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Michael Lumish is a PhD in American history from the Pennsylvania State University and has taught at PSU, San Francisco State University, and the City College of San Francisco. He regularly publishes on the Arab-Israel conflict at his own blog, Israel Thrives (http://israel-thrives.blogspot.com/). Lumish is also the founding editor of the scholarly on-line discussion forum H-1960s. He can be contacted at mike.lumish@gmail.com.
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Now the Left tells us merely being "white" -- whatevertheheck that means -- is to be racist.
I still cannot get over the fact that any Democrat who comes into the White House will favor "pay-to-slay."
I cannot know if Tlaib is deceiving herself, or if she is outright lying. But the historical record does not reflect the notion that the Arabs in the British Mandate struggled to “create a safe haven for Jews” at great cost to their own well-being during World War II. The very idea of it is laughable. This is a falsehood so gross in its distortions that it is amazing that Tlaib could utter these words.
The basic message of the cartoon is that Tlaib and Omar are honest actors who represent truth, justice, and the Palestinian / Somalian way, while Netanyahu and Trump are covering for the heinous crimes of the Jews.
From Medzhybizh to Brooklyn--a story of a century-long life.
The truth is - much to my ongoing horror and disgust - the Democratic Party can kick around Jews from now until Yom Kippur and we will still pound on their doors to give them our money, our votes, and our support.
The issue is not Salazar's Jewishness. It is the antisemitic anti-Zionism embedded within the progressive-left and, thus, also within the Democratic Party.
Progressive-left Democrats think of Israel as a racist, colonialist, settler-state and have little sympathy for it if they even believe it should exist at all. The moderate Democrats merely believe that the Jewish people must be leashed.
I find it unreasonable and counterproductive for Jewish Americans to support the Democratic Party in figures above the 70th percentile while the Democratic Party supports Jewish well-being in numbers below the 30th percentile.
Water extinguishes fire better than bullets. My commenter is right about that. And bullets deter racist-arsonists better than does water.
The nicest house in the world's most dangerous neighborhood is having proverbial rocks--and Molotov cocktails--hurled at it by a hypocritical world.
The Jewish people are the indigenous people to the Land of Israel because that is the place where our ancestors forged the beginnings of a multivariant culture and cultivated the Hebrew language and the Jewish religion and those other aspects that bring us together as one.
if Reem's restaurant was instead "Ariel Sharon's Joint and Whiskey Bar" and featured a worshipful mural of Baruch Goldstein the people of Oakland would have arisen as one and shut that place down in a New York Minute with the full support of city government. HYPOCRITES!
When the question of Biblical violence versus Koranic violence is raised it is almost always done for the purpose of clearing Islam. Statisticians run the texts of the Torah, the New Testament, and the Koran through computer programs which tabulate violent references within those texts. The results demonstrate that the Bible depicts more acts of violence than does the Koran. Statistics don't reveal the truth.a;ways
Until the western-left moves beyond anti-white racism, antisemitic anti-Zionism, and humanitarian racism, it will remain riddled with hypocrisy and acting in cross-purposes toward its own supposed values.
So long as the Arabs believe they have a reasonable claim to the City of David they will never stop pushing or sending their children into the streets with knives. So long as they believe that Jerusalem is up-for-grabs then they will consider the whole shebang up-for-grabs.
Here are 9 fundamental misunderstandings the progressive Left has with Israel and its supporters.
Mike Lumish wrote this expansion of his earlier post entitled "The U.S. Has Gone Bats!" at the request of the Jewish Press Online. We thank Mike for stating what we all feared- the West's 'Left' has gone nuts.
There are plenty of self-identified progressives and "liberals" who are, indeed, great friends of the Jewish people and of Israel. but the obvious fact is that the western-left, generally, is unfriendly toward Israel.
Israel most certainly can exist despite decreasing American Jewish friendship, although it would obviously be more difficult. Thankfully, American Jewry is not abandoning Israel.
"Soft" anti-Zionists on the western-left honestly believe that Arabs seek to murder Jews because we are mean. Israel is mean. The Jews are, as a matter of schadenfreude, are the New Nazis.
So, my question to the progressive-left today is, just what the hell do you want?
The place to start making the Jewish claim to Israel - if I may be so bold - is with insisting upon our indigeneity to our own ancestral lands.
So long as the Arabs see that even the US refuses to relocate its embassy to Jerusalem then they understand that the Jewish State remains vulnerable because its international support is flaccid.
Arabs consider Jewish sovereignty on historically Jewish land an abomination before Muhammad & Allah
Our enemies--whether on the Temple Mount or in San Francisco--are not opposed to using violence, quite obviously, in order to support their anti-Jewish agenda.
Whether anyone likes it or not, the left is shedding liberalism and making a comfy cozy home of itself for antisemitic anti-Zionism.
The defenders of political Islam, and mass Muslim immigration into the West, need to stop confusing Muslims with jihadis and they need to stop conflating opposition to political Islam with racism.
The truth is that the diaspora Jewish Left is "chickens***"... as Obama might put it. The Jewish left is filled with privileged cowards terrified of what the advance of progressive-left anti-Zionism means to their Social Network.
Sadly, the ideal of ethnic and gendered diversity has been replaced on the illiberal progressive-left by multicultural fragmentation and identity politics as represented by the hijab
Clearly, Ha'aretz is the toxic little Israeli brother of the NY Times, but I never figured they would actually hurl poison at Jewish ballplayers in order to score points with their big brother in NY
America's 'National Pastime' is quickly becoming the 'Promised Land's' national pastime with Israel's squad surprising success in the World Baseball Classic. GO JEW CREW!
Two of the most significant political questions in the West today are immigration policy and identity politics. Linda Sarsour, stands at the crux of both and poses a dilemma for pro-Israel world Jewry
For 1300 years Jews lived as dhimmis sub-class non-citizens under the boot of Arab-Muslim imperial rule. With an Israel Hater out and Trump in it's time for Israel and the Jewish people to declare the days of desperate Jewish solicitude are over.
The march definitely propelled Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian-American, pro-Sharia, Obama advisor, feminist, activist who also participated in the Standing Rock protests into the political night sky.
The Democratic Party is shaking off support for Israel because it views Israel through an anti-imperialist lens and because Muslims are a more important constituency in the long run for the party
Obama will likely be known in the Jewish world as the US president who, whatever his honest intentions, did more than any to divide the Jewish people from one another and from the Jewish state.
The Democratic Party betrayed the State of Israel and the Jewish people when it decided that making a home for itself of anti-Semitic anti-Zionists was a dandy idea
Many Americans did not really know the actual reason why Ohio State University Jihad attack happenned because they simply don't care about Islamic theological violence against their fellow Americans.
The false and exaggerated claims toward Trump, however, are not intended to create insight, bu to spread fear of the individual and loathing toward Americans who voted for him.
Democrats not only got trounced but are screaming from the rafters about racism and white supremacy. They even have the chutzpah to whine about alleged anti-Semitism of conservatives and Republicans.
It is not merely that today's university infantalizes students, but that the students infantalize themselves when they go into "safe" rooms, sometimes containing coloring books and stuffed animals.
The indignant reaction of Obama, the Democratic Party, and the western-left to Jews daring to build housing in YESHA is medieval. Then, as now, authorities believed Jews must comply to their demands
The never-ending Arab-Muslim war against Jews has nothing to do with Jewish mistreatment of Arabs but everything to do with the Qur'anic religious imperative to keep "unbelievers" under submission
The Dems and Left, has taken something worthy and noble, the Civil Rights Movement, and turned it into a bludgeon with which to silence alternative viewpoints or bully people into political submission
What I am calling the "Movement for Jewish Freedom" is an attempt to reengage Zionism as a political movement grounded in solidarity with other groups who share common interests.
American politics has been so 'toxically' partisan for so long it has become virtually impossible to separate fair assessments of truth from media-driven propaganda favoring the Democratic Party.
Without Israel, which is to say without the Jewish people, there never would have been a Koran or the emergence of imperial Islam.
The great irony is that the attack in Nice may be the one that actually is NOT a terror attack it may be that Bouhlel is simply stone cold crazy and may have nothing whatsoever to do with Jihad
The penalties for those who seek to murder Jews within Israel must be harsh enough to seriously discourage the idea that it is perpetually Jew Killing Season among Arabs.
Vic Rosenthal of Abu Yehuda fame has a recent piece entitled simply, Ten Propositions, and I intend to examine each - tackling the first five below
Instead of gratitude to Israel for their generosity, Arabs use the Temple Mount as a club to beat Israel which allows this despite not having to. Israel's stupidity is breathtaking.
A veritable "Who's Who" of Israel's most vocal supporters. A radio station from Australia that is literally, the "Thunder from Down Under" when it comes to Israel.
Why would Leslie Wong, president of San Francisco State University, support GUPS, a student organization that quite literally calls for the murder of Jews?
Holding Ettinger for months on end without charge AND denying him permission to attend his son's brit violates basic standards of decency
Who is Lars Faaborg-Andersen (ambassador of the European Union to Jerusalem) to tell the Jewish people how best to live in this world?
Progressive-left activists jave physically, morally, and financially supported Jihadis against Israel
I don't want Jihadis here any more than I would like to see additional Klansmen or Nazis.
Despite the potential horrendous consequences, I find the prospect of Hillary vs. Trump fascinating
Hillary Clinton will continue the counter-productive anti-Jewish/anti-Israel Oslo-policies of Obama
"Honest" racists like Noor are much easier to deal with than the insidious lies of progressive-Left
Pessin's began The Unabashed Zionist blog because an "unabashed Zionist is better than a bashed one"
"Western-progressivism" isn't "Old-time" racism, it's what was dubbed in 2012 "Humanitarian racism"
European Jewish Cong. poll shows 1/3 of European Jews considering leaving the European nightmare
Tendencies within Arab & North African cultures to oppress minorities is their "gift" to Europe
The rise of Jihad is directly connected to Islamic teachings: the Qur'an & the hadiths.
A recent Research Center poll shows 72% of Arabs living in Yesha & Gaza favor the Stabbing Intifada
In America, the immigrant experience is a blending of cultures, while distinctions are maintained.
Hatred for the Jew is embedded in Arab culture throughout the Middle East and justified by the Koran
Permitting only Muslims to pray on Temple Mount could hardly be more racist yet the west supports it
The Times was never a friend/ally to Jewish people, nor is it a friend/ally to Jewish people today
Arab-Muslims do not so much venerate Al-Aqsa as religious site but as a violent political weapon
When Muslims aren't blowing up Jews, they love blowing to smithereens antiquities of other cultures
I wonder if Wasserman-Schultz understands that being Jewish is not synonymous with being a Democrat?
Israel should declare its final borders and perhaps, implement its response to the Iran deal.
Israel's prejudicial Temple Mount policy is a disgrace; The Mount should be open to all faiths.
No one knows who killed Ali Dawabsha--perhaps Jews--but why rush judgment without hard evidence?
It amazes that the Obama administration could sink to new depths, quite this low,
The US Left & the Obama admin, support an Iranian Jihadi bomb & a zero-sum effort against the Israel
Jewish Americans opposing the "Occupation" believe Jewish people have no indigenous rights to Israel
ALLY is a terrific read because Oren has a mission: Defending&protecting the Jewish State of Israel.
Think political Islam's a problem now just wait until an Islamist nuclear umbrella covers the region
The treatment of the profs. reflects the ideology of US academia concerning the Arab/Israel conflict
