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This article belongs in the New York Times and other left-leaning legacy papers. If they don't publish it, try the The New York Post, Washington Examiner and other, more conservative-leaning papers. A mass audience should read it.

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I agree. So many you write, Josh (like the one yesterday), should be widely circulated in these publications. Otherwise, consider a social media platform to post them.

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Leftist publications will never ever publish anything like this article. They blame the victim--they already have.

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Still, it's worth submitting it and giving the editors a deadline to reply back. You might get an editor with a grain of decency willing to publish it. And, it needs to be read by those who are against Israel even if they hate reading it.

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I live in Seattle. I am NOT progressive. At various times I proudly and loudly dissent from the “acceptable” progressive positions of my neighbors.

A small subset of people (1 in a 1000 encounters, maybe?) will get VERY upset when I share my iconoclastic opinions. They will mostly use dismissive and harsh language. In one case, a young man tried to commit robbery against me - we spent twenty minutes monkey dancing with each other over my Israeli flag and standard. However, at no time do I think that the verbal abuse and property offenses against me justifies my roaming around the streets of Seattle, with 3 to 4 buddies, looking for progressives to assault. No - this is something unique to Muslims. They should not be invited into our societies. As for progressives - I would love it if we could deport them to the Gaza Strip!

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"Deafening silence"? I can assure you that Dutch media are on high alert, the muslim mobsters are the talk of the town right now in the Netherlands.

Unfortunately, the integration of a whole lot of mainly Moroccan youngsters derailed ; they are the cities 'desperado's' ruining the reputation of the majority of decent Moroccan immigrants.

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so where is the voice of the "decent Moroccans" to be heard condemning this activity? This reminds me of a comment in another article where it was said that most Muslims do not have any truck with the Jews. I don't hear anything but silence from them either. What I was taught was that silence equals complicity.

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Decent people like Imam Shahier Madhar , who together with Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp started an initiative to connect Jews and Muslims im Amsterdam.

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I bet they’re scared of being labeled a traitor; we know all about their proclivity for torturing and killing those who stand against their more moderate brothers

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I am gratified to hear that.

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Hopefully not on the street after dark. LOL

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It's this kind of writing -- and this kind of author -- that makes me skeptical that AI can ever replace human beings. The passion, the wit, the rhetoric, the style -- truly a work of art about an awful subject.

And I agree with the other commenters who say this sort of thing needs to be published in a larger publication.

Joshua, if you're interested, reach out to me and I'll see if I can connect you with some people!

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Joshua, sincerely hope you take Ryan up on his offer. Otherwise, this site is merely a case in point of preaching to the choir.

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Well argued. Sharing.

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As usual, an original, fresh and powerful commentary. Thank you Josh! Right on!

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Jews will always be treated differently then other minority groups because as long as Jews exist and flourish (and flourish) it fundamentally negates the necessity of both Christianity and Islam. That’s the core of the issue.

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A substantial case can be made in support of your argument that religion is the core of the enduring animus towards Jews.

That said, there have always been those raised Christians who were skeptical about the religion's basic tenets assumptions. And there have always been those raised Muslim who read the religious texts and noticed the contradictions, ambiguities, and inconsistencies.

Many of these open-eyed skeptics were able to reject the dark side of their faiths and overcome the more odious prejudices instilled in them with their mother's milk.

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History has shown us otherwise, Puck.

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Jewish blood has always been cheap

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Josh of course it is not acceptable and we must not accept this sort of behavior. Of course if I were Hashem I’d of strangled Ishmael in his cradle but hell that’s just my way.

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Problem is, Kafr, if you strangled Ishmael you got the wrong guy. lol

Nowhere in the Qu'uran does it say Ishmael was the one almost sacrificed, only that the one to be sacrificed was a "righteous offspring." Surah 100-102.

On the other hand, in the Torah, Hagar and Ishmael are first sent away and Ishmael lives in the wilderness as an archer. Gen. 21: 20.

Only after Hagar and Ishmael were sent away does God tell Abraham to take Isaac to Moriah as a burnt offering. Gen 22:2.

These fine points are lost on apologist Muslim theologians and scholars who persist in repeating this reading into rather than reading from the text without any evidence to support their claim.

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Posted this to my Facebook and X pages. I expect the responses, or rather lack of them, to be deafening, or downright hostile. I will keep you all posted. Need to get this out to the larger world, here, while I appreciate this, is "preaching to the choir". Not enough to simple support it here. SO, HOW MANY OF YOU REPOSTED THIS IN OTHER FORUMS?

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So, here is my update - 3 responses, emojis only. What a reception from the larger world!! Why am I not surprised?

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Well said and the comments are very apt.

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a great article that needs circulation throughout many other media outlets, although alas I think this is unlikely to happen. This is unfortunately being circulated through an echo chamber.

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Wonderful article, you speak the truth......The Doble standards are being found for a long time, unfortunately ........even from the start of this war with Hamas., the murderers, rapists got the sympathy not the Israelis, who were the victims

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Are Dutch police armed or are they just carrying around tasers or pepper spray.

If they are armed , then they are as guilty as the Muslim animals.

This might have stopped a lot quicker if a bunch of these fucks were blown off their mopeds.

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so here's my update to posting this on FB, 3 responses only, all emojis. Really? I guess that says it all.

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"to wave off an attack on Jewish people as somehow 'different' from other hate crimes is to participate in a silent form of prejudice, to become complicit in perpetuating a pernicious, centuries-old pattern.

Why does this double standard exist? The answer lies in a peculiar social phenomenon: the tendency to make Jews seem perpetually 'other' . . .

I beg to differ. What we are witnessing is not merely the result of “othering” the Jew, that is estanging Jews from their humanity, Ger. Entfremdung. It is the consequence of a cascading effect millennia in the making. It originates with a tenet of religious faith — in this instance, Christianity which cast the Jews as eternally cursed for having killed their God and Islam for the sin of rejecting Allah.

It moves into the public sphere through its political institutions.

From there it becomes absorbed into the culture as one of its conventions.

Spreading outward, it becomes a social norm, a community standard, a family value, and ends as an unshakeable personal conviction of the innately irredeemable nature of the creature.

Even in its secular form, the Jew is still seen as crafty, manipulative, and money grubbing. This cultural stereotype is so pervasive that Jewish comedians routinely adopt it as their onstage persona, while Jewish entertainment writers exploit it to the max.

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