Saturday, June 23, 2007

Why Do Liberals Hate Jews?

Hatred of Jews seems to go hand in hand with leftism. I don't know why, but liberals -- even self-loathing liberal Jews -- hate Jews. They've managed to separate anti-Semitism from anti-Zionism, parroting all sorts of scurrilous lies about Jews being the "occupiers" of Arab land. Even the great liberal icon, FDR, refused to change immigration laws to allow Jews sanctuary from the Nazi Holocaust. I very seldom do this, but I am poaching a link from Ms. Green's site because I think it's so important that everyone should spread it around. Get a cup of coffee and watch this.

3 comments:

Trader Rick said...

It's not just the far left that hates Jews--some of the far right do too. It's not a political thing. Hatred and oppression of Jws has been universal for thousands of years. Part of the problem has been their refusal to assimilate into the cultures of their host countries, and then, thru intelligence and hard work, becoming sucessful and rich, and resented.

Cathy said...

Yeah, Trader Rick is right. I'm still shocked when I know someone to be conservative make some weird anti-semite comment.

Lone Ranger said...

Liberals are the LAST people to kvetch about not assimilating, since they don't assimilate into their OWN society. They refuse to comply with moral standards. They refuse to accept the Constitution as it is written, they obey only the laws they want to obey. Like Muslims, they try to transform society to conform with THEIR standards (or lack thereof).

There may be some conservative anti-Semites, but I've never met any. Whereas, anti-Semitism is almost universal with liberals. FDR refused to change our immigration laws to allow European Jews to escape the Holocaust. He didn't want to hear about it, he didn't want to talk about it. He totally ignored what the Nazis were doing to European Jews.

We've seen what the Democratic Party has done to Joe Lieberman. Democrats regard Jews the same way they regard blacks. If they don't think, speak and particularly, vote liberal, they are shunned and demonized.

I can understand people not wanting to totally assimilate for religious reasons. But at the very minimum, they should speak the language and obey the laws of their host country. Muslims don't want to do that, Jews don't have a problem with it. Having lived in a Muslim country, I know I have no desire to conform with Muslim society in order to get along. No problem, I just live elsewhere, I don't demand that a society change in order to conform with me. We don't demand that from people of other religions, Israel doesn't demand that of other religions, but Muslims insist that everyone be Muslim and liberals insist that everyone be secular.