Ethics Verdicts: 1) The American Left Is Now Substantially Anti-Semitic and 2) Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism. Part One: The Democrats Embrace Jew Hate

Funny, when Democrats ran in 2024 on the assertion that electing Donald Trump would turn the U.S. into Nazi Germany, I didn’t realize that the Left’s response to Trump’s election would be to embrace the most universally acknowledged evil of Hitler’s regime.

In case you haven’t noticed (and why haven’t you, if not?), the evidence of metastasizing anti-Semitism world-wide and in the U.S. as we approach the mid-terms it is alarming, or should be. Yesterday we learned that there was a nearly successful 9-11 style attack on Tel Aviv, foilded by the passengers. Anti-white racist director Spike Lee (everybody loves Spike Lee!) got in a confrontation at Yankee Stadium with a fan who told him “Fuck Palestine!” The acclaimed director of “Do the Right Thing” has revealed himself as a big booster of Hamas, along with a lot of prominent Hollywood progressives like Mark Ruffalo, Susan Saranden, Emma Stone and Tilda Swinton. In a sane America, such anti-Semites would fear that expressing vile views would kill their careers, but, NPR tells us, the nation is “divided.” You know: let Israel be wiped off the map vs. let Jews live.

Huh. Tough choice; let me think.

The international community is substantially anti-Semitic as the United Nations has been demonstrating for a long time, but that condition has worsened substantially since Europe allowed its nations to be overrun with Muslims. And, of course, progressives perpetually argue that the U.S. needs to be more like the rest of the world. The U.N. has consistently condemned Israel as it has fought for its existence in Gaza and Iran. Here is the list of nations whose delegates walked out on Netanyahu’s speech to the General Assembly

  • Egypt
  • Jordan
  • Lebanon
  • Syria
  • Iraq
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Palestine
  • Qatar
  • Kuwait
  • Oman
  • Yemen
  • Sudan
  • Tunisia
  • Algeria
  • Libya
  • Mauritania
  • Somalia
  • Comoros
  • Turkiye (Turkey)
  • Iran
  • Pakistan
  • Afghanistan
  • Bangladesh
  • Indonesia
  • Malaysia
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Maldives
  • Myanmar
  • North Korea
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uzbekistan
  • South Africa
  • Senegal
  • Djibouti
  • Nigeria
  • Angola
  • Republic of the Congo and Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Spain
  • Brazil
  • Peru
  • Bahamas
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Botswana
  • Ghana
  • Cabo Verde

Nice!

20 thoughts on “Ethics Verdicts: 1) The American Left Is Now Substantially Anti-Semitic and 2) Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism. Part One: The Democrats Embrace Jew Hate”

  1. Why does Palestine get a seat at the UN? If that is the case, I think we should demand the following observer seats for the sovereign nations residing within the borders of the US. They include the following groups below. Each one will need a seat and a translator. Yes, they may speak English, but they deserve the same respect for their native language that the other delegates get. Please get Trump on this right now. PLEASE….. This would be the best troll ever.

    • I should have included that as evidence of the anti-Semitic drift of the UN. Palestine isn’t a full member, because the US keeps vetoing that, since there isn’t, after all, any place called Palestine.

  2. It wouldn’t let me list the rest of the tribes. Please don’t forget the tribes below.

    • I might have missed them, but what about the indigenous nations of Ohio? The Erie? The Shawnee and Ohio Valley tribes? What about the Kickapoo? Oh, and the Miami? Can’t forget about the Miami. Then, there are the First Nations of what was formerly known as Canada. What about the Squamish, the Qualicum, the Hun’qumi’num, and the Qayqayt, and the Tsimshian, just to name a few?

      jvb

      • The Miami are in Oklahoma now (around Miami). There are 3 Kickapoo tribes recognized. The Shawnee are mainly in Kansas and Oklahoma (1st tribe on the list, Absentee Shawnee Nation). The Erie were wiped out or absorbed by rival tribes in the mid-17th century.

  3. Darn tootin’. This anti-semitism has lurked beneath the surface of U.S. elitism for years. It was always considered among the worst excesses of the far-right but even the left had its bigotry hidden behind prominent far-left secular Jews.

    Our host wrote once during the pandemic, asking if it seemed like something was happening here. I agreed then and I agree now. Cultures are aligning on one side or the other. The United States, which once served as a focal point for calm, rational moderacy in the world, is now divided between vocal, but influential, squeaky wheels that make it nearly impossible to move the cogs for all the social issues wedged in there.

    Something is happening. Whether you believe we are approaching the End of History, as I suspect we are, or not, we are living in a transformational time.

  4. It is frightening to think that when we get to a certain level of civilization, it collapses. In 1700 BC, Santorini had multistory apartment buildings with hot and cold running water, toilets, and a city sewer system. Then it collapsed in a 50-100 year period along with the rest of the highly interconnected bronze-age civilization in the region.

    It took about 1500 years to reach multistory apartment buildings, running water, etc in Rome. Then it collapsed too.

    We reached that level of technology and civilization in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Are we headed for such a collapse as well?

    When I look at the Dark Ages, I see a time when the people weren’t educated enough to learn from their own books. When I talk to college students today, they have been so poorly educated by the leftists in our school system that they cannot read the textbooks by themselves. Even the upperclassmen cannot learn the material from the books. The Renaissance happened when the people became educated enough again to understand what had been written in the books the monasteries had been copying for 1000 years. I have seen 3 commentaries this week that mention the fact that there isn’t anyone left who knows how to understand the computer programs and that is why we need AI to do it.

  5. Opposing Zionism is hating Jews.

    Yes. Why are Muslims allowed to have all the countries listed above and Jews can’t have a single one (which they are willing to share with non-belligerent Arabs)?

  6. The word Palestine has been used for more than a thousand years to describe the geography that includes what is now Israel. A very quick review of historical timelines indicates that while the Jewish state of Israel was officially recognized in 1948, settlement began in the late 19th century, increasing to what is now 8-9 million Jewish population in Israel living alongside about 1.85 million Muslims.

    The comparison by Michael R is apt, but indigenous peoples in the USA are at least 250 years removed from invasion, displacement and subjugation. For the Arab Muslim population in Israel the experience is within living memory. Couple that with a religion that seeks to dominate and the result is decades of violent struggle.

    I am not wise enough to imagine a peaceful solution for Israel. I do know that roughly 400k Muslims live, work and worship among roughly 800k Jews in the ancient city of Jerusalem – peaceful coexistence is possible. But the rise of worldwide and American antisemitism is a threat to stability everywhere. And frighteningly evil. Shame on the dems for accepting such virulent bigotry.

    • My point is that we have 575 federally recognized sovereign nations with distinct cultures that we recognize with some form of autonomy. The justification for giving ‘Palestine’ a seat in the UN is that they are a distinct people with some form of autonomy within their country. That applies to the federally recognized tribes even more than it does to Palestine because they have distinct languages, cultural traditions, and their sovereignty is not contested by the federal government. ‘Palestinians’ are just Arabs who happen to live within Israeli territory. There is no Palestinian language and no culture or genetics that is distinct from the Arab communities around them. So why does Palestine get a seat, but the Cherokee Nation doesn’t get a seat? The Cherokee Nation almost certainly has a better organized and more democratic government than the Gaza strip as well. At $2.2 billion/year, it has a much larger economy. So, why no seat?

      • I did understand that point – I was just extrapolating to the larger issue of historical population movements, conflicts, land grabs, that sort of context. And your point is very well made. Hundreds in the USA – I imagine there are many such examples worldwide.

        I read somewhere that Islam has a 100-year plan for world domination. We are witnessing the effects in some of our states and in several European countries. Perhaps the huge difference is that Israel continues to fight for its existence and sovereignty, and the West is capitulating, perhaps to its collapse.

  7. Funny, when Democrats ran in 2024 on the assertion that electing Donald Trump would turn the U.S. into Nazi Germany, I didn’t realize that the Left’s response to Trump’s election would be to…

    To be fair, they do signal ahead of time what they are doing and what they are going to increase doing by throwing categorizing their opponents with hyperbole that matches their own actual behavior.

    • It isn’t funny, it is standard operating procedure. It has been said that the left’s policies could be summed up as “Always accuse your opponents of what you are doing.” If you want to know what the American left is trying to do, just listen to what they claim Republicans or MAGA are doing.

  8. For what it’s worth, I’m not sure that most of what we’re experiencing is actual Anti-Semitism so much as it’s performative Anti-Semitism, although it expresses itself almost identically.

    The American left has devolved to the point where I don’t think the average rank and file member really understands why they take the positions they do so much as they instinctively react to social cues, and right now all the cues say “hate Israel” because there is a class of actual Anti-Semites steering the vibes, and they’re having a real hard time differentiating “Israel” from “jews” because they’ve never met an Israel, but they might know a couple jews… And also probably because the people setting their vibes aren’t really keen to make that differentiation because they’re actual Anti-Semites and saying “Israel” really is just a safer code word for “jew”.

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