Anti-Semitism Is Back. Will You Stand By Or Stand up?

[Behind the Aegis]

THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!

Erin Schrode, a promising 25-year-old Jewish woman, announces her candidacy for U.S. Congress. In response, she is bombarded by hundreds of anti-Semitic messages: “Fire up the oven.” “Kike.” “Get out of my country, kike. Get to Israel where you belong. That or the oven. Take your pick.” This did not happen in the 1930s. It happened last month in California.

An Oberlin College professor, Joy Karega, posted a photo of Jacob Rothschild, a member of a well-known Jewish banking family, which read: “We own nearly every central bank in the world. We financed both sides of every war since Napoleon. We own your news, the media, your oil and your government.” This was not published in Gleichschaltung, a Nazi newspaper. This was on her Facebook page.

Students at UC Berkley woke up one morning this past year to the words, “Zionists should be sent to the gas chamber” painted on a building.

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Suddenly, mainstream culture is finding cover for the age-old hatred of Jews. They’ve figured it out. So long as the attack is lightly-battered and flash fried in a light coat of anti-Israel sentiment, and as long as you pretend you are fighting for “human rights,” the rise of anti-Semitism is socially acceptable. It shouldn’t be. It’s can’t be. Not again.

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[marybourg]

1. And,I'm sorry to say , the left is largely responsible

for making this part of the mainstream.

[MosheFeingold]

4. Sadly Correct

The tolerance of lies about Jewish people and Israel, in particular, is absurd.

I think it is tolerated because Evangelicals like Israel and Jewish people --- and anything they like must be bad.

Well, Ronald Reagan liked jelly beans and Israel. I was happy to agree with him on both, despite disagreeing with him about basically everything else.

[EllieBC]

2. It never left. It's just ok again to express it.

We are pretty much OTD, but I worry about our families on both sides and our friends who are very visibly Jewish. I now wonder if my grandfather was right and our "friends" are always just lying in wait to turn on us.

And I think the only reason Bernie Sanders being Jewish was ok was he was the "right" kind of Jew. Not observant and not an out and proud Zionist.

[question everything]

3. Where is her district?

It has been like that for over 40 years. Many young Arabs, from the West Bank, but also from North Africa, started going to colleges in Europe - France, mostly - and in this country. And they too advantage of the left tendencies on campuses, of siding with the under dogs and - I know I sound like a Republican - the PC and anti establishment.

Thus, since administrations have largely supported Israel, the PC called for supporting the Palestinians and attacking Israel.

I think that most of us here do not support the annexation policy of successive Israeli governments. But, from experience - mine, at least - realized that disagreeing with an Israeli policy can quickly develop into anti semitism.