When relying on the way ‘things used to be’ . . . ‘things’ can get very ugly, really fast:
Not to even mention: ‘Sacred Cows’ can ‘turn you’ or ‘turn against’ you.
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Relying on things the way they always were . . . can be troubling to someone and some thing.
The Democratic Party’s Jewish Issues — Sacred Cow for sale . . .
For some time, we have been keeping an eye on what many perceive as the Right Wing in American political and sociological circles. Many of these concerns had emerged out of “white nationalist sectors” of the far right. Ever more slowly, we have been keeping an eye on what many have come to recognize as anti-Semitic tremors now emerging from the left and hiding behind a thin veneer of anti-Israel anti-Zionist rhetoric from the left, and now surfacing more recognizably in Democratic party circles. While we have noted these shifts for some time, it now appears to be surfacing in recognizable and concrete ways, especially from places we have not seen before. And yes, while there is legitimacy to criticism of Israeli Government policies, there are however many times when this either spills over to the question of Israel’s defense, specifically the right of Israel to defend itself, or the more brazen of spillages to the very question of the right of Israel to even exist.
The Jewish community of America, certainly since the time of FDR, along with the coalitions he built in the mid-20th Century, has overwhelmingly voted along Democratic Party lines. That being said, these coalitions have become more than a little worn around the edges of late, coupled with a significant drifting apart bewteen the Black community and Jewish community over many issues, including but not limited to Civil Rights, Quotas and DEI on the one hand and Israel Palestine Issues of racial discrimnination and denial of Human Rights, perpetration of genocide and “starvation as program” against innocent and defenseless Palestinians (Palesrinians as a ‘People of Color’ as opposed to Jews acting as Nazis would, as white European coloninizers, as land snatchers and occupiers).
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Exceprt:
DMFI board chair, former Rep. Kathy Manning, blasts NC Dems for tolerating antisemitism
Manning’s statement comes ahead of a weekend vote on several anti-Israel party resolutions
Former Rep. Kathy Manning (D-NC), now the board chair of Democratic Majority for Israel, blasted the North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) leadership for what she described as allowing anti-Israel rhetoric and antisemitism within the state party, in a statement first shared with Jewish Insider.
Manning’s statement comes ahead of anticipated North Carolina Democratic Party Executive Committee votes this weekend on a resolution calling for an arms embargo on Israel and accusing it of apartheid and genocide — along with a resolution drawing equivalence between Israel and Hamas, saying both committed “terrorism” and have taken “hostages” and calling for the U.S. to exert influence to remove Israeli officials from power, among several others.
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What does “Globalize the Intifada” really mean . . . for us?
It’s important to understand what it means to “globalize the Intifada.”
It does not mean blowing up pizza parlors in New York. It is not the same as the waves of terror unleashed on Israeli civilians.
What it really means is the targeting of Jews around the world in order to drive a wedge between Diaspora Jewry and Israel, so as to choke off one of the major sources of support for Israel (material and political, but also ideological and spiritual).
The global intifada presents Jews with a binary choice: You can renounce any connection with Israel and denounce Israel and Zionism; if you do, we will shower you with love, place you at the head of our movement, and celebrate you as brave and moral. Or, you can decline to disavow the Jewish State and bonds of peoplehood, and face a range of penalties: You will be shunned, ridiculed, defamed, harassed, threatened, beaten and, yes, possibly murdered.
Of these tools, the threat of violence is *not* the most effective. For most people, especially most young people, being shunned and smeared as a racist, a genocide-supporter and “on the wrong side of history” is far more potent. It means social death. It is also legal and, once one controls the means of idea-production and social media, much easier to implement at scale.
But violence and the threat of violence are an essential component. As the Inquisition understood, thumbscrews and the rack are useful tools of persuasion. They make one much more open to a change of heart when one’s sense of self-respect, or sense of loyalty, or conscience might otherwise stand in the way.
Of course, those who do confess (renounce and denounce) will protest that they did so out of the promptings of conscience. No, no, the campaign of intimidation that has been rolled out across the world has nothing to do with my decision. I now see clearly the evils of ethnonationalism and have broken through the sinister Zionist mind control under which I was raised.
That is what it means to globalize the Intifada. The Jews of New York (not Tel Aviv) are its targets. Bravo to all the Jews who campaigned with its most powerful proponent.
