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Bart's avatar

It’s hilarious , when very liberal Jewish students are asked to be very liberal about Palestine , they balk and suddenly become conservative. Suddenly they’re not on the side of the Palestinians , the poor , the brown , the oppressed , the marginalised any longer . Now they’re on the side of the Israelis , the rich , the oppressor , the European coloniser . Imagine my shock !

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

American academia (esp in its most prestigious institutions) has been captured by the Islamo-Leftist alliance, which puts Jewish students in the position of either 1) supporting Israel and facing vilification, harassment and ostracism, not to mention being kept out of circles for career advancement; or 2) going along with the crowd and swallowing all the anti-Zionist propaganda, trying to be seen as a Good Person by expressing concern for "Palestinian babies" (the newest must-have item for your socially conscious college kid), and sacrificing Israel to save your own skin.

Most of our current Jew-hating poison is coming from our most exalted colleges and universities, and Jewish liberals turned a blind eye to all of it until it's now running wild throughout the country, especially among the young Social Justice cohort.

Western liberals only love Jews when they're helpless, stateless victims who've dedicated their lives to tikkun olam (meaning: when they help other groups but ignore their own) and the next generation of liberals will be explicitly anti-Jewish. Upscale academia and the gentry liberals who operate it are NEVER going to betray the Social Justice faith, as it is their product and credential, and because the past decade has proved beyond a doubt that liberals have no ability or vocabulary to oppose Leftists, as Leftists craft their morality and install the speech codes and shibboleths that ring their social and professional worlds like electrified fences. (With friends like Steve Pinker and the NY Times, who needs enemies!)

The next version of Exodus might have to be Jews leaving the coasts for the South and Midwest, where most people haven't been indoctrinated in our Social Justice madrassas. Once again, just like with the Soviets, the Left has turned on Jews and remade them into scapegoats for all the failings of the West. If you're looking for liberal academics to show courage and risk status by opposing their own tribe, you're looking in the wrong place. Jews need to know and accept all this now, as it won't be getting better.

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Will Martin's avatar

The Jews Are At Fault.

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DMC's avatar

Has the possibilty that the heat on the social conservatives was coming from the people who are under fire now?

it seems there are two possibilities

the SJW’s Found a new nete noire or there is a civil war in the SJW realm and they are focused on an internal enemy(always much worse and ignoring the conservatives.

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