Douglas Young has views on the remarkable toxic upsurge in Jew hatred
A lot of folks are shocked and mystified by all the recent open displays of hatred and even violence toward Jews on many elite American university campuses and the streets of major U.S. cities. People are also stunned at the significant public support for the Hamas terrorists, particularly among young, college-educated Democrats, and especially after Hamas on October 7 inflicted the worst murder of Jews since the Holocaust of World War II.
Understand these American leftists are cultural Marxists who divide the world into arbitrary and rigid “oppressor” and “oppressed” classes that have been fixed for centuries. Because Jews tend to be white, Western, and economically successful, they check three major oppressor boxes. Furthermore, since most of Israel’s Palestinian enemies are dark-skinned, Muslim, and poor, that adds three more strikes against the Jews. That Hamas is a terrorist gang of mass-murderers, rapists, and kidnappers whose leaders routinely rob the Palestinian people so they can live luxuriously is irrelevant to the closed social justice warrior mindset. So is the fact that Hamas uses the Gazan people as human shields and even shoots at those daring to try to flee its totalitarian grip on Gaza. Also trivial to fervent progressives is all the considerable Western aid used by Gaza’s Hamas dictators not to help the Gazan people but to buy weapons and build tunnels to murder still more Jews. In fact, with all the generous U.S. and West European aid Hamas has gotten, it could have easily transformed the Gazan coast into a booming Mediterranean tourist mecca, but Hamas is obsessed with wiping out the Jewish people, as its charter clearly states.
Yet Hamas can never be wrong to ardent leftists because it checks all the right oppressed boxes. Remember that progressives tend to see people as groups, not individuals. So the well over a thousand Jewish men, women, children, and babies slaughtered on October 7 are dismissed by the radical woke as “colonialist” oppressors on “occupied” land who had it coming. Recall it was Judaism that gave us the first monotheistic religion in which God judges each individual by his own personal deeds, irrespective of any group status. But outside of Judaism and Christianity, most of the rest of the world (including secular leftists) remains fiercely tribal in which your group status trumps all else.
Indeed, Marx called for the utter annihilation of every oppressor group in a “revolutionary holocaust,” with zero regard for any innocent individuals. This has always been the way of leftists ever since the French Revolution when the radical Jacobins implemented le Terror and Le Grande Terror against all men, women, and children guilty of being Christian, royalist, bourgeois, or insufficiently revolutionary. The 20th century Bolsheviks’ “Red Terror” murdered the same groups in Russia by the millions, Stalin’s purges killed over 20 million more, and Chairman Mao’s communists murdered and starved to death over 60 million non-communists and communists alike in China, most zealously when the fanatical young Red Guards terrorized the Chinese people during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution.
After many decades of the Left thoroughly infiltrating and corrupting America’s vast educational-industrial complex, the news media, publishing, Hollywood, big tech, and much of corporate America – and aided by the Left’s de facto open borders immigration policy and so many schools no longer even trying to Americanize immigrants – there is now a record number of young American Red Guards seeking to “cancel” or even destroy all who they have been indoctrinated to hate as oppressors.
Hopefully heretofore dangerously uninformed and naive Americans will at last wake up and stop voting for politicians pushing cultural Marxism; stop sending their children to any schools or universities that convince them to hate their religion, America, and their own parents; stop donating money to their college alma mater if it is part of the problem; and stop buying products from corporations pushing critical race theory and donating big bucks to radical leftist groups like Black Lives Matter that work to destroy Western Judeo-Christian civilization. In 2008 Barack Obama promised to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” With the dominant opinion-forming institutions now captured by leftists and so many in the
globalist ruling class either leftists or intimidated by them, the fate of America as we have known it is now in real jeopardy. As our wise and brave Founding Fathers understood, we will enjoy exactly as much freedom as we are willing to fight for – and not one whit more.
Dr. Douglas Young is a political science professor emeritus who taught government and history for over 33 years and whose essays, poems, and short stories have appeared in a variety of publications in America, Canada, and Europe. His first novel, Deep in the Forest, was published in 2021 and the second, Due South, came out in 2022. His next book, This Little Opinion Plus $1.50 Will Buy You a Coke: A Collection of Essays, is about to be published.
A small quibble, but is this really true? Didn’t Judaism have a concept of a “chosen people”? Not a chosen kind of person, based on their actions, but a chosen tribe.
Several times in the Old Testament, such as in the conquest of Canaan, didn’t God favor the Israelites because they were Israelites, not necessarily because they were better?
Several parts of the Old Testament seem like textbook examples of how tribal thinking and collectivism can lead to quite horrible outcomes.
Or am I misunderstanding you, and you meant that Judaism gave us another monotheistic religion which had such a god? Or are you referring to modern Judaism?
Why would they?
It’s presently costless to hold the victimologist views of modern progressivism.
Almost . . .
If you live in a Big Blue US City – Chicago, New York, LA, SF – you are only now starting to incur some personal costs to supporting such views. The bussing of illegal immigrants up from our southern border was perhaps the most brilliant – or at least the most effective – impulse anyone on the right has had for decades. Only now are the socialist-supporting prog hordes starting to realize that there ARE costs involved. Until now, they have never had to pay a price for their unsustainable philosophies.
Which is why I think it has to get worse before it gets better. Progs have to start paying personal costs before they’ll discard luxury views such as open-borders and socialism. In Chicago and New York and other such places, they’re starting to see those costs. There’s hope.
(ETA: I should add, one of the major prog beliefs centers on the goodness of the Noble Savage. As they encounter more of them in their daily life, they’ll start to realize that they’re not that Noble.)
Soon enough, there will be no-one living who experienced the Holocaust either as prisoner, guard or those repatriating the camps.
The younger generation have received the most detailed education in high school about the rise and fall of the Nazis and what happened to the Jews, so why are they ignoring this and supporting Hamas terrorism?
Mostly, thanks to the almost total exclusion of non-leftist voices from our Universities. All of their extensive education essentially replaced with the propaganda that Douglas Young calls out.
Such is the power of propaganda and forced institutional group-think as the Nazis understood well.
The Western mainstream media can raise their voices against the strawman of “The Rightwing”, but that’s a Golem that’s long since dead and turned to dust. The true face of today’s anti-semitism is the leftwing, AntiFa, BLM and their Islamic cohort.
I feel nothing but shame that Jews across the UK feel they are no longer safe in their own homes and that if push-comes-to-shove the UK police will do nothing for fear of being labelled racist or Islamaphobic (a genuine fear which becomes more real every day).
We might not be re-enacting the 1930’s, but the same rhythm is there behind the beat.
Dissent. My kids are now late-twenties. They went to a high school that was listed as one of the top schools in the country by several ranking systems while they were there.
They learned very little about Germany, Nazis, and Jews, and nothing about the history of Israel.
They learned tons about how we stole America from the noble Indians – excuse me, Native Americans – excuse me, Indigenous Peoples – and how we probably stifled Wakanda in its growth.
I blame us, for allowing the woke to take over education. Men got chased out of the profession due to fears of kiddy-diddling accusations, and woke wine women took it over. Far-reaching on their part, dumb on ours.
White man bad beats “Nazis gassed the Jews” for some reason. Presumably because it doesn’t fit the narrative, because neither are PoC, neither are “indigenous” or fit into the “victims of colonialism” narrative.
Clearly, 6 million wasn’t enough for these phuqers. Then again, they don’t seem to care about the tens-to-hundreds of millions that died under Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc., so it clearly isn’t about numbers, it’s whether they have the right “Identity”.
Seem to be a lot of women kiddy fiddlers given how a couple of teachers a week seem to get caught taking schoolkid dick.
They no longer call it rape (though it is), but “seduction” or other euphemisms. After all, can’t be blaming the Feminazi sisterhood, can we?
@bobby b
Different countries.
In the UK, at least until recently, most compulsory secondary education in History focused on WW2 [in itself a ridiculous thing, but an explanation for John Galt’s comments].
It was over twenty years ago so no idea if things have changed but when I was at school in England I remember being taught about WW2 and the Nazis (including the Holocaust) in three different year groups. At the time I didn’t mind as I found such topics fascinating (and still do). While any history curriculum has to be selective though, I do wonder why we did Nazism so much but I don’t remember Alfred the Great and pre-Norman English history ever being taught. Or why we did so much modern history but don’t remember the ‘Glorious’, American or French revolutions being covered.
Leftist doctrine teaches that inequality is injustice – that inequality is “exploitation and oppression”.
Karl Marx did not invent this doctrine, even Rousseau did not invent it – it is in Plato, and it is part of the justification for his “noble” lies, which are not noble at all.
Jews are often “tall poppies” often “over represented” in many areas of life.
So, according to leftist doctrine, Jews must be guilty of “injustice” – of “exploitation and oppression”.
So it is no surprise that Jews are hated – what is surprising, indeed astonishing, is that so many Jews SUPPORT these movements – support groups that want to utterly destroy Jews.
Whether it is intellectuals or successful business people – Jews often fall over themselves supporting groups that want to destroy Jews.
Whether it is the Black Panthers in the 1960s or BLM now – or a thousand other leftist groups who want to destroy Jews.
And it so often seems to surprise leftist Jews when the left comes to rob and murder them.
“But they are our friends – and they have turned on us!”
They were never friends, they always wanted to rob and murder Jews – you just shut your eyes, put your fingers in your ears, and went “la, la, la” to try (desperately try) and not notice the obvious.
Hamas and other such Islamic groups also teach that inequality is proof of “injustice” of “exploitation and oppression”. The Jews tend to have more stuff, the Jews tend to live better – so the Jews “must” be bad.
The left sense that such Islamic groups are fellow supporters of “Social Justice”, supporters of plundering, and the left are correct on this – the Islamic groups do support “Social Justice” (an evil doctrine).
“But Paul – some Jews also support Social Justice”, I know that (see my previous comment) and it is totally mad that these Jews (and they are normally NOT poor Jews – they are intellectuals or successful business people) support “Social Justice” which is a knife at the throat of Jews.
I do not support the evil that is “Social Justice” and I am poor – but Larry Fink, Mark Zuckerberg and many other wealthy people support this “Social Justice” doctrine which would logically logically lead to them, and their families, being robbed and murdered.
By the way – the claims made in the first paragraph of a once famous Papal encyclical of 1891, that capitalism has led to a rise in poverty and a rise in immorality were utterly false.
It is just not true that there was more poverty or more immoral conduct in 1891 than in previous centuries – indeed the opposite was true.
So the basis of the “Social Teaching” (really economic teaching) that, for example, Mr Joseph Biden (like Mayor Curley of Boston more than a century ago, or the Mayor of Vienna in the late 19th and early 20th century) used to cite, from time to time, over the years, was (and is) false.
The idea that government spending or regulations will lead to less poverty than would otherwise be the case is false – it will, eventually, lead to more poverty than would otherwise be the case.
As for immorality – like Prime Minister Gladstone “of one thing I am certain, it will not be by the intervention of the state that the morality of the people will be improved”.
Such things as Prohibition in the United States did not lead to a more moral society – quite the reverse.
I love the label “wine women”. Id like to add vapid to it, vapid wine women. To bad vapid doesn’t start with a “w”.
You know, there are multiple motivations for these ideological freaks, including financial: lots of fake, make work jobs for the connected in media, academia, entertainment, foundations, NGOs, nonprofits…, government and private sector , and lots of peer pressure.
Then there is a kinda pathological “saviour”/herocomplex going on, sometimes it’s almost Munchauseny. They do like to piggy back on the grief and suffering of others. A lot of these people fancy themselves as avant garde, including nihilism and self loathing. They don’t see themselves as malevolent, they think they are heroic. Imaging yourself as the center of the world is hard work. Sure, some of them are sincere, narcissistic, but sincere.
My mother’s cousin, a 2nd generation, German speaking GI was in the contingent that accompanied Eisenhower into one of the camps. No body wanted to believe it. I go out of my way to repeat this story to my descendents.
The number of “own goal” Jews acting against their “own kind” and their presumed positions of social superiority are one of the best arguments I’ve ever been able to come up with against the conspiracy theorists.
Also, against the proposition that IQ tests really mean something in the larger scheme of things.
I mean, seriously… If there really were this grand international conspiracy of Jews against everyone else? Why do you know about it? Why aren’t you dead, the minute you start talking about it?
As well, if the Jews really are the beneficiaries of all this “High IQ” bullshit, why the hell do they keep pissing everyone off, all around them, wherever they live? If you were really smart, wouldn’t you be either so cunningly hidden that nobody even knew you existed, or working so effectively to help everyone around you that you were indispensable and everyone would leap to your defense…?
Current situation for Jews around the world argues so much against both of these propositions that it ain’t even funny. I mean, seriously… If the Jews were the nightmare creatures imagined by most of the anti-Semitic types, then they’d be committing suicide with what they do against them, no?
Can anyone hazard a guess as to why Hamas murdered and abducted people from Thailand?
Collaborators, just like the Israeli Muslims they kidnapped. If you weren’t Jewish and you were there partying or hob-nobbing with Jews it’s because you were a Jewish collaborator.
…of course this sort of thing only really makes sense in the shrunken organ that Hamas supporters call a brain.
To everyone normal it’s errant nonsense.
@Exasperated…
I’m dying, over here. My friend, the naivete demonstrated by your question is just so, so precious. I want to skritch behind your ears, or something.
The alternative would be that I go off on you and call you a damned credulous fool with zero grasp on who you’re discussing.
One or the other.
Hamas a.) does not care. The Thais and Nepalese were found in the company of Jews, and consorting with them. This makes them targets. b.) if you think these uneducated cretins of Hamas are going to be able to even identify someone as Thai or Nepalese, let alone that they might know that such nations exist…? Yeah; you’ve clearly never met the sort of Arab halfwit that joins terrorist organizations like Hamas to be their cannon-fodder. If they had the education and ability to think such that they could identify foreigners as “not Jews, not targets”, they’d be somewhere else.
You’re kinda like that idiot woman down the street who wondered why the tourist’s lost pit bull shredded her Yorkie awhile back. It’s the nature of the beast, sheer vicious hatred being what they’re composed of.
Kirk:
Do you mind if I repost this on other websites?
Followers of Islam are often highly intelligent, and have a profound knowledge of various subjects (are learned) – the thing is that they follow the teachings of Muhammed. Which he claimed came from God – and which can NOT be changed.
A “reformer” who tried to change the doctrines of Islam or the language of prayers and scripture (as has been done in Christianity) would be killed – and perhaps not by some high authority, but rather by an ordinary believer (in Islam every believer is a warrior – with a duty of defending the faith – that is how a relatively small number of Muslims conquered the Persian Empire and most of the Byzantine Empire, as in these Empires most people were unarmed and servile).
Muhammed taught that non Muslims could be allowed to live – if the acted in a way that showed that they felt themselves subdued, paid the life tax (the tax to spare their lives) to Muslims, did not own weapons, acted in a submissive way, and so on.
As for people who claimed to be Muslims, but did not follow the teachings of Muhammed – Muhammed called them “hypocrites” and ruled that they should be executed.
It is wrong to assume that Muslims are either stupid or ignorant – they can be both highly intelligent and deeply learned, but to be a Muslim a person must follow the teachings (and personal example) of Muhammed.
Westerners often seem to assume that if Muslims were more intelligent or were more educated (not the same thing) they would behave differently – this shows a deep misunderstanding of Muslims and Islam.
A fatal misunderstanding – fatal because to underestimate Muslims can get you and your family killed. Do not underestimate your opponents – something that Israeli intelligence clearly did in the run up to October 7th.
I now have some images in my mind.
The Protestant Dr Martin Luther taking books out of the Bible – and translating others in a way that supported his opinions.
Or the Catholic “philosopher” Jacques Maritain reinterpreting the natural law so that it was now about such things as “holidays with pay” (his United Nations declaration of rights), and running off to sit at the feet of Saul Alinsky. Or his friend Pope Paul VI getting rid of the language and form of worship – and replacing it with stuff that was sketched out on the back of a napkin in a restaurant.
Do I really have to explain what Muslims (and without any need for orders) would do to people who tried to disfigure Islam in such a way?
It would be rather graphic.
There is no “turn the other cheek” or “pray for those who persecute you” in Islam – and there is, in Islam, no submission to authority (including people claiming to be Islamic authority) that seeks to “reform” (i.e. undermine) the faith – on the contrary such people are considered traitors to Islam and the penalty is death.
Recently a Bishop in Texas was removed by Pope Francis – not for any crime the Bishop had committed, but (translated from modernese) because the Bishop really did believe the doctrines that priests say they believe in – and acted in line with that.
The Bishop (by the name of Strickland) reacted by praying for the Pope – from a Christian point of view such a reaction makes sense (“pray for those who persecute you”), but it makes no sense at all from Islamic point of view.
Think about it – you are person of responsibility in Islam, and a superior has removed you because you believe in the surahs of the Koran and act on your beliefs. An Islamic reaction is not (can not be) to just pray for the person who has removed you – your Islamic duty is to remove them (physically). They have not only acted against you – they have attacked Islam, and sought to lead the faithful astray.
The penalty is clear.
Paul: I don’t know if you are admonishing my post or you are making a general observation. I do not underestimate Hamas. I’ve posted this question on another website. My question is directed at the apologists for Oct 7. For example it’s a response to this post on SDA: When will everybody admit the Jews got exactly what was coming to them? I ask why did Hamas kill people from Thailand and Nepal and abduct people from Thailand and the Philippines?
So far no apologist has responded. I think it is revealing.
Paul Marks said:
We continue to use a model for “intelligence” that is simply utterly inadequate and fundamentally erroneous.
I’ve encountered some of these “highly intelligent Muslims”, whose sole reference for being “intelligent” was their ability to spout nonsense from the Koran with utter ease and faculty. Take them somewhere outside that narrow range…? They make the products of our Ivy League look like geniuses.
Scholarship is not intelligence. It isn’t wisdom. It isn’t anything other than detailed esoteric knowledge that you can spout off on cue. I’ve met kids who could tell me every detail of every Pokemon ever, or every baseball stat in history (back when that was a thing…), and who sounded exactly as intelligent about their monomania as your typical Islamic “scholar” about the sayings of their Prophet. Same thing with some really old-school Maoists I’ve known; the ability to spout off creed from the Little Red Book ain’t a marker of intelligence, and neither is debating which sura applies to a given situation.
You have to ask the ugly unspoken question when encountering one of these idiots, of any stripe: What does it matter? What impact does memorizing the various made-up features of all the Pokemon have on a person’s life? Because, that’s about all it is, in the end: Extraneous knowledge of zero value. To anyone or any situation.
Sure, they sound smart. They do. But… Are they? Is there any application for being able to win at Trivial Pursuit? What’s so impressive about that, pray tell?
People who’re impressed by that crap are almost always mistaking the flash for the bang, the smoke for the fire. The actual substance simply isn’t there.
Mastery of esoterica is meaningless, and I’ve yet to run into an “Islamic Intellectual” that everyone is so impressed by who didn’t also possess a set of superstitions and conspiracy theories that absolutely and profoundly negate any appraisal of them as “intelligent beings”. If they were actually intelligent, the inherent contradictions and lies built into their indoctrination of religion would have long since occurred to them.
And, of course, they’d likely be dead for asking questions, like “Why is my all-powerful god telling me to lie to everyone… And, why does my religion name Satan as the “Father of Lies”, and I’ve never connected the two…?”
Pimps and shills
Ugly and shrill
Eager for their Nazi thrill.
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