It's always the same with the Jew haters.
Jew hatred never changes, though the manners of its expression do. Since the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust, many in the West (to the exclusion of Muslims) find it very hard to simply come out and demand the extermination of the Jewish people. It just isn't good hygiene to say something of that nature, so people run to euphemisms. "Go back to the ovens." "Hitler didn't finish the job." And the most common stand-in for the Jewish people writ large is Israel.
Dr. Martin Luther King and many since have made it clear that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. I have written before that not all things Israeli are Jewish and not all things Jewish are Israeli. One can find Michelin-level restaurants in Tel Aviv that serve non-kosher food and are open on the Sabbath. Jewish law, while recognized by the courts, is not the last word in Israeli jurisprudence, the result being that rulings can be anti-Torah. With all that said, when a person calls herself "anti-Zionist," what does she have in mind? That the Jews have zero right to live in the land of Israel? That Jews who bought and developed large tracts of land, such as Tel Aviv and western Jerusalem, simply have to give it up because their existence there is an offense to Muslims? Or maybe Jews can live individually in the Land of Israel, but they are forbidden to be self-governing? What does their "anti-Zionism" say about Jews having any rights to live and govern themselves in an ancient Jewish homeland, "from the river to the sea"?
Professor Victor Davis Hanson—and I wish him a complete recovery—has made it very easy to understand when one's anti-Israel bile is antisemitism hiding behind a veneer of "I am only anti-Zionist and not antisemitic" tripe. What is your beef with Israel? It committed a genocide? It holds lands that belong to others? It's a racist society? Write down whatever is the cause of your supposed "anti-Zionism" and then ask yourself if there are other countries doing the same or worse. For example, the Chinese have concentration camps for their Muslim Uyghur population. Turkey has been holding half of Cyprus, which it took via war against the Greek-leaning government of the island. Do you make the same amount of noise about these countries? Do you spend one hour on anti-China efforts for every hour you protest Israel? You want to talk about genocide? There are many cases of ethnic cleansing, such as what the Muslims are doing in Nigeria to Christians. Or what about the Iranian regime killing wounded protesters in their hospital beds? Did you dedicate yesterday four hours—one against Israel, one against Turkey, one against Iran, and one against China? Of course not. Just as there is no Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement other than against Israel, your little antisemitic heart has no interest in protesting any other country.
One of the wonders of modern media is how often they get cause and effect backwards. "High IQ people read these seven books!" Well, even if true, they did not become smart by reading those books; rather, because they were already blessed with great brains, they concluded that those books might offer them some insights into life or their professions. The news often likes to start with Israel "attacking" Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, or others, but they just happen to forget the casus belli for the Israeli response. Yes, Israel did kill four Hamas terrorists, but did you mention that they popped out of a tunnel on Israel's side of the yellow barrier and began immediately shooting at IDF soldiers?
The same phenomenon is true with antisemitism. "Me, I would never be a Jew hater, but what can I do when my religion compels me to be against Zionism?" This is the shtick from the likes of Candace Owens and relative newcomer, Carrier Prejean (who has been fired from the president's Religious Liberty Commission). "Catholicism does not accept the Zionist view of Israel being a continuation of Biblical Israelite history." Yet, there are more recent papal decisions that have paved the way for relations since 1993 between Israel and the Vatican. When one wants to hate Jews, he or she looks for the sources in religion so as to justify this innate hatred. "No, my religion requires that I behave this way!" Yet, there were many Catholics who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. What, they didn't understand their religion properly? When one moves past the foam-in-the-mouth off-the-shelf Muslim Jew haters, there are Muslims and even Muslim countries that have good relations with Jews and Israel. The U.A.E. has not settled for the cold peace of Egypt and Jordan but rather has developed relations with Israel, and last I heard, set aside land for a new Jewish neighborhood. Israel and Morocco also have strong relations, with many Moroccan Jews visiting the land of their forefathers. What happened? Their Quran is missing the last few pages? No, the religion does not force them to hate Jews. One hates Jews and finds the support in the scriptures.
The pro-Hamas lunatics in the West hate Jews so much that they could show no sympathy for those raped, murdered, tortured, or burned to death. To express some humanity and then jump to the other side was too much. They remind me of the SS officer who learned that the prussic acid caused intense throat pain as the Jews were being gassed in the camps. He asked the chemistry directorate of the SS to look for an alternative that would kill the Jews, but without the extreme suffering. When he returned to ask if there had been any progress, he was told that no effort was expended on his request. "Who cares if the Jews suffer as they die?" The leftists, though mostly irreligious, have adopted the primal hatred of the Muslims imported by the boatload into Western countries. While they may dislike the wife-beating and gay throwing aspects of Islam, they are totally into the hate-the-Jews part. "Globalize the intifada" is simply a coward's way of saying, "Let's kill the Jews wherever they may be found." How else can one interpret this expression? Globalize is a simple word to understand. Intifada, as last practiced in and around Israel between 2000 and 2006, involved killing and wounding Jews via suicide bombings, car bombs, bus bombs, vehicular attacks, stabbings, and drive-by shootings. So if you put the two together, these brainless and heartless Western youths (and adults), who are a stain on at least American values, are saying: let's attack and kill Jews wherever we can find them.
Francesca Albanese, the "Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories" for the UN, conveniently described the state of Israel as the "common enemy of mankind." Let that sink in. One does not have to like Israel. One can make a long list of everything wrong with Israel. But when one uses such provocative language, she is invoking Nazi Germany—whose conquests and mass murder made it the enemy of the free world. This is very dangerous talk, but it is not at all surprising. Albanese has been a consistent Jew hater, and her views make her an ideal official of the UN. There are many countries—including Arab countries—that benefit from Israel via technology, water, natural gas, and know-how. How is such a country a "common enemy" when so many benefit from that country? This is pure Jew hatred, plastered on the country that has a preponderance of Jews. As we say around here, may her name be blotted out. And I am glad that Donald Trump is sidelining the UN. Its goal is to finish off what the Nazis started.