Ocasio-Cortez, as she has admitted in the past, has no clue about the situation in Israel. But support for the “Palestinian” jihad is fashionable on the socialist Left, and so she has no problem endorsing “Palestinian” violence against Israeli civilians.
“Ocasio-Cortez Justifies Violence Against Israel: Palestinians ‘Have No Choice But To Riot,’” by Ryan Saavedra, Daily Wire, July 31, 2019:
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocaiso-Cortez [sic] (D-NY) appeared to justify Palestinian violence against Israel this week during an interview, saying that Palestinians “have no choice but to riot” against Israel.
Ocasio-Cortez made the comments during an appearance on “Ebro in the Morning” with host Ebro Darden, where she made multiple inflammatory remarks about Israel.
Ocasio-Cortez “absolutely” agreed with Darden that Israel was “very, very criminal” and “very, very unjust,” as Darden claimed there are “white supremacist Jews.”
Later in the interview, Ocasio-Cortez justified violence from the Palestinian people against Israel, saying: “I believe that injustice is a threat to the safety of all people, because once you have a group that is marginalized and marginalized and marginalized — once someone doesn’t have access to clean water, they have no choice but to riot, right?”
Ocasio-Cortez has made numerous anti-Semitic comments, of late. She recently engaged in Holocaust trivialization when she falsely compared immigrant detetention [sic] facilities to “concentration camps,” which some experts even say makes her a “Holocaust denier.”
Ocasio-Cortez also recently opposed a bill that opposed the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) move against Israel, which is intended to destroy the State of Israel.
After she voted against anti-BDS legislation, Ocasio-Cortez said: “And my concern with being overly punitive on nonviolent forms of protest is that it forces people into other channels and I would hate to be a part of, you know, paving that kind of path.” …
Don McKellar says
AOC is the perfect example of what happens when corrupt empty suit establishment Democrats fall asleep at the wheel and let their seats be taken by the “other Democrats”. Under the shadowy phoney veneer of the Democratic Party is a socialist heart of darkness that’s now out in the open for all to see.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Good observation about falling asleep at the wheel and the socialist heart of darkness. The darkness extends just beyond anti-Americanism all the way to propagating the myths about Israel. We have no choice to riot until we acknowledge the fact that most of Israel was bought by Zionists in mortgage transactions at the Recorder’s Office. Bought and paid for, just like the Steele Dossier. We have no choice to riot, at least once for goodness sake, before the world ends in 9 yrs, or 12 yrs, or 20 yrs, or whenever the turnspeak-named Progressives (read: globo-socialists) say it’s going to happen. We have no choice to riot over here in America but at least we can be anti-Semites and harm Israel. Somehow, if the so-called Palestinians take over, the Recorder’s Office will be closed. There’ll be dynamic real estate transactions instead.
Like says
It freaks people out to admit Israel belongs to the Jews because then the dot trail can only lead …
william carr says
OC should reflect on her own ancestry, she is even named after the Spanish destroyer of the original inhabitants of Mexico, and Spanish adventurers in the other so called Latin American countries, all of whom are ruled mainly by their colonists even to this day.
gordon miller (@dagmiller) says
Republican brass must find a decent (conservative) candidate to run against this socialist monster.
Georg says
“Republican brass must find a decent (conservative) candidate to run against this socialist monster.”
The constituents have demonstrated their hatred for the United States and Americans, so a Republican is out of the question. Hopefully, they’d at least consider a Democrat who hates the United States and Americans less than Cortez does. But given their enthusiasm for electing such an unqualified miscreant in the first place, likely for very sordid reasons, you’re dealing with an extremist subset within the country.
Catherine F Maestas says
OCASIO is NOT a true Hispanic. She’s Store Bought Minority. I’m Hispanic & her Views are Retarded, not Logical, Phoney … She’s POSTER CHILD for communism…
mortimer says
She is a crazed loony. Most Hispanic people are refined, composed, pious and dignified.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
There is no such race as Hispanic. The term was introduced into the federal lexicon during the Nixon administration to simplify recordkeeping and the census. There are various race groups in the fantasy Hispanic race, such as the Caribes, of which it appears AOC is one. Don’t see any African in her, which is the predominant race in the fake race Hispanics, which was imported from West Africa into Brazil all the way up to Florida. Other actual genetic race groups falling under the so-called Hispanics are Aztec and Maya, ancient races that are meso-American native races.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Catherine.
Westman says
It almost seems as if Chakrabarti, as “God”, resurrected Frida Kahlo as a programmed extrovert.
John Connor says
As usual, the Socialist/Islamic axis of evil resorts to violence. Same thing is happening in Hong Kong and Venezuela.
Georg says
That’s right. Neither socialism/communism (Marx wrote of socialism as a prelude to communism) nor Islam can win on their own merits in the long run and thus the use of coercion often in the form of violence. A large factor in socialism’s entry into the U.S. and its body politic is with force via the illegal entry of some 20+ million who will tip the scales forever in the direction of those places they’ve fled.
The jury on socialism/communism is in and has been for some time.
Wellington says
She’s not just an ignorant, self-righteous whack job. She is an ignorant, self-righteous, malicious whack job.
mortimer says
Symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
◾Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
◾Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
◾Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
◾Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to themselves
◾Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
◾Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
◾Is highly suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
◾Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
Because personality disorders describe long-standing and enduring patterns of behavior, they are most often diagnosed in adulthood. It is uncommon for them to be diagnosed in childhood or adolescence, because a child or teen is under constant development, personality changes, and maturation. However, if it is diagnosed in a child or teen, the features must have been present for at least 1 year.
Histrionic personality disorder is more prevalent in females than males. It occurs in about 1.8 percent in the general population.
James Lincoln says
mortimer,
AOC, at the very least, has histrionic personality traits-and possibly a full-blown disorder.
Thanks for bringing this up for discussion.
Wellington says
Fine post, mortimer. AOC is ignorant, dysfunctional, self-righteous and yet powerful. Not a good combo. Even worse, loads of clueless millennials admire her. Much trouble ahead where she is concerned.
And just imagine what she really knows about Islam, the British Mandate period, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the splitting off of some 78% of it to create Transjordan, the “no-Jews” allowed in this 78% (even including Jewish graves), the 1939 White Paper, the 1947 UN partition plan, the fact that Arab terror was created before the occupation of the West Bank et al. rather than the other way around, etc.
Wretched person is AOC. One knows this or should know it. Can’t stand her. No one of sense, decency and knowledge can possibly defend this miserable excuse for a human being.
Goofy says
She is not a politician but she is hired to act as a politician. She works for her employers and has no interest in those who voted for her. This is very dangerous for the constitutional Republic of the USA and action should have been taken a long time ago.
James Lincoln says
Goofy,
I think that you could make the same argument for the other members of the squad.
don vito says
Just what does rioting in gaza have to do with Israel? Trouble following aoc’s logic on this.
Georg says
Better still: What does this have to do with Queens/Bronx?
Walter Sieruk says
First, it should be no shock the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would encourage violence by the Muslim/Arabs “Palestinians” against the Israeli citizens of the State of Israel..
This because she is one thing, for sure, which is she is always consistent .That is consistently wrong. For Cortez is wrong as in this specific case Corteze is wrong in her endorsement of violence .
She is also wrong in her national politics as well as in her international politics.
She is wrong with her words, and in all her polices, actions ,activities of Of course she reveals her poor judgement and low character by her associates .
Second, a person’s true character which contains his or her values and ideas is always revealed by the associates and friends of the specific individual.
In the case of that radical Left Wing politician, Alexandria Ocasio – Cortez she is a political ally, associate and friend of that Muslim politician Ilhan Omar who likes Sharia law but hates the US Constitution with all its precepts and values and likewise Omar also is anti-Jewish and anti-Israel .
Those two , Cortez and Omar, who have teamed up together are a physical representation of the twenty –first phenomena which is termed “The Red Green Alliance.”
Furthermore, even though, Alexandria Ocasio- Cortez and IIlan Omar have joined their forces to accomplish their goals ,in the end their Red-Green alliance will fail and it will only backfire on them . For example, The Bible in Proverbs 11:21 reveals to its reader that “Though they join forces, the wicked will not go unpunished.” [N.K.J.V.]
Clayton Norcroft says
Stupid woman. And of course an absolute darling of the left.
Tom says
This woman appears mentally unbalanced and certainly uninformed on many of the topics on which she comments.
If not, the alternative is that she is fully aware that she is anti semitic and a supporter of state sponsored terrorism.
Evil comes in many forms but eventually shows itself. The Democrats are starting to show their true face to the world and it ain’t pretty.
This woman is part of a dying left wing ideology in its last throes of life. In shaking off its mortal coil the ideology driving these people will take them all down with it.
scherado says
That woman is VERY photogenic.
J_not_a says
If you find wild eyed, unhinged looking photogenic. She will look like Nancy Pelosi at the same age – an old lunatic.
Giacomo Latta says
Ditto!
RichardL says
She is the gift that keeps on giving. She is genuinely stupid and epitomises the Democratic party. If she goes on like this she will alienate so many Jewish voters that they might even vote for the first President with a Jewish family.
Hari Singh says
Let’s be fair now. She supports Antifa violence against her countrymen or is it class enemies, so why wouldn’t she support violence against the Jews/Israelis? Both are part of war against so called imperialism. Supporting Palestinians whose goal is to destroy the only Middle-Eastern state with Jews as Jews have been driven out of all Muslim countries. The Palestinian cause is part of the greater Muslim effort to destroy the Jews. Free free Palestine from the Jordan to the sea is their cry.
Angemon says
Hard to distinguish parody from reality. Weird times indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBC-9k3y1ew
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7oXFmuUHLQ
Georg says
Some irony on top of the irony: Chappelle would love Cortez and hold contempt for us. He likes his weed and loves making money in America, but he’s gonna stay with his Islamic faith til the end.
Anonymous says
AOC was a waitress to carry around her eyeballs on a tray. Omar waits for the opportunity to wear a pile of pan cakes on top of her head as her next fancy hijab. Humour does help to break the fascination these clowns manage to create.
Angemon says
Indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmHFUzvY9XE
Georg says
Pretty legendary. The left, with their tolerance and whatnot, threatened this little girl with death, released her identity and home address, among other things. Wonder how long such humorless evil can be couched as moral superiority before decent people take notice.
hewhotypes says
She’s still young enough to learn. We should try to educate her before we demonize her. Yes, I know that Jewish leaders in NYC tried to talk to her. But just because we failed the first time doesn’t mean we should give up.
I say this because I also think she’s going to be on the political scene for a long time, and we will have to learn to live with her in Congress.
In any case, avoid gratuitously insulting her; We shouldn’t make the situation worse.
Angemon says
“I say this because I also think she’s going to be on the political scene for a long time, and we will have to learn to live with her in Congress.”
Her or a glass of water with a “D” next to it…
https://www.newsweek.com/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-glass-water-win-district-1397640
Kerry Wade says
It can’t get any worse, mocking such twerps helps to remove what influence they have. Anyway, all you can expect from a pig is a grunt.
gravenimage says
AOC is not just innocently clueless, as someone who naively thinks that the “Palestinian” Muslims want peace might be. She is indeed calling for violence against Israel–*very* ugly stuff. And she is twenty-nine years old–she’s no kid.
Georg says
“She’s still young enough to learn. We should try to educate her before we demonize her. Yes, I know that Jewish leaders in NYC tried to talk to her. But just because we failed the first time doesn’t mean we should give up.
I say this because I also think she’s going to be on the political scene for a long time, and we will have to learn to live with her in Congress.
In any case, avoid gratuitously insulting her; We shouldn’t make the situation worse.”
No, thanks.
Felix Quigley says
She’s still young enough to learn. We should try to educate her before we demonize her. Yes, I know that Jewish leaders in NYC tried to talk to her. But just because we failed the first time doesn’t mean we should give up.
This is a good comment and takes courage to say here.
Rather there must be education about the situation and how people like AOC has taken into their belief system the narrative of the “Palestinians”.
So it is necessary to take on board that the “right” has backed itself totally into a corner.
They are the most slavish supporters and backers of a decadent capitalist system and they cannot now even see what is in front of them (for example the Global Heating Terror)
They always take the side of Imperialism. How many on this site were defending the Serbs against NATO in 1999 or were supporting the NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs, and in doing so the Jihad of the likes of Izetbegovic was being supported.
I think there was nobody on this site who defended the Serbs in 1999.
Angemon says
“So it is necessary to take on board that the “right” has backed itself totally into a corner.”
No, the “left” has, courtesy of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Pelosi was trying to reign in the “squad”, who routinely espoused far-left rhetoric and politics. And she was being called “racist” for it – she actually got called racist for trying to bring a little sanity back to the Democrat party. But when Trump tweeted about the “squad”‘s hatred of America, the Democrats had no choice but to circle the wagon and let everyone know their defend the “squad”. Now, what is Independent Joe on the street going to think?n
Angemon says
“I think there was nobody on this site who defended the Serbs in 1999.”
In your scenario, how informed about islam and jihad were the people on this site back in 1999?
Georg says
“I think there was nobody on this site who defended the Serbs in 1999.”
Well, you have us there; the site was launched in 2003. I bet you also think CAIR was formed in response to the suffering American Muslims endured on 9/11. Any other wisdom you’d like to impart?
gravenimage says
Felix Quigley wrote:
She’s still young enough to learn. We should try to educate her before we demonize her. Yes, I know that Jewish leaders in NYC tried to talk to her. But just because we failed the first time doesn’t mean we should give up.
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AOC is preaching violence against Israel. Yes, ti is possible that she nay change her mind at some point–but this is not innocent naivite, nor is she a child, as Felix Quigley pretends.
More:
This is a good comment and takes courage to say here.
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The second part of this is just silly. The most that has–or could–happen is that someone may disagree. Jihad Watch does not put people in danger.
More:
Rather there must be education about the situation and how people like AOC has taken into their belief system the narrative of the “Palestinians”.
So it is necessary to take on board that the “right” has backed itself totally into a corner.
They are the most slavish supporters and backers of a decadent capitalist system and they cannot now even see what is in front of them (for example the Global Heating Terror)
………………………..
This is Trotskyite Felix Quigley ranting against free trade again–he considers opportunity “decadent”. And is the “Global Heating Terror” yet another term for “Global Warming”–or Cooling, or whatever it is being styled this month?
More:
They always take the side of Imperialism.
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How is opposing Jihad totalitarianism “imperialism”? This makes no sense.
More:
How many on this site were defending the Serbs against NATO in 1999 or were supporting the NATO bombing campaign against the Serbs, and in doing so the Jihad of the likes of Izetbegovic was being supported.
I think there was nobody on this site who defended the Serbs in 1999.
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As Angemon noted, this site did not exist until 2003, so this is technically true, but also meaningless.
If Felix Quigley is saying that no one here has ever defended the Serbs, in whole or in part, this is obviously false.
Angemon says
“As Angemon noted, this site did not exist until 2003”
Georg, not me 😉
tim gallagher says
This insane sort of expression that she has on her face in that photo is the way I always see her (it is mostly here on Jihad Watch where I see her, or on an occasional TV news report out here in Australia) . Does she sometimes look more composed because I think that she looks mentally ill? I suppose it is meant to be passion that she is displaying. I wonder how she could be elected to any political position when she looks so over the top and , frankly, scary. I wonder if she ever looks at such images of herself because I would think she’d surely say, I had better tone things down a bit because I look ridiculous and a bit mentally ill. Anyway, it truly is a hideous look and her eyes do look like those of some bad, over the top actor trying to portray an insane person.
Georg says
ghoulish
Natural to or resembling a ghoul: as, ghoulish delight.
adj.
Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
adj.
Of or pertaining to ghouls.
tim gallagher says
Yes, Georg, that’s a good description of her appearance. I do wonder if she will see images of herself looking like this and be a bit embarrassed and try to look a bit less unhinged in future. It is a horrible look. It would certainly scare children.
Georg says
What she is selling is that America is an outrage, so “the look” is actually conducive to her agenda–which goes to show how sick it and its supporters are. What we find embarrassing, they are proud of. The old look of a pensive philosopher politician is being challenged by this.
tim gallagher says
No doubt you are right, Georg. I also suppose this “outrage industry” type of thing these days, this being perpetually outraged and angry and passionate as some political people are, fits this woman’s style. I am never impressed by the foaming at the mouth types. I was thinking that a man like Robert Spencer, as one example, has strong views but always presents his views in a calm, rational way. That is the style of presentation I am impressed by. But, as you say, I guess there are people who like the grotesque way this woman carries on.
John Sun says
The face of an idiot. In an interview she admitted that she is not familiar with the Middle East conflict and yet she gives advice what to do.
Felix Quigley says
I notice that Robert does not attack Ocasio-Cortez on her appearance. That is a shallow form of politics.
More importantly is that Robert has outlined a series of political positions by Ocasio-Cortez that spell out a strong prejudice against the Jewish state of Israel.
The question however is really is Ocasio-Cortez a socialist. Were Marx and Engels haters of Jews. If so then why did Marx defend the political rights of the Jews in Prussia, the burning issue of the day in his time? If Marx was a Jew Hater then he would not have opposed the real Jew Hater Bruno Bauer.
What about Lenin? Lenin thought that the Jews were the greatest and most intelligent people in Russia and he wanted as many as he could get in his party. Does not seem like a hater of Jews.
But Stalin WAS a hater of Jews.
It fell to Leon Trotsky to fight against the antisemitism of Stalin, as Lenin died in 1924 until his assassination in 1940 in Mexico.
None of this can be disputed. If Ocasio-Cortez has picked up ideas of antisemitism then she did not get it from those socialist (the greatest) leaders!
Felix Quigley says
Without going into detail on the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, it is a fact that reactionary elements try to confuse by calling them Marxist, or Socialist, or even Communist, often along the lines of that great hater called Joe McCarthy, who shared the same hatred for Marx as did Hitler (take a moment to read Mein Kamph and compare it with McCarthy, not so far removed from that other Jew Hater Father Creagh of the infamous Limerick Pogrom). But the DSA are more akin to anarchism of a sort, having no central organization, and having policy made up by say a committee for women, a committee for blacks etcetera. and ad absurdum! But it is on their Israel hatred I focus on.
It shows that they have in particular nothing in common at all with the position of Leon Trotsky to Jews and his fight against Antisemitism. They are opposites.
A very useful essay was written on this by Norman Geras in 1997 and I quote its opening paragraphs:
NORMAN GERAS
MARXISTS BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST
I shall begin here from an astonishing fact. In December 1938, in an appeal to American Jews, Leon Trotsky in a certain manner predicted the impending Jewish catastrophe. Here is what he wrote: ‘It is possible to imagine without difficulty what awaits the Jews at the mere outbreak of the future world war. But even without war the next development of world reaction signifies with certainty the physical extermination of the Jews.’footnote1 This was just a few weeks after Kristallnacht and it was one month before Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech of 30 January 1939 in which he ‘prophesied’ the annihilation of European Jewry in the event of a world war.
I call Trotsky’s prediction an astonishing fact. For it is a common and well-grounded theme in the literature of the Holocaust that the disaster was not really predictable. It was outside the range of normal experience and of sober political projection or indeed imagination. Even once the tragedy began to unfold, many people found the information on what was being done to the Jews hard to absorb, hard to connect up into a unified picture of comprehensive genocide, hard to believe; and this applied to wide sections of the Jewish population itself. Then, after the event, its enormity has seemed to many difficult to grasp. It has seemed to be in some measure beyond understanding and explanation. We have the evidence of such a reaction from none other than Trotsky’s great biographer. Referring to ‘the absolute uniqueness of the catastrophe’, Isaac Deutscher would later write:
quote…”The fury of Nazism, which was bent on the unconditional extermination of every Jewish man, woman, and child within its reach, passes the comprehension of a historian, who tries to uncover the motives of human behaviour and to discern the interests behind the motives. Who can analyze the motives and the interests behind the enormities of Auschwitz?. . .we are confronted here by a huge and ominous mystery of the degeneration of the human character that will forever baffle and terrify mankind.footnote2″
https://newleftreview.org/issues/I224/articles/norman-geras-marxists-before-the-holocaust
Geras goes on then to pose a key question…”How are we to account for Trotsky’s prescience in this matter? Was it perhaps just some sort of stray, dark intuition? Or was it rather a hypothesis founded on the forms of knowledge which he brought to trying to understand the realities of his time?”
Of course it was intuition by that great thinker. But an intuition based on a lifetime of struggle against the phenomenon of Jew Hatred also called Antisemitism, and Trotsky recognized Stalinism as being Antisemitic.
If nothing else this quote from Norman Geras shows how far Occasio Cortez was and is from being a Trotskyist. Whatever she is she cannot claim that mantle, because there above on this page is the position of Leon Trotsky in black and white, and there is much more as well, much more that I do not have the space for here.
People are confused on this, and spread confusion, because they are ignorant about history and about these important matters. Moreover some want to remain ignorant because this challenges the concepts in their closed minds.
Angemon says
In other words: “all for the party, all inside the party, nothing against the party”….
gravenimage says
Felix Quigley wrote:
I notice that Robert does not attack Ocasio-Cortez on her appearance. That is a shallow form of politics.
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Well, I agree with Felix Quigley here. Also, when she does not appear unhinged, Ocasio-Cortez is actually quite attractive. Looks tell you little about character, as a rule.
More:
More importantly is that Robert has outlined a series of political positions by Ocasio-Cortez that spell out a strong prejudice against the Jewish state of Israel.
The question however is really is Ocasio-Cortez a socialist. Were Marx and Engels haters of Jews. If so then why did Marx defend the political rights of the Jews in Prussia, the burning issue of the day in his time? If Marx was a Jew Hater then he would not have opposed the real Jew Hater Bruno Bauer.
What about Lenin? Lenin thought that the Jews were the greatest and most intelligent people in Russia and he wanted as many as he could get in his party. Does not seem like a hater of Jews.
But Stalin WAS a hater of Jews.
It fell to Leon Trotsky to fight against the antisemitism of Stalin, as Lenin died in 1924 until his assassination in 1940 in Mexico.
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Actually, most of the Communists hated Jews, as I have pointed out her many times–including Trotsky. But Felix Quigley is a Trotskyite, and so regularly whitewashes his views and actions.
More:
None of this can be disputed. If Ocasio-Cortez has picked up ideas of antisemitism then she did not get it from those socialist (the greatest) leaders!
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What claptrap.
More:
Without going into detail on the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, it is a fact that reactionary elements try to confuse by calling them Marxist, or Socialist, or even Communist, often along the lines of that great hater called Joe McCarthy, who shared the same hatred for Marx as did Hitler (take a moment to read Mein Kamph (sic) and compare it with McCarthy, not so far removed from that other Jew Hater Father Creagh of the infamous Limerick Pogrom). But the DSA are more akin to anarchism of a sort, having no central organization, and having policy made up by say a committee for women, a committee for blacks etcetera. and ad absurdum! But it is on their Israel hatred I focus on.
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Felix Quigley has done this before–pretended that if you hate the totalitarianism oif Communism that you must efrgo be a Fascist. The idea that anyone could love freedom is quite alien to him.
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It shows that they have in particular nothing in common at all with the position of Leon Trotsky to Jews and his fight against Antisemitism. They are opposites.
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Actually, the Soviet Union was antisemitc largely from the beginning. That it was not as horrific as the Holocaust is damning wi8th faint praise.
More:
A very useful essay was written on this by Norman Geras in 1997 and I quote its opening paragraphs:
NORMAN GERAS
MARXISTS BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST
I shall begin here from an astonishing fact. In December 1938, in an appeal to American Jews, Leon Trotsky in a certain manner predicted the impending Jewish catastrophe. Here is what he wrote: ‘It is possible to imagine without difficulty what awaits the Jews at the mere outbreak of the future world war. But even without war the next development of world reaction signifies with certainty the physical extermination of the Jews.’footnote1 This was just a few weeks after Kristallnacht and it was one month before Hitler’s famous Reichstag speech of 30 January 1939 in which he ‘prophesied’ the annihilation of European Jewry in the event of a world war.
I call Trotsky’s prediction an astonishing fact. For it is a common and well-grounded theme in the literature of the Holocaust that the disaster was not really predictable. It was outside the range of normal experience and of sober political projection or indeed imagination. Even once the tragedy began to unfold, many people found the information on what was being done to the Jews hard to absorb, hard to connect up into a unified picture of comprehensive genocide, hard to believe; and this applied to wide sections of the Jewish population itself. Then, after the event, its enormity has seemed to many difficult to grasp. It has seemed to be in some measure beyond understanding and explanation. We have the evidence of such a reaction from none other than Trotsky’s great biographer. Referring to ‘the absolute uniqueness of the catastrophe’, Isaac Deutscher would later write:
quote…”The fury of Nazism, which was bent on the unconditional extermination of every Jewish man, woman, and child within its reach, passes the comprehension of a historian, who tries to uncover the motives of human behaviour and to discern the interests behind the motives. Who can analyze the motives and the interests behind the enormities of Auschwitz?. . .we are confronted here by a huge and ominous mystery of the degeneration of the human character that will forever baffle and terrify mankind.footnote2″
https://newleftreview.org/issues/I224/articles/norman-geras-marxists-before-the-holocaust
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This is not a quote from Trotsky, but a much later one from his biographer. Nothing prescient about “predicting” the Holocaust after it had already happened.
It is nice that Felix Quigley is against antisemitism–but that he is trying to use this to whitewash the horrors of the Soviet Union is just disgusting.
Carolyne says
But in most of her pictures she looks as if she is attempting to bite someone with her enormous teeth.
She is a charleton who claims to be from the Bronx but was actually brought up in South Hampton by well-to-do parents. Her father was a successful architect. People in the Bronx say she rented an apt there but they never saw her around.
Georg says
Have you heard of the socialist Adolf Hitler?
E T says
If she is re-elected, there are far more people suffering from “Dropped on you head” syndrome than I ever imagined.
kathy says
Most Somalis have had their clitoris chopped off, she is obviously one of them
gravenimage says
Kathy, you are thinking of Ilhan Omar, a different member of “the Squad”.
Horseman says
AOC is so funny. She revels in her ignorance.
janwog says
Who is occupying Palestine and the temple mount? Islam
Princess says
That’s what happens when you have the kind of friends like she does. I think it’s mostly their influence, and she’s yet just another useful idiot.
Sun says
The United Nations is aiming to raise approximately $540 million per year for the five million Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza.
World Bank on May 8,2015: Net official development assistance and official aid for West Bank and Gaza
2007: 1,717,110,000
2008: 2,470,080,000
2009: 2,826,680,000
2010: 2,518,700,000
2011: 2,441,970,000
2012: 2,011,430,000
2013: 2,610,410,000
And they still have no access to clean water? They have no choice but to riot, right?
Sun says
They received 522.082 USD per capita in 2013!
NO Spin says
This filthy socialist hog & the 3 Muslims she is in cahoots with need to be tried for treason & given the maximum penalty