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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Anti-Semitism on the Left

Karin McQuillan has an interesting piece in American Greatness concerning the anti-semitism coming from the left.


https://amgreatness.com/2019/01/23/leftist-jew-hatred-has-come-to-america/#.XEyd5z8Hayh.email

Below is what I added in the comments section.

"My experience as a gentile teaching 18 years part-time at the Univ of California at Irvine convinced me that the focal point for the resurgence of anti-semitism in the US is on our university campuses. The main purveyors of anti-semitism today are Muslims (not all, of course). It is the pro-Palestinian crowd that has made the Israel-Palestinian conflict a hot button issue with the result that Jewish students are being bullied and intimidated-especially if they defend Israel. University administrators, to their shame, are too cowardly to stand up for their Jewish students.
In addition, most Jewish organizations deny the problem exists because they are too embedded to the universities and wed to the knowledge that they depend on having Jewish students attend the university rather than go somewhere else. Groups like Hillel and the Jewish Federations have had a conflict of interest. ADL ignored the problems at UC Irvine. They were missing in action.
To make things worse, inter-faith rabbis would rather join hands with their Muslim counterparts and bemoan anti-semitism coming from white nationalist, KKK-types and neo-Nazis rather than confront anti-semitism from Islamic quarters. In early 2017 I attended one of those inter-faith events at Temple Bat Yahm in Newport Beach and listened as speaker after speaker attacked Trump and his supporters as being the main culprits. Not a word about Islamic anti-semitism, of course.
All anti-semitism must be condemned, but in my view the biggest problem in the US is the marriage between the left with the pro-Palestinian, pro-Arab crowd, anti-Israel (sic). Sadly, that also includes some misfit, leftist Jews."

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