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    Mar 19, 2024, 03:01 AM
    The new antisemitism
    A new expose is published in Time Mag. 'The New Antisemitism ' by Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman

    The New Antisemitism | TIME

    This is not the same antisemitism that historically was founded in religious persecution. Within hours and days of the massacre of Israeli's on October 7 of last year; highly educated youth on elite campus began protesting; not against the Hamas terrorists, but against Israel. Thier's was not a religious prejudice. It is hard to find any religious bases for their hatred at all. Most are non-religious and obviously rather ignorant of the history of the Jewish persecution. And yet they demonstrate a hatred almost as strong as any historically.

    .. antisemitic ideology isn’t accountable to real-life facts, its content can be altered and changed as a society’s worries and moral judgments shift. Antisemitism’s capacity to keep its familiar character while also channeling new fears is what confers its stunning capacity to reinvent itself.


    Feldman believe that the root of their hatred is in the post colonial theory that is taught on campus. The students are well indoctrinated .
    There is a neo-Marxist assumption in the theory. A clear divide exists between oppressors and oppressed .The world is neatly divided into the 2 groups.

    The oppressors are the western nations including the colony called Israel. Everyone else is the oppressed. The west's policies according to the theory is rooted in the subjugation and domination of the oppressed. The pogroms ;the holocaust are overlooked . The fact that many of the citizens of Israel are Arabic or immigrants from other 3rd world nations has no bearing on their thinking .

    Roughly half of Israel’s Jews descend from Mizrahi, (literally, Eastern) origins. They are not ethnically European in any sense, much less racially “white.” A meaningful number of Israeli Jews are of Ethiopian origin, and the small community of Black Hebrew Israelites in Israel are ethnically African American.

    Israel is an extension of the colonial past in their thinking . The Jews ;although historically part of the oppressed, a stateless minority; must be transformed into oppressors. They are western white occupiers . The fact that the Jews have had a centuries long presence in the region is of no consequence.

    The core of this new antisemitism lies in the idea that Jews are not a historically oppressed people seeking self-preservation but instead oppressors: imperialists, colonialists, and even white supremacists. This view preserves vestiges of the trope that Jews exercise vast power. It creatively updates that narrative to contemporary circumstances and current cultural preoccupations with the nature of power and injustice.


    The new narrative of Jews as oppressors is, in the end, far too close for comfort to the antisemitic tradition of singling out Jews as uniquely deserving of condemnation and punishment, whether in its old religious form or its Nazi iteration. Like those earlier forms of antisemitism, the new kind is not ultimately about the Jews, but about the human impulse to point the finger at someone who can be made to carry the weight of our social ills.
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    Mar 19, 2024, 06:56 AM
    So in the midst of some of the most vitriolic antisemitism I have seen in the US in certainly my lifetime ....with wars and the threat of wars waging from one end of Eurasia to another.... with an invasion of the US by uninvited migrants...... with the cities unsafe due to crime ....with the plague of fentanyl and other opioids killing more Americans each year than our combined death toll of Americans from the Korea and Vietnam wars combined ......with an exploding debt that threatens to shrink our economy.....with inflation eating away at the spending power of the average American ; Clueless Joe's campaign appears to be about the threat that White rural Americans pose on America.

    The compliant press is doing it's part . Sitting on the NY Slimes best seller list is the book that lays out the case .....'White Rural Rage The Threat to American Democracy' (currently # 9 on the list ) . David Corn of the Slimes calls it 'an important book that ought to be read by anyone who wants to understand politics in the perilous Age of Trump'.

    ls2content.tlcdelivers.com/tlccontent?formatHTML=false&customerid=997&request type=text-summary&isbn=9780593729144

    The complete list has a book by drag queen RuPaul leading the list .

    Just to be fair and balanced Peter Schweizer's book on the Biden Crime Family is up to #2

    Also on this list is Liz Cheney's book on how she tried to take down Trump ;and an ironic book by analyst from MSNBC and NBC about disinformation in politics and law (you know the theme of that book)
    Hardcover Nonfiction Books - Best Sellers - Books (nytimes.com)

    Yeah you see ;we are back to the unwashed hicks that are screwing up the country .

    Oh yeah did you know that they cling to their religion?


    Heidi
    Przybyla made headlines when she said that Trump supporters
    " believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority."

    Heidi Przybyla: If You Believe that Your Rights Come from God, You Aren’t a Christian, You Are a Christian Nationalist :: Grabien - The Multimedia Marketplace

    She later back tracked a little after the heat she got .
    The Declaration of Independence, of course, held that rights are not granted by government but that all people “are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among those are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” The Constitution was drafted to give legal expression to the ideal of self-government and the inherent rights of all citizens. Separation of church and state is embodied in the Constitution, and there is no single religion endorsed by the government. The first lines of the preamble of the Constitution, “We the People,” indicate that our government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed.
    Rather than elaborating on what I did not mean to say, I would rather make clear what I do believe.
    The phenomenon of Christian nationalism may be relatively new but the larger questions it raises have been around for a long time. Any group of activists asserting a religious imprimatur for their policy agenda should be prepared to answer a couple questions:
    One, are they respecting the American principle of separation of church and state? One cannot paint every individual in a movement with the same brush. Some Christian nationalists, however, have made plain in their public rhetoric that their aim is to blur or even erase this line. Given that some of these people have aligned themselves with Donald Trump’s effort to regain the presidency, their views and policy plans are inherently newsworthy.
    The Right Way to Cover the Intersection of Religion and Politics - POLITICO

    You see ;the nation's founders were a bunch of white nationalists full of rural rage .

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