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There can be more than one "real home" of racism and anti-semitism. When I personally have encountered anti-semitism, it's been among both constituencies that are more associated with the Democratic party (union workers in Detroit, minority groups in Boston) and Republicans (a bunch of times in southern Christian contexts). Sadly, Tom Lehrer had it right. Still, all things considered, as a Jew I'd much rather be in a big liberal city than a small conservative town - any day of the week and twice on Shabbos.Then you're both really selling the small conservative towns short. These days the worst you'd be liable to get is a "Ur a hwhat? You go to church on a Saturday?" kind of a thing. Or somebody might ask you what the small hat is for.
Compare that to running around say, Berkeley or UCLA or Cornell today. In fact, let's ask Mayim Bialik what she thinks about that:
dailywire.com - No excuse for this mayim bialik says nothing has prepared her for anti semitism shes seeing in america'Imagine if there was a massacre of an ethnic group or a religious group, the equivalent of 50,000 Americans,' she said. 'And imagine if what happened after that was that all over the world, there were marches of tens of thousands of people calling for further massacre of those people ' That's what it feels like right now as a Jewish person.'
'There has not been an experience in my lifetime that has prepared me for this,' she added. 'I have heard from many people my whole life that anti-semitism is growing. That the Holocaust, while we say we'll never forget, many have forgotten. And the swiftness with which the global population has seized upon the massacre of Jewish civilians living inside of a border. The swiftness with which the world has stepped up to redefine terrorism, to redefine statehood, to redefine the right of a people to exist.'Where are those protests happening? In small town America, or on university campuses where the Jewish kids can't go to Hillel or get out of the library safely?
The hardcore progressives aren't going to walk over to the GOP over any of those issues.Of course not.
They might not vote at all, though. I'll take that outcome all day.
What's new, though, is that super-lefty Jews are shocked to find out that some of their fellow uber-left-wingers really do believe that Israel is a colonial settler state, that it is an oppressor state that shouldn't exist, and that the oppressed are entitled to use "any means necessary" to end their oppression. That they really meant the radically illiberal things they were advocating. So what's going to break is the rapproachment in the far-far left between the radicals and the hyper-liberal "realists."And one wonders if the super-lefty Jews understand that once the dream of the River to The Sea is satisfied...that they're next. Probably not.
