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Does the conventional "left-center-right" spectrum truly take the nature of antisemitism into account?

I would argue in the negative on this. At the Front Page Magazine website this past Friday, Daniel Greenfield noted the partially laudatory remarks of Glenn Miller, the white supremacist gunman at two Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas this past weekend of Max Blumenthal, a virulently anti-Israel, "left-wing" commentator who is Jewish by birth:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/anti-...

The first link in Mr. Greenfield's piece sends the reader to a piece by Ron Radosh at PJ Media from this past Monday, which provides corroborating quotations:

http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/04/14/who-inspir...

If that shooter hadn't included the pejorative "Jew journalist" epithet in his comments, they would be indistinguishable from many on the political "left" today.

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  • 7 years ago
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    Antisemitism is growing all over the world at this point to include the US. It was far less of an issue until Obama became president. The Democrat platform removed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and called for a return to 1967 boundaries for Israel. They also removed God. This administration has increased the Anti Jew sentiment to the point of Carter calling it apartheid even though the rockets keep coming. Groups in Ukraine are calling for Jews to register just like Hitler did. The US has been Israel's strongest ally along with the UK but this has obviously changed with Obama's ideology. Israel is hanging on by their fingernails while Kerry tries to make deals with terrorist organizations. The world has noticed.

    People seem to be motivated by different issues. Some believe the Jews killed Jesus and hate them for it. Others believe there should not be a Jewish state even though Muslims, Arabs, and Christians live in peace in Israel as well. Some see the attempts to protect their nation as apartheid. Some are just racists. That is likely the reason it isn't really based on political ideology as much as it is basically racism and anti colonialism. Some just hate the Jews because they largely control the global banking system and are extremely wealthy. There is nothing strictly along political lines about this issue evidently.

  • 7 years ago

    I hard vaguely about this story but have something more profound to offer.

    Over the last 2,000 years or so, to the degree that Jews have assimilated, such has been the degree of their suffering when TSHTF. Which it always eventually does.

    I am worried about the fact that Jews have assimilated into USA the best ever and that the degree of the inevitable suffering will be way worse than under NAZI Germany. That's going to hurt. It'll be world war 3 Unless G_d changes his mind and suddenly the historical trends become changed, it will happen.

    Hard to fathom this in modern America but one can see the signs in the news. It's going to happen here, to us, (I am a gentile) and this scares the crap out of me.

    The only offramp (freeway metaphor) is toward Is toward Israel and they are already under attack.

    It's going to be a hard road.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I find the left-center-right concept of the political spectrum to be completely inadequate to describe actual political beliefs.

    This is because political philosophies are more than just one dimensional. Any system of categorizing that lumps anarchists, libertarians, conservatives, monarchists and fascists together is, without doubt, completely inadequate to describe political beliefs.

    I prefer a 3-axis spectrum, with the axes being political freedom, social freedom and economic freedom. This gives us the ability to delineate between different philosophies currently and absurdly lumped together on the left-right linear view.

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