The problem as I see it doesn’t lie with the protester's social strata, and criticizing them for THAT doesn’t increase your audience, rather their basic ignorance and anti-semitism needs to be highlighted. I’d like to ask them where they’ve been regarding oppression in North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, China, Mayanmar, the Burundi president, Iran???
This is anti-semitism: bald, raw and naked. That comes from leftie snowflakes as well as buttoned-downed Republican bankers alike.
Of course, much of the impetus for these protests is anti-Jewish prejudice. I wrote a subsrtack essay, in December 2023, in which I tried to delineate the causes of anti-Semitism, https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/nine-camouflaged-causes-of-anti-semitism. I listed 9 causes, some of which we are all aware of, eg., the charge that Jews are guilty of Deicide, but I also came up with a few ideas which I think are novel.
My essay did not mean to contend that the social or psychological status of the protestors made them anti-Jewish. Rather, I said that certain psychological factors made them get out into the streets and gave them a yen to protest. I realzise that the search for psychodynamic explanations have fallen out of favor, but sometimes political behavior seems so strange as to warrant scrutiny of the psyche. For example, Trump's followers posit crazy, delusional mishegas about everything, e.g.. they allege that Democrats are selling child sex slaves through a pizzeria in Washington. That kind of lunacy smacks of Bellevue's Psych Wards and the old European delusion that Jews used the blood of Christian children to make matzoh. When people fabrciate such maniacal ideas, I think an inquiry into the workings of their warped minds is warranted. Also, the desire to get our and protest can be impelled by psych. factors. After all, objects at rest tends to remain at rest and when one goes out in the streets and screams at the top of one's lungs, the impetus might be the psychic energy created by an emotional need or conflict.
I think we all long for student riots like that had in the 60s. Something concrete. Instead, we have lame camps that even boy scouts are embarrassed by.
The Radicals of the Sixties overflowed with charm and explosive energy. Bobby Kennedy wasn't exactly radical, but he sizzled with a charisma that made you want to get in the streets and raise holy hell. When I was a kid, and I heard the Rolling Stones sing "Street Fighting Man," I wanted to (I better not say). Very Simply. the issues were different. In 1965 the U.S. went into the Dominican Republic to oust a leftist leader and killed thousands; in 1967, the CIA fomented a coup in Greece; and in the latter half of the sixties and ear;ly sevenites, the US killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Vietham, :Laos and Cambodia even though the Indochinese communists never attacked the US, never committed acts of terrorism on US soil and were 10,000 miles away from us. By contrast, Israel is next to Gaza, it's a short car drive from Gaza to Tel Aviv, Hamas has vowed to exterminate the Jews, and they commit acts of terrorism as frequently as I sneeze. And I sneeze whenever I read about Hama or their hideous student apologists.
The problem as I see it doesn’t lie with the protester's social strata, and criticizing them for THAT doesn’t increase your audience, rather their basic ignorance and anti-semitism needs to be highlighted. I’d like to ask them where they’ve been regarding oppression in North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, China, Mayanmar, the Burundi president, Iran???
This is anti-semitism: bald, raw and naked. That comes from leftie snowflakes as well as buttoned-downed Republican bankers alike.
Why this cause? Oh yeah, it’s Israel, it’s Jews.
Your thoughtful comments are appreciated.
Of course, much of the impetus for these protests is anti-Jewish prejudice. I wrote a subsrtack essay, in December 2023, in which I tried to delineate the causes of anti-Semitism, https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/nine-camouflaged-causes-of-anti-semitism. I listed 9 causes, some of which we are all aware of, eg., the charge that Jews are guilty of Deicide, but I also came up with a few ideas which I think are novel.
My essay did not mean to contend that the social or psychological status of the protestors made them anti-Jewish. Rather, I said that certain psychological factors made them get out into the streets and gave them a yen to protest. I realzise that the search for psychodynamic explanations have fallen out of favor, but sometimes political behavior seems so strange as to warrant scrutiny of the psyche. For example, Trump's followers posit crazy, delusional mishegas about everything, e.g.. they allege that Democrats are selling child sex slaves through a pizzeria in Washington. That kind of lunacy smacks of Bellevue's Psych Wards and the old European delusion that Jews used the blood of Christian children to make matzoh. When people fabrciate such maniacal ideas, I think an inquiry into the workings of their warped minds is warranted. Also, the desire to get our and protest can be impelled by psych. factors. After all, objects at rest tends to remain at rest and when one goes out in the streets and screams at the top of one's lungs, the impetus might be the psychic energy created by an emotional need or conflict.
I avoid the BBC like the plague. If I notice it in on the byline, I don’t even bother to read it 😂
I think we all long for student riots like that had in the 60s. Something concrete. Instead, we have lame camps that even boy scouts are embarrassed by.
I think you hit the nail on the head.
The Radicals of the Sixties overflowed with charm and explosive energy. Bobby Kennedy wasn't exactly radical, but he sizzled with a charisma that made you want to get in the streets and raise holy hell. When I was a kid, and I heard the Rolling Stones sing "Street Fighting Man," I wanted to (I better not say). Very Simply. the issues were different. In 1965 the U.S. went into the Dominican Republic to oust a leftist leader and killed thousands; in 1967, the CIA fomented a coup in Greece; and in the latter half of the sixties and ear;ly sevenites, the US killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in Vietham, :Laos and Cambodia even though the Indochinese communists never attacked the US, never committed acts of terrorism on US soil and were 10,000 miles away from us. By contrast, Israel is next to Gaza, it's a short car drive from Gaza to Tel Aviv, Hamas has vowed to exterminate the Jews, and they commit acts of terrorism as frequently as I sneeze. And I sneeze whenever I read about Hama or their hideous student apologists.