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https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21757/blaming-the-jews-again

The ways to avoid arrest in London these days, according to British author Douglas Murray, are: “[W]hen first being questioned by a police officer, he should promptly shout ‘Jihad, jihad, jihad’. Next he should whip out a sign saying ‘Slay the infidel’ before rounding it all off with a few cries of ‘Intifada’… Had [Montgomery Toms] followed my advice, the first officer would doubtless have said: ‘Very well, sir, please carry on and have a nice day.'”

It is not complicated: If you do not want your people killed, do not start a war, especially with Israel.

It is concerning that in the foreseeable future, radical Islamists might, demographically, have the political power to use Britain’s nuclear weapons.

In simple terms, for career expediency, as a way of gaining political power, the Jews are to be blamed as the main instigator of Islamophobia in France and elsewhere. In this view, dating in France at least back to the Dreyfus Affair and the Vichy government during World War II, the Jews are to blame for France’s social woes, but not the consistently violent conduct of radical Islamists in their midst.

That bloodthirsty assault [of October 7, 2023] revealed to the Israelis definitively that if they allow an openly murderous terrorist state along Israel’s border, it would be about the dumbest thing they could ever do.

The world has moved on. If the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians want to be any acceptable part of it, they would be wise to hurry and join the other nations in a constructive way or risk being left behind.

If Muslims do not like Islamophobia, all they need to stop threatening, attacking, raping and murdering, and the “temperature” could drop overnight.

Historically, Jews generally have not been racist, at least not more than anyone else. They have lived amicably among foreign cultures for centuries, and are certainly not “genocidal.” On the contrary, Israel is home to virtually all cultures and all ethnicities…. Modern Israel has never initiated a war against its neighbors. It is not an imperialist or expansionist nation — in fact, it fought British imperialism. Israel is a country that, for decades, has simply sought a secure peace.

Added to claims by many in the West that Israel’s land does not belong to Jews and that they are therefore “settler-colonialists,” a fresh strategy of these individuals, seeming to project their own racism, is to label Jews and Israelis as “racist,” then couple that defamation with accusations of genocide, just to make their point got across.

These labels are, of course, simply a deceptive tactic to conceal the deep underlying contest over which facts should be allowed to survive much deliberate fog, and probably have their roots in Muslim and Christian religion beliefs. Israel’s existence, as the home of Judaism, undoubtedly frustrates the jihadist agenda to establish a caliphate under strict Islamist Sharia law in the region. The long-term Christian calumny against the Jews still seems to exist on many fronts, supposedly for the Jews’ refusal to accept Jesus as their messiah and for not having done more to protect him.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-anti-semitism-crisis-and-what-should-be-done/

Regarding the crisis of rising anti-Semitism here in America, it is time for some blunt truths to be stated.

• Anti-Semitism is flourishing mainly in the Democratic Party. CNN’s polling director Harry Entin noted earlier this week that Democrats have turned hostile to Israel, and favorable to “Palestinians” by a whopping net shift of 50 percent (larger among younger Democrats) in less than 10 years:

• Where did this come from? I have many times written about the prescience of the late Aaron Wildavsky, one of America’s pre-eminent political scientists from the 1960s until his passing in 1994, who outlined in 1972 how anti-Semitism would be revived chiefly on campus, as an offshoot of metastasizing leftism:

[S]ometime in the mid-1960s blacks replaced Jews as the nation’s number one oppressed minority and—second—that, toward the end of that decade, white radicals succeeded in having Jews removed from the parlance of left critics of society as “minority,” despite the fact that they constituted no more than 3 percent of the population and were still undoubtedly subject to minor forms of discrimination in banking, business, social life, politics, and elsewhere. It took Christians 1,000 years to go from oppressed minority to inquisitorial majority; those clever Jews seem to have done it practically overnight. Let us investigate this strange case further.

https://www.commentary.org/seth-mandel/the-anti-semitism-nexus/

When it comes to the fight against anti-Semitism, Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on all that much. Partisanship tends to make people more protective of those on their side of the aisle.

So when the two parties come to the same conclusion, it’s at least worth considering. And one such rare point of agreement? The fact that Francesca Albanese, the UN envoy for the Palestinian territories, is a raging anti-Semite.

Even her boss, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, once told U.S. anti-Semitism envoy Deborah Lipstadt that Albanese is indeed a “horrible person.”

Congratulations, then, to Francesca Albanese, whose horribleness is a rare point of consensus in global politics.

Albanese is again in the news because the Trump administration has sanctioned her for aiding the International Criminal Court’s unlawful attempt to prosecute and persecute Americans and Israelis, despite that agency’s undeniable lack of jurisdiction. And it’s not exactly an “only Republicans would do this” sort of action to take. To wit: Joe Biden’s ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, called Albanese “unfit for her role” due to her anti-Semitism, a point echoed by Biden State Department spokesman Matthew Miller in March 2024.

In his announcement of the sanctions last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio noted that “Albanese has spewed unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West…. She has recently escalated this effort by writing threatening letters to dozens of entities worldwide, including major American companies across finance, technology, defense, energy, and hospitality, making extreme and unfounded accusations and recommending the ICC pursue investigations and prosecutions of these companies and their executives. We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty.”

Well said. Albanese has declared war on the democratic West on behalf of the world’s most repressive and violent regimes, and she has a particular obsession with whipping up anti-Semitism all over the world. Albanese is a truly abominable figure in global politics.

She is also, like most delusional anti-Semites, whiny and self-pitying in the extreme. “I have been tormented for years,” she posted over the weekend, each desperate utterance merely proving that she is every bit the malign martyr-poseur she is accused of being.

https://www.jns.org/in-fight-between-the-nea-and-adl-the-jews-lose/

The progressive coalition that the Anti-Defamation League helped midwife now rejects it as impure.

When America’s largest teachers’ union severs ties with the Anti-Defamation League, it’s tempting to reach for the popcorn. After all, few organizations have done more to undermine Jewish security and moral clarity in recent years than the ADL—and few institutions have been more responsible for indoctrinating children with radical, antisemitic ideologies than the National Education Association.

But the spectacle is no cause for amusement. It is, in fact, a grim warning—another signpost on the road to civilizational hell. Because while the NEA and ADL trade rhetorical blows, it is the Jews who lose. Again.

How did we get here?

Once the flagship of Jewish communal defense against hate (though even then embarrassingly tone-deaf, left-leaning, and partisan), the ADL was commandeered and repurposed as a political weapon by its Obama-operative CEO and national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, who transformed the organization from self-important partisan hackery into a focused partisan war room.

Under Greenblatt, the ADL adopted a strategy of ideological weaponization: labeling mainstream conservatives and pro-Israel leaders as extremists if they dared praise friendly Republicans—or, worse, chastise hostile Democrats—while redefining antisemitism to provide cover for progressive politics, partnering with the very forces that enable and spread anti-Jewish hatred and enmity towards Israel.

Now, having helped define deviancy down to the point where silencing Jews based on the hateful and inane ideology of identity “privilege,” indoctrinating whole societies with blood libels, and calling for the annihilation of the Jewish state are considered legitimate forms of expression in polite society, the ADL finds itself—inevitably—on the receiving end of the very Jew-hating culture it helped foster. The NEA, wallowing in the intersectional dogma Greenblatt championed, has declared the ADL insufficiently “inclusive,” i.e., too Jewish.