Important as that point is, I'd like to examine a point he makes along the way - which I will momentarily. First, a few of Hanson's examples (in addition to the NYT cartoon depicting Netanyahu as a yarmulke-wearing dachshund leading a blind Donald Trump, which he discusses at some length):
But what particularly disturbs me is contemplating why younger Jewish citizens of post-America will let this kind of thing slide:The strange thing about the now predictable anti-Jewish and anti-Israel social-media outbursts of Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) was not that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) and Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) defended Omar’s slurs. (Tlaib herself recently demanded cutting off aid to Israel, claiming it did not reflect American values.) Rather, what’s striking is that the Democratic party in general could not even muster a vote condemning the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel statements of one of their own House members.
Add in that a new generation of younger Jewish Americans is not inclined to push back against left-wing anti-Semitism. These fourth- and fifth-generation American citizens are often increasingly secular; they don’t have much knowledge about or interest in the history and nature of Israel, and they’re keen to avoid conflict with fellow hipster students and urban progressives. Like the former and now largely inert Greek-American “lobby,” the next generation of Jewish Americans is less interested in traditional Jewish concerns and likely to defer to fellow progressives in matters of “woke” issues such as the alleged “colonialism” of Israel.
Christianity is in the same danger. When you have the likes of Union Theological Seminary president Serene Jones giving the middle finger to basic doctrine, saying she sees the Lord's virgin birth and resurrection as symbolic stories rather than fact, and the United Methodist Church on the verge of splitting in two over the notion that two people of the same sex can be married, it's clear that the Bride of Christ is ill-equipped to prevent its being stomped into the dust by the growing swath of the populace that regards the faith as quaint superstition that perpetuates systemic oppression.
For all of post-America's perils - the debt and the unfunded liabilities of the biggest government programs, North Korea's renewed belligerence, Iran's ongoing belligerence, the marginalization of the nuclear family, society's voracious appetite for drugs, the ruination of the humanities - this one is at the core of the others. A society that has told God to take a hike is not going to survive in a hard, mean world.
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ReplyDeleteIs this evidence of post-American renewed anti-Semitism? Will post-America suit up and fight for God's chosen race as the fire begins to burn out of control in the Middle East. Then we have to endure more and more PSAs about veteran unemployment, addiction, PTSD and suicides raining on our parade? All for Israel? Ahh, but I suppose it's only post-American anti-Semitism.
ReplyDeleteMarch 22 (UPI) -- A new Gallup poll from 3/22/2019 finds 50 percent of Americans support an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the highest number since 2012.The change shows more Americans supporting Palestinian statehood, despite most in the United States feeling sympathetic to Israel, a major U.S. ally, Gallup reported."
Gallup first started asking the question on Palestinian statehood in 1994, receiving the highest support for a two-state solution in 2003, at 58 percent. Gallup has asked the question annually since 2012.
"Public opinion in the United States still favors Israel, with a large majority of the public viewing the country favorably and sympathizing more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in that conflict," Gallup said. "Nevertheless, there is also room at the table for Palestinian aspirations, as half of Americans, the most in seven years, now back the idea of Palestinian statehood."
Support for Palestinian statehood largely splits down party lines, as 33 percent of Republicans and 62 percent of Democrats support it, the Gallup poll finds. That wasn't the case in 2002 and 2003, when the Bush administration was working on a permanent solution in the Middle East. At that time, Republicans and Democrats had roughly equal support for Palestinian independence, but the partisan gap has grown in the years since.
Fewer Americans believe the conflict in Israel poses a threat to U.S. security, especially since President Donald Trump took office, the Gallup poll determined. Only 36 percent of Republicans say the conflict is a critical threat, down from 58 percent in 2016. Among Democrats, 36 percent say the conflict is a critical threat, down from 43 percent in 2016."
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2019/03/22/Gallup-poll-Half-of-Americans-back-independent-Palestine/8501553256750/
Those people who back Palestinian statehood need to be educated about the true nature of Fatah and Hamas. The Palestinians do not want two states on that land. They want Israel to cease existing.
ReplyDeleteWell I didn't think it was antisemitism but it may be antizionism which a recent post from a Zionist suggested was worse.
ReplyDelete4 decades 4 Republican presidents and 5 Republican administrations have come and gone since Carter tried to work his magic in the Middle East and now you say we have to be educated more about Israel's many enemies. I'd like to see the poll #s on the percentage of post-Americans so sick of the issue and the combatants failure to work it all out they could eat dog vomit if it would make it all go away. Far from it as it appears it's all finally heating up again thanks to some kerosene Trump and his peeps you so love to love. Get ready to watch some more fireworks over there from your easy chair with glee on your face and your 5th toddy in hand and spin it as saving Western Civilization.
ReplyDeleteJust what "kerosene" has Trump and "his peeps" brought to the situation?
ReplyDelete"Sick of the issue" translates to what kind of policy?
ReplyDeleteNobody but a rabid Zionost could catalog all the "policies" proposed and tried in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteThat wasn't my question.
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