An ugly element of the fallout from the Pittsburgh massacre

Roger L. Simon at PJ Media looks at the phenomenon of leftist Jews directing their ire at Trump in the wake of the synagogue shootup:

A litany of Trump's pro-Jewish actions creates cognitive dissonance for them. They can't even look at it, even though, besides moving the embassy to Jerusalem — something promised by several presidents before him who reneged — his administration is filled with more Jews at high levels than any before. To name just a few:  Steve Mnuchin (secretary of the Treasury) and Larry Kudlow (director of the NEC) — both of whom had their hands in the current boom — senior advisor Stephen Miller, special assistant to the president Paul Teller, Jason Greenblatt (lead negotiator for a Palestinian-Israeli settlement), Ambassador David Friedman, son-in-law Jared Kushner, daughter Ivanka and several Jewish grandchildren who, at least for now, are not involved in government. There are many more, obviously.

He also, as we know, pulled out of the Iran deal of "Death to America! Death to Israel!" fame. This withdrawal is looking particularly good today.

All these victories that should normally warm the hearts of Jews enrage these Jewish demonstrators. The question arises: what's wrong with these people? Why are they so angry?

As the song goes, "If they asked me, I could write a book..."  (and I think I will) and, yes, the folks obviously could cite a list of reasons for their disdain (he didn't speak up quickly enough for them on Charlottesville, etc., etc.), but I don't think that's it. It's deeper than that and even if Charlottesville had never happened, they would be the same way.

A lot, of course, stems from generations of left-leaning habit and a monumental fear of change with its attendant loss of friends, family, employment. That's where much of conformity comes from. But that doesn't account for the anger in and of itself. Nor does the lack of serious religion, Jewish or otherwise, although that clearly contributes.

When I see these demonstrators, I see people who are very depressed, truly unhappy people whose anger could never be assuaged — folks with a cosmic emptiness of a sort. They need something to protest, always, to feel alive in their search for a utopia that could never be achieved. If it weren't Trump, it would be someone or something else. There is a narcissistic wound as deep as the Mariana Trench.

I am going to say something now that will generate even more enemies, as if I didn't have enough. These people make me think of Berlin in the 1930s, and why things happened the way they happened. They would never fight back.

I am a Jew and proud of it and these people break my heart more than any in the world. 

That's leftism for you. It can't even get out of its own way when something horrible happens and there's a clear perpetrator who should be the focus of their ire.

It might be time for progressive Jews to get a clue, given that their favorite newspaper has reported this:

Countering the narrative that the rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes is a result of President Trump’s rhetoric catalyzing right-wing fanatics to attack Jews, The New York Times acknowledged in a piece written on Wednesday that the narrative might have a huge hole in it.

The Times wrote about the rising tide of anti-Semitic hate crimes committed in New York City, where anti-Semitic incidents have comprised half of all hate crimes in 2018. The Times wrote, “To put that figure in context, there have been four times as many crimes motivated by bias against Jews — 142 in all — as there have against blacks. Hate crimes against Jews have outnumbered hate crimes targeted at transgender people by a factor of 20.”

Here’s the kicker: The Times author wrote, “During the past 22 months, not one person caught or identified as the aggressor in an anti-Semitic hate crime has been associated with a far right-wing group, Mark Molinari, commanding officer of the police department’s Hate Crimes Task Force, told me. ‘I almost wish it was sometimes more clear cut,’ he said. ‘It’s every identity targeting every identity.’”

The Times author admits that the rise in anti-Semitism preceded the Trump presidency, noting, “For several years now, expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment have made up the preponderance of hate crime complaints in the city.”

The invitation stands for progressive Jews, and leftists in general, to face reality.