A few minutes of talk on one Israeli talk show prove that all of Israel is evil and needs to be destroyed in lefty land. Meanwhile, decades of anti-Semitic comments in Muslim media and elsewhere prove nothing.
My theory is that that further left has a neat system on how things are supposed to work. Jews as Jews don't fit into this system and they find us inconvenient to deal with because it disturbs their cosmology.
The very small numbers of Jews but our determination not to be excluded or marginalized is another frustration for them. They would prefer if we were just like the other small survivors from antiquity, seen but not really heard. Just sort of there.
The argument that the Left makes is that Israel is different because they Jewish population consisted of illegitimate settler-colonialists. Never mind that the settler-colonialists would have been killed if they stayed home or would have been stuck under hostile Communist and Arab nationalist governments. They see Israelis as Pied-Noirs and want them gone like what happened to the Pied-Noirs.
I also never really heard an explanation from the anti-Zionists on what the Jews should have done instead of Zionism to deal with the problems that we were facing in the early to mid-20th century everywhere. Nationalists and ideologues in Europe and the MENA Region basically decided that they didn't have use for the local Jewish population. Even if we were quietly minding our own business and keeping to ourselves in insular communities, we were getting the way of their ideological projects by simply existing. The Jews that fought for integration in the societies ended up dead or expelled. Things didn't even get better after WWII because the Communists persecuted the Jews an the Arab nationalists and Islamists wanted Jews gone.
It was the Zionist movement that actually managed to save hundred of thousands or even millions of Jewish lives by giving Jews fleeing rejection and persecution elsewhere a place to go and be Jewish safely. From what I can tell, the anti-Zionists would prefer if we stayed in place and suffered silently.
Even if you think that Zionism is a bad idea, it really shouldn't be that hard to determine why Jews do not want to be minority citizens in a state that defines itself specifically as Arab and/or Muslim and is part of a block of officially Arab and/or Muslim countries.
On broader level, there is a big tendency on the Left to give anti-Semitism a harder definition than other forms of bigotry, racism, and prejudice. They do not see Jews as a people with cultural needs like they would see the Native Hawaiians but at the same time they love to invoke our past as a way to get support.
I wish many Jews would be capable of haggling or bargaining more. There are times I think that so many Jews are attracted to liberalism or leftism because we can't take our own side in a fight. Totally unable to make demands for their own people.
There has always been a certain sort of anti-Zionist Jew who while ostensibly opposed to Zionism because of the Palestinians have their real objection being that they believe the type of decisions necessary for Jews to have a country of their own will poison the Jewish soul. They think that political weakness and an inability for Jews to physically fight back against any anti-Semite allows Jews to maintain moral purity.
I can't stand this. These Jews are either deluding themselves into thinking that if Jews did all that was good and right in their books than the only anti-Semitism would come from the white right. Or even worse they might know that anti-Semitism will always come from all directions but believe that the moral superiority that you get from the purity of persecution is better. I'd prefer it if Jews could take their own side in a fight no matter where the opponent was coming from.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" seems to be something that nobody really believes in anymore left, right, or center. Either they believe that people who disagree with them on many subjects are not merely wrong but illegitimate, and therefore don't deserve defense, or they don't believe that their ideological opponents will have their backs.
Kehlani and her supporters would say that she is being cancelled for being Pro-Palestinian but this is a case where I think that her statements against Israel do veer directly into straight up anti-Semitism:
At least one Immigration Judge in SF who was appointed by the Biden administration but still in her prohibitionary period was fired by the Trump administration for probably being too liberal.
Garcia was granted withholding of removal. This meant that an Immigration Judge found that he had a well founded fear of persecution if returned to El Salvador and that Garcia had a right to stay in the United States but could be sent to any other country besides El Salvador if a third country was willing to take him in. He had legal status in the United States. Plus, I think future agreement to send back doesn't include being sent to a notorious torture prison/forced labor camp in the country where the American government was not supposed to send him to at all.
Trump asks Bukele to build prisons for American citizens. Don't pretend Trump is just joking. He means this literally and seriously. El Salvador will be a gulag for American dissidents:
RFK Jr delivers a slur filled speech about the Deep State to a shocke HHS staff. Talks about needing to take measures to deal with people with development delays but uses the R word.
There is an obscure and not really used that much provision in the INA that allows the deportation for people deemed foreign policy scandals. The standard is, the Secretary of State says so.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
A few minutes of talk on one Israeli talk show prove that all of Israel is evil and needs to be destroyed in lefty land. Meanwhile, decades of anti-Semitic comments in Muslim media and elsewhere prove nothing.
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My theory is that that further left has a neat system on how things are supposed to work. Jews as Jews don't fit into this system and they find us inconvenient to deal with because it disturbs their cosmology.
The very small numbers of Jews but our determination not to be excluded or marginalized is another frustration for them. They would prefer if we were just like the other small survivors from antiquity, seen but not really heard. Just sort of there.
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The argument that the Left makes is that Israel is different because they Jewish population consisted of illegitimate settler-colonialists. Never mind that the settler-colonialists would have been killed if they stayed home or would have been stuck under hostile Communist and Arab nationalist governments. They see Israelis as Pied-Noirs and want them gone like what happened to the Pied-Noirs.
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The Left doesn't seem to have an issue with Muslim identity states or Arab ethno-states.
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In order to avoid persecution and death.
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I also never really heard an explanation from the anti-Zionists on what the Jews should have done instead of Zionism to deal with the problems that we were facing in the early to mid-20th century everywhere. Nationalists and ideologues in Europe and the MENA Region basically decided that they didn't have use for the local Jewish population. Even if we were quietly minding our own business and keeping to ourselves in insular communities, we were getting the way of their ideological projects by simply existing. The Jews that fought for integration in the societies ended up dead or expelled. Things didn't even get better after WWII because the Communists persecuted the Jews an the Arab nationalists and Islamists wanted Jews gone.
It was the Zionist movement that actually managed to save hundred of thousands or even millions of Jewish lives by giving Jews fleeing rejection and persecution elsewhere a place to go and be Jewish safely. From what I can tell, the anti-Zionists would prefer if we stayed in place and suffered silently.
"
Even if you think that Zionism is a bad idea, it really shouldn't be that hard to determine why Jews do not want to be minority citizens in a state that defines itself specifically as Arab and/or Muslim and is part of a block of officially Arab and/or Muslim countries.
On broader level, there is a big tendency on the Left to give anti-Semitism a harder definition than other forms of bigotry, racism, and prejudice. They do not see Jews as a people with cultural needs like they would see the Native Hawaiians but at the same time they love to invoke our past as a way to get support.
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Cosplay Revolutionaries dress up as Hamas as actual Palestinians in Gaza protest Hamas:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c175z14r8pro
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"Hashem, please grant me the confidence of a non-Jew explaining to me what is and isn’t antisemitic."
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I wish many Jews would be capable of haggling or bargaining more. There are times I think that so many Jews are attracted to liberalism or leftism because we can't take our own side in a fight. Totally unable to make demands for their own people.
There has always been a certain sort of anti-Zionist Jew who while ostensibly opposed to Zionism because of the Palestinians have their real objection being that they believe the type of decisions necessary for Jews to have a country of their own will poison the Jewish soul. They think that political weakness and an inability for Jews to physically fight back against any anti-Semite allows Jews to maintain moral purity.
I can't stand this. These Jews are either deluding themselves into thinking that if Jews did all that was good and right in their books than the only anti-Semitism would come from the white right. Or even worse they might know that anti-Semitism will always come from all directions but believe that the moral superiority that you get from the purity of persecution is better. I'd prefer it if Jews could take their own side in a fight no matter where the opponent was coming from.
"
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" seems to be something that nobody really believes in anymore left, right, or center. Either they believe that people who disagree with them on many subjects are not merely wrong but illegitimate, and therefore don't deserve defense, or they don't believe that their ideological opponents will have their backs.
"
Cornell cancels R&B singer Kehlani Parrish for anti-Semitism:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/nyregion/kehlani-cornell-concert-replaced.html
Kehlani and her supporters would say that she is being cancelled for being Pro-Palestinian but this is a case where I think that her statements against Israel do veer directly into straight up anti-Semitism:
https://stopantisemitism.org/as-week/kehlani/
On “US Department of Education Announces that it is Restarting Loan Collection”
"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/21/2025”
Wife of Abrego Garcia has to move into a safe house because DHS posted her address online:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dada92a8bd1fbd659f6707dc63245cf3276525171e36a3175bf3f6aa8c372ccd.png
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Trump does a big backflip on China tariffs because said tariffs led to empty ports.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/trump-says-tariff-on-china-will-come-down-substantially-from-145-percent/ar-AA1DpW3O
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
May 2020 at the height of COVID had 51 ships blank sailing. April 2025 has over 80 ships blank sailing. That is without cargo.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q5wqr7zofdqyqwoki4cby36x/post/3ln2gkuls4k2r?ref_src=embed&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com%252F2025%252F04%252Ftrump-kill-ports-and-transportation
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American born doctor from Connecticut with the very foreign sounding name Lisa Anderson receives a letter telling her to leave the United States:
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/american-born-doctor-receives-dhs-email-telling-her-to-leave-u-s-237725253544
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At least one Immigration Judge in SF who was appointed by the Biden administration but still in her prohibitionary period was fired by the Trump administration for probably being too liberal.
On “The Lawless Lying Duplicitous Bastards of Abrego Garcia”
Garcia was granted withholding of removal. This meant that an Immigration Judge found that he had a well founded fear of persecution if returned to El Salvador and that Garcia had a right to stay in the United States but could be sent to any other country besides El Salvador if a third country was willing to take him in. He had legal status in the United States. Plus, I think future agreement to send back doesn't include being sent to a notorious torture prison/forced labor camp in the country where the American government was not supposed to send him to at all.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/14/2025”
Trump asks Bukele to build prisons for American citizens. Don't pretend Trump is just joking. He means this literally and seriously. El Salvador will be a gulag for American dissidents:
https://www.rawstory.com/will-trump-deport-american-citizens/
On “From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A Point”
It's always a safe bet to do the exact opposite of Freddie's advice.
On “Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025”
RFK Jr delivers a slur filled speech about the Deep State to a shocke HHS staff. Talks about needing to take measures to deal with people with development delays but uses the R word.
https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-fda/
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There is an obscure and not really used that much provision in the INA that allows the deportation for people deemed foreign policy scandals. The standard is, the Secretary of State says so.
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2014/07/25/3400.pdf
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Financial institutions redacting reports under pressure from Trump administration:
https://bsky.app/profile/michellev.bsky.social/post/3lmhvttag6c25
On “What To Expect When You’re Expecting a Trade War”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/64a602513d6ece9108396128979659a3bff2ca983df97c0d7efdf8990233a5d6.jpg
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