A member of Palestine Action, an anti-Israel group, slashed and sprayed paint on a portrait of Arthur James Balfour at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24
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A pro-Palestinian protester destroys a painting of Lord Balfour at the University of Cambridge.

As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported a "home for the Jewish people".

10:48 AM · Mar 8, 2024

It's also important to note that the "settler state" is not just Israel. They also regard the United States as a "settler state." You can see here on X the huge hammer that they carried during the protests in NYC, that says "From the US to Palestine, abolish the settler state." Thousands of people walked behind that sign. They marched through NYC calling for an end to the United States, at least as presently constituted. Not exactly a comforting thought when we've already seen how extreme some of these folks can be.

If that wasn't clear enough, University of Minnesota Professor Melanie Yazzie spelled it out during a wild video taken at an indigenous anti-Israel event that you can see on X. "We're all indigenous people who come from nations who are under occupation by the United States government," she said.

And, of course, the U.S. bankrolls the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. They’re one and the same, really.

So it’s our responsibility as people who are within the United States to go as hard as possible to decolonize this place because that will reverberate all across the world. Because the U.S. is the greatest predator empire that has ever existed.

We want U.S. out of everywhere. We want U.S. out of Palestine. We want U.S. out of Turtle Island. Right? And that the goal is to dismantle the settler project that is the United States for the freedom and the future of all life on this planet. It very much depends on that.

In case it wasn't clear, "Turtle Island" refers to North America that they want to "decolonize" and get the U.S. out of. //

Xanthro
3 hours ago
Nobody is afraid of them, or even their movement. In open conflict, they would all be dead within a month.
What we fear, is having to kill the to protect ourselves. When you advocate genocide against those that are stronger than you, it is a recipe for your own demise.
The only new twist in this historical drama, is that the victors would feel bad at having been forced to kill you.
These morons wouldn't feel guiltily raping and murdering you, but they are not actually decent people. They are damaged individuals who want to justify their violent urges, but they are a tiny minority, it is just the have forgotten the latter fact.

My appearance on the Mark Reardon Show about antisemitism on campuses: “Jews end up becoming a proxy for everything that these groups hate about our own society. So if you did one of Kamala Harris’s Venn diagrams and you had things that were over overlapping … anti-American, anti-Capitalist, anti-Israel, there is a huge overlap.”

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The recent testimonies of the three university presidents (Claudine Gay of Harvard, Sally Kornbluth of MIT, and... University of Pennsylvania’s Liz McGill) concerning their inaction about endemic anti-Semitism on their campuses have probably done more damage to higher education than any recent event in memory. (And note there was not a white, male, heterosexual supposed oppressor to be found among the enlightened). …

The three blind mice could not even lie well. Like nearly all contemporary university presidents, they have long revoked admissions, suspended students, or relieved faculty from teaching for any language, expression, or advocacy they considered incorrect, which translates as anything not compatible with wokism or DEI. Invoking ‘freedom of speech’ to disguise their moral cowardice is pathetic when they have never on their campuses believed in freedom of speech. One incorrect word about someone trans, a misplaced pronoun, or a clumsy reference to a non-white student, and the offender would be punished immediately—followed by the usual performance-art, virtue-signaling, “this is not who we are”/“there is no place for such hatred on this campus” memo from a careerist dean or bully provost. …
1:04 PM · Dec 9, 2023

Dolce Far Niente | December 2, 2023 at 8:11 pm
More of the myth that Muslims are being subjected to hate crimes!! in this country.
In 2022
Religion-Based Crimes: There were 2,042 reported incidents based on religion. More than half of these (1,122) were driven by anti-Jewish bias. Incidents involving anti-Muslim (158) and anti-Sikh (181) sentiments remained at similar levels compared to 2021.

*Note that there were nearly 10x as many Jewh8 crimes as (boo-hoo) crimes against Muslims. But we’re led to believe these number are skyrocketing. //

Valerie | December 2, 2023 at 8:53 pm
Susan Sarandon probably does not know that the Palestinians have engaged in thirty years of child abuse.

They specifically and deliberately train their children to murder their neighbors.

https://x.com/morphiaz/status/1726007506357395729?s=20

And it works

Hamas & the Attack on Israel | Douglas Murray The Nov 7 attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmivUM0tlwc

All of the above explains why some Muslim man asked this painful question:

“Can you tell me what Islam we are talking about?”

That question is asked by an Israeli Arab man whose wife was killed by Hamas

https://x.com/SaturnMercury1/status/1726367268773499199?s=20

UN speech Son of Hamas founder Mosab Yousef — Hamas needs to be destroyed.

https://media.gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/152/949/571/playable/4fb3c0ab14911462.mp4

Since World War II, most American Jews have believed that the more secular American society is, the more secure their status.

This has been, as I have argued all of my life, a colossal error. Indeed, it may turn out to be a fatal error.

With the outburst of unprecedented levels of antisemitism, American Jews are living the famous warning: “Beware what you wish for; you just may get it.”

The primary reason American Jews have lived in the most Jew-friendly, even Jew-honoring, country in history is that most Americans have been Christian. But we must make a key distinction here. American Christians have been not just Christian, as Europe was, but Judeo-Christian. //

In a famous study published in the American Political Science Review, Donald Lutz, a professor of political science at the University of Houston, surveyed the political literature of the American founding. He found that the Bible was cited more frequently than any other work or any other author. The Bible accounted for approximately one-third of the Founders’ citations. The single most frequently cited work was Deuteronomy, the fifth of the five books of the Torah.

The late great Catholic theologian Michael Novak wrote that the roots of the doctrine that “all men are created equal lie in Judaism, carried around the world by Christians.”

As American society and Americans individually become less religious, i.e., less Christian, the Jews become less significant.

Yet, many, perhaps most, American Jews, have bought—and promulgated—the idea that Jewish security in America lies in secularizing, i.e., de-Christianizing, America. //

Look around, my fellow Jews. Are you happy with the results of the secularization of America? Do you feel more secure? Or less?

I ask you: Is it not obvious that when more Americans attended church every Sunday, America’s Jews were far more secure?

anon-y65w frylock234
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So, pandas with the bamboo may be with the koalas in the obligate herbivore category. Slow and derpy is a great description! //

What other evidence do we need that this isn't about peaceful Muslims just seeking a secular utopia? It is clear that this is about the "Palestinian" pursuit of genocide against Jews, and they keep telling everyone that. Why else would they go out of their way to partially destroy a memorial to a man whose only sin is being Jewish? That wasn't a memorial to the State of Israel they threw red paint on and scrawled "free Palestine" on.

Understand that these people do not want to assimilate and live in unity. They want to conquer. Unable to do so militarily, Islamists have settled on activism as a means to enact their will, and they've found willing allies in naive, vapid leftists who see everything through the prism of the oppressed and the oppressor. It doesn't matter that no entity in history has oppressed and colonized more people than Islam. Muslims are generally poor and generally not white (at least not in the contemporary sense). Thus, according to liberal orthodoxy, they garner a high-ranking position on the intersectional hierarchy.

Whatever your thoughts on institutions firing people for social media outrage, any institution that cannot distinguish support for Hamas butchery from opposition to Hamas butchery is morally bankrupt.

It was much different than a pro-Hamas rally, as New York Sun publisher Dovid Efune noted:

1. Nobody was assaulted.

2. There were many American flags.

3. There was no racism or bigotry.

4. Nobody was hiding behind a face mask.

5. Concern was expressed for innocents on the other side.

6. It was bipartisan.

7. It was much, much larger! //

rally organizers had three goals:

The biggest pro-Israel rally since the October 7 terrorist attack by Hamas is expected to take place Tuesday on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Organized by the Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the rally has three main goals:

MARCH for Israel

MARCH to Free Hostages

MARCH Against Antisemitism //

President Isaac Herzog of Israel spoke to the cheering crowd by video feed from the Western Wall in Jerusalem, telling them, “There is no greater and more just cause than this... Today we come together as a family, one big mishpachah, to march for Israel.”

Other politicians joined as well, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Sen. Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). //

Andrew Solender @AndrewSolender
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Source passes along this photo of Sen. John Fetterman at the March for Israel with an Israeli flag draped around him:
2:55 PM · Nov 14, 2023 //

houdini1984
13 hours ago
mishpachah

Extended family, which captures the feelings of most Christians when we think about our Jewish brethren. Well-chosen words by Herzog.

Sadly, this is the thing that most of this nation's antisemites don't grasp. They look at Israel with their Marxist eyes and see an oppressor. They see a few million Jews surrounded by 400 million Arabs and actually believe that the tiny nation of survivors is the literal heir to the Third Reich. We look at tiny Israel and see the people who gave us our Christ. We see the people who God chose thousands of years ago, and has promised to redeem in His good time. We see plucky little survivors who've overcome the worst evils time and time again.

Our extended family indeed. God bless Israel, and God bless the United States of America. Lord knows we both need it.

The irony of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on antisemitism on college campuses getting interrupted by antisemitic pro-Hamas demonstrators is not lost on us here at RedState. And it furthers the proof and the narrative that there is not just a rise in antisemitism in this country; it is being embraced by the left. The fact that only 22 Democratic members of the House voted to censure Tlaib gives proof that the left is much more accepting of hatred.

The left touts itself as the party and ideology of inclusivity, tolerance, and love for all (except for conservatives), so how could one claim otherwise? There are no groups on the right that openly espouse antisemitic ideologies and hatred. The left loves to say that we are nazis or cold-hearted racists, but the left refuses to accept that Nazism and fascism are leftist ideologies. They both desire big government control. limited freedoms, high regulations, high taxes, etc, those are not conservative principles at all.

When all the social justice groups of the left all coming out for Hamas, Palestine, and the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel, they have lost the moral high ground that you claim to have controlled. On college campuses all over the country, leftist groups are unabashedly calling for the denouncement of Israel and proudly supporting the Hamas attacks on Israel.

By destroying posters of Hamas’ Israeli hostages, radical leftists have denied that these hostages are victims or even people. //

The left’s destruction of the Israeli hostage posters tells us all their virtue-signaling signs are an utter sham. “Love Lives Here”? Not so much. “All Are Welcome Here”? Not if you are an Israeli or apparently even a Jew. “Reject Hate”? The left’s acts of destruction are nothing but hate’s acceptance in its vilest and most violent of forms.

News surfaced over the weekend that a daycare center in Germany would be removing Anne Frank's name at the behest of "parents with migrant backgrounds." Frank is, of course, one of the most well-known victims of the Holocaust, and her diary is considered to be an important documentation of the plight of European Jews during World War II.

The "Anne Frank" daycare center in Tangerhütte, Germany, which has reportedly been in operation for decades, will be getting the name change because, according to the daycare center's director, "parents with migrant backgrounds feel uncertain about the name and find it challenging to explain to their children." //

The Western world, and particularly countries like Germany, have created a mess with their short-sighted immigration policies. Many of the migrants they accept refuse to assimilate into the cultures of their adopted countries, and woke politicians trip over themselves not to offend -- all in the name of "diversity."

Here's a short history lesson for those who want to erase the bad stuff or refuse to acknowledge it: Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. She was a 15-year-old Jewish girl.

Decolonization is a polite, academic-sounding phrase for genocide. These people don't want you to talk smack about our big-D, high-T ancestors settling this land and celebrating "Indigenous People's Day." They want to kill you. And they want you to go along with it just like the machinery of the Holocaust couldn't have functioned without the kapos and sonderkommandos who bought themselves a precious few days by killing others.

Decolonization is a strategy of losers directed at winners. It is a means by which members of failed cultures want to replace successful ones.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC
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Now more than ever, we must emphasize the importance of separating people from governments.

Antisemitism is disgusting and unacceptable. We have a responsibility to defend our Jewish brothers, sisters, and siblings from hatred. No movement of integrity should tolerate it. Ever.
1:30 PM · Oct 30, 2023 //

Jewish New York politico Dov Hikind, an ex-Democrat Assemblyman who has been a frequent critic of AOC since the start of her time in Congress, was not buying it. At all:

You think this will give you cover for when historians write about the insane period when certain members of Congress spewed the talking points of Hamas?

You don’t get to foment Jew hatred 364 days of the year and condemn it once and then receive absolution for fueling violent antisemitism!

There was also this reminder about how AOC could have voted to help Israeli civilians during another time when it mattered - but didn't:

Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV
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In a related story, AOC was against U.S. funding for the Iron Dome, which has saved countless Israeli lives.

"I have heard from many people my whole life that antisemitism is growing, that the Holocaust — while we say we will never forget — many have forgotten. And the swiftness with which the global population has seized upon the massacre of Jewish civilians living inside of a border — the swiftness with which the world has stepped up to redefine terrorism, to redefine statehood, to redefine the right of a people to exist — nothing has prepared me, or any of us, for this. //

it is clear that there is a strain of antisemitism that is alive and well. //

"This is not acceptable. It's not normal. We should not normalize it. There is no excuse for calling for a genocide of an entire people. Period. Full stop. //

universities that cannot find a way to unanimously, undeniably, irrevocably denounce any organization that celebrates the massacre of Jewish people. Many universities cannot figure out how to unequivocally state that organizations that incite violence and hatred by calling for an end to the Jewish people are not welcome to receive funding from the government of that university. This is astounding. //

I just finished watching Mayim Bialik's recent post about how she sees things, and it took October 7th for her to see things. And...I'm just so...I don't know...I don't understand why it has taken so long for people to see what a lot of us have been screaming for the last four years, especially — and I hate to say it — especially the progressive Jews in America.

"You thought marching with these leftist organizations meant that you were one of them and that they supported you. You failed to read the charter of Black Lives Matter, that had antisemitism written in it from the beginning. You failed to notice the antisemitism at the Women's Marches by Linda Sarsour on stage — one of the people on the board of the Women's March.

"You failed to listen — you failed to see. And what? Now you see? Now you're awake? You're disappointed in the world? I'm disappointed in you. I'm disappointed that it had to take a massacre of the Jewish people for your eyes to be opened. //

Bialik appears to be undergoing a rude (and heartbreaking) awakening. I understand the desire to seek peace and to hope for the best — I share in it, even. Yet Nazarian's response serves as a poignant reminder not to be so quickly dismissive of those who warn of evil's swift approach, notwithstanding those sentiments.

Yes, the President of the United States let "Muslim-American officials" edit his speech to ensure it wasn't too focused on those massacred by Hamas. You see, an equivalency must always be drawn. Sure, murdering Jews in cold blood for being Jews is terrible, but is it really any worse than claims of rising Islamophobia? //

The Biden administration has become an adult daycare where supposedly "marginalized" people get listening sessions and special concessions regardless of how personally oppressed they actually are. That leads to the absurdity of Israel, a country that just suffered the largest slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, being pushed down the ladder in favor of more preferred groups. //

I understand that there are Palestinians in Gaza who have died needlessly due to what their leadership has brought upon them. With that said, when analyzing any war, you have to do so from a realistic footing, and it is simply ridiculous for Palestinians (and Muslims in general) in America to complain about being "totally left out" regarding messages of sympathy when it was Palestinians who marched across the Israeli border and butchered 1,400 people. //

In 2021, for example, the FBI recorded five times as many anti-Jewish hate crimes compared to anti-Muslim hate crimes. To the extent that Islamophobia exists, it is nowhere near the threat of antisemitism. In fact, it barely outstrips anti-Catholic hate crimes (9.6 percent vs. 6.1 percent).

According to a new Harvard/Harris poll, only the police and military are more respected than Israel. It’s heartening that Americans overwhelmingly support civilization over the Islamofascists of Gaza and Iran.

Then again, “Palestinian Authority” gets 17 percent support, and Hamas has a 14 percent positive rating — which is to say, 14 percent of your neighbors have taken the side of a medieval religious cult that’s vicious enough to cut Jewish babies out of mothers before beheading them. If 14 percent of Americans supported ISIS or al Qaeda or the Nazi Party, we would probably be concerned. //

According to the Harvard poll crosstabs, 36 percent of “liberals” of all ages agreed that the Hamas attack on civilians was justified. 15 percent of “conservatives.” While antisemitism isn’t the exclusive domain of left or right, full-blown Hamas apologists are now deeply embedded in left-wing institutions such as universities, major newspapers, cable news, progressive politics, think tanks, and the State Department. They have the kind of disproportionate reach and institutional respect that cosplaying Nazis standing in front of Disney playing with themselves can only dream about.

Also according to the Harvard poll, a majority of 18- to 24-year-olds believe the killing of more than 1,200 Israeli and American civilians was justified. Nearly half of those 25 to 35 believe it was justified. That percentage might be a bit lower than what you find in The New York Times newsroom; nevertheless, it is only going to get worse. //

There were dozens of Charlottesville-type marches in the United States last week, with chants of genocide ringing in the air. They were attended largely by Muslim protesters, along with the hard left (including a number of self-hating Jews.) Though Jews are by far the most targeted religious minority in the United States, we have yet to have a big national conversation about the problem. No one in major media dares even bring it up.