Gov. Scott Walker summarized it well over the weekend. Speaking of President Obama and the Iran “negotiations”, Walker said: “I’d love to play cards with this guy. He folds on everything.”

They won’t have to, it’ll be taken care of:
“Go back to the ovens, you need a big oven that’s what you need,”
They’ll act surprised ….

The President’s ever more rabid supporters in Moveon, the NetRoots, CodePink and faculty lounges across America are making it increasingly obvious that anti-Zionism/anti-Semitism is not an accidental by-product of this fight. As they say in the tech community, for the Left, anti-Semitism is a FEATURE, not a BUG.

Why? Much of today’s Progressive ideology is grounded in ‘social justice’ themes compatible with or actually nurturing Jew hatred: third world post-colonialism (West bad, Third World good, Israel an illegitimate Western outpost), anti-capitalism (a Jewish invention), a longing for utopian political innocence (get [Jewish] money out of politics), pacifism (neocon Jewish warmongers threaten humanity whereas the “people” want world peace), Occupy (secret [Jewish] banking interests corrupt politics and control [Jewish] media discourse, oppressing the 99%), philo-Islamism (Islam is the religion of the world’s poor and idealizes true equality and peace, in contrast to Jewish tribal ‘exclusivity’ and Christianity’s 2000 year history of violence against ‘the other’), NGO-ism (romantic globalism seeks to transcend all outmoded nationalisms, particularly illegitimate Jewish national aspirations).

Given that the Democratic party has lost its Scoop Jackson/Moynihan wing and is increasingly a creature of the NetRoots and Code Pinks, anti-Semitism has become more and more obvious. Progressivism’s core anti-Semitism is becoming socially acceptable by the PC guardians of our discourse.

San Francisco Occupy’s website, for example, distributed anti-Semitic rants straight out of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and labelled them as important, must-watch videos. The ANSWER coalition makes no secret of its Jew-hatred. And the President’s supporters are popularizing the dual loyalty, Jewish warmonger, Israel-firster, corrupting influence of Jewish money tropes beloved of the quite marginalized extreme Right and the now mainstream PC Left. (That the University of California needs to put policies in place to combat anti-Semitism AND finds that defining anti-Semitism is controversial tells you everything you need to know about the culture of the PC Left.)

It will be interesting to watch the American Jewish response. Conservatives in the US, Canada and the UK are the strongest and most unified voices against anti-Semitism and ant-Zionism (and have been in the US since the days of Bill Buckley who led the fight–in the late 1950’s–to make Jew hatred anathema on the mainstream Right). But this is mostly (and sadly) invisible to the US Jewish community.

Due to the (now quite irrelevant) memory 1930’s Republican anti-Semitism and the Jewish canonization of FDR, the community has voted overwhelmingly for the Democrats for the last 80 years. For an American jew, to vote Republican is almost akin to breaking a prohibition from Deuteronomy, the ultimate unclean act of political defilement, a forsaking of family and tradition. As I was told by a Jewish faculty colleague decades ago, “you’re a Jewish Republican and NOT a socialist? How can that be? You CAN’T (she screamed) be Jewish and not be on the Left.”

How American Jews handle cognitive dissonance will be interesting to watch.

I’m not sure the analogy works here. The term “Jewish” refers to a member of an ethnic group as well as to an adherent of a religious faith. Christianity has nothing to do with ethnicity.

neo, I disagree somewhat with what you are saying here or at least what you are implying. I agree of course with your overall point that leftist politics have greatly influenced how Jews vote – that is self-evident. However I think that in spite of this, in spite of such vocal organizations such as J Street that are less pro-Israel and in spite of the fact that younger American Jews may feel less emotional attachment to Israel than those of us who grew up during or just after the Holocaust, that American Jews are still overwhelmingly pro-Israel.

My belief is that there has simply been a huge amount of denial on the part of liberal Jews who over the years find it increasingly hard to reconcile their affinity for leftist politics with their attachment to Israel which is now so vilified on the left. Case in point – Alan Dershowitz. In any case the chickens are coming home to roost now and the contradictions are now overwhelming, exploded by the Iran deal as well as Obama’s typically ruthless, vindictive style of politics.

Jew opposes the lying thug in the White House?

Well then, stomp the Jew.

One would expect nothing less.

File under: Don’t you ever, ever, doubt the patriotism of this President.