The author discusses the rise of anti-Semitism, particularly on the left, and criticizes libelous left-leaning anti-Semitic writers on Medium who promote false narratives about Israel and Jews.
Abstract
The author begins by discussing the history of anti-Semitism, including its origins in Nazi ideology and its resurgence in recent years. They then focus on the role of left-leaning writers on Medium in promoting anti-Semitic narratives, including the denial of Jewish nationhood, the assertion that Jews are not a people but a religion, and the claim that Israel is illegally occupying Palestinian land. The author criticizes these writers for perpetuating falsehoods and contributing to a "creeping global pogrom" against Jews. They also highlight the double standard of selective outrage against Israel while ignoring human rights abuses committed by other countries.
Opinions
The author strongly criticizes left-leaning writers on Medium who promote anti-Semitic narratives about Israel and Jews.
The author asserts that these writers are perpetuating falsehoods and contributing to a global pogrom against Jews.
The author highlights the double standard of selective outrage against Israel while ignoring human rights abuses committed by other countries.
The author suggests that the rise of anti-Semitism on the left is part of a broader trend of identity politics that divorces morality from actual behavior.
The author implies that the denial of Jewish nationhood is a form of anti-Semitism.
The German Socialists August Bebel and Ferdinand Kronawetter called anti-semitism “the socialism of fools”. Jews are used to the Nazi and other far-right versions that gave us:
The Charlottesville tiki-torcherers’ “Jews will not replace us” chant.
The xenophobic Pittsburgh, Poway and Halle, Germany murders and
The Loony Tunes Don’t Look Up version: Marjorie Taylor-Greene’s Jewish space lasers that cause wildfires.
The Sydney “gas the Jews” chant and Palestinians’ “fuck the Jews, rape their daughters” chant in London.
And Aussie police responded by telling a truck showing Kidnapped Jews’ images to turn them off. So the Aussies silence Jews, but not chants calling for genocide:
This time it’s the left recreating, in a creeping global pogrom, the world my Ukrainian Jewish grandparents fled from more than 100 years ago. Now, as part of this slow-motion global pogrom, Medium collaborates with its platform that offers portfolio diversification in bigotry. Multiple libelous lefty anti-semitic writers on Medium add a lefty target on our backs to the usual tiki-torched neo-Nazi kind. It’s the old Socialism of fools married to an identity politics that divorces morality from actual behavior if its practitioners certify your victimhood and grant you an ID as colonized or oppressed without asking why.
I regularly interact with these prevaricators and peddlers of Jewish national identity deniers and mythologized history (Scott Dunn, Corinne Nita, Comrade Morlock, Adebayo Adiran). They distinguish themselves from the Trumpster MTGs and tiki-torcherer anti-semites by packaging it in a pseudo-academic wrapper to make Jew hatred sound superficially more respectable. They talk about:
How Jews are a religion and not a nation or a people and Jewish nationhood is denied, contingent and negotiable — “Israel is a cosplay nation” through a standard of linguistic, genetic and cultural unity applied to no other people.*
How Ashkenazi Jews’ DNA nullifies Jewish sovereignty rights and Palestinians as the descendants of ancient Canaanites and Philistines.
How Israel lives on stolen land and the Palestinians were there first when the Muslim conquest came 1800+ years after the first Jewish state.
How Jews lived so much better and in harmony with Muslims before Zionism under the Koranic Dar-al-dhimmi (the world of the outsiders) version of codified religious Jim Crow regime of extortionate poll taxes, periodic pogroms.
Here’s a string of fabrications worthy of the Tsarist forgers of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion:
Since Israel withdrew from Gaza 18 years ago, uprooting 7000 settlers and leaving their thriving greenhouses to the Gazans who promptly destroyed them, this is obviously evidence-free nonsense.
When you fly Hamas financier Qatar Airways, here’s the map you’ll see in front of your seat. It’s identical to the maps used in West Bank and Gaza schools:
From photo of airplane seat map by friend
And here’s how they tell their kids how they’ll get there:
Jews bought land at up to 5x the market price from absentee Arab and Ottoman effendi landlords living in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut who sold that land out from under their Arab tenants. The land sales were a racket in which these big landlords would separately shakedown indebted small owners and then consolidate the land parcels for sale to Jewish buyers, who, in the words of Jordanian King Abdullah, “created a paradise” of thriving kibbutzim and moshavim.
Also, Jewish habitation in what is today Israel NEVER ceased, despite 2700 years of defeat, deportation, persecution, forced conversion, ghettoization and genocide.
Then there’s the let’s condemn Israel for war crimes by numbers of bodies, not combat intentions:
This is selective outrage anti-semitism by body counts. Note the deafening silence from ALL those protesting against Israel about
The Assad regime’s butchery of 1/2 million Syrians,
Sudan’s slaughter of 300000 in Darfur,
Saddam Hussein’s slaughter of Kurds and Shia MUSLIMS,
The hundreds of thousands killed in the war between the Algerian state and the Islamist FIS,
The genocidal slaughter of the Yazidis by ISIS.
And that biggest killer of Palestinians, the Jordanian army annihilation of 15000 PLO fighters in Black September 1970.
We recently stopped in Coimbra, Portugal and found this poster of selective outrage:
photo by author
Of course, none of the foregoing Muslim on Muslim atrocities elicited a single peep of protest. This comes from Europe’s lipstick on a pig laundering of its long history of antisemitism. Nothing rehabs an old whore back to dowager-like respectability better than holier than thou finger-pointing. Jewish violence helps expiate nearly two millenia of European persecution, pogroms, expulsions, ghettoes culminating in genocide in which local collaborator European militias, police, functionaries and pro-Nazi civilians in every German-occupied country but Denmark more or less assiduously and enthusiastically participated.
The Biggest Killers of Arabs and Muslims: Other Arabs and Muslims
Both American and European practitioners of selective outrage conveniently forget that the biggest killers of Arabs and Muslims are….other Arabs and Muslims — in Darfur, Kurdistan, Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan.
They also must forget that war crimes are defined by intention not body counts. They must ignore that no Jew passes out candy to celebrate Palestinian deaths. Yet we see videos of Hamas’ terrorists livestreaming murder videos taken on their victims phones and then sent to their families. This is one example of what Hamas’ lefty useful idiots portray as Free Palestine “resistance” and for which there is no Jewish equivalent:
On the night of Friday, Oct. 6th, 24-year-old Yoav Shimoni stayed up late in Toronto to pack his bags for an early morning flight. When he checked his phone around midnight, Shimoni saw a WhatsApp message from his sister directing him to the Facebook page of his 74-year-old grandmother who lived in southern Israel. When Shimoni opened the page, he found a video of his grandmother, Bracha Levinson, lying on the floor of her home in the Nir Oz kibbutz. A Hamas gunman was standing over the elderly woman, pointing a rifle at her and shouting as she bled to death. “I was in shock,” Shimoni recalled in a telephone interview with NBC News….Shimoni said he learned of the massive terror attack from the video on his grandmother’s Facebook page before Israeli news alerts popped up on his phone.“She was one of the first people to be murdered on Oct. 7th” he said. “The video was the men pointing guns at her and her covered in blood.”
The video, which Shimoni shared with NBC News, showed that Hamas militants apparently used his grandmother’s phone to film her death and then used her Facebook account to post it online.
That Palestinian civilians die when Hamas turns them into human shields is also part of Hamas’ battle plan, whether they choose this role or not. The laws of war state that civilian infrastructure turned into a fighting position by a combatant is then a legitimate target. This is literally true. A Hamas command center and its tunnels are right under the Al Shifa hospital. Israel has not struck it, though it could legally do so.
A convoy of trucks carrying humanitarian aid enters the Gaza Strip from Egypt via the Rafah border crossing on October 21, 2023. (Eyad BABA / AFP) Israeli inspectors earlier this week uncovered several oxygen concentrators meant to aerate the tunnels operated by terror groups in Gaza, two senior Israeli officials tell The Times of Israel. “These weren’t for use in the hospitals, but below them. That’s why they were smuggled among boxes of cookies,” one of the senior Israeli officials says, adding that the entire truck in which the oxygen concentrators were found was barred from entering Gaza.”
But then Scott Dunn says that defeating Hamas would be more dangerous than keeping its human shield-hostage taking business model in business:
If Israel defeats Hamas or even destroys Hamas, there are a lot of other people who would be very, very angry in response. If we use violence, the Muslim part of the world might feel free to use violence in reprisal for the destruction of Hamas. It might prove daunting for Israel to stop even a small fraction of the Muslims in the world from exacting revenge.
So, let’s just appease the authoritarian Axis of Extermination in Russia, Iran and Hizbullah Lebanon because resisting it might provoke them. We tried this from 1933–39 and know how it ends.
The end result of this creeping global pogrom enabled by libelous lefties deluded by PLO and Hamas faux-liberation propaganda is here: