We have observed decades of the Nation’s ignorant and reductionist bigots and noted their eternal, abhorrent desire to extend the scope of their toxic venom whenever possible. They can deservedly claim the gold medal for the fine art of perpetuation of ignorant, reductionist tropes including such chestnuts as, “Jewish bankers are conspiring to control the world,” Jews are rich, and are supporters of communism, “homosexuality can be taught,” “Caravans of rapists and criminals are invading and poisoning the Nation, “ (credited to Donald J. Trump, a Court determined rapist with 91 felonies), medically necessary abortion is homicide, guns promote effective communication and are protected by the freedom of speech as well as the Second Amendment, black skinned people are lazy and inferior, Asians are responsible for viral epidemics, the “coastal elites” control and influence government leftist policies, American racial history should not be taught in schools and Universities, 9/11 was a CIA false flag operation, the Holocaust is mere fiction, vaccination is undisclosed government control, compassionate government assistance as well as health supporting regulation are “socialism,” rockets are sent down to earth from the upper atmosphere by Israel, the violent insurrectionists are patriots, global warming is false propaganda, the past election was “stolen” by Biden, books perceived by them as objectionable, should be banned, the Darwinian Theory of Evolution is false and heretical, men are superior to women, life-stealing, chattel slavery had beneficial effects on black people, that America was created as a “Christian white Nation,” and on it goes, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.
The October 7 surprise and barbaric attack on Israel, and the thematically relevant response have provided another fertile opportunity for the perverse conglomeration of anti-Semitic bigots to further evince their systemic potential for hatred by means of their reductionist short circuitry.
As previously observed, following the cruel and barbaric attack on Israel by the terrorist Hamas, the aggressors, as planned, retreated with their kidnapped Israeli hostages, to tunnels, tactically constructed, for such purpose, under Gaza hospitals and places of public assembly. The pathological goal was to situationally oblige the predictable Israeli retribution to be visited upon the innocent Gaza population, their “human shields.” Hamas, fully aware that it lacked the military capacity to defeat tiny, but militarily competent, Israel, would thereby be perniciously successful in destroying its existential international support.
Unfortunately, the pathological stratagem was successful, resulting in unjust, horrific and lethal punishment, as tactically constrained, to be practiced on the innocent Gaza inhabitants. The world’s moral outrage was exacerbated by the right-wing government of Bibi Netanyahu, whose humanistic inclinations seem far outweighed by his drive for retaliation against Hamas. We, in harmony with other Jews, have voiced our opposition to the visitation of death and substantial destruction upon innocent Gazan Palestinians, by the Netanyahu government’s unlimited military action in its desire to destroy the offending terrorists.
The heartrendingly disturbing situation has provided the age-old conglomeration of bigoted reductionists, a fortuitous opportunity to exercise their practice of irrational bigotry in their historic hatred of the Jewish ethnos, a prominent victim of abuse, by means of their ignorant conflation (“short-circuiting”) of the actions of the current Israeli government to an increase in classic antisemitism. The ignorant and opportunistic identification of worldwide Jewry with the policies of the current Israeli right-wing militaristic leadership is empirically predictable in the bigoted mindset of reductionist anti-Semites . It is to be emphasized that, contrary to such convenient fantasies and tellingly ignorant reductionist conflation, American, English and European Jewry, are citizens of their respective, distinct countries and not of Israel. Notwithstanding the rational facts, “short circuitry” has eternally been a source of faux justification for hatred.
Yet, sadly and disturbingly, historical ignorance and our thematic, reductionist prejudice are responsible for the extant, unjust and misconceived outrage against Jews in general on campus and elsewhere, in the current statistical Olympian leap in the chronic pathology of anti-Semitism. This is a particularly unsettling in the context of American colleges, where age-related, provocateur encouraged, demonstrations have taken place. Even in the enlightened halls of higher education, anti-Semitic ideation seems, to be founded upon the short-circuiting or conflation, of Jewish and Israeli citizens and their respectively distinct National identities; to the perverse delight of hard-core anti-Semites.
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