Eileen Toplansky writing in the US conservative magazine American Thinker recently stated that it is time for the Democratic Party to recognise the Jew hatred that has been festering within it. Ms Toplansky said:
It is really time for the liberal American Jewish Democrat to acknowledge that blatant anti-Semitism has infected the Democratic Party.
Nancy Pelosi has appointed Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Relations Committee. Omar is viciously anti-Israel and is in favor of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Omar has long been a harsh critic of Israel. In fact, in 2012 – just “a few days after Gaza-based Hamas terrorists had launched more than 150 deadly rockets into the Jewish state, prompting an Israeli military response – she tweeted that ‘the apartheid Israeli regime’ had ‘hypnotized the world’ in order to conceal its own ‘evil doings.'”
When I read the piece by Ms Toplansky, I was struck by a sense of deja vu about what is happening across the Atlantic to the Democrat party. This is because the direction of travel by the Democrats is very very similar in character to the path taken by the Labour Party here in the United Kingdom.
We have the same abandonment by the Democrats of its traditional core vote of blue collar workers and classical tolerant Liberals as has happened to UK Labour. The Democrats also seem to be afflicted by a similar shift, as has occurred in Labour, to the far Left of politics and the same over-emphasis on identity politics and a policy of accommodating and appeasing Islamic political interests. Both Labour and the Democrats have also thrown away the politics of class and class interests that drove many of their activists in the past and instead now concentrate on identity and minority issues.
Like Labour, the US Democrats are also walking down the path of left-wing anti-Semitism. Why the Democrats are going this way is probably more complex an issue for this short article to encompass, but this is the route that the Democrat party seems to be on. However one factor may well be that the Democrats, once the party of choice for many of America’s non-Orthodox Jews, maybe engaging in cynical electoral calculations. The Democrats may have calculated, as Labour seem to have done in Britain, that there are more votes to be had in the Muslim community than in either the mainstream working class, or a non-Orthodox Jewish community.
As with Labour, the abandonment of the Democrat’s traditional base in the working classes and among small ‘L’ liberals, has opened up a route to power for the far Left. In the US as in the UK much of this far Left, especially the far Left after the 1967 Arab -Israeli war,has become increasingly anti-Israeli and also anti Jewish. The Left, at least in the United Kingdom, after 1967 and Israeli’s stunning victory in the Six Day War, now no longer sees Jews as part of the oppressed working classes which it used to do, and instead sees Jews as supporters of what the Left sometimes calls ‘an oppressor nation’ ie Israel. This shift away from supporting what was once seen on the Left as ‘Plucky little Israel’ and into a hatred of Israel has given a boost to Left wing Jew hatred. This left wing Jew hatred has always been a part of the Left but the shift by mainstream Left leaning parties like the Democrats and the Labour party has both normalised and legitimised Left originated Jew hatred.
Although I’m a Briton and my nation has not had any say in US politics since the late Eighteenth century, that doesn’t stop me from being personally saddened by what has happened in recent years to the US Democrat Party. It is no longer the party of JFK and FDR. It is no longer the party that successfully shed its racialist past and embraced equality and the idea that people should be judged on what they do rather than who they are. It has instead become the party of debased and divisive identity politics and a fertile environment for the sort of Jew hating nutcase Muslims who have recently been elected to the House of Representatives. I’m similarly saddened about what has happened to the UK Labour Party and the decline of the party from being the pro working class party of Keir Hardie, Clement Atlee and Harold Wilson in to a bunch of Corbyn worshipping thugs.
I am both alarmed and concerned about what seems to be happening in the US Democrat party. I feel this way because I have seen the UK Labour party, Britain’s analogue of the Democrats travelling the same route and the result is not good. It used to be the case that if you wanted find a Jew hater in British politics then they could be found on the wilder shores of the Conservative Party or among the genuine far right such as the BNP. Now, the situation is different. If you want to find the Jew haters in British politics then all you need to do is scratch the surface of the Labour Party.
I fear that the US Democrats are on the same path as the UK Labour Party is on and as we have seen from the record of the activities and behaviour of the Corbynites, it is not a good path to be on. I hope and pray that the large number of sensible Democrats in the United States, moderates in the mould of Alan Dershowitz for example, realise what is happening and rescue the Democrat party from the same fate that has befallen the UK Labour Party. I believe that the Democrats should as Ms Toplansky said take note of what is happening to their party and recognise that it is being influenced by Islamic Jew haters. Sensible Democrats I believe should do much more to rescue their party and stop it turning into what the UK Labour Party has become, which is a party that is dominated by Islamic interests and their strong current of Islamic Jew hatred.
