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The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending
The Atlantic ^ | 03 04 2024 | Franklin Foer

Posted on 03/04/2024 6:28:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Stacey Zolt Hara was in her office in downtown San Francisco when a text from her 16-year-old daughter arrived: “I’m scared,” she wrote. Her classmates at Berkeley High School were preparing to leave their desks and file into the halls, part of a planned “walkout” to protest Israel. Like many Jewish students, she didn’t want to participate. It was October 18, 11 days after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel.

Zolt Hara told her daughter to wait in her classroom. She was trying to project calm. A public-relations executive, Zolt Hara had moved her family from Chicago to Berkeley six years earlier, hoping to find a community that shared her progressive values. Her family had developed a deep sense of belonging there.

But a moral fervor was sweeping over Berkeley High that morning. Around 10:30, the walkout began. Jewish parents traded panicked reports from their children. Zolt Hara heard that kids were chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” a slogan that suggests the elimination of Israel. Rumors spread about other, less coy phrases shouted in the hallways, carrying intimations of violence. Jewish students were said to be in tears. Parents were texting one another ideas about where in the school their children could hide. Zolt Hara placed a call to the dean of students. By her own admission, she was hysterical. She says the dean hung up on her.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Israel; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; antizionism; berkeley; foer; franklinfoer; jews; liberalism; michaelmoore; obamalegacy; palestinians; rop; shj; theatlantic; thenewrepublic; tnr; ucberkeley; worldwar3
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To: Jonty30

Same happened with the American nominal Christian.


41 posted on 03/04/2024 7:27:19 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

BTTT


42 posted on 03/04/2024 7:29:33 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: yesthatjallen
hoping to find a community that shared her progressive values. Her family had developed a deep sense of belonging there

I think I see the problem here.

43 posted on 03/04/2024 7:30:57 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Olog-hai

You’re right. It’s the same kind of person. They transferred the religious sensibilities from God unto the government.


44 posted on 03/04/2024 7:31:01 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: Drew68

Anti-Semitism on the right is cracking jokes about Jews being tight with money …
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money. Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money—consequently from practical, real Judaism—would be the self-emancipation of our time. […]

… Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world—both the world of men and nature—of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.

The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. …

Karl Marx, “On ‘The Jewish Question’”
So is Karl Marx “on the right” because you falsely associate this kind of joke-cracking to be on the right? which it is not—I have only heard people on the left make these jokes.
45 posted on 03/04/2024 7:32:09 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

The article—which has many flaws—says at least one part of the truth out loud.

Leftist Jews thought they were not “white”.

Now the left has decided that they are.


46 posted on 03/04/2024 7:35:51 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: montag813

They still cannot condemn antisemitism on the Left without saying “but the Right too.”


47 posted on 03/04/2024 7:37:15 PM PST by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: yesthatjallen
Self-loathing Jews are reaping what they've sowed. Jews in Nazi Germany couldn't understand why they were being targeted. They'd worked hard to be successful, and accepted as German first, not Jewish. Many of them served in Germany's military, and died for their country in WWI. And then it all went to $hit. Hitler took away the German citizenship of every full, half, and quarter-Jew in the country. History is repeating itself in more ways than one.

When Nazi Germany passed their racial laws, thousands of Jews lost their livelihoods. The purges were more extensive in the big cities, and Nazis who were unemployed, but not necessarily suitable for the job, came on as replacements. This country is doing the same thing here, by not hiring the most qualified person for the job, but the person of the right color.

The more I learn about the history of Nazi Germany, the more I see the same things happening here.

48 posted on 03/04/2024 7:40:18 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MattMusson

Exactly—and none of those kids had any negative experiences in the real world from anybody on the right. Their hatred of the right was based on pure prejudice and myth.

The real world is the left hates them—at their schools—in their communities—in front of their faces.


49 posted on 03/04/2024 7:41:52 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: yesthatjallen
I was raised in the heart of the Midwest and attended public school (my parents were not religious). I had one high school teacher who would say, upon my entering the room, "Sniff, sniff, I smell gas. Hitler knew what to do with you people!" He also told me that my skin would make a beautiful lampshade. He was untouchable, as he was a winning track coach. Another teacher in that high school used to put his arm around me and declare, "I love Jewish people!" It was very obvious that he did not. It was the TEACHERS in my high school way more than the students who were blatant antisemites.

I remember being kicked off the honor roll due to a check mark indicating poor behavior. What had I done? I refused to sing Xmas carols in December in music class. The 10 other Jewish kids (out of a class of 2,000) prodded me and urged me to just sing the songs. I refused. I had no problem singing "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" and other songs like that, but no power on earth would move me to sing the religious songs declaring worship of someone I did not. So I endured being put out into the hall during class, getting a checkmark for what they termed misbehavior, and getting knocked off the honor roll. I never told my parents about any of this, as all they would have done was yell a lot and make fools of themselves and me at the school. It was no surprise that I took up the religion my assimilationist parents had cast aside to "get along" and dedicated myself to learning my history and the intricacies of Jewish law. I bow to no one but Ha Kaddosh Baruch Hu (The Holy One, Blessed Be He"). Libtards and antisemites, be damned.

50 posted on 03/04/2024 7:42:29 PM PST by EinNYC
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To: cgbg

Guess who is driving the anti-white sentiment amongst the left.


51 posted on 03/04/2024 7:44:54 PM PST by Jonty30 (I may not know as much about American history and law as I like, but I know more than most liberals.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bkmrk


52 posted on 03/04/2024 7:47:10 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: EinNYC

What part of the heart of the Midwest was so liberal?


53 posted on 03/04/2024 7:49:02 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Jonty30

They thought they were driving—but it looks like the passengers are getting a bit unruly...

Lol.


54 posted on 03/04/2024 7:49:35 PM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: yesthatjallen

I agree. It’s certainly not conservatives.

My tribesmen need to wise up.


55 posted on 03/04/2024 7:50:25 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Jews invested their faith in a distinct strain of liberalism that combined robust civil liberties, the protection of minority rights, and an ethos of cultural pluralism. “


They thought that they were going to gain political power and wealth from promoting massive non-white immigration and Leftism in every Western country.

And now they have been bit by their own dog, and they are singing the (culturally appropriated) blues.


56 posted on 03/04/2024 7:50:36 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: central_va

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Sobran


57 posted on 03/04/2024 7:51:13 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: In_Iowa_not_from

Jews did not create the Democrats.

Andrew Jackson did.
Woodrow Wilson.
FDR
The Kennedy klan.
The Klan.
LBJ
Jimmy Carter

I don’t see a Jew on the list. I see a bunch of people who have always hated Jews.


58 posted on 03/04/2024 7:57:41 PM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: Reverend Wright

Leftist Jews did, and they still do.


59 posted on 03/04/2024 8:06:14 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: DoodleBob

He was Holocaust denier. However, when you work to tare down the foundations of a Biblical Nation, you get blowback.


60 posted on 03/04/2024 8:08:06 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GFLOBALISM ! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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