It’s Purim …
… and I guess Purim – which celebrates the thwarting of a genocidal ruler who wants to kill all the Jews – is still apropos.
See also this. Jew-hatred is especially rampant on the left, but is has a home on the right as well.
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Is this the one where they’re supposed to get drunk? Not a joke. They’re is such a Jewish holiday, but I can never remember which one.
Yes, that’s the one. Though some rabbis disagree.
Disappointing about Rogan, though I’ve tried to give him and Tucker the benefit of the doubt, as interviewing someone isn’t the same as an endorsement. But it gives such a people a big platform to spout their views, so not a good thing.
I’m not sure Rogan is “on the right,” and I don’t know where Candace Owens is at all. Rogan appears to have a functioning brain. He does have a history, so I have heard, of interviewing wide varieties of people.
Even worse is this story about leftist Peter Beinart, a Jew, writing that the story of Esther is about Jewish slaughter of innocent enemies, just like Gaza. Awful. https://reason.com/volokh/2025/03/12/peter-beinart-has-gone-full-antisemite/
Beinart was someone who once showed promise but he went down the path of least resistance that of the nut roots as they used to be called.
Now i never heard of this ian carroll character and frankly i dont see why he should be given wider note about cooper its a little too facile to say hes all about nazis as he has strong words to say about communism (most charitable view is he has seen too deeply into the abyss)
Agreed on Beinert. Just turns my stomach. What little anti-Jewish sentiment I’ve personally experienced on the right is of the, “What have they ever done for us, besides imply we’re bigots?” category.
Candace Owens has been considered to be on the right for perhaps 6 or 7 years. She’s certainly not on the left these days. I guess you could correctly say she’s on the far right lately, however you want to define that. Tucker Carlson also is similar these days. They both have enormous followings. Their theme is the one described in the article I linked in the last paragraph of my post. The emphasis is on two ideas. The first is that Jews are singling out Palestinian Christians to harm them. That is untrue and based on the testimony of Palestinian Christians who are antiIsraeli and are also trying to placate the Palestinian Moslems who far outnumber them and are in control of Gaza, etc.. The second theme that Owens etc promote is that the Jews are letting in tons of illegal immigrants to the US because the Jews hate white people and want them to be outnumbered. (For purposes of this theory, I guess the Jews are not considered white).
Mike Plaiss:
I would say that for a couple of decades, many Christians in the US have been extremely supportive of both Jews and Israel.
But bigotry remains. It is not paranoia to see that. As I wrote, it’s now worse on the left, but there is also a substantial amount on what is commonly considered the right – Candace Owens, etc. What’s more, even within my own memory from when I was young, hatred of Jews on the grounds of Christ-killing was not the least bit unusual even in the US. That is just the way it was.
As for what Jews have done for “us” – the list of Jewish scientists, doctors, composers, writers, is very long – plus the idea of monotheism and the Old Testament.
Is this the one where they’re supposed to get drunk? Not a joke. — Mike Plaiss
I was surprised to read that up until 1970, Irish folks (and Catholics?) were supposed to abstain from alcohol consumption on St. Patrick’s day. Respect for a saint and all that.
Yes, I understand, and agree. Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear enough. Republicans I’ve known who don’t seem to care about the Jews or Israel, would say to me, something like – they vote 95 percent democrat, and when WE say something like, a two state solution sounds kind of stupid, THEY accuse us of not liking brown people, thus, they say, screw them, why should I care who rules Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. That is the kind of anti-Jewish sentiment I’ve personally experienced on the right.
neo – so to be consistent Candace should leave the country, right? I’m on board.
I’m not sure how Rogan and Carlson pick their guests.
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Both Darryl Cooper and this fellow Ian Carroll are Joe Blow off the sidewalks of wherever. (I think Cooper’s from northern California and Carroll might be from North Carolina, Virginia, or West Virginia). There isn’t much indication either has ever done any archival research and if Cooper were to do original research into 2d World War he would have to have a facility in continental languages which is certainly unusual. You do not get much benefit talking to people whose stock-in-trade is their own imagination applied to (often sketchy) secondary literature.
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The historians guild helped generate the space for these yo-yos by being so blatantly partisan over the last forty years. Make yourself untrustworthy, you enhance the stature of some very dubious characters.
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We’re heading downhill as a culture. Sixty years ago, the fount of kookery was Robert Welch, who at least could run a manufacturing concern. Now it’s…some guy.
One thing we know about the Near East is that the ‘two state solution’ is not a viable option. It’s been offered the Arab bosses on three separate occasions and they’ve spurned the offer each time. It’s not an obscure point. Beinart is a persistent promoter of the notion of a ‘two state solution’ and blames Israel for the current situation. He’s not a serious person.
Mike Plaiss:
You are describing well-known conservative/patriotic American’s frustration with left-leaning progressive Jews, who are the most visible Jews in America. And yes, their positions are incomprehensible until you understand that they are self-hating, self-abnegating one-world cosmopolitans.
That is what makes the conspiracy theories about a Jewish masterplan so laughable… progressive Jews are foot soldiers for Marxism, not Judaism or the Jewish people. I suppose the Christian equivalent would be the Liberation Theology, rainbow Episcopalians.
It’s not Judeo-Christian any more, by any means.
And there is no patriotism for either America or Israel.
Here in Israel, hostages were taken from Left-leaning peacenik kibbutz communities, brutally tortured and garrotted – and both the returning hostages and the surviving families repeat their John Lennon mantras about peaceful coexistence… after they were betrayed by Gazans who knew them personally, worked on their farms. Some of these peaceniks were killed by Arabs whom they had escorted to Israeli hospitals for treatment.
I am encouraged by the increasing visibility of Orthodox/traditional Jews with conservative values on the American media scene. So non-Jews can understand that not all Jews are crazy, immoral, or anti-American.
Not dine with the comments yet.
On the Right, the worst haven I encounter is at Zerohedge.com in the “COMMENTS”.
It’s hugely gratifying when these obsessive bigots and Jew haters aren’t there. Like flys on a dung heap, there they very often are.
I try sarcasm and invidious comparison to turn their rants against them, when I can, and with any wit or elegance I can invent, I compare them to actual German Nazi at least by implication instead of rank rudeness.
Sometimes, somebody else beats me to rebuke them. I’ll give ‘em likes, add a quip, or join in the pushback already on the beachhead of conflict.
The only Good Thing I can say is subjective: A year ago, the spite, noise and J bashing at ZH was worse. I believe, however, that it’s gotten better since Trump almost met his maker last July. Fingers crossed.
I have no clue if my counter-rants or subtle digs a ZH Comments go anywhere and get anyone to rethink themselves a get a decent conscience.
But at least it feels better than doing nothing.
PS I’m sure the ZH ownership is proud to keep “Comments” uncensored — let the mob vent or the gallery catcalls be heard. Yet I’m sure the free speech absolutism there will be constrained if it goes big-time. For example, stop the Jew haters from repeating themselves like a video game is played! Police but with the barest decorum, please.