The outrageous aspect of the baseball game debacle was that Jews and non-Jewish spectators did not move on those racist hooligans and drive them away. This is why Jews need to organize self-defence networks to counter occasions such as these and teach those bigots a lesson in language they understand. Why did the cops do nothing? Why did Premier Eby issue a bland statement without calling on the Muslim community to denounce these vile "protestors"? Why does the solicitor-general not order the police to arrest all protestors aligning themselves with Hamas and spitting antisemitic signs and slogans? Shame on BC. Shame on Canada. Shame on the news outlets that do not highlight the antisemitic nature of these protestors. Shame! Shame! Shame! Time for Jews to get busy.
It’s Islamo-leftism, well documented. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has said that Islamo-leftism was chiefly conceived by British Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Understanding the term as the fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism, Bruckner posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam's potential for fomenting societal unrest, they promote tactical, temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties. According to Bruckner, leftist adherents of Third-Worldism hope to use Islamism as a battering-ram to bring about the downfall of free-market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights, in particular of women's rights, as an acceptable trade-off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism. Bruckner contends that Islamists, for their part, pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism, neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the totalitarian theocracy of Islamist government.
The connecting of Israel to the Nazis is just a form of Holocaust annulment: Inverting the truth they accuse the Jews about doing the things that have been done to them. Genocide. Open air Prison.
Antisemties through history have projected their fantasy’s on to the Jews, their own intentions and actions, like thinking Jews of wanting world domination, an inversion of their fantasies Holocaust annulment blaming the Jews for crimes that were committed against them. Lovely stuff
Spot on about the sadism at the heart of antisemitism. Reminds me of what Sartre wrote on this topic 80 years ago:
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Your government is a joke. Look at what they did to the truckers and what they did to doctors opposing the unscientific COVID mandate. Your government is a hypocritical disgrace. Of course ours is as well.
If the government won’t protect its citizens, then the citizens are going to have to do it themselves. This is banana republic thuggery.
This is just going to get uglier. You have to fight back.
September 2023 Roger waters came to UPenn on Yom Kippur to speak at their Palestinian book fair. Penn refused to shut down the event. Where is the line of hate speech and free speech?
Certainly that line is drawn differently in the United States than it is in my country ... but that is one of the most pressing questions of our time -- no matter where we live!
The outrageous aspect of the baseball game debacle was that Jews and non-Jewish spectators did not move on those racist hooligans and drive them away. This is why Jews need to organize self-defence networks to counter occasions such as these and teach those bigots a lesson in language they understand. Why did the cops do nothing? Why did Premier Eby issue a bland statement without calling on the Muslim community to denounce these vile "protestors"? Why does the solicitor-general not order the police to arrest all protestors aligning themselves with Hamas and spitting antisemitic signs and slogans? Shame on BC. Shame on Canada. Shame on the news outlets that do not highlight the antisemitic nature of these protestors. Shame! Shame! Shame! Time for Jews to get busy.
Because Jew hate is normalized and accepted in a way no other hate ever would be.
"More to the point, how do antiracists, progressives and other decent people not only not call them out but actively ally with them?"
Haven't you figured this out? "Antiracists" and a majority of "progressives" aren't decent people.
Anti-racists are racists. Even the term is full-on projection.
It’s Islamo-leftism, well documented. French philosopher Pascal Bruckner has said that Islamo-leftism was chiefly conceived by British Trotskyites of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). Understanding the term as the fusion between the atheist Far Left and religious radicalism, Bruckner posited that because those Trotskyites perceive Islam's potential for fomenting societal unrest, they promote tactical, temporary alliances with reactionary Muslim parties. According to Bruckner, leftist adherents of Third-Worldism hope to use Islamism as a battering-ram to bring about the downfall of free-market capitalism and see the sacrifice of individual rights, in particular of women's rights, as an acceptable trade-off in service of the greater goal of destroying capitalism. Bruckner contends that Islamists, for their part, pretend to join the left in its opposition to racism, neocolonialism and globalization as a tactical and temporary means to achieve their true goal of imposing the totalitarian theocracy of Islamist government.
The connecting of Israel to the Nazis is just a form of Holocaust annulment: Inverting the truth they accuse the Jews about doing the things that have been done to them. Genocide. Open air Prison.
Antisemties through history have projected their fantasy’s on to the Jews, their own intentions and actions, like thinking Jews of wanting world domination, an inversion of their fantasies Holocaust annulment blaming the Jews for crimes that were committed against them. Lovely stuff
Spot on about the sadism at the heart of antisemitism. Reminds me of what Sartre wrote on this topic 80 years ago:
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Your government is a joke. Look at what they did to the truckers and what they did to doctors opposing the unscientific COVID mandate. Your government is a hypocritical disgrace. Of course ours is as well.
If the government won’t protect its citizens, then the citizens are going to have to do it themselves. This is banana republic thuggery.
This is just going to get uglier. You have to fight back.
Superb piece of writing.
September 2023 Roger waters came to UPenn on Yom Kippur to speak at their Palestinian book fair. Penn refused to shut down the event. Where is the line of hate speech and free speech?
Certainly that line is drawn differently in the United States than it is in my country ... but that is one of the most pressing questions of our time -- no matter where we live!
Perfect essay.
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“Any antisemite is also an anti Zionist, that much is true.” Christopher Hitchens.
Roger Waters is an amoral, divisive, hate fuelled toxicity.