“After the death of Jozef Pilsudski in 1935, anti-Semitism increased in Poland and particularly in the universities. Right-wing students attacked Jews and demanded ‘ghetto benches’ in the lecture halls to segregate Jewish students. Although many eminent Polish scholars protested, the situation continued to worsen.” — Samuel D. Kassow, from Who will write our history? (rediscovering a hidden archive from the Warsaw Ghetto)
If orange is the new black, then, if one notices the examples given us by history, the Left has become the new Right. Today, Left-wing students (and in some cases faculty) are leading the way in inciting hatred and violence against Jews in much the same way that Right-wing students incited hatred and violence against Jews in the 1930s. The Right-wing students of yesterday, who demanded “ghetto benches in the lecture halls to segregate Jewish students,” are today the Left-wing thugs who harass Jewish students in the hallways of our universities, blaming them for all the evils in the world, but especially for the statelessness of the so-called Palestinian people. The primary movers and shakers behind this very base and populist phenomena, who have ennobled their Jew-hatred into a most fashionable trend for both students and faculty, are Muslim. But this trend should come as no surprise to those who have researched even minimally into Islam’s traditional hatred of the Jews.
In his new book Sharia versus Freedom, Andrew Bostom quotes Moshe Perlmann, “a preeminent scholar of Islam’s ancient polemical literature,” who wrote in 1964: “The Koran, of course, became a mine of anti-Jewish passages. The hadith did not lag behind. Popular preachers used and embellished such material.” Mr. Bostom writes: “The anti-Semitic motifs in these texts have been carefully elucidated by scholarship that dates back to Hartwig Hirschfeld’s mid-1880s analysis of the sira and Georges Vajda’s 1937 study of the hadith, complemented in the past two decades by Haggai Ben Shammai’s 1988 examination of the major anti-Semitic verses and themes in the Koran and Koran exegesis, and Saul S. Freidman’s broad, straightforward enumeration of Koranic anti-Semitism in 1989.”
Arab Muslim violence perpetrated against Jews, like the Safed riots and Hebron Massacre of 1929, or the Battle of Tel Hai of 1920, for example, had nothing to do with Arab Palestinians being displaced by the dissilient emergence of the State of Israel in 1948, but everything to do with Islamic-taught hatred of the Jews. This is an irrefutable fact of history that those of the new Right (that is, the Left) are loath to discuss, simply because the new Right cares not a whit about Jewish history, no matter how obvious its lessons are.
And if anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism (which I believe it is), then Neturei Karta, a Jewish sect that supports and advocates the “Judenfrei” visions of Hamas and the PA, now number among the new anti-Semites. This Jewish sect refuses to acknowledge the dire significance of the Holocaust and how its place in the Jewish psyche serves to validate the prescient wisdom of Torah Zionism today, and the deterrent potency of a powerful Jewish state in the Muslim Middle East. Neturei Karta is shamelessly proud to have become the walking and talking justification for the Islamist-inspired, exterminationist BDS movement that today targets both Diaspora and Israeli Jews simply because those same Jews support the existence of the State of Israel.
In 1944 in the Warsaw Ghetto, Emanuel Ringleblum wrote, “Every day the press, radio, etc., infect the masses of the population with the venom of anti-Semitism.” The same is happening today, only today it’s called “anti-Israel sentiment,” as though such sentiment differs from the old-fashioned Nazi anti-Jewish bigotry of Emanuel Ringelblum’s horrifying experience. What was yesterday’s anti-Semitism is today’s “criticism of Israel.” I have Jewish friends who, without hesitation, vehemently criticise the State of Israel and Israeli politicians. But these criticisms are not what anyone could even remotely classify as anti-Semitic. And their criticisms sound very different from the plethora of openly malefic, anti-Israel animosities erupting from the BDS camp. The American Defamation League, back on March 8, 2016, expressed its disapproval of the BDS movement because of the fact that its founder, Omar Barghouti, “seeks to eradicate the Jewish state by bringing about an end to the self-determination for the Jewish people…” Barghouti, the ADL points out, “argues that it is not the occupation that is the challenge but Israel’s very existence as a Jewish State.” The media, nevertheless, insist that the BDS movement is not anti-Semitic.
Sophocles wrote, “The long, unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once unknown that may not become known. Nothing is impossible.” History will prove very clearly and decisively that the Left is today as hateful towards the Jewish people (in the modern context this would include the State of Israel) as was the Right before and during the Nazi Holocaust. History is the articulation, into words and thoughts, of the pulse of time concerning those hidden things it brings to light. Unfortunately, this same “pulse of time” is without the efficacy necessary to completely pin down in the light those hidden things so injurious not only to the Jewish people but also to the rest of mankind. Like a cockroach on a countertop, these hidden things somehow manage to scurry away, back to the darkness from whence they came, only to rear their ugly heads in a future world that fails to notice their approach. In that future, Right becomes Left, Jews become Jew-haters, and fascists like the BDS crowd become “peace movements.”

Stephanie says
… “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”
‘Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad)’,
i.e. hegemony 2:216, 4:76 http://quran.com8/39, rational for suicide quran.com/9/111
http://sunnah.com/bukhari/56/138-139
‘Europe’s New Blasphemy Courts’
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9253/europe-blasphemy-courts
gravenimage says
All the trees and stones supposedly will call out, “Oh, Muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him”. All except for the Gharkad tree, which is the tree of the Jews.
Here is my painting, “I Am a Gharkad Tree”:
http://s478.photobucket.com/user/gravenimageartist/media/gharkad.jpg.html?sort=3&o=5
This means I will–to the best of my ability–protect Jews and the other victims of Islam.
David says
If islam got it’s unholy WAY, the entire World would be it’s victims.
billybob says
“The Left Has Become the New Right” – An interesting twist on the false notion that “Muslims are the new Jews”.
John Magne Trane says
Except that the “Right” was more a Center form of extremism. Like the Nazis, or the Communist turned Fascist Mussolini.
When you look at how many of the former Nazis joined the extreme Left parties after the war, you realize that what is branded as belonging to one extreme side, is really not that different from the other extreme side.
David says
As Pat Condell has said: “muslims are the new NAZI’S “.
That hits the nail right on the head!
He also said: “when necessary (islam) doubles as a political ideology indistinguishable from NAZISM “.
And he is so right!
JW_reader says
I think, Pat Condell’s statement is a little misplaced. What Muslims had been doing for centuries, nazis tried that for a little over a decade. The rise and fall of nazism was pretty sudden. Islam will fizzle out over the next one or two centuries. This internet (facebook, youtube, blogposts, 24/7 news, etc.) is going to kill the islamic ideology. How many people were aware that Muhammad was a pedophile thirty years back? Now, almost anyone, who wants to know, where does all these Islamic savagery come from, can figure it out with little effort and in no time.
JOHN SPIELMAN says
leftists are amoral and Godless so this is the result
Jay Boo says
In US universities new student propaganda indoctrination begins with the asinine notion that the ancient people of Israel suddenly came into being in 1948.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/The_Jewish_Claim_To_The_Land_Of_Israel.html
Shmooviyet says
That idea is one firm belief of the most cartoonish leftists I’ve met, a brother-in-law. He knows the REAL truth– from absorbing his CAP-published dungheap.
Jay Boo says
Muhammad was a shameless Jew hater too.
Paul Clark says
The scriptures tell us that in time what is right will be wrong and what is wrong will be right. We are here and the mainstream media is the biggest reason and promoter of this prophecy. This is easily done because 90% democrat journalists that occupy our media want to live in a secular, socialist world.
Shmooviyet says
Wondering on which campus this picture was taken…
How backwards from our 80s high school WWII classes: no whitewash or misrepresentation of history.
Today, SDS and MSA groups push BDS and Palestinian victimhood.
Angemon says
How many “Palestinians” are studying in American colleges, sponsored by Hamas, and promoting hatred of Jews under the guise of “anti-Zionism”?
Jay Boo says
As a teenager I drank the Democratic Party Kool-aid.
But, over the years I saw their (phony idealism) turn into scenes such as this.
They owe America an apology.
So does Hillary.
Mac-101 says
“In that future, Right becomes Left, Jews become Jew-haters, and fascists like the BDS crowd become “peace movements.”
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I went to the University of Pittsburgh between 1974 to 1985. I was surprised how many Jewish Liberal Professors I had and I ashamedly modified my papers to reflect their views to excel in their classes. I am NOT proud of that. Even in those days the most intelligent Professors would expose doctrine that was against America and adversely effect Israel. However in those days THEY supported Israel 100%, except in actions that in the long term undermine Israel’s survival.
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I KNOW this makes NO sense, but it is what I observed. Now it appears the Left Liberal, I like to say Neo Bolsheviks, are outright against Israel. How many are Jewish now? Has there been movement for the Jewish Professors to Join the Elites to become outwardly Anti-Israel? Only a few Pro-Israel Jewish professors appear to exist now. Are these Professors Leftist more than they are Jewish?
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It is 1984 on da Animal Farm in the Brave New World at a toastie 451*F!
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I would appreciate someone who is presently in a University Environment to comment if this is the case or I am delusional. Ever since the Camp David Accords I have become completely pro-Israel since the PLO had shown they are only interested in the destruction of Israel. For any PoliTick to waste time to bring peace to this area and take the Palestinians serious is disingenuous at a minimum or Satanic most likely, working to bring about the eradication of Israel.
davej says
My impression of the Jewish people is that they are industrious, intelligent, democratic and interested in peace..
My impression of the Palestinians and all the other varieties of Muslims in the Middle East is the exact opposite
Richard Paulsen says
Sadly it is my personal experience jewish persons mostly are very hateful towards Europe and europeans. Not in common but intellectuals. Expressing themselves in a very negative way.
Very seldom consistent with the truth. As if on the same side as muslims against Europe and europeans. As if preferring islam before Christianity.
Allan says
Your experience shouldn’t be surprising given the secular depravity which characterizes so much of contemporary European culture. That amalgam of attitudes and behavior is anathema to Judaism.
Also, compare Islam and Christianity from the perspective of Jewish theology. One of the two religions insists that God is one, as it reads in the prayer, Shema Yisrael (Deut. 6). The other usually insists that God is both one AND three. This heresy is worsened by the claim that a Jew is God, at which point the Christians have carried humanist idolatry almost as far as it can be taken. If we were Jewish theologians, it would be difficult not to condemn the Christians as hijackers.
So, what does the Torah suggest be done to people who hijack the Torah?
gravenimage says
Oh, good grief, Allan–Jews are not calling for the murder of Christians on charges of “blasphemy”, as you imply.
And Jewish and Christian values have *far* more in common than with the sanguinary horror of Islam, despite what you are trying to claim.
Richard Paulsen says
Do not think Jesus hates his followers and worshippers. The Quran 5:51 forbids believers to make friends with Jews as well as Christians.
Better to be friend with those who are your friends and not with those who are not.
Shaun says
Important piece, thank you for it.
I abhor anti-Semitism and totally reject the anti-Semitic conspiracy posts I’ve seen in otherwise rational forums.
The only “prejudice” (big quotation marks there) I’ve personally witnessed from Jews against non-Jews was a self-protection instinct. Where on earth would they get such an instinct?? Maybe from centuries of persecution in the West?
And frankly, I think Western bigotry helped push many European Jews of the 19th and 20th centuries into exploring more radical leftist philosophies that might provide political protection for their own families, their children, their wives. It might do that to me, too.
Jews are a central and intrinsic part of our Western civilization. Fighting for our civilization means fighting together.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…Today, Left-wing students (and in some cases faculty) are leading the way in inciting hatred and violence against Jews in much the same way that Right-wing students incited hatred and violence against Jews in the 1930s…”
This old ‘left-wing’ Vs ‘right-wing’ political dichotomy has probably seen its day and outlived its usefulness. While it’s true that today’s campus bigots are reminiscent of 1930’s Brownshirts in their tactics and attitudes, it should be remembered that the National Socialists were proudly socialist in name and in vision. The broad-based Utopian political movements of the last two centuries picked up on various fashionable sentiments, becoming more conglomerate than pure, in their beliefs. As they gathered steam they invariably became more fanatical.
In the post war years, Soviet foreign policy turned decidedly against Israel when it began a major propaganda campaign backing third world nationalistic and independence movements, which made it expedient to turn its back decisively on Israel.From that point onward the socialist movements in the rest of the world moved away from interest in Israel, including its strong socialist political currents, becoming increasingly hostile to the Jewish State. Today we remain in the shadow of the awesomely powerful and successful Soviet Propaganda machine that created and enduring myth that Israel is an enemy of middle eastern liberation movements. With the eclipse of socialist sentiment and its replacement by the Postmodern Movement, the baton of prejudice against Israel has been passed on, and kept alive, within University campuses, and a new generation of ‘brown shirts’ has been released to wreak havoc.
gravenimage says
Fine piece by Michael Devolin.