Why We Must Rise Up and Battle Anti-Semitism

The fact that very few outlets are calling out the rank bigotry of the left is troubling, but not surprising. Network television is happy to air hours of programming about the bigoted GOP that tries to suppress Black votes, the brutal white supremacy of the police that targets people of color, the horrific acts of violence by white men against Asian Americans. We’ve all seen it.

But I am still waiting for CNN, for example, to have one of their “breaking news” reports about Palestinian Americans chasing down innocent boys in yarmulkas walking home from yeshiva. We see momentary clips, true, but never any in-depth, deep dive reporting.

And when Ilhan Omar says “it’s all about the benjamins,” or AOC recovers long enough from her PTSD to issue some rant about apartheid Israel, their friends on the left will make excuses. Always excuses, never an acknowledgement that this language leads to broken bones.

This rise of anti-Semitism on the left seems linked in some important ways to the race awakening in society triggered by the Black Lives Matter protests last year. And that is the most troubling thing about this phenomenon, the idea that a desire to respect people of color must come at the expense of history’s oldest targets of hatred.

The Wall Street Journal, one of the few mainstream media outlets that has the guts to actually focus on this phenomenon, ran a column a few days ago by Gerard Baker, who made the following observation:

“All this contributes to an uneasy sense of a widening clash of civilizations that is increasingly the objective and likely outcome of the modern left’s program. The embrace of critical race theory and woke ideology in the cultural and political establishment, like its more traditional Marxist forebears, neatly reduces all tensions in human relations to a simplifying narrative of oppressor and victim, only this time not on the basis of economics but race.”

Bigotry is evil, no matter who exhibits it. But it’s about time to acknowledge that the left is as adept and talented in their bias as their political opponents.

Just ask Mark Ruffalo.

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Christine Flowers is an attorney and a columnist for the Delaware County Daily Times, and can be reached at cflowers1961@gmail.com. Copyright 2021 Christine Flowers, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.