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grossproffit

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Mon Jul 24, 2017, 08:18 PM Jul 2017

The fight against the new antisemitism. (JEWISH GROUP)

Antisemitism now has three distinct sources:

We face antisemitism on the radical Right. This is the heir of traditional Christian antisemitism, rooted in our alleged killing of Jesus, with a legacy extends from the Spanish Inquisition to the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.

We face antisemitism from radical Islam – which draws on a tradition of hatred against the infidel, led by the Jews, stretching back centuries. Since the 19th century with Jews started immigrating to Israel, radical Islam has been determined to eradicate the State of Israel and its Jewish inhabitants, as they occupy a land that the Islamists believe belongs to the Islamic caliphate.

We face antisemitism on the radical Left – which sees Jews and Israel as emblematic of America and Western imperialism and despises us for it.

Too many in the Jewish community don’t recognize this reality. In particular, not nearly enough attention has been paid to the growing alliance between the radical Left and radical Islamists – two groups with seemingly incompatible worldviews.

This strange alliance is encompassed by a new theory called intersectionality – embraced by many on the Left – which calls for the unification of all groups facing discrimination, whether they are Native American, Latino, African-American, LGBT, Arab or Muslim.

Radical Islamists have been able to link their hatred toward Israel, presented as their genuine concern for the Palestinian cause, to the idea of intersectionality, painting Israel as an oppressor that all progressives must fight. In doing so, they work to spread the vilest antisemitic ideas into mainstream discourse.

College students and young professionals in many circles now face a clear choice: exclusion, or joining anti-Israel and antisemitic campaigns.

Working together, radical Islamists and radical leftists have successfully created an alternate reality in which Jews have no rights to self-determination, in which Israel is the greatest violator of human rights in the world, and in which people with extreme regressive views, like Linda Sarsour, are championed as progressive heroes.

http://www.jpost.com/printarticle.aspx?id=500631

*Please read this article in its entirety. It begins with the Kishinev pogrom, an anti-Jewish riot that took place in Kishinev on Easter in 1903.

**Forgive me for editing out this most important (Kishinev pogrom) event, but I wanted to draw attention towards the antisemitism that Jewish people are up against each and today.

***It disgusts me that I felt the need to edit my post and add (Jewish Group) to its title.







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The fight against the new antisemitism. (JEWISH GROUP) (Original Post) grossproffit Jul 2017 OP
Antisemitism, racism, sexism, and bigotry have been a part of America since its inception. still_one Jul 2017 #1

still_one

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1. Antisemitism, racism, sexism, and bigotry have been a part of America since its inception.
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 08:45 PM
Jul 2017

The America First Movement was made up of a lot of nazi sympathizers, and included prominent people such as Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford.

Pat Buchanan's anti Jewish views are well know, so it should come as no surprise that he admired the "America First Movement", and when he ran under the reform party for president, readily embraced that slogan. Not surprisingly trump did the same thing, and Banon' influence should trouble everyone:

https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/stephen-bannon-five-things-to-know

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-america-first/514037/

For those that believe it couldn't happen here, should think again:

http://mashable.com/2016/07/27/nazis-madison-square-garden/#dQIq2jGsYaqi

The nazi apologists, are now replaced by the Putin apologists, but their not so subtle antisemitism is alive and well.

In other words, this "new antisemitism", is nothing new at all



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