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February 3, 2024

The world has seen a VEI-8 volcanic eruption of homicidal Jew-hatred in recent months, all of it inarguably coming from the political global left. 

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Even if couched in mealy-mouthed euphemisms like “anti-Zionism” and “anti-colonialism,” the subtext is the same: kill the Jews, boycott and divest from them, steal their land (Israel), rape and mutilate their women, behead their babies, set them on fire, slice off their genitalia, and dehumanize them at every turn, everywhere. 

While the left’s genocidal vitriol towards Jews is no surprise to conservatives (many of whom are Christians and among Israel’s greatest champions), the bloodthirsty venom has startled and alarmed many progressive Jews, exposing a slight fissure in the Democrat party’s iron coalition of the resentful and the aggrieved.

From Jews in Hollywood like Julianna Margulies to billionaire Harvard alumni like Bill Ackman, a modicum of cognitive dissonance has set in, resulting in dozens of thoughtful if terminally late articles and Xweets expressing dismay and feelings of being betrayed by their comrades in arms.

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Evidently, prior to 10/7, these progressive Jews, most of them successful, wealthy, and influential, somehow perceived American Jews to be at risk from some conservative or Republican bogeyman.  This inversion of reality was always a straw man, a phantom menace lurking only in the fevered imaginings of leftists.

Without irony or contrition, progressive Jews like Margulies proclaim solidarity with Black Lives Matter, a virulently racist political movement that targets innocent whites (the vast majority of whom are gentiles), and leverages guilt-inducing moral extortion credibly backed by the threat of nationwide urban violence to get billions of dollars out of taxpayers and private businesses. 

BLM is a gigantic geyser of racial animosity, but the virtue-signaling Margulies and other progressive Jews confer a form of moral legitimacy when they expressly endorse not just the platitudinous bumper sticker, but BLM’s actual rhetoric, violent actions, and aims.  It is moral incongruence, if not moral cowardice, for such Jews to ignore invocations to violence against generic whites but then express shock over many African-Americans, Arab Muslims, so-called women’s rights groups, and other leftists exulting over attacks against Jews. 

Yet, sure as Groundhog Day, the Steven Spielbergs and Mark Zuckerbergs of America will again raise enormous sums of cash for the Democrat party and will vote exactly as the Jew-hating (D) Ilhan Omars and Rashida Tlaibs and BLM rioters do.

Leftist Jews, many of whom are ambivalent at best about Israel’s right to exist, seemingly lack a sense of self-awareness and are politically indistinguishable from Islamic supremacists like Linda Sarsour and Reza Azlan.  Shrill, Christophobic Jews like the author Stephen King won’t be dissuaded from voting a straight (D) ticket by the left’s gleeful reaction to 10/7 and loud demands for fresh atrocities.  It is almost as if illiberal Jews like King are Nazi adjacent.

Clearly, the glue that unites these odd bedfellows politically is a shared idée fixe — the white (generally conservative, Christian) male as perennial villain and scapegoat.