The Mindset of Our Anti-Semites
American Greatness,
by
Victor Davis Hanson
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
11/6/2023 9:58:22 AM
Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points:
“Refugees” We are told that the Palestinians after more than 75 years of residence in the West Bank and Gaza are “refugees.” If that definition were currently true, then, are the 900,000 Jews who were forcibly exiled from Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia after the 1947, 1956, 1967 wars still “refugees?”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 11/6/2023 10:14:31 AM (No. 1593023)
Unassailable facts and logic from one of the smartest guys in America. Thanks, OP.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 11/6/2023 10:49:25 AM (No. 1593057)
What the universities really teach: Don't trouble me with facts, my mind is made up.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FLCracker 11/6/2023 10:49:31 AM (No. 1593058)
Unfortunately, those on the side of Hamas and their ilk don't believe in "unassailable facts and logic". That's Western thought and un-Islamic.
For example, "Campus activists scream that Israel has slaughtered “civilians” and is careless about “collateral damage.”" So - all the Hamas-inflicted civilian deaths in Israel were "collateral damage"? If so, then what was Hamas' purpose on 7 Oct? Was Hamas just there to crash the rave and things got out of hand when they didn't have tickets, so all that "collateral damage" ensued?
See? There I go, trying to be factual and logical again. Silly Western me; I ought to be beheaded.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
snakeoil 11/6/2023 10:54:13 AM (No. 1593062)
The most egregious example of indigenous people having their lands stolen and being forced to leave are the Neanderthals. They ruled the roost for thousands of years. Then the Cro-Magnons showed up and kicked them out of their caves, ate their Wooly Mammoths on a stick and painted Hunter class drawings on the walls of their caves. If a Neanderthal showed up at my house and claims to have been there before I got their I'll movie into the woods and simply point that now they will have to pay property taxes, utilities, etc. The Gaza dudes got the eviction notice in 1948. King Solomon built his temple in Jerusalem in 1000 BC. So who was kicked out first?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 11/6/2023 11:18:54 AM (No. 1593080)
The only difference between a 'Palstinian civilian' and a Hamas terrorist is whether that person, at that instant, is holding a weapon. Otherwise....both are Palestinians and both are civilians.
And both have extreme hate in their hearts.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
FLCracker 11/6/2023 11:28:48 AM (No. 1593088)
#4, there you go with them facts and logic, too. Won't win you any arguments with a scimitar.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
padiva 11/6/2023 12:09:35 PM (No. 1593119)
Great read. Thanks for posting.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
pros7767 11/6/2023 8:31:38 PM (No. 1593373)
Truly one of VDH's best and that's going some!
Thank you OP!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rinktum 11/7/2023 7:25:30 AM (No. 1593552)
Doesn’t it boggle the mind how twisted the logic of the Hamas supporters are? They did not wage war on October 7th. They created mass genocide against an unarmed people. They committed atrocities that would make any human being recoil with horror when they were described. Even in times of war there are moral imperatives and one is you do not wage war against women and children. These vicious savages relished the opportunity to behead babies, rape and kill women and force parents to watch as they slaughter their children and the worst had to be the woman who was forced to watch as her baby was baked in an oven. That is in no way considered an appropriate action during war. Those are actions of savages unworthy of life.
As we have often been reminded here lately, if Hamas laid down their weapons there would be peace. However, if Israel laid down its weapons tomorrow, there would be no Israel. Hamas should pay the ultimate price for what it has done. Israel has the right to hunt down every single person who played any part in the attack on October 7th and eliminate them and the world should just shut up and let them.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
bpl40 11/7/2023 7:36:41 AM (No. 1593559)
Euro Jews are white, intellectual, self reliant and successful. All hallmarks of Western culture that has dominated human affairs for the last two centuries. Antisemitism is simply transferred response of jealousy and hatred against Western civilization and it's dominance. Euro[eans dominated simply because they were better than other cultures - even ancient ones. If other cavillations were in the dominant position of European the treatment meted out to vanquished people would have been far worse. This is the dirty secret that the Leftist movement is trying suppress.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/7/2023 8:29:52 AM (No. 1593608)
Amen, #5. It is not being reported of course, but after Hamas invaded Israel on 10/7, “Palestinian citizens” followed and committed a lot of the rape, torture, arson, beheading and murder of innocent civilian Israelis. The only innocents in Gaza are possibly small children. Everyone else is complicit.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Hermoine 11/7/2023 10:50:37 AM (No. 1593735)
FTA:
So why does the world apply a special standard to Israel?
To the leftist and Islamist, Israel is guilty of being:
1) Jewish;
2) Too prosperous, secure, and free;
3) Sufficiently Western to meet the boilerplate smears of colonialist, imperialist, and blah, blah, blah. [End of FTA]
Might I be so bold as to add a 4th reason: Like it or not, we are locked in spiritual battle of good versus evil. The Jewish people have existed for 4,000+ years for a reason and all during that time, many a civilization has tried to destroy them, from the Egyptians to the Assyrians and Babylonians to the Romans to the Muslims hordes of the medieval times to the Russians and the Germans...it is a miracle, only of God, that the Jewish people still exist as an identifiable people. And, yet, here we are back to truly Ancient times of horrific invasions by the same ancient people who want to kill them 4,000 years ago. And, while suffering may be ahead for Jews and the Israeli state, I don't think it is going to end well for the aggressors.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Zigrid 11/7/2023 11:28:52 AM (No. 1593764)
There comes a point when trying to reason with these fools is useless...so let's move on and clean up Washington...and NOT pay anymore tuitions to schools who foster this hate and bigotry.....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 11/7/2023 2:59:38 PM (No. 1593862)
Indeed, #13.
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