Connect the antisemitic dots " Putin could have written the Protocols."

[Budi]

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March 7, 2022 | Reading Time: 7 minutes

Connect the antisemitic dots
“Putin could have written the Protocols.”

Not enough has been said about Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy being Jewish. Not enough, anyway, by the mainstream press in the west. In Russia, though, it has been the subject of intense focus. Why?

Because the fact that a Jew was democratically elected as president by a people once subject to Soviet control is proof of a conspiracy.

A conspiracy against whom? Against Russia.

Huh?

Yeah.

Like white supremacy, antisemitism makes everything seem upside down, backward and prolapsed, because, to many people, the truth is unacceptable. It’s too “dangerous.” It feels better to make-believe.

Vladimir Putin is a neo-Tsarist, a Christian, a militarist and a former secret policeman. You could draw a direct line between him and the Tsarist secret police who cut-and-pasted the Protocols of the Elders of Zion together 120 years ago.
Yet here we are, two weeks into a military invasion premised on a lie – that the Russians must “de-Nazify” Ukraine. Yet the western press corps has for the most part overlooked the role of antisemitism.

The idea behind “deNazify,” as far as I can tell, is that the Russian people are the real victims of Nazism, not Jews, and that Jews exploit memories of the Holocaust to redirect attention away from Russians.

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So much of the unity right now comes from the exhilaration of a David and Goliath story. When things get darker and western economies start to suffer, when oil prices go up, you will hear voices blaming the Jews – and probably more so in the United States than there.

Those voices are getting louder. The Wall Street Journal reported on antisemitic pamphlets being circulated in cities around the country, including the home of the Texas synagogue recently attacked.

I am a great believer in the idea that America is the safest place in the world to be Jewish, but there are a significant number of Americans who would like to change that.

I don’t know what their numbers are, how many are evangelical or neo-Nazis. Those people hate Jews on principle, because of how we fit into the biblical End Times, or because of how we supposedly control the media and finance – the Protocols of the Elders of Zion story.

There are people who hate us because we became “white,” which we did. A lot of the antisemitism you hear from otherwise progressive Black people falls into that category.

There’s a lot of reported antisemitism that I don’t think is antisemitism at all, for instance, the pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses.

But Trumpism draws on this well of paranoia, and antisemitism is the classic expression of it. So naturally, I worry.

When I had a bigger internet presence than I do now, I used to hear from a fair number of Nazis. What was weird was how many wanted me to agree with them – to acknowledge the correctness of their analysis.

A lot of those people were mentally ill, of course. But I think they are tapped into something more universal – the Puritan idea that America is a Christian polity, that its success is a testament to its righteousness. If it doesn’t succeed, what does that mean?

You can blame yourself, you can blame the devil, you can blame the Jesuits, or you can blame the Jews.

The Jews tick off so many of those boxes in their imaginations.
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[Behind the Aegis]

1. DIsturbing on so many levels.

Also disturbing, how this Jewish author feels the need to identify himself as a non-Zionist.

[Budi]

2. Really. I agree with a lot of his writing as to the propaganda, but c'mon.

Makes ya shake your head ..ugh.

[Behind the Aegis]

5. It's the "are you a good Jew or a bad Jew?" situation.

Jews, especially those of us on the left, have to always declare our position on Israel for other self-appointed guardians of the left to determine if we are a "Jew or a kike". They need to determine if we are one of the "good ones". It is nothing more than anti-Semitism gussied up to look like "progressivism". It isn't; it's bigotry.

Two years ago, at the first pride event in our town in small, pissant Oklahoma, I asked a vendor where the rainbow Star of David stickers were, after all, they had a rainbow cross, rainbow crescent, a rainbow Buddha, and a few other rainbow religious stickers. He told me they didn't take the Star of David ones to events because there were "too controversial". Anti-Semitism.

Rooting out anti-Semitism on the right is like shooting fish in a barrel, on the left, WE are in the barrel avoiding the shots from supposed allies. The only anti-Semitism that offends them is when it originates from the right, and even then, it is often only "outrageous" if it is tied to another form of bigotry.

I know there are a few non-Jews and Jews who do find anti-Semitism, of all stripes, concerning, but it is really depressing to see anti-Semitism take a toll on Jews, even if it by having to declare a position that is irrelevant to the conversation.

[Budi]

6. K & R THIS. Is there any other demographic that is held to this?

Not that I know of & in such an embedded & accepted way.
None.

Jews, especially those of us on the left, have to always declare our position on Israel for other self-appointed guardians of the left to determine if we are a "Jew or a kike". They need to determine if we are one of the "good ones". It is nothing more than anti-Semitism gussied up to look like "progressivism". It isn't; it's bigotry.

Thanks.

[Mosby]

4. And he understands that his grandfather was not Ukrainian.

Disturbing and sad.

[Martin68]

3. Well said, Buddy.

I've been shocked to run into British people during travels abroad who totally bought into the idea that "The Jews" secretly run the world, control the banks, instigate wars - all that bullshit. There are indeed Americans who share those beliefs. I hope some day we can root out racism, anti-semitism - all of these irrational hatreds and fears that are so destructive of society. Until then, we have to keep speaking out.