Looks pretty bad out there, huh? In less than twenty years we’ve shifted in this country from considering anti-Semitism a sure sign of barbarity to having the left use it as a valid political point. Twenty years ago (and I was in high school so I was fairly naive) I would have told a person who claimed there would be pogroms in Europe against Jews starting up in the 21st century that they were paranoid, stupid or likely a combination of both. I would have been wrong.
The left, specifically the left in this country, has managed to cover up some of its very dark early history, as Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism admirably exposes. Some, but not all, and despite the “moderate” left Democrats long using the Ku Klux Klan as a paramilitary wing, right up into the 70s as a matter of fact, and despite the “Hard Left” being quite open about wanting to overthrow our country and establish a Soviet or Maoist style government (neither of which were welcoming to Jews, Gays or other minorities) Jews have long believed themselves at home on the left and have recruited other disenfranchised communities to join them.
In return the left, along with their Islamist allies, are preparing the way for a second Holocaust not just in Israel, but in Europe and even on our own shores. You think I’m hysterical? Over the weekend this was the news:
At yesterday’s NYC Gaza rally at least seven police officers were injured and Atlas has a report that a couple was physically attacked by Muslims while police stood by powerless to do anything.
A waiter in Woodbury, N.Y. ruined a Jewish wedding by blasting a tape of Muslims shouting Allah Akbar over the PA system.
Synagogues were vandalized in Chicago. Hey, wasn’t leftist group Rise Up planning attacks on Synagogues last week?
In Oslo, the Muslim/Leftist protesters showed up to a Pro-Israel rally with knives, bats and molotov cocktails and they used them on innocent people. Also in Oslo, Pro-Palestinian protesters used their children as shields to ward off police. Neocon Express has video.
Sweden’s Social Democrat party is openly supporting Hamas and had members in attendance at several violent rallies.
French Synagogues were fire bombed in France.
In Denmar, protesters chanted “We want to kill all the Jews. All Jews should be slain, they have no right to exist.”
Muslims took the streets from the police in London in a brazen display designed to show the world who the real power is in England.
Francesca Segal in The Guardian wrote that she no longer feels safe as a Jew in England.
In Spain pro-Hamas protesters brandished guns and were photographed carrying a sign that says “You can put my mortgage up your Holocaust.” Barcepundit has more.
The U.N. General Assempbly President has claimed Jews are “like Nazis.” Therefore they get what’s coming to them I suppose.
As Gates of Vienna says, it’s 1932 in Europe. But this time, America is no safe haven as the Left/Islamist alliance pushes European style anti-Semitism into the American mainstream. And when they’re done with the Jews it will be Gays, Republicans, Libertarians, Christians, Pagans and any other group that might not fit into their nihilistic vision of a Communist state propped up by a violent population of Islamic Imperialists.
The time to draw a line in the sand is now, and it is time for new alliances if the Post-Enlightenment West is to survive. Abandon your pre-conceived notions of the Right if you’re a Liberal Jew and know that while many on the right make room for Classical Liberalism (and clearly for FDR style policies) the left will have less and less room for those their new allies are bred to hate. You will soon be expelled by the left and no amount of debate will derail the genocidal ambition of the modern Islamists, and the left is more likely to help them than stand up to them.
And what of the rest of us? This violence is a call to action. Just as the Republicans fought to free the slaves despite being despised until this day for doing so, it is time for the Right to stand with Israel not just in word but in deed. Synagogues need protection, our Jewish friends need support and Israel needs us.
We must attend rallies, we must take up collections to help rebuild the houses of worship being destroyed, and if need be we must fight. When a young couple is surrounded and attacked by Leftists or Muslims we can no longer wait for the police to stop it. We must be as militant as the left is and the time for polite disagreement is over. If we do as the Europeans did prior to WWII and wait for things to get better, who will we turn to when they don’t?