Senator Kaine Will Not Attend Netanyahu Speech, Warner Waffling

mezurak — It’s a complex issue, but Jews can be anti-Semitic. Most Liberal and Leftist Jews share the general Left’s rejection of tradition and democracy. These are the same ones who believe the capitalist, American Republic must be “transformed” into something radically different in order to achieve social justice, that the ends justifies the means in order to bring about change. Think Saul Alinsky.

Those Jews do not see their identity coming out of a JEWISH heritage, or an American heritage — this is why you’ll find them often mocking those heritages. Instead, they seek a new identity for themselves which is on the side of social progress and justice — call it “Citizen of the World,” as Obama identified himself. Like Ezra Klein, they think the Constitution is “old” and inapplicable to modern problems, so let’s kind of ignore it. They view tradition in the same way — they think it’s old and based on old social structures and now we’re in a new age, so tradition doesn’t matter so much anymore. And Judaism is based on traditions thousands of years old.

It goes beyond place of birth or religion they were born into. I’m a Southerner and I know other Southerners who loathe Southerners, for a variety of reasons. They themselves are Southerners, but they no longer think of themselves that way. They think they have evolved into something better. It’s a similar phenomenon.

But more to this post, anyone who rides with the Democrat Party is potentially riding with anti-Semitism, because that party is very much influenced by the Left’s attitudes — ask Joe Lieberman — and the Left sees the Palestinian cause as an anti-colonial cause and Israel as an illegitimate state, set up by evil colonial powers. It’s amazing that Obama has maneuvered the Democrat Party into this position. It would have never happened when Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, William Fulbright and Daniel Patrick Moynihan were around. But things have changed

Once you hate a country, it’s easier to hate the ethnic group with whom you identify it. The Democrats are edging that way. And lots of Jews in that party no more consider their hatred of other Jews as any more wrong than my Southerner friends’ hatred of Southerners.