In all probability, an orthodox Jew is safer ( and far less likely to be harassed ) in rural Mississippi, redneck Alabama, or the lowest of the low country in South Carolina than on the campus of Harvard, Yale, or Columbia. You name the little town in Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina — or anywhere else in the past Confederacy — and I’ll bet you a can of Dr. Brown’s Cream Soda that a fella with a yarmulke is safer around the Bubbas, Wilburs, and Jethros than around the senior academics and their slack-jawed soldiers.
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Because, on British university campuses, any tinge of an openly Jewish identity immediately denotes you as a possible discriminatory, xenophobe, colonist, or Islamophobe. Doesn’t matter if you’re secular. Doesn’t even question if you support transgender rights, loathe Donald Trump, always use the proper nouns, and voting liberal 100 % of the time.  ,
If you’re Jewish, we need to keep our eye ( s ) on you.  ,
And the time you demonstrate any sort of confidence in your Israeli identity or pity for Israelis, you’re condemned, banished, and canceled. In their eyes, you’ve eventually revealed yourself as” The Other”.
The Other is the opponent.  ,
Within the Democrat Party, there’s a steep millennial break when it comes to Israel. Last year, 77 % of Democrats over the age of 65 supported Biden’s Israel policy. Only 16 % opposed. But with younger voters, the numbers are flipped: 69 % opposed Biden’s Israel policy, just 24 % approved.
And institutions, of course, comprise of the adolescent.
But to fully understand why the chosen individuals are persona non grata in democratic institutions, you didn’t get shortsighted: The aforementioned generational break is the result, it’s not the reason.
Because the trigger wasn’t only one thing. It’s no distinct. It has many unique eyes, not unlike the Beast of Revelation.
The first face is the “1619” idea, where the sum total of the British practice is reduced to cultural situation, prejudice, and a history of servitude. There is no room for detail when your worldview divides people into two firm categories: oppressors and oppressed.  ,
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For younger liberals, the “optics” of Israel set a deeply personal effect, mainly because their understanding of politics is, quite literally, body deep.
When they scroll through their TikTok feed, they see white-skinned Jews ordering around darker-skinned Palestinians. With very little effort, anti-Israel agitators and/or antisemites are able to shapeshift all the complexities of the Middle East into the 1619 philosophy: The Palestinians are the righteous natives. The Jews are the evil colonizers. A good liberal should also have empathy for the natives.
Therefore, anyone who supports Israel is not only a racist colonizer, but also guilty of de facto genocide against the brave and honorable Palestinian people.
The second face is knee-jerk liberal opposition to any organized religion ( or any theocratic tradition, for that matter ). If you’ve come to terms with a Marxist view of religion, you’re less concerned about the “opium of the masses” that brainwashed Red America into voting MAGA.
Religion is the enemy.  ,
Which makes Judaism the original ringleader, since Christianity and Islam are its offshoots. Liberal activists believe that religious institutions are analogous to vampire movies: if you kill the oldest vampire, all of them will also pass away.
Uncoincidentally ( perhaps ), analogizing Jews to vampires is an old antisemitic trope.
Either way, discrediting Judaism is the fastest, easiest way to discredit all Abrahamic religions. And thus, once again, the Jews are the canary in the coal mine.
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The Machiavellian desire to win elections is the third face. Liberals are better at keeping their eyes on the prize than conservatives: The point is to win.
Moral victories are for losers.
Liberals don’t like tackle football ( they prefer pickleball ), but give’ em their due: they embody the spirit of Vince Lombardi better than ANY conservative this side of Steve Bannon:” Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing”.
Consider this: Liberals were so determined to win that they enthusiastically gathered around numbskulls like Biden and Harris!
They didn’t give a damn about Biden or Harris personally. They knew they weren’t particularly exemplary people. But they genuinely hoped to succeed!
And in four years, their pleading will escalate to a fever pitch. ( Liberals absolutely lose their]EXPLETIVE] when they’re out of power. )
Humans are wired to find straightforward answers to complex questions. And in far-left communities, a simple explanation is currently emerging for Trump’s victory in 2024, and you’ll never guess who’s to blame.
The Jews, of course.
A damning new poll indicates that Harris and Dems paid a sizable price for Gaza policy. 29 % of non-voters who supported Biden in 2020 said U. S. support for the genocide was the top reason they sat out 2024 election.
Israel is a liability. https ://t.co/ienmodE3iQ
— Huwaida Arraf ( bluesky: @huwaida ) ( @huwaidaarraf ) January 15, 2025
The 2024 election results were interpreted by Ryan Grimm at Drop Site News in this manner:
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Democrats saw a astronomical decline in support from 2020 to 2024, with some 19 million people choosing to stay home in 2024. A new survey conducted by YouGov now suggests that Biden’s support for Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza played a surprisingly large role in those who had previously supported Biden’s decision not to vote. ( Read the full poll here. )
The top reason those non-voters cited, above the economy at 24 percent and immigration at 11 percent, was Gaza: a full 29 percent cited the ongoing onslaught as the top reason they didn’t cast a vote in 2024.
Joe Biden’s generation was on their last legs years ago, they don’t have any more legs to give in 2025. At this point, they’re wheelchair-bound with one foot in the grave. But make no mistake, they were the last vestiges of the pro-Israel Democratic Party. The party can finally let its pro-Palestinian freak flag fly now that the Old Men are finally out of the way.
Related: The Biden Legacy Unmasked: If You Thought Antisemitism Was Bad Before, Hold Onto Your Yarmulkas
So, consider: there’s a generational rift amongst liberals. There’s an optics issue in the Holy Land: those lily-white Jews are oppressing the darker-skinned natives. There’s the ascendence of the 1619 philosophy. There’s a simmering hostility to all religions, but especially Judaism. Then there is the Machiavellian desire to win elections, and the emergent justification for Trump’s defeat:” Supporting Israel cost us the election.”
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That’s too many headwinds.  ,
The ancient hatred of Jews, their Deity, and their homeland has been released from the bottle just as the P. C. police and pronoun hysteria first appeared on college campuses before spreading to other campuses. It hit colleges first, but that’s not where it’ll stay.
Not into unchartered waters, but rather the Democratic ship is being blown into new waters. We’ve been here before.  ,
Only last time, the narration was in German.
