Anti-Zionism

Louise Klein goes on to say, And this is where it gets fun.

Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.

Yeah, that great leftist Henry Kissinger and his support for the Khmer Rouge.

Yes.

Anti-Zionism has hijacked the left, and it did so through exploiting the left's tendency toward internationalism and its skepticism of nation-states.

Can you see where it's beginning to lean? It transformed Jewish people into a crime and charged that Jewish difference amounted to a claim of supremacy, even as it demanded that a persecuted minority submit to the dominance of the majority.

Yet the public reckoning with anti-Zionism still awaits its moment.

What the fuck is he even talking about? I don't.

Dig deeper into ourselves and let our rabbis help us and make sure that our children and our grandchildren become part of this and are not just fed that thin gruel which ultimately we have now seen over couple of generations, may not be enough to sustain Jewish identity, much less Jewish pride, much less that connection that we all should have to one another, Jews as a people, as a tribe, and Jews wherever we may choose to live, who have that unbreakable connection to Israel.

So use this time to reflect on this particular season of the year The seasons I've spoken about, the anniversaries from the outbreak of the Second World War and everything it meant for the Jews, to the Durbin Conference and what it meant for contemporary anti-Zionism, anti-Semitism, to 9-11 and the threat it has continued to pose to the United States and to liberal democracies, and above all to us as Jews and where we stand in all of this, And with that, I want to wish you a Shana Tova U'metuka, a sweet and good year, a meaningful year, a year in which we as Jews can all affirm our pride, our identity, and help to contribute to build to this extraordinary journey called the Jewish journey, the Zionist journey, and the American journey.

This is David Harris, Defending Israel, and looking forward to seeing you again next week.

He is unpopular with his party for, for one position, and that is his standing up for the US alliance with Israel.

That is something that Fetterman has been very outspoken about and has continued to do a lot of media appearances and, uh, just appearing on camera to say that he thinks that the, the trajectory of the Democrat Party toward anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, and yes, anti-Semitism, is not something he can go along with.

That is the issue that has made him so deeply unpopular with Democrats and has changed the mind, I think, of many a Republican, uh, about him.

And, and I will say, and many others have as well, I thought the whole Fetterman situation seemed preposterous, that the guy was at a debate and couldn't speak, and he had br- uh, some kind of a brain, truly a brain issue.

to many people who might have considered him a little too, you know, a Muslim brother.

A lot of people said after October 7th, there would be no anti-Zionist parties in a future Israeli government.

Okay, right.

As Abbas's party is anti-Zionist.

Right, but see, Segalovic is pretending it isn't.

And in an interview this week...

Now, Al-Said is not a DSA member, but otherwise indistinguishable from the DSA.

So this kind of socialistic economics matched up with a cultural radicalism and a ferocious anti-Zionism, that's the DSA tendency, and it is ascended within the Democratic Party.

Hasn't swept all before.

Maybe never will.

Michael Tepper, who is president of several Canadian Jewish organizations, connected Zaid's comment and campaign to a broader pattern, including the Toronto mayoral candidate and other candidates across Canada.

Quote, the anti-Zionist activists are desperate to attain an elected position, end quote.

The Windsor election takes place in October.

Zaid is running against incumbent council member Mark McKenzie in Ward 4.

Because the more the world is convinced of that, then obviously there will be more attacks on Jews.

And Hassan, again, I can't believe we have to talk about him so much, but he has many Jewish anti-Zionist friends.

This is not something, and this is something that Jewish Zionists like myself say all the time.

We get accused of, excuse me, Jewish anti-Zionists.

Oh my God, someone's going to clip that.

Jewish anti-Zionists like myself say this all the time, which is that, you know, the irony is that we are called self-loathing Jews.

We get called self-loathing Jews, but the Jews that are really putting Jews at risk are the ones who claim that being Jewish means being pro-Israel.

So I thought that was kind of fascinating.

in the so-called civilized West.

But this rather obscures the more immediate source of the undermining, which is anti-Zionism, singling out Israel as being uniquely demonic.

Now, a moment's thought would tell anybody that even if you can't stand Israel, You know, does it really, you know, is it really worse than the actual tyrannies, murderous tyrannies of the Middle East, of Russia, of China? I mean, but what are people talking about? So that has kind of taken over the Western mind.

And I believe it was a kind of Trojan horse.