."
Flirting? It is a sine qua non for acceptance by the Left.
"There was a minor craze for doing so, just as there was a minor craze for taking to the streets and orgiastically celebrating what Hamas had done. "
And given the intensity of the celebration of Hamas' atrocities and the frequency of the street demonstrations, it went far beyond so called minor craze.
"Antisemitism is a notoriously difficult thing to define."
Actually not. The IHRA definition is unequivocally clear about about what constitutes antisemitism, actually Jew hatred, especially when taking into account that Israel is characteristically designated a Jewish state.
"the nominal target of Dr Abdel-Fattah’s contempt is not a race, but a political category: 'The Zionists.' "
Common mistake of oversimplification. Zionism is the expression other people's connection to their ancestral national much as any other peoples connection to their national homeland, much as any other peoples connection to their national homeland. Political Zionism is but one facet. There is also Religious Zionism, Ethnic Zionism, Cultural Zionism, National Zionism, and so on.
"a measure of how fanatical the Left has become on the Israel question that this kind of hardcore anti-Zionism is now seen as a perfectly respectable position. “I’m not antisemitic,” the argument runs, “I just want to wipe the world’s only Jewish state off the map.”"
If you disambiguate the 5 mantric slogans the Red–Green–AltR routinely chant in every location they can:
1. Free Palestine.
2. From the River to the Sea (Palestine will be free).
3. Jihad Now!
4. Globalize the Intifada.
5. Resistance By Any Means.
we quickly see they are all calls not only to eliminate the sovereign state of Israel but to annihilate all Jews both within and outside Israel.
According to the Genocide Convention Article II, that constitutes genocide.
"if the State of Israel is to be abolished, where are the 7.8 million Jews who currently live in it supposed to go? "
According to these Red–Green–AltR calls to action, obviously to Germany, which has the final solution to this Jewish problem.
Albo and Wong, our Prime Minister and foreign Foreign Minister have blood on their hands. They allowed the antisemitic occupation of the bridge, reversed the Libs plan to move our embassy to Jerusalem, recognised the fictional “State of Palestine”, imported thousands of ‘palestinians’ from Gaza, prohibited Israeli politicians from visiting Australia and continually pander to the hard left antisemites in the Labor Party for political gain. They are beyond disgusting. A pox on them both.
If seven or eight of the people attending the Hanukkah celebration were carrying concealed, the slaughter would never have happened. These Islamic terrorists are cowards. They will only attack soft targets. The problem isn’t too many guns – the problem is not enough guns. Our politicians are bloody idiots. The Liberals disarmed us in 1996, and now Labor wants go even further. As the joke goes, when seconds count the police are only minutes away. But what is the first response of these morons? More punitive gun laws which affect the law abiding but are ignored by criminals and terrorists. We don’t need gun control- we need moslem control. And new politicians. To those who leap in with their gotcha point that the brave hero is a Moslem I say ‘so what. Does Schindler’s list, one good German, prove Nazi Germany wasn’t evil? Of course not - and one Moslem hero doesn’t negate the fact that Islam is an evil dangerous ideology which has no place in in a free society
The coalition of Marxists and Moslems attacking the free West faces two major hurdles on its road to world domination - an armed populace and free speech. On the well-tried leftwing principle of never letting a good disaster go to waste the evil Albanese socialist thugs and their Islamic allies get a two-for-one opportunity to use the Bondi slaughter to silence us AND disarm us. The Moslems will ignore the new gun laws and, as a bonus, the so-called ‘hate speech’ laws will morph into anti blasphemy laws protecting their disgusting ‘religion’ from criticism. For the West to remain free all conservative movements worth their salt must become explicitly anti Islam and anti communist. Their manifestos must explicitly aim at the total destruction of both evil philosophies.
Agree 100%. I'm lucky to have been born in America where we have the 2nd Amendment. Every Jewish household should have at least one firearm for each adult, with frequent visits to the range to become proficient with the weapon, and to learn proper and safe handling. I have a carry permit and being a retired law enforcement officer I have additional authority under federal law to carry. I always carry when attending services for Shabbos or any Jewish themed event. If there is armed security at the location, notify them you are carrying and present your credentials or permit. A good axiom to remember is that when every second counts, the police are only minutes away. How long did the Bondi Beach shooters fire before police arrived? Ten minutes.
Agree with you totally. Every Jewish child should be taught self-defense and when old enough how to handle firearms. I wish the AJC would spend some of their money on setting up such courses for Jewish youth. One of the failings of Jewish education is that it dwells on the Holocaust, the Pogroms, and the exiles we have gone through. This leads to a victimization mentality among our youth. It is long past time for American Jewish educators to also focus on Jewish fortitude. Teach our children about Joshua, Judah the Maccabee, Bar Kochba of old and about those that fought against the Nazis in WW2 as partisans, and of course those who fought for and continue to fight for Israel.
Absolutely! I would include Jews who fought for America as well. My oldest son went straight into the Army before going to college, became an Army Ranger, and served 3 tours in Afghanistan and 1 tour in Iraq. He remains in the U.S. Army Reserves and followed my career path into law enforcement. Recently saw a low budget but entertaining movie on Amazon Prime called "Guns and Moses." Two memorable lines from the movie were when the Rabbi says, "He ate the brownie," and "I trust in G-d...and a Glock."
Need to check out that movie. When I need a dose of encouragement, I watch Exodus and Defiance (which is dramatization of the Bielski brothers who saved 1000s of our fellow Jews during WW2 and were partisans). What bothers me is the lack of support from even most of our Rabbis to encourage that all Jews can defend themselves. They seem to want to rely on the 'kindness of strangers' for their protection.
I'll fix it for you-The Global Left and Right both have an antisemitism problem.
But the right has ALWAYS been anti-Jew racist.
That's why I'm a Liberal, and have been all my life.
The Liberal left's betrayal hurts more!
Precisely.
Our 23rd PM Labor Bob Hawke 1983-1991 (2nd longest serving PM) was always an overt unwavering supporter of Israel. Australia has a proud historical connection with the UN early days and foundation of Israel.
Sadly the Woke Marxist university brainwashed generations have seized factional power in the Australian Labor Party and Federal & State governments controlling majorities and antisemitism is unchecked if not actually ignored. Albanese, current PM, was a dedicated member of the Australian Communist Party & seriously involved in changing its name to The Search Foundation. His mate in this name change was a key organiser of the recent disgraceful pro-pal. march (featuring Labor & Greens politicians) walking across Sydney Harbour Bridge blatantly waving Hamas, Hezbollah and Isis flags.
Really? Are you one of those who think that the National SOCIALISTS in Germany were right wing?
I you have to invoke the Third Reich National Socialist to make your point, your better delete your account, and visit Home depot for some rope.
Wake up white-bread, just because a genocidal party labels itself "socialist" that doesn't make it as such. Exactly in the same vein as a movement labeling itself an(ti)-fa(cist) does not mean anything if they proceed to act like fascists.
Obviously you have a reading comprehension problem. Seek professional help. Das Ende.
There was a Communist Pary member in Germany, Gunter Reimann, who wrote the definitive book on the Third Reich's industry policies: "Vampire Economy"
In it the author painstakingly describes Hitler's economic policies in action and they were just like the USSR's.
All business decisions of corporations were turned over to Nazi Appartchiks: Hiring, Firing, Price setting, exports, imports, bank borrowings, factory operations - EVERYTHING just like the USSR.
You are right Refael - it wasn't Socialism it was Communsim.
Here - read the whole thing:
https://cdn.mises.org/the_vampire_economy_20201022.pdf
Ok, show me how right wing folks are intrisically anti-semitic.
Richard,
You are right.
In the U S every single poll shows the Right supports Israel way more than the Left. The Left is also allied with Islam all over the world.
Sam is either a troll, stupid or a liar or perhaps all three. He is also intellectually lazy and no one inlcuding his pet goldfish should listen to his nonsense.
“J Galt 3” is unnecessarily rude and ill-informed.
SAM is actually 100% correct re antisemitics in Australia - we have prominent extreme RIGHT Wing openly antisemitic fascists aka “The Nazi Party” and the more prominent extreme LEFT Wing Woke overtly anti-Israel/Pro-Hamas/Gaza/“palestine”
marxists currently The [Federal] Commonwealth Government of Australia and all but one State government & all their huge bureaucracies, plus numerous local councils, prominent business leaders, community organisations, indigenous groups, teachers, et al.
So, Marsha, in Australia you are saying that Jews are just as endangered by The Right as by The Left?
Is that correct?
Just an honest question from me as I don't live there.
Tricky subject as US concepts of Right & Left are not quite the same as in Australia -here there are numerous degrees in both. The Liberal/National Coalition party (that to date always supports Israel) is referred to by the now Left dominated media (and various socialist Leftists propagandists) as various Right forms of Conservatism, whereas members of the Coalition vary in describing themselves as right-wing/centre moderates/left of centre etc.
The very extreme right here are the overtly antisemitic Nazi Party - various symbols & gestures have been outlawed but prosecutions to date are minimal… extremist imams’ rhetoric appears to be tolerated by the extreme Left socialist party members and their now majority in parliament as “Freedom of Speech” that in itself is being threatened by extensive hate speech in regular university student/pro-gazan antisemitic/antiZionist “protest “ marches supporting Hamas/Iran etc that disrupt businesses and general public every weekend tacitly supported by woke Left wing state govts esp. Victoria etc…Nazis tend to attach themselves to often genuinely concerned citizens occasionally marching against (currently huge) annual immigration…
That's a despicable fetish, just as bad as to lefto-nazis.
Jew need to be left alone!
Beautifully and brilliantly written! Thank you sir for your insight and kindness. I have never heard of this obscure writer and academic before but I would venture to say that if not for her ethnic identity and worldview she would be unemployed and unemployable. Jew hatred is a great scam!
One of the great ironies of history: The mass persecutions, ethnic cleanings and genocides of Jews over the past few centuries are what made Israel the powerhouse it is today. Jew haters are too stupid to understand that they continue to make the case for a strong Jewish state better than any Zionist ever could.
I would say it is in spite of those persecutions...
If Jews had been fully accepted by their host countries over the centuries, the pull of the ancient homeland would have gradually dissipated into memory and legend - and that’s assuming assimilation were not complete.
I still wouldn't give it any credit.
"The Austrailian left has an anti-semitism problem?" The worldwide leftists have this problem. What always gets me about them is that they are actively channeling Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich and are so deaf, dumb, and blind that they don't realize that the Nazis would be so very proud of them.
The right also has an antisemitism problem.
It isn’t the right coordinating the post-Oct 7 vilification of Jews, it’s the left and their latest anti-Western allies, Islamists. I agree that the US right has a growing problem with antisemitism though; it’s become almost mainstream with Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and their ilk.
Nonsense.
Israel wasn't "established." That implies it was created on land of others. It was RE-established on the Jews ancestral homeland.
I always find your posts very interesting read as an Australian israeli but happen to dissagree with you that Israelis suffer less than palestinians due to the violence. Living in Israel i wonder what palestinians you are talking about as some Arabs in israel consider themselves as ethnic palestinians and i know that descendants of jews whom were born during the british mandate by that logic also could consider themselves palestinian jews but do not as they were born after 1948 and are proud to be israelis whom are forced to endure violence from Gazans ever since Israel left and beyond ! Suffering is hidden by many jews because otherwise israeli born jews could not get up every morning and be innovative with functioning lives.
Re the [unprecedented Woke] influential power of these left-wing so-called ‘progressive intelligentsia’ in our universities and bureaucracies on politicians & the public, I can only emphasise this warning quote from “The Wake Up Call: Global Jihad & the Rise of Anti Semitism” by Canadian author Israel Ellis:
“[This] bizarre alliance between Western Marxist activists and Jihadist movements- united not by shared values but by a shared enemy: liberal democracy, the West and the Jewish state - threatens the very foundation of our civilization”.
Nope.
We the Jews have the problem.
The Australian left DOES NOT CARE.
Well, someone cares enough to hate Jews Refael, so, yes, Australia has a problem. Blaming the victim doesn't help.
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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1421038759373763
What you don't understand is if the perpetrator doesn't care, the victim needs to buy some iron-dome.
i.e. saying the "Australian left has...." means nothing if they give a flying willy about that and will continue to support Jew killings.
Nonsense! Out here in the world, it’s a known fact that Australia has an Israel problem. Same as Ireland, Spain and so many other countries. It’s the modern day “Jewish Problem” wrapped up all tidily in the flag of the world’s only, tiny Jewish state, complete with blood libels, conspiracy theories, and a wide assortment of other concoctions of outright hate and fabrications.
There are no Jews in Ireland or in Spain.
Their Genocide was 100% succesfull.
Having a “Jewish Problem” means you’re antisemitic. There are ~4-5K Jews in Ireland, and up to 40-50K in Spain.
So how do the Jews have a problem when they are the recipients of Jew hatred and not the purveyors?
The purveyors don't care about your labels.
They want to see us not.
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Noah, this must be the shortest comment you have ever made.
How about “The Left Has An Antisemitism Problem.”
Oy
Antisemitism is not. "racism"--it is pure unadulterated BIGOTRY. Bigotry is based in the banal human emotion of jealousy. Bigots are people who feel inadequate in themselves and look to scapegoat others for this uncomfortable feeling. Jews--are falsely perceived as universally successful and have been the subject of this for thousands of years.
Sometimes as universally despicable instead of successful. You might like my article on anti Semitic.
If she actually opposed racism, misogyny and homophobia, she would be against islam, hamas and "palestine".
The left needs to explain how it makes sense to support the most racist, misogynistic and homophobic culture on earth in the name of opposing racism, homophobia, misogyny and all forms of oppressive harm.
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“If you are a Zionist you have no claim or right to cultural safety. … It is the duty of all those who oppose racism, misogyny, homophobia and all forms of oppressive harm to ensure that every space Zionists enter is culturally unsafe for them.”
Thank you, David!
Thank you for your support! The world needs more allies like you, brave enough to speak out against personal, cultural, ethnic, religious, and national inspired hatred.
"the Left’s ability to sniff out racism at all levels is, in general, . . . Not content to stamp out all visible and audible expressions of racism, the Left has lately started cracking down on “systemic” forms of racism that exist below the level of consciousness, and are invisible to the naked eye."
What you are observing is Critical Race Theory (CRT) in operation. It is infesting not only the intelligentsia but also the media, our educational institutions, and inspiring government policies both at the national and international levels (e.g. so called humanitarian NGOs, the UN, and its agencies).
"if you want to qualify as a cutting-edge intellectual in this country, you’re better off positively flirting with antisemitism than daring to say that you consider it an unequivocally bad thing."
Flirting? It is a sine qua non for acceptance by the Left.
"There was a minor craze for doing so, just as there was a minor craze for taking to the streets and orgiastically celebrating what Hamas had done. "
And given the intensity of the celebration of Hamas' atrocities and the frequency of the street demonstrations, it went far beyond so called minor craze.
"Antisemitism is a notoriously difficult thing to define."
Actually not. The IHRA definition is unequivocally clear about about what constitutes antisemitism, actually Jew hatred, especially when taking into account that Israel is characteristically designated a Jewish state.
"the nominal target of Dr Abdel-Fattah’s contempt is not a race, but a political category: 'The Zionists.' "
Common mistake of oversimplification. Zionism is the expression other people's connection to their ancestral national much as any other peoples connection to their national homeland, much as any other peoples connection to their national homeland. Political Zionism is but one facet. There is also Religious Zionism, Ethnic Zionism, Cultural Zionism, National Zionism, and so on.
"a measure of how fanatical the Left has become on the Israel question that this kind of hardcore anti-Zionism is now seen as a perfectly respectable position. “I’m not antisemitic,” the argument runs, “I just want to wipe the world’s only Jewish state off the map.”"
If you disambiguate the 5 mantric slogans the Red–Green–AltR routinely chant in every location they can:
1. Free Palestine.
2. From the River to the Sea (Palestine will be free).
3. Jihad Now!
4. Globalize the Intifada.
5. Resistance By Any Means.
we quickly see they are all calls not only to eliminate the sovereign state of Israel but to annihilate all Jews both within and outside Israel.
According to the Genocide Convention Article II, that constitutes genocide.
"if the State of Israel is to be abolished, where are the 7.8 million Jews who currently live in it supposed to go? "
According to these Red–Green–AltR calls to action, obviously to Germany, which has the final solution to this Jewish problem.