who is “the new left” & what unites them around hatred of Israel?

The new left?

The “new left” has passed the statue of liberty some time ago – they can hardly remember all the twists and turns to get back there. They are seeing some glimpses of a new statue in the far east – perhaps many of them … and come to think of it, why just one statue when everyone can pick the one they like most … and upon arrival in that furthest eastern mytopia, if none quite struck their fancy the iLikeness™ chain will grantee satisfaction (for a season).

The new(er) manifestation

With no limit to east or left, the veneer peels off every few years, with increasing regularity … and severity. The potential shapes & slogans of the “newest lady liberty” are legion & the most recent version of it, at least for some, is draped with Hamas colours & “river to sea” slogans.

Only through exposing the roots of this worldview (see also Neo-Marxism) and calling it what it is, can we start to understand and effectively respond to it. More work is needed by cultural leaders to crystallize this ideology (or theology) into, into something like a manifesto or anti-manifesto to clarify & expose the the origins & aims of this deceptive social contagion, in a way that wider leadership (including political) can more effectively engage with & counter it.

Social contagion is an ubiquitous process by which information, such as attitudes, emotions, or behaviors, are rapidly spread throughout a group from one member to others without rational thought and reason.

Excepts below from: Why the left united around hatred of Israel

The willingness of the left to unite around the cause of preventing the suffering of Hamas and the Palestinians as a result of their decision to launch a brutal war is due to the pervasive influence of what, for lack of a better term, we call “woke ideology.” Without a generation of young liberals being indoctrinated in the toxic ideas behind critical race theory and intersectionality, which falsely identifies Jews and Israel as “white oppressors” and likens the Palestinian war to destroy the Jewish state to the American civil-rights movement, none of this would have happened.

Something curious has happened in American politics in the last six months. Liberal activist groups on a host of disparate topics ranging from the economy, labor-union organizing, homelessness and housing shortages, “anti-racism,” climate change and support for illegal immigrants have suddenly all been speaking with one voice on an issue totally unrelated to their primary purposes.

They are demanding an immediate end to the war on Hamas that Israel has been waging in the Gaza Strip since the Palestinian terrorist group launched a barbaric attack on 22 Jewish communities and the Nova music festival in southern Israel on Oct. 7.

As the Times noted, the left-wing outrage against U.S. support for Israel wasn’t a subsequent reaction to lies about Israeli “genocide” in Gaza since it began in the immediate aftermath of the terrorist attacks and well before the Israel Defense Forces began its counter-offensive.

Nor should we buy the excuse that the anti-Israel fervor is a justified abhorrence for an out-of-control Israeli military campaign or an astoundingly high number of casualties such as had not been seen in a recent war. On the contrary, the Israel-Hamas war is dwarfed by other recent conflicts that took place in Syria or Sudan. And the number of victims is not to be compared to actual genocides such as those that are ongoing in the Congo or the Chinese campaign against Muslim Uyghurs, in which it is estimated that more than a million people have been put into concentration camps.

The Marxist roots of wokeism also help explain why left-wingers who claim to be against every conceivable kind of prejudice have not only aligned themselves with a vicious and tyrannical hate group like Hamas but also find themselves indifferent to actually supportive of a surge in antisemitism that has blighted American life in the past six months. Despite the persistent attraction of the Jewish left to socialism, Marxist dialectic has, from its origins, viewed Judaism and Jews with suspicion and hostility. The stubborn refusal of Jews to bend to others’ will or simply disappear contradicts the Marxist belief that the homogenization of mankind is part of achieving the dubious goals of its ideology.

And it is the appeal of intersectionality—the false belief that all allegedly oppressed people are part of the same struggle—that has created the ludicrous meme of “Queers for Palestine.”

american leader ‘happy to see gazans breaking siege on oct. 7’

Is such a headline possible? Today it is.

No surprise then that CAIR is not listed anymore in the strategy against antisemitism.

When the White House announced its new national strategy to counter antisemitism on May 25, it stated that 24 organizations were supporting “the whole-of-society call to action.”

The Council on American-Islamic Relations was among the two dozen, per an archived version of the page.

As of 1:51 p.m. on Dec. 7, the archived page continued to reference CAIR, but at some time thereafter, the White House removed that reference.

In response to a question from JNS about whether CAIR still deserved that second chance after its comments on Oct. 7, Lipstadt said, “it is irresponsible and abhorrent to try in any way to justify Hamas’s murder of more than 1,000 Israeli civilians including through indiscriminate attacks.”

from which river to which sea?

ny times applauds how pixar targets your children with first gay lead character

Leftist thinking says this “culture war” has been won, LGBT is out and proud as a global concept, supported & championed by leading institutions etc.

…well, it’s not over yet.

The Times concludes with the following “libertarian” statement … “all religions”, as if all religions celebrate this.

[Pixar] obviously recognize that their audience, or potential audience, includes the L.G.B.T.Q. community, just as it includes people of all genders, races, ethnicities, religions and so on.”

New York Times – May 24, 2020

Here, however is a bit of a “fact check”.

…so no, “all religions” don’t welcome this so much. About half of the global population does not agree with this “enlightened” and “progressive” view. And if you want to try assert that Christianity “welcomes” this, the people are welcomed, loved even, but the action is not. If you are wondering about the numbers in those shrinking “liberal churches” that disagree with this, consider that some portions in the “Mixed” group does not approve of this either.

This is not that numbers determine truth, but if there was a global vote on this, pro-LGBT legislation would fail. Democracy surely has it’s limits – just look at the reactions after Trump became president. Full acceptance of the will of the people? Not so much.

“Greg, the film’s lead character, has a secret he’s keeping from his parents, but with help from his dog, he learns he’s got nothing [sic] to hide.” – Disney/Pixar

“We’ll get you through your children!”

These words were shouted to Norman Podhoretz in 1958 by beat poet and pioneer gay activist Allen Ginsberg at the end of an unsuccessful summit. According to Daniel Oppenheimer in his book Exit Right, “A decade later (1968) that threat would prove one of the fulcrums around which Podhoretz would execute his hard pivot to the right.”

Ginsberg’s words have proven true. Leftists and LGBTQ activists and their allies have waged an effective ideological war on our children, proclaiming that gay is good, that biological sex is changeable, and that heterosexual unions are really no different than homosexual unions.

Excerpt posted on AskDrBrown, May 27, 2020 by Michael L. Brown

Anti-Semitism has resurfaced in European discourse, tripled in 10 years – scientific analysis

This analysis from one of Europe’s most distinguished anti-Semitism researchers. 

Cover picture, portraying the basic premise of this post, is from June 17, 2002.

‘In the past 10 years, anti-Semitic comments on the internet and in letters to editors have almost tripled’

Scientific measures indicate a massive upsurge of Jew-hatred on the internet, as anti-Semitism reestablishes itself as an increasingly visible element in European mainstream discourse.

There is less and less resistance to anti-Semitic utterances

[…there is] global Israelization of anti-Semitic discourse. The articulation of traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes by projecting them onto Israel is by now the most dominant manifestation of modern Jew hatred. 

Scientifically we can draw a very clear distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. We give many examples for both types in our book. Those who claim that criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism cannot be distinguished do so in order to excuse or marginalize anti-Semitic views.

Full quote from source below:

European anti-Semites increasingly playing victim in classic ‘perpetrator inversion,’ says expert

If you thought you noticed increasing Jew-hatred online and in mainstream European media, you were right — and Professor Monika Schwarz-Friesel can quantify that scientifically
By Marc NeugroschelOctober 5, 2016, 3:17 am

Monika Schwarz-Friesel, professor and author of ‘Inside the anti-Semitic Mind,’ whose English translation will be released this upcoming November. (Marc Neugröschel/Times of Israel)

Monika Schwarz-Friesel, professor and author of ‘Inside the anti-Semitic Mind,’ whose English translation will be released this upcoming November. (Marc Neugröschel/Times of Israel)
‘In the past 10 years, anti-Semitic comments on the internet and in letters to editors have almost tripled’
JERUSALEM — One of Europe’s most distinguished anti-Semitism researchers, Monika Schwarz-Friesel has an alarming message: scientific measures indicate a massive upsurge of Jew-hatred on the internet, as anti-Semitism reestablishes itself as an increasingly visible element in European mainstream discourse.
A psychologist, linguist and professor of cognitive science at the Technical University of Berlin, Schwarz-Friesel is one of the most quoted experts on anti-Semitism in both international academic literature and the German media.
In her numerous publications she analyzes and exposes new manifestations of old anti-Semitic sentiments — disguised though they might be — employing much of the same Jew-hatred that has been shaping European discourse throughout the years, even when officially outlawed.
These analyses are evidence that recent anti-Israeli tropes demonizing the Jewish state are actually work-arounds of old anti-Semitic sentiments that have been with us for two millennia.
As the go-to scholar on anti-Semitism in Europe, in March 2016, Schwarz-Friesel delivered a keynote speech at the Berlin Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism in the Bundestag (the German federal parliament) which was attended by 100 lawmakers from 40 countries. In 2015 she wrote a much noted expertise that was part of the testimony against German journalist Jürgen Elsässer in a court case, in which the latter sued the publicist and former politician Jutta Ditfurth for calling him a “glowing anti-Semite.”
And now, to further amplify her research outside of Europe, an English translation of her much celebrated study titled “Inside the anti-Semitic Mind” (co-authored with former Brandeis University president, Jehuda Reinharz), will be available this upcoming November.
Currently, Schwarz-Friesel, is spending the last part of her sabbatical in Jerusalem, where she met with The Times of Israel on Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus Campus to share some insight into the truly disturbing results of her research.
Your book “Inside the anti-Semitic Mind” reviews over 15,000 letters, emails and other correspondence that have been addressed to Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions all over Europe. What do these correspondences reveal?
Many of these letters employ classical anti-Semitic stereotypes in order to abuse their addressees, while demonizing the state of Israel and Jews. Jews in general are blamed for alleged crimes by the State of Israel that is slurred as “a hypocritical terror regime, living of the blood of Palestinians,” or a nation of “child-eaters.” Zionism is being equated with racism and Israel is being called an “apartheid regime,” posing the greatest danger to world peace. Such ideas have nothing to do with the reality on the ground. Instead they reflect classic anti-Semitic stereotypes that have been with us for 2,000 years and that brand Jews as murderers and an omnipresent evil force in the world.

It is hard to believe that such views are prevalent in contemporary European mainstream discourse. Aren’t they just characteristic of uneducated, radical subgroups?
Unfortunately, no. The authors of the anti-Semitic letters that we reviewed included students, lawyers, journalists, doctors, priests, self-employed entrepreneurs, politicians and even university professors.
‘Israel and Jews are being portrayed as overly powerful and vengeful child murderers’
But still, people who address letters to Jewish institutions in order to condemn the State of Israel are not necessarily a representative sample of society.
True. However, other inquiries reveal the same anti-Semitic patterns as well in other domains, such as the social media and even in the quality press. In the framework of a new research project on anti-Semitism in the world wide web, supported by the German Research Foundation, I am currently reviewing Facebook posts and reader comments on articles in the quality media. What I am finding so far is a replication of the same anti-Semitic stereotypes. Israel and Jews are being portrayed as overly powerful and vengeful child murderers. Indeed, speaking for Germany, throughout the past 10 years, anti-Semitic content in comments on the internet and in letters to editors has almost tripled.
Is this upsurge of anti-Semitism on the internet paralleled by a similar development in the quality media?
There are ongoing investigations, the intermediate findings of which raise the suspicion that this could be the case indeed, though it’s too early yet to draw such conclusions with certainty. However, we don’t even have to wait for the definite results of these studies in order to establish that anti-Semitism has resurfaced as an evident element in mainstream European discourse. Just think about the utterances of writer Günter Grass or of the journalist Jakob Augstein that portray Israel in terms of classic anti-Semitic clichés, according to which Jews are a menace to mankind and control world politics.
Monika Schwarz-Friesel is currently on sabbatical in Jerusalem. (Marc Neugröschel/Times of Israel)

Monika Schwarz-Friesel is currently on sabbatical in Jerusalem. (Marc Neugröschel/Times of Israel)
In addition, there is less and less resistance to anti-Semitic utterances. A case in point is the lack of objection upon the conclusion of the speech by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to the European Parliament last June, which raised the false accusation that rabbis asked the Israeli government to poison the water of Palestinians. Abbas even received standing ovations after this speech, which promoted the classic anti-Semitic slur that Jews are well-poisoners.
Most of the examples that you mention involve anti-Semitic demonizations of the State of Israel…
There is a global Israelization of anti-Semitic discourse. The articulation of traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes by projecting them onto Israel is by now the most dominant manifestation of modern Jew hatred.
But isn’t it difficult to distinguish such Israel-focused anti-Semitism without being liable to declaring all criticism of Israel per se to be anti-Semitic?
Not at all! Scientifically we can draw a very clear distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. We give many examples for both types in our book. Those who claim that criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism cannot be distinguished do so in order to excuse or marginalize anti-Semitic views.
A lot of people express concerns that they would not be allowed to criticize Israel without being labeled as anti-Semites…
‘None of the authors of the letters that criticized Israel without being anti-Semitic voiced any concerns that they could falsely be accused of Jew-hatred’
Yes. And remarkably, in the material that we reviewed, this concern is expressed exclusively by authors of letters that are actually anti-Semitic. None of the authors of the letters that criticized Israel without being anti-Semitic voiced any concerns that they could falsely be accused of Jew-hatred. It is the anti-Semites who actually commit the kind of false accusation which they claim to be a victim of, in order to deny their hatred of Jews. This implies a victim-perpetrator-inversion, which is a historically deep-rooted pattern in the standard repertoire of anti-Semitic constructions. Already in the 19th century anti-Semites accused Jews to use their alleged control over the media to censor and delegitimize anti-Jewish criticism.
Let’s discuss another concrete example of Israel-focused anti-Semitism. A German author called Christian Ebener recently published a travelogue of a road trip through the Middle East that also brought him to Israel about which he writes:
“Our short stopover in this […] state and the three days on the boat [from Haifa to Lavrio, Greece, which involved an encounter with a Palestinian passenger] have revolutionized our idea of the Jews. I used to think that this religious community is one of the most persecuted and suffering groups of mankind, which was abused over and over again throughout history up to point of annihilation. But today, I have to recognize that this is only one side of the coin. The other side is that Jews, in spite of their bitter experience are no better, as they persecute and kill people of different nationality and faith with the same kind of brutality.”
‘Equating Jews with Nazis invokes the victim-perpetrator-inversion’
Slurring Jews collectively as a people of culprits, this statement is clearly anti-Semitic. Equating Jews with Nazis, it also invokes the victim-perpetrator-inversion. A baseless vilification of Israel, which, without giving any evidence, except for the narrative of a random Palestinian on a boat, is slandered as a regime that conducts Nazi-like persecution and killings of national and religious minorities, is taken as a justification to condemn all Jews, be they Israeli or not. In addition to the quotation that you just mentioned, there is another paragraph in the same book, where Ebener questions the legitimacy of Israel’s very existence. This is another typical trope of contemporary anti-Semitism.
It would be absurd to suggest that such slander cannot be separated from founded criticism of particular Israeli policies.
Many people are concerned that anti-Semitism in Europe could further be aggravated by the massive influx of refugees from the Middle East.
Many of the refugees that have been pouring into Europe recently come from societies that are deeply anti-Semitic. It would be foolish to assume that their anti-Semitism can be educated away in a few years and that it won’t leave its mark on European societies.

Torah commentary on “celestial-terrestrial intermarriage”

Is a virgin birth possible? Even though the below “version” is unholy, the JPS Commentary on Genesis doesn’t deny it!

Chapter 6

CELESTIAL-TERRESTRIAL INTERMARRIAGE (vv. 1–4)

At the beginning of history, humans strove to rise to the level of divine beings, and God intervened. Humankind cannot be immortal. Here divine beings lower themselves to the level of humans, and God intervenes. A severe limitation on human longevity results.

The account given in these few verses is surely the strangest of all the Genesis narratives. It is so full of difficulties as to defy certainty of interpretation. The perplexities arise from the theme of the story, from its apparent intrusiveness within the larger narrative, from its extreme terseness, and from some of its vocabulary and syntax. The passage cannot be other than a fragment of what was once a well-known and fuller story, now etched in the barest outline.

Legends about intercourse between gods and mortal women and between goddesses and men, resulting in the generation of demigods, are widespread and familiar ingredients of pagan mythology. The present theme of celestial beings arriving on earth and intermarrying with humans seems at first glance to belong to the same genre, echoes of which are found in other biblical passages. Thus, behind the exclamation of Isaiah 14:12—“How are you fallen from heaven, / O Shining One, son of Dawn!/ How are you felled to earth”—is the notion of angels in rebellion against God and thereby forfeiting their angelic dignity. Job 4:18–19 similarly expresses the theme of the corruptibility of angels: “If He cannot trust His own servants, / And casts reproach on His angels, / How much less those who dwell in houses of clay.”

In light of these and other biblical references, such as Ezekiel 32:27, it is quite likely that the main function of the present highly condensed version of the original story is to combat polytheistic mythology. The picture here presented of celestial beings intermarrying with women on earth may partake of the mythical, but it does not overstep the bounds of monotheism; there is only one God who passes judgment and makes decisions. The offspring of such unnatural union may have possessed heroic stature, but they have no divine qualities; they are flesh and blood like all humans. They are not only mortal, but their life span is severely limited as compared with the personages listed in chapter 5. The one God is recognized as holding sole title to the breath of life, which He controls as He wills.

This literary segment has three points of connection with the preceding passage: the opening reference to human fecundity in verse 1 takes up the theme implicit in the genealogy; mention of daughters links up with the oft-repeated formula there regarding the begetting of sons and daughters; and the specific restriction of human longevity presupposes knowledge of the extraordinary ages recorded in chapter 5. At the same time, the story is immediately followed by God’s verdict on human wickedness, and the impression is created, even if not made explicit, that it illustrates the magnitude and the universality of evil in the world. Even the celestial host is corrupted. True, mankind is not condemned here for the acts of angels, but the effect is that the world order has been disturbed.

1. men Hebrew ha-ʾadam is here a collective, the human race.1

2. the divine beings The definite article points to a familiar and well-understood term.2 The context in Job 1:6; 2:1; and 38:7 unmistakably proves the reference to be to the angelic host, the celestial entourage of God. This is a poetic image drawn from the analogy of human kings surrounded by their assemblage of courtiers. Occasionally, as in 1 Kings 22:19, “the host of heaven” is used to the same effect.

saw how beautiful The implication is that they were driven by lust, so that external beauty, and not character, was their sole criterion in the selection of mates.

took wives Hebrew l-k-ḥ ʾishah is the regular term for the marriage relationship. There is no suggestion here of violent possession or any condemnation of the women involved.

3. The Lord said See Comment to 3:22.

My breath The life force that issues from God, corresponding to “the breath of life” in 2:7.3 Its presence or withdrawal determines life and death.

shall not abide This rendering of the otherwise unexampled Hebrew yadon best suits the context and follows the Septuagint, the Vulgate, Saadia, and Ramban. However, Rashi, Rashbam, Bekhor Shor, and Ibn Ezra connect the word with the stem d-y-n, “to judge.” The meaning here would then be something like, “I shall not go on suspending judgment.”

in man Taken together with the next clause, the reference would be specifically to the offspring of these unnatural unions, but all humankind is included within the scope of the verdict because disorder has been introduced into God’s creation.

flesh They are not divine despite their nonhuman paternity.4 “Flesh” connotes human frailty. Psalms 56:5 and Isaiah 31:3 are good examples of this usage.

one hundred and twenty years The duration of human life is drastically shortened, the diminution being emblematic of moral and spiritual degeneration.5 Early exegesis of this verse prefers to see here a reference to the interval of time remaining before the Flood. The figure would then represent three conventional generations of forty years each.6

4. This verse is obscure, probably deliberately so, in order to downgrade the mythic tone. The etymology of Nephilim is uncertain.7 The obvious association with n-f-l yields the rendering “fallen ones,” that is, fallen angels. But it is not clear from the text that the Nephilim are identical with the “divine beings.” Rather, they appear to be the offspring of the misalliances, who continued to generate Nephilim in the course of their married lives. Because Numbers 13:33 implies that these were people of extraordinary physical stature, the term was understood to mean “giants” or “heroes.” While it is not certain from the text whether or not the Nephilim themselves procreated, it is contrary to the understanding of the biblical narrative that they should have survived the Flood. Hence, the reference in Numbers is not to the supposedly continued existence of Nephilim into Israelite times; rather, it is used simply for oratorical effect, much as “Huns” was used to designate Germans during the two world wars.

cohabited Significantly, the verb y-d-ʿ is not used, as in 4:1, 17, and 25, but a coarser term, as befits the circumstances.

heroes of old, the men of renown Their heroic exploits were the subject of many a popular tale. On the analogy of 11:4, it is possible that they were guilty of some vainglorious outrages.

call for debate & in-depth jewish answers to questions about Yeshua (aka Jesus)

A call for a debate on some key issues! See also: The debate that embarrassed Tovia Singer (05min audio extract).

Was Jesus really Jewish? God is one, not three! How can God have a son? How could a literal virgin birth be true?! Well, the (Jewish) JPS Commentary on Genesis doesn’t deny it happened in a different context involving fallen angels & women! And what of this “human sacrifice for sin” … the God of Israel won’t accept that right? …well, check on the topic of “the death of the righteous atoning for sin” – and of course, check Isaiah 53!

It’s all there, all covered plainly & comprehensively below. Let’s face the facts!

Thorough Answers To Objections to Yeshua / Jesus from Jewish Sources

Watch Debates with Famous Rabbis

Lesser Known Facts in Jewish Scriptures

Call for (another) Debate with Tovia Singer. He has refused to debate for over 20 years! Why another debate? Details here.

which one is christian?

Little known fact by non-Jews:

During the Passover meal, three pieces of unleavened bread is wrapped into one. Later, one of the pieces, is broken in half, wrapped separately, and hid away for the children to find. The child that finds the broken piece gets a reward.

This tradition is so close to the reality followers of Yeshua (Jesus) believe in that many think the tradition was started originally by early believers.

pet shops replacing baby shops … pets replacing kids!? – 07min

More households with a dog than with a child. Nett effect? Think about it, and listen below.

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AlbertMohler.com – The Briefing 03-24-14

15000 babies burned – incinerated in britain over last two years alone! – 05min

Horror warning. Brace yourself :

Many of these babies were burned to provide heat for hospitals.

Yes these were aborted babies.

The world says:

When babies are called ‘fetuses’ it’s ok to murder them & treat them like a removed appendix or nail clippings – just don’t burn them – then the headlines will say ‘babies burnt’!

The number above ignores the millions of aborted babies worldwide (incredibly almost 60 000 000 in America) – but these 15 000 souls make a point in a way some of the world may hear.

“Come on, lefties. Just think of the carbon emissions from all of those incinerated aborted babies,” said the National Review’s Jim Geraghty.

Judgement is coming friends. Know it.

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AlbertMohler.com – The Briefing 03-25-14