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When immigration enforcement took Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-Algerian who had been part of a movement that had terrorized Columbia University, attacking Jewish students and faculty, along with employees and law enforcement, while promoting Hamas flyers, ‘Death to America’ stickers and the “total eradication of Western Civilization”, the impassioned leftist outrage poured forth.
The Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, came out entirely against it.
Liberal Jews who rallied for Khalil had to rationalize it by digging up that old chestnut, “First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist” until somewhere after the litany of all the socialists and other leftists, “they came for the Jews” and then finally for everyone else. Rather than a condemnation of antisemitism, it actually exploits the Holocaust to suggest that persecuting Communists is akin to racial and ethnic genocide.
There is also the minor point that when the Communists came to power, they killed Jews.
But the “First they came for Hamas, then they came for the Jews” wielded by many liberal Jews in defense of campus Hamas supporters is an even worse version of that one. The trouble with it is that Hamas already came for the Jews, not just in Israel, but at Columbia, UCLA and other college campuses. They might as well assert that “First they came for the Nazis, then the Jews”.
Alex Soros’ Bend the Arc rewrote the poem to argue that “after detaining immigrants, activists, and trans people, the Nazi regime in Germany came for Jews.” The ‘activists’ in this case are the ones who want to come for the Jews making the whole proposition at best a wash.
Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth contended in a New York Times op-ed titled ‘Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews’ that, “Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas; lists of those under government scrutiny; official proclamations full of bluster and bile — Jews have been here before, many times, and it does not end well for us.”
These amateur prophecies by a college president who a little over a week after Oct 7 was suggesting that “Muslim students on campus are feeling particularly vulnerable right now… they feel targeted as terrorist sympathizers or anti-Semites” and emphasizing ‘Islamophobia’ are unconvincing and also largely irrelevant in the face of the actual antisemitism here and now.
And yet the ominous warnings that fighting antisemitism will be bad for the Jews keep coming.
“Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few ‘Palestinian’ activists is fooling themselves,” Amy Spitalnick, the former press secretary for the anti-Israel J Street group who now runs the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, told the New York Times.
“The administration is rounding up people with no evidence of crimes or even of violating the standard of damage to foreign policy and national security they have cited,” David Saperstein, the former director of Reform’s Religious Action Center, told a Congressional hearing on antisemitism. “Antisemitism… thrives in authoritarian environments where civil liberties are curtailed, not in spaces of robust, protected democratic discourse.”
No one followed up by asking Saperstein what this implies about the state of college campuses.
“It may be pro-Palestinian protestors who are targeted and denied their rights today, but we don’t know who will be next. If we support the selective denial of protected speech and rights of others, even those with whom we strongly disagree, we fall into a dangerous trap that will only come at our own peril,” Halie Soifer, the head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America and a former foreign policy advisor to Kamala Harris, warned.
All this concern about “dangerous traps” and “it does not end well for us” seems to only pop up when Islamists and leftists actually face consequences for supporting Islamic terrorists, but did not seem to be an issue when the FBI, state governments and private activist groups, like the ones now targeting campus Hamas supporters, were coming after the Klu Klux Klan.
There were no lectures about the danger of criminalizing protest when it came to sending away elderly women for a dozen years for protesting outside abortion clinics. There were no poems about how “First they came for pro-life protesters and other people I actually disagreed with, then they came for me” because the Left is fine with locking up people for their views.
As long as their views are the ‘wrong views’ not merely views so extreme that, like Communists or Hamas supporters, they make liberals squeamish, but still convinced they have a point.
Consider the vastly differing treatment of J6 and BLM rioters or the entire system of suppressing ‘misinformation’ advocated by the same people who now worry about the “free speech” of foreign nationals calling for “Death to America” or cheering on the Oct 7 massacres. If only campus Hamas supporters had said something truly dangerous like “Masks don’t work” or “Trump won the 2020 election” that would classify them as urgent threats to democracy.
The Left is not defending campus Hamas supporters because they genuinely believe in free speech and the right to protest even for those who, as Sen. Schumer and the more ‘moderate’ Jewish liberals say, have “abhorrent” views. If they did, the last ten years would have looked very different. When they encounter someone whose views they truly abhor, they don’t rally for them, sign statements demanding their release or even bother talking about “due process”.
Talking about how deplorable they find Khalil’s views is a facade for normalizing the abnormal to their base of Jewish liberals by selling it as a “Nazis marching in Skokie” moment. But when was the last time Schumer or the JDCA rallied for Nazis in Skokie or in Charlottesville?
After over a year of unpunished antisemitic harassment of Jews from UCLA to Columbia, the Trump administration is cracking down on campus antisemitism as no one had done before.
And Jewish Liberals and Democrats are warning that the crackdown will endanger Jews.
But it’s much too late for that because Jews have already been ‘endangered’. Jewish professors and students have left campuses. Jews have been assaulted in front of synagogues and Holocaust museums with very little in the way of consequences. Not all that long ago, I watched Jewish community members in Los Angeles being beaten by a mob of terrorist supporters in keffiyehs while the LAPD watched and did nothing. Jewish students at UCLA were assaulted while campus security refused to intervene, CNN hunted down the few Jews who were willing to stand up to the pro-terrorist mob and the LA Board of Supervisors paid the legal bills of the mob.
It’s a little too late to warn us about the dreadful consequences for Jews that might arise from Hamas supporters being deported. The consequences of their presence is far worse than their absence. Violent bigots have always existed, but this particular set has the support of much of the liberal establishment along with a good deal of its liberal Jewish organizational contingent.
Some American Jews are still willing to believe something as abysmally suicidal as the notion that unless they rally for the civil rights of those who want to kill them, they may be next, but growing numbers are waking up to the fact that they’ve been sold out by the Schumers, Spitalnicks, Sapersteins and Soifers who aren’t standing up for them, but for the antisemitic Left.
The father of lies works on all who do not faithfully follow the Lord. Self-loathing is one of his tools. Anyone who claims that defending the victims of Hamas is a prelude to deporting Jews is repeating a lie. And if one who repeats that lie is a Jew, that person loathes himself.
Back when I took LSD, it struck me that the “it’s all so cosmic” perceptions packed completion.
It was as if a teaspoon of profound truth was dumped into a gallon of lies, and the truth would occasionally cohere……BUT ….mostly it was diffuse……and frustratingly elusive. There it was, on the tip of my tongue, but it was out of reach.
The orange and blue haired and pierced pro-Hamas protesters, it seems to me, don’t have the experience of those who experimented with LSD. And other than Roger Waters, most of the famous experimenters have not fallen for the BDS propaganda. Rather, their experience has immunized them.
I would love to dose the anti-Semitic protesters massively: say, 400 micrograms (?). That should do the trick.
If “they come” for all the anti-Semites, who will be left to “come for the Jews?”
Apparently, October 7th in Israel, was a superfluous event where the tragic deaths of other Jewish men and women attending the Nova Festival (aka peace rave) on Simchat Torah still hasn’t registered with the suicidal Jews here in the United States. At this festival, these were secular Jews enjoying a good time on a holiday. Many of them leftist-leaning supporters who prided themselves on having “friends” in Gaza. Oh how terrifying it must have been when all of their acquiescent, capitulatory support resulted in not only Hamas but also Gazan men crossing the border into Israel in a violent frenzy of rape, mutilation, murder, savagery and kidnapping. The Go Pro cameras worn by these Gaza men, along with those worn by Hamas recorded all of these actions. Apparently, this psychopathically violent behavior against Israeli citizens, notable for the immediate induction of terror, was triumphantly cheered on by those back in Gaza. Yet, according to this Jewish-leftist logic, the rights of these Israelis is nothing when compared to the perpetrators, whose vile, inhumane atrocities were documented. So, these moronic messengers of this lunacy care about the rights of perpetrators but not their victims. Such stupidity from these leftist Jews renders them de facto accomplices to the collegiate state of affairs. When you attempt to justify such abominable behavior, seeking to conflate that which is egregious on it’s face, the only thing the rest of us see is our Jewish people choosing to align with evil and then castigating the rest of us capable of recognizing their delusional decent into madness. Will they finally just call themselves traitors to our country and people and continue living subjugated lives in the shadow of the leftist death cult? Sadly, it appears so.
Well done, Gabrielle.
Very well done indeed. I thought we learned after 9/11 that the US Constitution is not a suicide pact that extends our Rights and Constitutional Protections to Terrorists ? Why have we gone all wobbly on outright AntiSemitism right here in America against our own Jewish students? Why are US Taxpayers forced to support wealthy Colleges and Universities the first place? They hire fewer and fewer American Professors in favor of Middle Eastern faculty 100% funded by Quatar who year after year turn more and more US students into Antisemites, who incite violence on campus and in our cities. This is why America voted for the America First Agenda, for mass deportations of Foreign Visa Holders and Illegal Immigrants in general and ANTI SEMITISM specifically. We are not required to allow any of it under OUR Banner of Free Speech to violent foreigners on our soil flying HAMAS Flags ! ( What a disgrace! ) If we Americans don’t uphold our laws, it is clear that no one else will!
A year ago, April, 2024, I was talking on the phone to a very successful screen and Tv show writer who had hit Tv shows from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s who wrote a very important book for the marital arts, body building, athlete and personal strenght training as well as overall wellness and success book, “The Mighty Atom, “The Might Atom, The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein”. What Ed said to me on the phone was like a lightening bolt. “Because of the diaspora, Jews have lost their identity and vote for the wrong people”
That subtle sentence blew open reality to me and anyone who understands. To understand, one must be. One must experience. One must live through the experiences.
Nincompoop self loathing Jews beat down generation after generation that if you’re not an Israeli Jew than you are disenfranchised and disenfranchised you’re fodder and open game for whatever slick bullshit lies you hear – Disenfranchised are desperate to grab and hold onto something. Then they can’t except they have been wrong until it’s too late and this cycle continues until we get it straight that we need training, further training to get our own righteous selves back and have this, once again, taught generation after generation. No more cowering, We are in it for the fight, Long haul. The enemy is not going anywhere and neither are we. The enemy will surrender this round then will regroup and in so many years attempt further attacks. We must thwart those attacks and be ready if they do breach!
Many diaspora Jews sought to protect themselves from varying degrees of already-existent antisemitism in various countries and chose to assimilate giving up external Jewish identifiers. Additionally, in far too many cases, adopting secular belief systems leaving out our G-d given Torah, holidays and traditions passed from one generation to another.
Now, these diaspora assimilators feel themselves with more in common with Jewish enemies than with our Jewish people. This is the sad truth and the exponential damage they are doing to others. We are only a people of approximately 19 million in a world of over 8 billion. Those
hiding their Jewish identities are lost having chosen to adapt themselves regardless of the unintended consequences and loss. Sadly, their choices are now aiding and abetting the murders of Jews while they pretend to have a self-inflicted amnesia about themselves and the evil they are facilitating and applauding. Regardless, they are responsible for their choices; diaspora Jews or not.
The American Jews opposing Netanyahu and all Israeli leaders before not in the Labour Party are like those not accepted by Moses to proceed from the wilderness of Sinai to the Promised Land.
Gabrielle, we are in agreement. No matter how ‘nice’ a person may be individually, if that person supports and advocates for Satan, they themselves are satanic as well. How many ‘nice’ Germans got excused for supporting Nazism because they were ‘nice’? Not a single one. Same standard applies to supporters of Hamas. They are supporting the rape and mutilation of mothers in front of their children, before the children are themselves murdered. Hamas committed an orgy of Satanic violence after executing psychopathically cold military planning and training in preparation. Supporters of Evil share in the evil. Anybody supporting Hamas or SJP should be no more welcome in polite society than Adolf Eichmann. Nice Germans supporting the Einsatzgruppen were just as guilty as the demons turning on the gas. Jews supporting Hamas are little different than the evil humanoid insects murdering, raping, and butchering on 10/7. Because if the Satanic Hamas lice of 10/7 were treated as morality requires, they never would have made the calculation to commit the atrocity in the first place since the outcome would be so devastating to the perpetrators. Sadly, many ‘liberal’ Jews seem to have a deep desire for the death of Judaism and themselves as well. Interestingly, suicidal ideation is a hallmark of serious mental illness.
Great essay and points by Daniel, as per usual.
Islamofascists, Muslim supremacists/terrorists and their leftist/Dhimmi-crat, non-Muslim allies, enablers and cheerleaders, should have no sanctuary, anywhere, and, be given no quarter.
WHEN, NOT IF, JIHAD comes here, whose side will millions of Americans be on?
IF, the U.S. and/or Israel, even a coalition, ATTACKS IRAN, The American Sleeper Cells, mainly Iranian, but will include today’s pro-Hamas protesters, WILL AWAKEN, and they will only need two weapons… MATCHES AND GASOLINE! (Exactly how cities were burned down during BLM insurrections and them getting away with it. “They wore masks so we couldn’t identify them.” As if they couldn’t have surrounded them or followed them to their cars?) They will be unstoppable because we surely can’t profile them since that would be outlawed due to Islamophobia, so even women and children will be used. They’ll burn down Synagogues and Churches and if anyone dares to burn down a Mosque… that’s a HATE CRIME!
A middle-aged woman at last May’s encampment at UNM, who was representing Jewish Voice for Peace, said about October 7th…. “HAMAS DIDN’T DO ENOUGH!”
WHICH SIDE WILL THE DEMOCRATS BE ON ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO TOOK THE OATH?
I though that Queers for Palestine sets record for the leftist insanity, but here we actually have Jews for Hamas.
There are JINOs…. Jews in Name Only as in Fake Jews. I know more about the customs and celebrations than they do. They are similar to REV. Jesse Jackson and REV. Al Sharpton… FAKES using the collar they bought at Walmart to pretend they are Holier Than Thou. I also know many Rev. who bought their credentials and then marry people.
These JINOs then say that they speak on behalf of Jews and then join the chants of “from the River to the Sea?”
Islamist/Marxist can hate all they want and terrorize all they want but not here. Also be prepared for a reckoning, not revenge, but true Justice.
You do remember same demographic wanted North Vietnam and Ho to win, no matter how many Americans needed to die in 60s/70s, and wanted USSR to win cold war. Same folks indoctrinating youth today. It’s part of our generation screwing everything up.. Sadly, can’t fire any of them. Only option, stop funding.
Are you claiming that one “demographic” dodged the draft and aided the enemy? What demographic includes Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and Jane Fonda?
Khalil’s case is not a free speech case at all. It is an immigration law case. Free speech is a right. Coming here as a foreigner is not. It is a privilege. There are terms one must abide by to be given, and maintain, that privilege. Khalil did not abide by those terms and is being sent, not to Treblinka, but home. On a jet airplane. To in any way compare his case to that of European Jews during the Holocaust is grotesque and an insult to the actual victims thereof.
Kasandra, another winning comment!
Thank you. I try. That’s very kind of you.
So liberal logic says if you deport a terrorist who wants to kill you that’s the same as what the Nazis did. But if the same terrorist actually kills a Jewish person, the liberal justifies it. Of course, the latter is actually what the Nazis did and what the liberal democrats fully support. Obviously, we need a stronger hashtag then ‘liberalism is a mental disorder’..
Because Radical Islam is Not the Religion of Peace its the Religion that treats women like Slaves and throws Rainbow Boys off the tops of tall buildings Islams connection with the Shriners and their Blood Fez
Recently Mr Greenfield has been going after Jew-hating-Jews. An easy target, everyone knows we have more self-traitors than anyone else. Pick a harder target. Any Christian who even mentions the word Jew, is thought a saint. Take Mr Niemoller, the “first they came” poet.
{all the following comes from his wiki article}
He hated the Weimar republic so he welcomed the Nazi regime, calling himself an antisemite, when they came into power in 1933. By 1934, too late, he opposed them. He didn’t want the nazification of his church and he wanted to keep “his Jews”, the ones that converted. He still opposed them. In 1935, the year of the Nuremberg laws, he said the following, “What is the reason for [their] obvious punishment, which has lasted for thousands of years? Dear brethren, the reason is easily given: the Jews brought the Christ of God to the cross!”. Because of his opposition to nazism, by 1938 he was imprisoned in a concentration camp “He was interned in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps for “protective custody” from 1938 to 1945.” He obviously wasn’t slated for extermination, he lived to 92.
Robert Spencer, another Realpolitic ally, would love him. As a devout christian, his main enemy is Islam, Christianity’s main competitor. Secondarily it’s Marxism, which is opposed to all religion.
Greenfield has gone after Christian Jew Haters too, but if the Jew hating Jews are an “easy target” (and it is debatable if they are) it is because of how atrocious their conduct has been in a bad situation. Greenfield has every reason to try and help the Jewish community drive out those that will place Hamas over Jewish interests.
Niemoller was no saint and has never been, but he was also never a mortal enemy of Jewish existence. Target prioritization.
It’s true Jew-hating-Jews are atrocious, but it’s so unusual to have so many of a people promote their murderous enemies, it becomes a case of man bites dog and there’s a lot of ink spilled on it. As for Niemoller, he’s basically a Christian and Christians are opposed to Judaism as a matter of theology. They can be allies in a greater cause (Islam vs Christianity) but no true friends – except for those who are. Though it makes for difficult logic, you can say “most” but you can never say “all”. This makes for difficult politics but it is essential.
Anyway, thanks for the respectful response, unlike this moron here, Jeremiah, who can’t understand that everything is not about socialism.
agitprop much?
did you write the wiki paragraph yourself?
Niemoller fell hard for the nazi( fascist), communo socialist singularity as is likely you did. He equated the suffering of people in the Weimar republic with flaws of the Weimar political system and instead absurdly supported socialism as a solution. He was too dumb to realize what an ugly fraud and anti-human rights genocide machine socialism always eventually devolves to. Instead he focused on accepting the lies or agitprop of the socialists as being really “cool helpers wanting good things for poor people” because the Nazis said so rather than understanding the mechanics of the political system he was brainwashed into accepting.
Aspiring to be Niemoller is no way to go throughout life child.
Very clever angle Daniel. I will have to read it again when I don’t have a headache to see if it’s brilliant.
I’m just thankful that there are democrats and Jews who courageously stand up for the rights of Hamas and their supporters to eradicate all Jews from the face of the earth, thereby protecting Jews from future civil rights violations. It’s inarguable, their rights cannot be violated if they don’t exist, so I guess the leftists win this one.
Reverse your idiotic idea. Illiminate all Muslims, whole world saved from Muslim terrorism. Whole world gets richer by easy access to oil riches without imams and kings. World better off. Muslims better off, no Islamiphobia.
C’mon buddy, good grief does this need to be explained?
Hmmm… as reported to The New York Times by a former press secretary (Amy Spitalnick) of J Street who’s gone on to create another astroturfed Jew hating “Jewish” group.
A year ago, April, 2024, I was talking on the phone to a very successful screen and Tv show writer who had hit Tv shows from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s who wrote a very important book for the marital arts, body building, athlete and personal strenght training as well as overall wellness and success book, “The Mighty Atom, “The Might Atom, The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein”. What Ed said to me on the phone was like a lightening bolt. “Because of the diaspora, Jews have lost their identity and vote for the wrong people”
That subtle sentence blew open reality to me and anyone who understands. To understand, one must be. One must experience. One must live through the experiences.
Nincompoop self loathing Jews beat down generation after generation that if you’re not an Israeli Jew than you are disenfranchised and disenfranchised you’re fodder and open game for whatever slick bullshit lies you hear – Disenfranchised are desperate to grab and hold onto something. Then they can’t except they have been wrong until it’s too late and this cycle continues until we get it straight that we need training, further training to get our own righteous selves back and have this, once again, taught generation after generation. No more cowering, We are in it for the fight, Long haul. The enemy is not going anywhere and neither are we. The enemy will surrender this round then will regroup and in so many years attempt further attacks. We must thwart those attacks and be ready if they do breach!
Again, thank you! These Kapos are nauseating – they do not care about Jews: they care about Islamists who want to kill Jews. To call them deluded is putting it mildly. Apparently, it is a crime to be visibly Jewish on campus but it just fine to wear kaffiyas and masks.! How dare these Pali collaborators try to hide behind a couple of fake Jews who have contracted Stockholm Syndrome. That means you, Isabel, you lousy flamenco dancer.
Attention voters in New York – VOTE “CHUCKY” SCHUMER (as I like to call him) OUT IN 2026. He has been in there WAY too long.
Just one day of that attention hogging fraud. Showboat Schumer, is too long.
Funny, I don’t remember EVER hearing about Jewish students attacking anyone. If, for example, Jewish student’s had aggressively attacked someone attacking them it would have been all over the media. But I didn’t hear anything about this. On the other hand I am old enough to remember when the Nazi’s wanted to parade in Skokie, Illinois. As I recall t hey didn’t because concentration camp survivors were in their 60’s AND their children and grandchildren were of an age where there WOULD have been a riots–against them!
The march in Skokie did not happen because the national publicity resulted in a march in a larger community instead, Chicago.
You do remember same demographic wanted North Vietnam and Ho to win, no matter how many Americans needed to die in 60s/70s, and wanted USSR to win cold war. Same folks indoctrinating youth today. It’s part of our generation screwing everything up.. Sadly, can’t fire any of them. Only option, stop funding.
First, they came for democrats. Then they came for traitors, but they were nowhere to find.
Something tells me the Soros clan won’t be around long enough to enjoy their works. Old Nazi daddy is near death now and Alex may be sooner than he knows.
it’s like the stupid poem about, first they came for the … blah blah blah. Problem w leftism is, there is no last.
Brilliant as usual.
It’s the contradictions that reveal the lies.
Obviously the Left defends government overreach without any basis in law or exigency – all while screaming about the Rule of Law and some sort of ‘crisis’ or ’emergency’
Meanwhile they ‘resist’ law enforcement and any resistance to violence or threats of violence.