Stacey zolt hara was in her office in downtown San Francisco when a text from her 16-year-old daughter arrived: “I’m scared,” she wrote. Her classmates at Berkeley High School were preparing to leave their desks and file into the halls, part of a planned “walkout” to protest Israel. Like many Jewish students, she didn’t want to participate. It was October 18, 11 days after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel.

Zolt Hara told her daughter to wait in her classroom. She was trying to project calm. A public-relations executive, Zolt Hara had moved her family from Chicago to Berkeley six years earlier, hoping to find a community that shared her progressive values. Her family had developed a deep sense of belonging there.

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In two posts earlier this year I looked at the assumptions that have been made by the US Left about how demographics were going to empower them permanently and how those assumptions were starting to break down in the 2020’s: Is Demography political destiny? – NO! – and Why?

But there was one group I hadn’t looked at specifically in those terms in those posts: American Jews. In the immediate wake of the October 7 Hamas pogrom it was clear that at least some American Jews were starting to get a clue, and just a month later it was obvious that had already been enough incidents to wake up more Jews to the reality of today’s Left-Wing and the US Democrat Party, as famous playwright David Mamet (a Jew who was red-pilled on this after the 9/11 attacks):

But there is no more cosy mystery in the antisemitism of the Democratic Party; Representatives are affiliated with the Democratic Socialists and pro-Palestinians, calling for the end of the state of Israel — that is, for the death of the Jews. And Democrat Representatives repeat and refuse to retract the libel that Israel bombed a hospital, in spite of absolute proof to the contrary, and will not call out the unutterable atrocities of Hamas. The writing is on the wall. In blood.

But since then the hatred has accelerated, with “anti-war” groups pointing signs at Jews that say “Al Qassam’s next target” while calling for Tel Aviv to be “burned to the ground”, and “globalize the intifada” – even “Death to America”. Or how about one of the American survivors of the October 7 Hamas pogrom getting Death Threats and Doxxing back home:

She said her phone number “was posted on a website and I was getting hundreds of texts and phone calls a day”… She continued, explaining that most of the messages “were just hate speech saying ‘we’re gonna kill you.’ They were sending me photos of guns, knives, random street corners……saying ‘we’re near your house. We’re coming for you.’”

Posters at Harvard University, 2024

It’s got so bad that the DNC-MSM industrial complex became desperate in putting out new talking points:

Aside from Jewish students getting it in the neck, to the extent that the ones at Columbia were told to study from home, the Jewish professors in the Ivy League are in turmoil:

In a series of sessions at Tel Aviv University on Tuesday, members of the more-than-50-person delegation—which also included faculty from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford, Dartmouth, and Yale Universities, and elsewhere—described feeling abandoned and afraid on their campuses back home. Gabriel Kreiman, a professor at Harvard Medical School who organized the solidarity mission, said the faculty are liberals who broadly believe in “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, though, many have had their eyes opened to the anti-Semitic implications of the academy’s regnant ideology.

This is why I say that being smart is not the same thing as being wise.

Susan Hess, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California and a self-described progressive activist, has also lost faith in DEI since Oct. 7. In recent years, Hess successfully lobbied her administration to add “antiracism” to its DEI training, making it “ADEI.” But it has become clear to her that the racialized conception of justice she long championed excludes Jews like her.

Oh, so now she realises that she and other Jews are also in the firing line. There’s a lot like her listed in that article and my Awakening post, but my sympathy for such people is tempered by the term “progressive activist”, which means she pushed and celebrated all this shit, including DEI, as she acknowledges. How she never before heard the term “White Adjacent” is one of the mysteries of being an ideologue.

They’re probably safer in Israel than in America right now. It’ll be a mirror image of the Jewish scientists who fled Germany in the 1930’s.

Speaking of which, this is not exactly the first wake-up call Left-Wing Jews have had about their own ideological side, although, given their history, that’s not surprising:

When Karl Marx offered an alternative to both Christianity and monarchies / aristocracies, this seemed like an excellent idea to the Jews, especially the Jews in Eastern Europe….[Despite the Western Enlightenment] there were many who continued to embrace Marxism, believing that if Christianity and the upper classes were gone—and, indeed, if the Judeo-Christian Biblical faith itself was gone—there would be peace.
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Added to all this was the fact that a lot of communist true believers who escaped the Nazis were Jewish. They gave the imprimatur of philosemitism to communism, even as Stalin relentlessly persecuted Jews within the Soviet Union. It helped, too, that the USSR originally supported Israel because it was founded as a socialist state.

The impact of the Nazis only deepened that, especially with Stalin’s clever propaganda about them being “Right Wing” (everybody to the right of Stalin was a Nazi), plus the simple fact that the Nazis attacked the USSR.

And so, in America, the overwhelming majority of Jews went for the Democrat Party because they were “Left-Wing” (though not much compared to Centre-Left parties in the rest of the West). But they should have remembered the following about the whole Nazi-Soviet thing: the 1939 partnership caused the US Communists to fight hard for Isolationism and refusing to help “Imperial Britain” – right up until June 22, 1941, when they did a perfect 180:

One morning The Daily Worker followed Pravda and described Nazis as true friends of the working class; the next, nothing too strong could be said against them. Crucially, and as Orwell dramatized in Nineteen Eighty-Four, there was never an admission that any change had taken place.

Given the fight that many Democrat Party members, activists and politicians took to the communists, both inside the USA and abroad, the above did not seem like a problem.

When I was growing up — admittedly not just yesterday — the Democratic Party was the party of the blue-collar working class, and the Republican Party that of big business and the country club set.
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[A]t least since the New Deal, one thing remains the same: Jews vote Democrat. And that would seem unlikely to change with Donald Trump, who arouses visceral feelings of disgust in most Jewish voters, athwart the Republican Party.

And yet at least one recent poll found that a majority of Jews in New York, one of the bluest of states, say they are likely to vote for Trump. Could the non-Orthodox Jewish vote now be up for grabs? Have American Jews discovered that the Democratic Party, or at least its younger, progressive wing, is “not that into us,” in the current vernacular?

But it’s more than just the slow and gradual reversal of the roles and demographics of the GOP and the Democrats:

“Jews will not replace us” was the favored chant in Charlottesville. At the progressive campus rallies and beyond, “From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab” has made quite the comeback. In the past, the second half of that line was often “Palestine will be free,” a slightly more politically savvy version of the slogan that calls for the murder and enslavement of all Jews in the land of Israel. “Palestine is Arab” is even more openly violent than “Jews will not replace us,” a white nationalist chant that seeks to hide its bloodlust behind anti-immigration euphemisms. (It does not hide it well; a man radicalized by these theories massacred Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.)
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Because this racial hierarchy is fundamental to its proponents’ worldview, opposition to coexistence with Jews is global. The skinheads in Charlottesville weren’t deterred from their version of this ideology just because they live outside of Germany. Similarly, those who chant “Palestine is Arab” subscribe to this racial hierarchy wherever they are.

But after October 8 it’s not just crude politics, as this article goes on to explore (read the whole thing) with the cultural history of Jews in America – all of it celebrated by the Left.

Leonard Dinnerstein concluded his 1994 magnum opus, Anti-Semitism in America, with the optimistic prediction that anti-Semitism “has declined in potency and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.”
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But what they learned instead, as Franklin Foer puts it in, “The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending,” a must-read March 4 piece in The Atlantic:
“The anti-Zionism that has flourished on the left in recent years doesn’t stop with calls for an end to the occupation of the West Bank. It espouses a blithe desire to eliminate the world’s only Jewish majority nation, valorizes the homicidal campaign against its existence, and seeks to hold members of the Jewish diaspora to account for the sins of a country they don’t live in and for a government they didn’t elect. In so doing, this faction of the left places itself in the terrible lineage of attempts to erase Jewry — and, in turns, stirs ancient and not-so-ancient existential fears.”
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The Left in America sets the tone of the culture. That is why the mainstreaming of anti-Semitism on the most prestigious campuses and in left-wing media has cast such a pall over American Jewry.

Incredibly, three decades after Soviet Communism collapsed, the Far Left are far more influential inside the Democrat Party and across America than ever before, although it’s not your grandfather’s Far Left, with many billionaires funding it even though some – mostly Jewish – have pulled their funding from the universities where this shit is happening and thus likely also from the Democrats.

But it’s not enough! Only electoral defeat of the Democrats, followed up by a purging of these universities and other institutions, is going to stop this.

What self-reflective Jews will realize is that part of why it happened here is because American Jews gambled that the Democrats would protect them, and that gamble was a fatal mistake.
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No matter how much we conservative Jews tried to explain, they never could understand that their true safety lay in an ethical Judeo-Christian nation with a small government constrained by a Constitution dedicated to individual liberty.
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Oh, and one more thing: Islam, which also has antisemitism baked into it, doesn’t play well with others. It’s a winner-take-all ideology, and it’s got its sights on America as the prize, thanks to a strategic alliance with the progressive Democrats.

And all those pro-Hamas protestors should note that not one Israeli politician or military figure has suggested that the war will end without an assault on Rafah, Hamas’s last remaining stronghold.

More ominous is the future of the simple, brutal electoral reality that the numbers of Muslim-Americans in Democrat One Party places like Dearbornistan, Michigan will soon exceed, if they haven’t already, the number of Jewish-Americans. Politics is Ugly.

If evincing hostility to Israel is the price that Democratic candidates must pay to retain the support of those younger voters being marinated in anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred on university campuses, Jewish voters should take note and reconsider their allegiances.