Very sad. The ignorance of history - both ancient and of the last century as well as to speaks volumes about our media and education institutions. Once a generation is made to hate others it’s an uphill climb to recovery.
I have no patience with the propaganda of stereotypes and talking points and speak against them when I can. We all need to do so.
Most of these little twarps were born after 911 and their parents are to blame. The way you straighten this country out is to send every one of them into the military at 18 for 4 years, similar to Israel. Then they can have their damn free college. I would love to meet the parents of these idiots. Idiots raising idiots is where we are now. Thank god I was raised by the greatest generation. We were taught to love and protect America. Oh yeah and how about the fanatical professors allowed to teach the idiots? Just because you have high scores on your testing doesn't mean you are smart. I'll bet not one of them can mow a lawn or change the oil in a car. It's going to get worse.
I agree with so much of what you said. I find the level of antisemitism very frightening.
I did not like you conflating it with the very corrupt big Pharma. Big Pharma is corrupt and it makes no difference to me if they’re Jewish or not they should be called out, and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
When one wakes up to find oneself in bed (figuratively, of course) with FOX News and the great preponderance of the much maligned "MAGA" right, one must take pause and wonder what is at work here. As in any situation that presents what seems to be clear-cut good guys vs bad guys, the question "cui bono?" begs to be addressed. The evidently anti-semitic and pro-Hamas leadership of (as opposed to the generally clueless rabble participating in) the current crop of campus demonstrations has created, by its vitriolic behavior, a wave of emotional backlash resulting in sympathy (if not outright victimhood status) for Israel in general and American Jews in specific.
The level of observable anti-Jewish, pro-Palestinian activity distracts from the ongoing massacre in Gaza (and the discovery in recent days of horrific mass graves of hundreds of Gazan citizens, many of whose bodies show signs of torture and execution), answering the "cui bono?" question in favor of Israel. The question then becomes, is this the unintended or intended consequence of the protests? The conspiracy-minded would answer "intended," which then sews the largely scattered demonstrations into a unified false flag.
It will be interesting and maybe instructive to see how and whether these protests evolve as the universities soon reach the end of the spring semester. It may depend wholly on how hopelessly mired Israel finds itself in the fruitless task of eliminating the Palestinians from Palestine. Most Americans really want Israel to prevail and survive. Most Americans are not anti-semitic. But most Americans, when cognizant of what's happening in the world, are repulsed by the slaughter of civilians, no matter who is slaughtering whom. But we live in an age when "narrative management" has replaced journalism. Like the two-piece swimsuit, media reporting on civilian massacres/cleansings/genocides is more interesting for what it conceals than for what it reveals.
The mass graves that you apparently assume the IDF responsible for has been proven by dated satellite images to have been created and used prior to any Israeli incursion. Hamas savages are causing the ongoing massacre not Israeli forces.
Very sad. The ignorance of history - both ancient and of the last century as well as to speaks volumes about our media and education institutions. Once a generation is made to hate others it’s an uphill climb to recovery.
I have no patience with the propaganda of stereotypes and talking points and speak against them when I can. We all need to do so.
Most of these little twarps were born after 911 and their parents are to blame. The way you straighten this country out is to send every one of them into the military at 18 for 4 years, similar to Israel. Then they can have their damn free college. I would love to meet the parents of these idiots. Idiots raising idiots is where we are now. Thank god I was raised by the greatest generation. We were taught to love and protect America. Oh yeah and how about the fanatical professors allowed to teach the idiots? Just because you have high scores on your testing doesn't mean you are smart. I'll bet not one of them can mow a lawn or change the oil in a car. It's going to get worse.
I agree with so much of what you said. I find the level of antisemitism very frightening.
I did not like you conflating it with the very corrupt big Pharma. Big Pharma is corrupt and it makes no difference to me if they’re Jewish or not they should be called out, and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
But my column made no mention of Big Pharma whatsoever.
You talked about the vaccines! You can’t get much more big Pharma than that.
In what column did I write about Big Pharma?
When one wakes up to find oneself in bed (figuratively, of course) with FOX News and the great preponderance of the much maligned "MAGA" right, one must take pause and wonder what is at work here. As in any situation that presents what seems to be clear-cut good guys vs bad guys, the question "cui bono?" begs to be addressed. The evidently anti-semitic and pro-Hamas leadership of (as opposed to the generally clueless rabble participating in) the current crop of campus demonstrations has created, by its vitriolic behavior, a wave of emotional backlash resulting in sympathy (if not outright victimhood status) for Israel in general and American Jews in specific.
The level of observable anti-Jewish, pro-Palestinian activity distracts from the ongoing massacre in Gaza (and the discovery in recent days of horrific mass graves of hundreds of Gazan citizens, many of whose bodies show signs of torture and execution), answering the "cui bono?" question in favor of Israel. The question then becomes, is this the unintended or intended consequence of the protests? The conspiracy-minded would answer "intended," which then sews the largely scattered demonstrations into a unified false flag.
It will be interesting and maybe instructive to see how and whether these protests evolve as the universities soon reach the end of the spring semester. It may depend wholly on how hopelessly mired Israel finds itself in the fruitless task of eliminating the Palestinians from Palestine. Most Americans really want Israel to prevail and survive. Most Americans are not anti-semitic. But most Americans, when cognizant of what's happening in the world, are repulsed by the slaughter of civilians, no matter who is slaughtering whom. But we live in an age when "narrative management" has replaced journalism. Like the two-piece swimsuit, media reporting on civilian massacres/cleansings/genocides is more interesting for what it conceals than for what it reveals.
The mass graves that you apparently assume the IDF responsible for has been proven by dated satellite images to have been created and used prior to any Israeli incursion. Hamas savages are causing the ongoing massacre not Israeli forces.