Posted on 12/30/2019 4:51:26 AM PST by Kaslin
Barely two weeks ago, on December 12, Ben Shapiro wrote an article titled, “The Left’s Grotesque Politicization Of Anti-Semitism.” On Sunday, December 29, we were given a glaring example of this grotesque, leftist politicization of antisemitism, as New York’s Mayor de Blasio blamed the Hanukkah stabbings on “hateful speech” emanating from Donald Trump.
During an interview on Fox News, de Blasio said, “An atmosphere of hate has been developing in this country over the last few years. A lot of it is emanating from Washington and it's having an effect on all of us.”
When asked directly if he was pointing the blame at Trump, he replied, “not just the president,” adding, “we need a different tone, starting in Washington ... that encourage this country to actually find some unity and some common ground.”
So, it is “not just the president” who is to blame for the recent spike in attacks on Jews, especially in greater New York. But the president, according to de Blasio, certainly shares some of the blame. (Note that CNN reported on Sunday that, “There was an attack on Jewish New Yorkers almost every day last week.”)
After all, it was President Trump who, earlier this month, issued an executive order to combat antisemitism in America.
And it was Trump who undid our disastrous deal with Iran, thereby giving the nation of Israel a corporate sigh of relief.
And it was Trump who did what presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama would not do, moving our embassy to Jerusalem.
And it is Trump who is the first president with a Jewish child or Jewish grandchildren.
Of course he is partly responsible for the stabbing of ultra-Orthodox Jews at a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York. Who could not connect the dots?
During an interview on MSNBC, de Blasio also pointed to the rise of white supremacist groups, laying the blame for this on Trump as well. “But let’s be honest, he said, “the last three years everything has changed. Once hate gets normalized, it spreads like wildfire, and it takes a more violent form, and we’ve got to stop it now before we end up making the wrong kind of history.”
And how, pray tell, does the rise of white supremacy movements over the last three years explain blacks attacking white Jews, both at the kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey and the Hanukkah party in Monsey?
As Shapiro noted, “the Left has been able to cover for its own anti-Semitism problem by focusing in on the rise of white supremacist violence, connecting that violence with President Trump.”
To be clear, I’m not saying that antisemitism is a black phenomenon. Far from it. The synagogue shooters in Pittsburgh and Poway were white nationalists, and the Poway shooter professed to be a devout Christian as well.
Antisemitism is far more widespread and far more diabolical than to be blamed on one particular group or ethnicity.
But is a real error when the left sees antisemitism as a problem on the right.
And it is an even more serious error to blame President Trump when Jews are attacked by a machete-wielding intruder who was bent on murdering Jews. (Let’s not forget that the shooters in the Jersey City market allegedly had their sights on the Orthodox Jewish children studying nearby. Was that Trump’s fault too?)
Certainly, we must confront rightwing antisemitism wherever we find it. (According to the AJC Survey of American Jews on Antisemitism in America, 89 percent of those polled thought that “the extreme political right” posed a real antisemitic threat. In contrast, 64 percent felt the same about “the extreme political left.” Whether this is perception or reality is hard to determine with exactitude.)
And where we find it among professing Christians, we must confront it all the more forthrightly, since to hate the Jews is to deny the faith.
But we cannot ignore leftwing antisemitism, especially on our campuses. (As noted by the FRC, “Most Americans would be mortified to learn that the colleges and universities to which they pay a king’s ransom have become safe havens for an increasingly noticeable anti-Semitism that has produced an environment of bullying, intimidation, and fear for Jewish students and academics. This newly minted anti-Semitism has entwined itself into the fabric of many educational institutions via a predominant multicultural ideology that pronounces Israel to be its enemy.”)
More importantly, we cannot turn violent antisemitic attacks into a political football, to be tossed around for partisan gain.
Mayor de Blasio, the blood is still fresh in Monsey, and two victims are fighting for their lives.
Let’s put the blame, then, where it belongs: on demonically inspired, irrational, hatred of the Jews.
We can stand together to fight this evil.
In fact, we must stand together, regardless of our ethnicity, our skin color, or our political affiliation.
Let us say with one voice as fellow-Americans, “Not on our watch!”
No, “The Squad” is.
de Blasio is stupid and hateful. He is a reflection of Manhattan.
I have never met a Democrat that wasn’t full of Rage, Anger and Hate. Who the hell is this idiot talking about? His demented dreams?
He knows that the worst hatred for Jews is found among Blacks and m*slims, but would never admit it.
Pointing at the good kid: "He did it!"
Why would Fox News give this moron even 5 seconds of air time to spew his lies and hate?
BULLSH!
"Devout Christians" don't go around killing people. This is a smear on Christians. Just like David Duke "professed" to being a Republican.
Racism; from slavery, to the KKK, to segregation to opposition of civil rights legislation, is solely owned by...the RATs.
Refuse to share that "white guilt". Republicans freed the slaves.
1400 years speaks for itself.
De Blasio is such a loser.
All that Democrat, DeBlasio needs to do is look in the nearest mirror at himself, & fellow Democrats, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, Waters, AOC & her band of Jew & Israel haters and the rest of the entire Democrat Party, and he will find his Multiple Jew and Israel Haters including some American Jews themselves!!! Case closed!!!
Americans...all, wise up...the current Democrat Party needs to be totally destroyed politically...period!!! Go, Trump, Go, USA, Go, MEGA/MAGA!!!
The translation into real Englsh of all this “The Hate is Trump’s fault” is:
“Why do you keep making me hit you?”
Really.
These Democrats are as deranged as an abusive spouse.
The “HATE” DeBlasio is talking about is the pervasive recognition of the moral bankruptcy of liberals. Progressives are incapable of believing that any criticism of them has validity. They are gods walking in our midst, gifting us with their wisdom and benevolence. Our rejection of their blandishments is proof that we are Deplorables.
That these tin pot rulers are shallow, ignorant fools is as obvious as new snow.
Super devout radical Roman Catholic Priests acting in the name of God and spain enslaved and slaughtered tens of thousands of Indians in the American South west and Mexico
Devought Christians did not just murder, they slaughtered in the name of God
The Christian radicals also killed attacked and killed the heretic French Christians who founded the colony called Fort Caroline
Is it just me, but it seems that the murder of Christians does not really cause much concern today.
Two Christians were murdered yesterday, and some Jews were stabbed. The stabbings take center stage in a frenzy of naval gazing and blame placing.
That's code for: "When certain members of our base decide to engage in a little 'horseplay criminality', unity demands that their victims shut up and take it."
Stabbing? It’s not crime — it’s knife violence.
I just read in another thread that one Christian was murdered. The second is fake news.
It doesn’t matter that liberals say, when they say the right is responsible for all the ills in the world the media will lap it up like warm milk!
It is about to the point of a shooting war and the liberals are the only ones fighting.
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