[Part I is here.]
Let’s see: what happened in the World of Jew Hate in the past 24 hours? Admittedly, this will only cover stories that leftist mainstream media hasn’t successfully embargoed: it is fine for the Democratic Party to be anti-Semitic, see, it’s just a bad look if the positions and conduct are expressly anti-Semitic right before an election, except to Muslim voters, of course.
I see…
- Jordan Bardella, a top figure in the French far right and Marine Le Pen’s top aide, authored antisemitic social media messages from 2013 to 2015. He had vehemently denied this.
- Italy’s Democratic Party refused to take part in a parliamentary committee vote on a bill opposing antisemitism,…
- Die Linke, Germany’s rising populist-left party, won 26% in elections to Berlin’s House of Representatives, its best performance ever. Meanwhile, a branch of Die Linke in Berlin recently welcomed Macklemore, the anti-Semitic rapper, and on election night a Die Linke MP was photographed with a representative of a pro-Palestinian group with terrorist connections.
- Canada is experiencing a surge of Jew hate. The Jerusalem Post reports “a significant rise in antisemitism, threats, and violence against Jews and Jewish institutions…In 2025, 788 hate crimes targeting Jews were reported to police across Canada. Jews accounted for approximately 71 percent of all police reported hate crimes motivated by religion. .. During the most recent Rosh Hashanah, mezuzahs were torn from the doors of Jewish students’ rooms at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. Days later, an armed man arrived at the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Belleville while worshippers were inside on Yom Kippur. A police officer protecting the synagogue was seriously wounded.
In the U.S.—remember, we’re just talking about today’s news—
- The University of California petitioned a court to kick out the Justice Department’s lawsuit accusing UCLA of tolerating antisemitic harassment while seeking repayment of $2 billion in research grants. UC calls the case “political coercion” (how dare the government restrict a university’s right to allow the persecution of Jewish students on campus?) and argues that UCLA has made substantial changes since August of 2024, when a court ruled that “Jewish students were excluded from portions of the UCLA campus because they refused to denounce their faith” and ordered the university to guarantee equal access to campus. A battle between anti-Israel students and counter-protesters was allowed to proceed without significant action by campus police.
- Close to me in Alexandria, a group of rabbis accused Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland of normalizing anti-Semitism. In a letter this week to the district’s [completely Democrat] leadership, they wrote in part, “Over the last three years, we have been on the front lines of the current crisis of skyrocketing school-based antisemitism. We meet regularly with students who are hurt and confused and parents who are angry that their children are experiencing harassment, isolation, and threats to their fundamental physical and emotional safety. We are alarmed that the lack of a meaningful response by MCPS has led to an increase in the normalization of antisemitic attitudes, language and behaviors in our schools.” Montgomery County is the most progressive and Democrat-dominated district in one of the most Democrat-dominated states in the nation.
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Bravo, bravo, bravo! And the Jews in their ancestral homeland will never ever give it up.
The core of the reaction and opposition now showing itself very strongly in the US and worldwide has a rational and also an ethical base. Especial in the US is the awareness that powerful Zionist Jewry has extraordinary and far excessive power over US policy. The reaction is varied of course. But the America First reaction states it very simply: Israel and American Zionists must not be granted that power. And they must retreat. They will not be allowed to continue to have that power. They cannot buy the Media Apparatus and ban, censor and cancel those with different views. And when they do this they will be exposed.
[From your host—this banned commenter showed promise, and I initially thought kicking him off the comments may have been rash. But, as usual, my judgment was correct. Apparently EA is always going to be beset by one frustrated troll or another: just when I thought “A Friend” was finally gone for good, this asshole digs in.
I kind of wish I could leave this particularly damning post up, but when you are banned, you are banned. He refers to the commenters as “Boomers” and “geriatrics”—nice, ad hominem attacks. He calls me a “moron,” which would guaranteed banning from anyone (check the commenting rules). He relies on the hoary “The Jews control American policy” trope, a claim that marks the speaker as an anti-Semite—earlier bigots blamed the Rothschilds for everything from WWI to the sinking of the Titanic.Of course he doesn’t deal with the substance of the post, and makes it clear that he thinks the US should abandon the only democracy in the Middle East to nuclear Armageddon by the Iranians. I’m a “Neocon,” you see.]
Just what type of influence do these nefarious Jews right out of the “Protocols” have on American policy? Americans want to encourage democracy in the world, especially in the Middle East. They also want to prevent another Holocaust of the Jews and believe it is in the best interests of everyone that Israel be allowed to exist. These are not unreasonable policies.
[From your host: Another banned comment. If you don’t reply to the asshole, I don’t have to keep doing this, I can just spam the post.]
Why are you so persistent to harass where you’re not wanted? Is your life that sad?
He can’t answer. Banned, you know.
When the people we’re talking about make that distinction themselves.
It’s comically easy to find examples of people using “Zionist” and Jewish” interchangeably, to the point where I don’t think it’s reasonable to give people who don’t understand that the benefit of the doubt anymore. While there might actually be people out there with principled Anti-Zionist positions independent from a deep-seated hatred of Jews, the language they use is functionally identical to that of the people who just hate the Jews. I don’t know what you reasonably expect us to do with that.
Ken White, before his recent bout of insanity, originally coined the rule of goats:
Even if you’re fucking the goat ironically to prove a point, you’re still a goat-fucker.
The other problem is that of all the possible things the world over to care about, I think it’s at least suspect that so much effort goes into scrutinizing the one country that just so happens to be majority Jewish. All the horrible things happening, all the atrocities, all the genocides actually happening… And there’s this intense hyperfocus on Israel. A continuing spotlight on Israel requires a myopic lens towards the things that people criticizing Israel pretend to care about. You’re tripping over dollars to pick up nickels, and I feel like there’s probably a reason for that that isn’t “principled”.
[From your host: this asshole is sneaking comments in while I am trying to make a living. Don’t dignify him with a response. Once you reply, I can’t spam his comment without erasing yours.]
Ya think???
Jews are one of the worst self defeaters in this regards in several ways. Their overwhelming belief that Hitler was “far right” leads them down several paths, to their own detriment. They view the left as their “safe place” to be.
So many Jews are anti-gun. October 7th is a great example. I didn’t know until that attack that Israel had disarmed its civilians. Shocking, given their history. Very different than the attitude in Switzerland. A handgun is a poor defense against someone with a machine gun, but it is far from worthless. The attackers were outnumbered. Some people were attacked in their homes, where they could have been armed with semi-automatic rifles, used to great effect. Would it have ended the attack? No. Would it have shifted the body count and greatly reduced the hostages? Absolutely. Jews tend to congregate in blue states, and have a hand in making them blue. Things like the attack outside the DC Israel embassy would have gone very different if the two were both armed.
As I said in the paragraph above, so many Jews are what makes blue states blue. It is true that there are racists that are far right, but the media overplays that and too many Jews buy it. Not so on the left; anti-Semites are the mainstream. We have the largest city in the country run by a terrorist supporter. Trump is the most pro Israel president ever, yet many Jews hate him.
Chuck Schumer is a coward and a weenie. If he had any principles at all, he would openly oppose the Jew-hating drift in his party.
Yes, I was absolutely astounded to read that Israelis are not armed. Given their history, when did this happen? I cannot believe that the early Israelis did not have guns in their homes.
It’s especially weird given that I also thought that Israel had universal service, so all citizens would have training in firearms.
I wonder if Israel has rethought this policy in the aftermath of Oct 7th.
It’s because the Jewish people are also prey to leftist delusions, as wise and as astute as so many of them are.
I guess so.
So, does survival trump delusions now?
I know they blame the Army for not defending them better, but still if 1 of 3 of those 1200 had had AR-15s, how much different would it have gone?
This outcome was obvious and everyone should have seen it coming. For 4 decades (at least), the left has had a ‘victim hierarchy’ which determined who was ‘most oppressed’ and who could criticize who. Since Ashkenazi Jews are predominantly Caucasian, they are precariously close to and subject to being labelled ‘white’ whenever convenient. They basically are only slightly above the ‘white’ people on the diversity scale, so they only rated as ‘diverse’ compared to white male conservatives. With more and more Muslims entering the ‘big tent’ of the Democratic Party, it was inevitable that the Party and the left in general would turn on even Jewish families that have been loyal party members for generations.
The left and the Democratic Party have tolerated and excused anti-Semitism in their midst for decades. From Louis Farrakhan claiming that Jewish doctors invented HIV to kill Blacks on, this has been tolerated, if not celebrated on the left and the Jewish community allowed it to pass with little mention to keep what protection they had in the diversity hierarchy. It was obvious that eventually, that protection would end.
Zerohedge used to be a website I would visit daily. No more.
So many of the commenters there run immediately to anti-Semitic tropes. That, along with hyperbolic articles, has ruined the site for me. Everything is the fault of Jews according to a vast majority of the commenters and comments.
Even my wife’s family has devolved into this absolute non-sense.
Anti-Semitism is becoming quite common and even mainstream. That’s more than dangerous for all of us, not just Jews.
I have zeroed out Zero Hedge for the same reason.
I would be happy to debate anyone who wants to make an honest, history-based, coherent argument against Israel defending itself and the legal and moral legitimacy of the Jewish state, but I honestly haven’t encountered such a person. Every one uses a tell that signals ignorance, stupidity, or bad faith. Don’t make demands about “Palestine,” for there is no such place. Don’t keep returning to the unfairness of the international decision to give what is now Israel to the Jews in 1948…it’s like arguing that we should give Texas back to Mexico, and one should know that. Don’t keep blathering about “two state solutions” when the so-called Palestinians have rejected such schemes and have locked in “From the river to the sea.” Don’t call terrorists “freedom fighters” and appeal to the authority of Jew haters and the UN.
And don’t say Israel trains dogs to rape Hamas prisoners.
I think one of the strongest supporting arguments for Israel’s existence is that Jewish communities that existed in Iran, Iraq, and other Arab countries were expelled wholesale in the 1950’s. Their property was confiscated and they were expelled, with only Israel as a probably destination. Many of these communities had been important (even ruling) groups in their area since before Islam even existed and they are all gone. No such purge happened in Israel and in territories Israel conquered.
I am wondering why? Why for thousands of years have Jewish people been scapegoated and persecuted? I haven’t read anywhere that Israelites persecuted others, that they acted violently against others except in self-defense, that they have marginalized or dominated others. Why has there been such hostility to a cultural group that is barely .2% of the world’s population? Other than Biblical prophesies, I haven’t found explanations, just timelines and descriptions. Thoughts?
The Durants state as fact that the reason for the original persecution of the Jews is that “they” killed Christ. Simple as that.
(They were persecuted by non-Christians long before a section of Christianity found the “blood libel” as a useful medieval excuse to acquire Jewish wealth)
(Non-Christians still felt killing Jesus wasn’t a badge of honor. Of course, that’s not an accurate description of what transpired, assuming there is an accurate description of what transpired.)
I meant to reply to you directly, but WordPress was being difficult. See my full-length response below.
Jews, being so uniquely reviled, of all the people-groups on this planet, for the better part of 2,500 years, should cause every one interested in genuine, incisive introspection to ask themselves: “Why?”
Which, with no interest in digging into the connecting questions, eventually lead the self-asker to ask “maybe there is a God and it’s the God associated initially with the Jews, and therefore, maybe it’s a God we should take at His Word that He isn’t like the other man-made wooden gods who notionally would lead a people to worldly conquest.”
In ancient times, the “land of milk and honey” was in the crosshairs of imperial powers from Babylon to Rome, as these empires sought to expand their reach around the Meditteranean and the Middle East. Having not built a true multi-state empire of their own, Israel basically had to rely on divine intervention (or the benevolence of the great powers around them) to have any semblance of independence.
As the diaspora took effect from the Babylonian conquest onward, the Jews maintained their culture by declining to fully assimilate to their host countries’ culture, creating their own enclaves instead. As this very blog has discussed, this approach never sits well with a nation’s dominant population. During the Middle Ages, aside from the obvious competition between Judaism and Christianity, people would witness Jewish culture standing firm while the nations Jews lived in rose and fell around them. At the same time, Jews were becoming known as bankers and moneylenders, the “rich capitalist” class that everyone loves to hate. It’s also worth noting that, even without the Jews, this kind of class hatred was more pronounced and instutionalized in the pre-modern era than it is today. The standard attitude then was that you needed to be born into wealth in order to be worthy of it. Going from rags-to-riches outside the various aristocratic systems meant forgetting your place in the world. Hence merchants and bankers tended to be kept out of politics, and could only even begin to penentrate the aristocrat ranks by marriage (and then only to desperate aristocrats).
To sum up, when you’ve got enclaves of (relatively) rich people who maintain their wealth outside the normal political and economic systems, who have more in common with other enclaves thousands of miles away than with their own non-Jewish neighbors, and they keep surviving disaster after disaster, then it becomes tempting to believe they’re responsible for such disasters occurring. Let this run for thousands of years and anti-Semitism becomes the norm.
But don’t forget: The Jews became money-lenders (and tailors!) because it was one of the few occupations they were allowed to engage in. Talk about a Catch 22!
That is helpful.