I am a bit puzzled over the vast outpouring of support for Palestine following October 7. Not that the Palestinians do not deserve the support of the international community. They do. Palestinians have been mistreated for centuries: Oppressed by the Turks, denied their just rights by the British during the Mandate; abandoned, for the most part, by their fellow Arabs; ignored, mostly, by the international community; ill-served by their own leaders; and repressed by Israelis since 1948.
You profess to be confused as to the eruption of Jew-hate since Oct 7. And yet your post does not include the words "Muslim" or "Islam". Might you consider the religious nature of the conflict? Or the role that Islamism and the Muslim Brotherhood play? How about Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthis? What could "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam" possibly mean?
Might you also consider the progressive Left -- that reveled in the "decolonization" of Oct. 7, rips down hostage posters, and screams "from the river to the sea". Perhaps progressives' baseless accusations of apartheid, genocide, colonization, and "white oppressors", might whip up hate on the Left?
I get it... it is much easier to condemn barbaric Israel than to reflect on the possibility that your progressive allies have abandoned you.
I agree that antisemites come out of the woodwork when the topic of Israel comes up. Some are conflating Zionism with Judaism or outright bashing Judaism as a Satanic cult, etc. I am not Jewish, but have been a target for racial hatred by people who assume that I am Jewish, including complete strangers, especially prior to the large scale migration of Blacks from Chicago-Gary to Minneapolis-St. Paul in the early 1980s. The big daily newspapers were fueling a panic among whites about the Black invasion. I think that put a damper on the antisemitism.
Ethnic cleansing was baked into the project to established a Jewish state, in my opinion. It began on a large scale in 1947-48. The mass migration of Jews from majority Muslim countries, including Arab Jews was not the result of a spontaneous eruption of antisemitism in the the Muslim world. It was encouraged by Israel and great power sponsors, including via transfer agreements and terrorist attacks. Avi Shlaim, who migrated from Iraq to Israel as a child discusses this transfer of Jews from majority Muslim countries in his book, "Three World's, Memoirs of an Arab Jew." I was shocked by the antipathy toward Jews expressed by Theodore Hertzl in his book about building a Jewish state and in some other writings. There was already an organized Zionist movement among Jews in Russia because of the persecution of Jews, the pograms. And there were Christian Zionists, who wanted to ship Jews to the holy land to hasten the second coming of Christ.
You profess to be confused as to the eruption of Jew-hate since Oct 7. And yet your post does not include the words "Muslim" or "Islam". Might you consider the religious nature of the conflict? Or the role that Islamism and the Muslim Brotherhood play? How about Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, the Houthis? What could "God Is Great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam" possibly mean?
Might you also consider the progressive Left -- that reveled in the "decolonization" of Oct. 7, rips down hostage posters, and screams "from the river to the sea". Perhaps progressives' baseless accusations of apartheid, genocide, colonization, and "white oppressors", might whip up hate on the Left?
I get it... it is much easier to condemn barbaric Israel than to reflect on the possibility that your progressive allies have abandoned you.
I agree that antisemites come out of the woodwork when the topic of Israel comes up. Some are conflating Zionism with Judaism or outright bashing Judaism as a Satanic cult, etc. I am not Jewish, but have been a target for racial hatred by people who assume that I am Jewish, including complete strangers, especially prior to the large scale migration of Blacks from Chicago-Gary to Minneapolis-St. Paul in the early 1980s. The big daily newspapers were fueling a panic among whites about the Black invasion. I think that put a damper on the antisemitism.
Ethnic cleansing was baked into the project to established a Jewish state, in my opinion. It began on a large scale in 1947-48. The mass migration of Jews from majority Muslim countries, including Arab Jews was not the result of a spontaneous eruption of antisemitism in the the Muslim world. It was encouraged by Israel and great power sponsors, including via transfer agreements and terrorist attacks. Avi Shlaim, who migrated from Iraq to Israel as a child discusses this transfer of Jews from majority Muslim countries in his book, "Three World's, Memoirs of an Arab Jew." I was shocked by the antipathy toward Jews expressed by Theodore Hertzl in his book about building a Jewish state and in some other writings. There was already an organized Zionist movement among Jews in Russia because of the persecution of Jews, the pograms. And there were Christian Zionists, who wanted to ship Jews to the holy land to hasten the second coming of Christ.