(05-18-2018 09:02 AM)bullet Wrote: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opi...9b4e001d8e
Huff Post article. Author proves the 7th point of his "myths" is actually true with an incredibly slanted piece. "...Too often, however, the claim that “it’s complicated” functions as an excuse to sidestep a very simple reality: this is about the 70-year struggle of a people who have been expelled, murdered, robbed, imprisoned and occupied...." How anyone can write this about the Palestinians without acknowledging that far worse was done to the Jews justs proves they are anti-semetic.
As Jews are overwhelmingly Democratic, the only thing I can think of is liberals equate the Jews with "white privilege." Jews are all rich loan sharks in their minds.
The answer Bullet is a philosophical one. Liberals tend to be ideologues. In all forms of governance where there is a realistic tug on ideas which tend to lead toward compromise ideologues get frustrated. To them the concept they are pushing has to remain pure. They always envision a world which is totally inclusive, as long as those who are included totally buy into the vision provided for them by the dictator in charge of the idea. No compromise or deviation from the ideal is permitted. This is true in all communist countries, all fascist countries, and all countries which are racially pure (as China is currently striving to be).
Jews come in all hues. They have one common trait among all of their different practices of Judaism. They think for themselves and work as a group by arguing and adapting everything until some form of compromise is reached. The Knesset would put our House to shame in terms of discussion and wheeling and dealing for consensus. Since they can't be pigeonholed and can't be told what to do, all idealists see Israel and the Jewish people as a problem for any ideal solution to the world's problems. Want a bunch of Islamist fundamentalists to do your dirty work for revolution? Oppose the Jews. Want a group that has been successful at assimilating in every culture to use as a whipping boy for the disenfranchised and lazy? Blame the Jews! They tend to work hard and work together so they are an easy target for envy.
Most of the Jews who have taken up idealistic causes contrary to the interests of Israel, or their faith, are atheists and intellectuals who are again selling a perfect concept that has to have extreme force to make it come true. For them, absent a God, self is the only deity to be served. So they will take the tack of pursuing whatever ideology that makes them the most. In the U.S. that is corporate America which is pro profit and anti religion because it screws up business.
The simple truth is that Judaism is probably one of the more truly democratically practiced religions out there. They are very similar in structure and practice to what Baptists were before the fundamentalist/idealists took over the Southern Baptist wing of the church. So toss the Christian religious fanatics into the mix (a truly small but outspoken minority of Christians who are after political gain) and you get an odd mix of those who oppose Judaism. You have some of the religious right, except for the Messianic right which do a better job of keeping their eye on the prize, and the total left all agreeing that those who will not conform must go. So modern communists (far left) and Putin, a fan of Hitler (far right) agree on the Jewish question, especially if by opposing an ally of the U.S. they can win an advantage, like a Turkish warm water port for the Russian fleet. Get rid of Israel and you effectively get rid of the U.S. Military presence in the Middle East.
So the answer is bifurcated. On one hand Jewish people are individualists and refuse conformity to somebody else's vision of what they should be (which is why they have made good Americans, at least until American Corporations took over and found them to be a stalwart obstacle to PC which is good for Global business). And on the other hand any enemy of the U.S. is a friend of totalitarianism everywhere. So rail against Israel and build your constituency in the Aegean, Mediterranean, and Arab Gulfs. And that is still a resource rich area that feeds into Africa where Rhodium and Chromium deposits, and other rare minerals, are necessary for lightweight alloys for military use.