Jew-hatred, both old and rebranded, should have no place within a movement that preaches justice and equality. Yet it has been allowed to thrive under new disguises.
Well progressives never cared about progress anyway. The logic of progressive ideology is all about arresting progress, putting a ceiling on how much wealth you can have, putting handcuffs on your right as an individual. Because it’s statist, it’s essentially deeply conservative. It’s salutary to remember how the communists hated Jews too.
Why for many years I have refrained from writing or uttering the term “Progressive” without using air quotes. Good for Joshua to make a point of this. Just another deceptive “newspeak” word for the illiberals. “Progressivism” is the antithesis of liberalism.
Author Daniel Goldhagen called antisemitism “The Devil that never dies” (2013). Like the legendary Devil, it changes form, making it more difficult for the easily-blinded to recognize it when it returns in its latest incarnation. Thus we see in the West the continued refusal by many to recognize and understand that “antiZionism” is simply antisemitism in its latest variation, even after its obvious appearance over 50 years ago. I know too many seemingly-intelligent people who, even now, even while they support Israel and were horrified by the butchery of October 7 and the aftermath of rampaging Jew-hate, are only moved to respond when the Jew-hating is perpetrated by White supremacists. I dare posit that the twin scourges of political correctness and identity politics play a pivotal role in this sad and dangerous phenomenon.
Maybe the problem is progressivism itself and how it defines progress. If you want a more just and equitable society, you need to empower individuals, not groups.
These progressives are NOT! They are regressive and taking us back to the terrifying dark days of the 1930s. That is never progressive, it is forcing us back to evil, prejudice and cruelty that we have tried so hard to leave behind! Never again! The authorities in Europe must come down on this filth like a ton of bricks.
Again another excellent article explaining a difficult subject. The Muslims funded by their wealthy states have planted the seeds for this revival of antisemitism. But the vision on TV of Jews killing Moslems by winning battles in the Middle East has really stoked the flames!
"In the end, progress is either for everyone, or it’s for no one at all." -- a student of history can write the epitaph of "the west" ... essentially it may be over.
The world is so ful of hate, as it says in the Bible Gods true word, that most of the new age, willl turn against His holy land & people, but God will put a hook in their jaws, and destroy them, then they will know, I AM IS GOD ALMIGHTY, ALPHA & OMEGA. but it is a time of being procecuted wrongly by the evil & wicked forces at work all over the world, and if you do not take Messiah as your redeemer, you will easily be deceited blinded by the evil one. I pray for Israel & its peoples safety. Unite as a nation, and thank PM & leaders for swift action to bring you from harm quick
Just want to say your writing gets better and better. Also, as far the content of this article, excellent points. I do want to add that most, if not all, of the far-left's ideologies are morally bankrupt, not just the ones pertaining to Israel: trans ideology, BLM and Antifa (two fully corrupt organizations), defund the police, and on and on. I'll say it again: we Boomers must have done such a good job that the GenZers are having a hard time finding worthy causes. (I know the world isn't perfect, but seriously . . . ).
I can hear the soul of Rabbi Meir Kahane screaming: "Why are we not defending ourselves in the Diaspora? How many more of us must be sacrificed to violence before we fight back?" Why, indeed. I am so tired of all this intellectualizing the violence against Jews. Fed up with the stupid expectation that secular police forces will protect us. I've got news for you. They don't protect anyone - not in the preventive sense. But an organization of Jewish Diaspora Security; well-trained, well-armed to the extent that local laws allow - and fully visible to the barbarians waiting to attack Jews would go a long way towards preventing the Amsterdam pogrom and from the physical attacks against Jews that occur regularly in campuses and communities across the West. So, come on Jewish spearhead organizations. Crawl out of your cowardly conference rooms. Use the money we give you to create such a security org. Let them be visible on street corners, at events and in the media. Let the world know that Jews outside of Israel can be just as tough on barbarians as the IDF.
Well progressives never cared about progress anyway. The logic of progressive ideology is all about arresting progress, putting a ceiling on how much wealth you can have, putting handcuffs on your right as an individual. Because it’s statist, it’s essentially deeply conservative. It’s salutary to remember how the communists hated Jews too.
Why for many years I have refrained from writing or uttering the term “Progressive” without using air quotes. Good for Joshua to make a point of this. Just another deceptive “newspeak” word for the illiberals. “Progressivism” is the antithesis of liberalism.
Taxes, regulation, men in women’s sports. They manifestly hate free individuals
Agree except I would not describe them as "conservative". They are totalitarian marxists. Conservatism is not statist.
Anti-semitism is ALWAYS anti-progress and anti-humanity!
Author Daniel Goldhagen called antisemitism “The Devil that never dies” (2013). Like the legendary Devil, it changes form, making it more difficult for the easily-blinded to recognize it when it returns in its latest incarnation. Thus we see in the West the continued refusal by many to recognize and understand that “antiZionism” is simply antisemitism in its latest variation, even after its obvious appearance over 50 years ago. I know too many seemingly-intelligent people who, even now, even while they support Israel and were horrified by the butchery of October 7 and the aftermath of rampaging Jew-hate, are only moved to respond when the Jew-hating is perpetrated by White supremacists. I dare posit that the twin scourges of political correctness and identity politics play a pivotal role in this sad and dangerous phenomenon.
Maybe the problem is progressivism itself and how it defines progress. If you want a more just and equitable society, you need to empower individuals, not groups.
“Justice and Equality” can be a keffiyeh covering the face of revenge.
See: The Tarantulas in “Thus spake Zarathustra”
https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/friedrich-nietzsche/thus-spake-zarathustra/thomas-common/text/chapter-29
Excellent essay that cuts through the BS and accurately describes how anti Zionism has somehow morphed into a more "acceptable' form of anti semitism.
Do not be fooled by the term “progressive” It is cover for Marxism which has been anti Semitic since the 1840s
Excellent analysis !
These progressives are NOT! They are regressive and taking us back to the terrifying dark days of the 1930s. That is never progressive, it is forcing us back to evil, prejudice and cruelty that we have tried so hard to leave behind! Never again! The authorities in Europe must come down on this filth like a ton of bricks.
If not, it’s the end of all of us!
Again another excellent article explaining a difficult subject. The Muslims funded by their wealthy states have planted the seeds for this revival of antisemitism. But the vision on TV of Jews killing Moslems by winning battles in the Middle East has really stoked the flames!
"In the end, progress is either for everyone, or it’s for no one at all." -- a student of history can write the epitaph of "the west" ... essentially it may be over.
Thank you Joshua. Once again, I have no words to describe the impact that your writing has in me. Excellent
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The world is so ful of hate, as it says in the Bible Gods true word, that most of the new age, willl turn against His holy land & people, but God will put a hook in their jaws, and destroy them, then they will know, I AM IS GOD ALMIGHTY, ALPHA & OMEGA. but it is a time of being procecuted wrongly by the evil & wicked forces at work all over the world, and if you do not take Messiah as your redeemer, you will easily be deceited blinded by the evil one. I pray for Israel & its peoples safety. Unite as a nation, and thank PM & leaders for swift action to bring you from harm quick
Just want to say your writing gets better and better. Also, as far the content of this article, excellent points. I do want to add that most, if not all, of the far-left's ideologies are morally bankrupt, not just the ones pertaining to Israel: trans ideology, BLM and Antifa (two fully corrupt organizations), defund the police, and on and on. I'll say it again: we Boomers must have done such a good job that the GenZers are having a hard time finding worthy causes. (I know the world isn't perfect, but seriously . . . ).
I can hear the soul of Rabbi Meir Kahane screaming: "Why are we not defending ourselves in the Diaspora? How many more of us must be sacrificed to violence before we fight back?" Why, indeed. I am so tired of all this intellectualizing the violence against Jews. Fed up with the stupid expectation that secular police forces will protect us. I've got news for you. They don't protect anyone - not in the preventive sense. But an organization of Jewish Diaspora Security; well-trained, well-armed to the extent that local laws allow - and fully visible to the barbarians waiting to attack Jews would go a long way towards preventing the Amsterdam pogrom and from the physical attacks against Jews that occur regularly in campuses and communities across the West. So, come on Jewish spearhead organizations. Crawl out of your cowardly conference rooms. Use the money we give you to create such a security org. Let them be visible on street corners, at events and in the media. Let the world know that Jews outside of Israel can be just as tough on barbarians as the IDF.