Subject: Is Hamas killing wokeness?
Let's hope so. One of the most baffling political allegiances has always been Jewish Americans aligning with the democrat party. Hopefully now that's starting to change:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sect...

Hamas Killed My Wokeness
I've found a home on the progressive left for years'even after I noticed a common blind spot around Jewish issues. But the reaction to the murderous attacks on Israeli civilians was the final straw.

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I've struggled to find my political footing while maintaining a commitment to the pursuit of truth and justice. I started noticing the sinister shadow of postmodern progressivism everywhere: a seeming insistence on 'pluralism' that, in practice, often lacks genuine embodiment and quickly devolves into its own form of dogmatic and reductive tribalism.

I began to feel as though I had been baited into an a priori virtuous worldview that, in a twisted way, sows more division than it does healing; more concerned, as it is, with retribution than reconciliation. That my Judaism was utterly swept away (even shadow-demonized) in the context of this conversation only left me more disillusioned.

Indeed. Virtue signaling for things that are deemed to be "right" is the calling card of modern progressivism; it's a means to replace debate with subjugation and provide a mass opiate at the same time. This guy is getting it.

Yet my affiliation with progressivism persisted. Say what one will about the oversimplifications and occasional insincerities of the progressive left, I told myself, their hearts were in the right place.

Then, two weeks ago, Hamas grotesquely murdered 1,400 Israeli citizens, including 270 at a pro-peace music festival, a gathering my friends and I would have joyously attended if we were in the Holy Land. While these events were deeply disturbing to me, and all fellow members of the diaspora, what was even more shocking was the response from segments of the online left back home. These are progressive groups that, ostensibly, should cherish all human life and abhor all wanton violence.

Instead, many celebrated'yes, celebrated'these attacks as a form of 'anti-colonialist resistance.' Memes circulated, like the now infamous Chicago #BLM paratrooper, that quite literally glorified an unimaginable slaughtering.

Sorry to tell the author this, but Hamas is just yet another 1970's-offshoot proto-Marxist terrorist group that just has as a special feature a genocidal charter to go along with it.

And here's the crux that explains the proto-Marxist part:
Over the past two weeks, I have heard no American Jew wish violence upon Gazans; I've witnessed many American so-called progressives who wish violence upon Jews. In response to raped teenagers and headless babies, a common leftist online refrain has been: 'What did you think decolonization looked like?'

That's not progressivism. That's bloodthirst.

At the root of every single Communist or commie adjacent revolution throughout history has been a notion of getting to pay somebody back, often in deadly ways. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, the Sandanistas, you name it - the common denominator of their "worldwide revolution" was the elimination of less-preferred groups and elevation of the oppressed masses. In the Middle East it's the Israelis that in the minds of the woke play the role of disgusting colonial oppressors and the noble Palestinians who represent the worldwide proletariat.

leftism isn't very difficult to figure out...you just need to know a little history.