As a progressive-left political blog, Daily Kos is infested with anti-Zionists and encourages what one participant has dubbed the Jew Rule. In The Jew Rule on Daily Kos, "dhonig" reminds us that for many participants when Jews are murdered by Jihadis in Europe, ultimately it is Israel's fault for allegedly being mean to the perfectly innocent, bunny-like "indigenous" population. Of course when some horrendous maniac in North Carolina shoots up three young Muslims no one would suggest that ultimately it's the fault of the Islamic State or Saudi Arabia. No one would ever try to justify, or explain, the murders by pointing to the excesses of Islam. On the contrary, everyone would understand that the murderer is solely responsible for his behavior and no one would endeavor to shift blame to other members of the victim's ethnicity, nation, or people.
Daily Kos, like much of the Left, has special rules for Jews. The Jew Rule, of course, is not a formal rule. It is merely the way things are on the foremost progressive-left blog in the United States.
What Honig calls the Jew Rule is actually nothing more then the influence of garden variety anti-Semitic anti-Zionism.
He writes:
Daily Kos has become a haven for anti-Semites. There, I said it. Sure, the anti-Semitism is usually couched in "but Israel" terms, but it's there. Allow me, please to give a recent example of the Jew Rule here, the one that says, "every other form of bigotry and hatred is rejected here, but feel free to blame the Jews, as long as you use the word 'Israel' when you do it."Under a piece entitled Jews are NOT at war with Islam. But jihadi terrorists have declared war on Jews, Honig finds a number of examples of how Daily Kos members use Israel as a justification for the murder of European Jews.
I'm going to compare two recent incidents, and diaries about each. The first is the murder of three young Muslim students in North Carolina. The second is the murders the other day in Denmark. I'll assume, for the sake of this diary, that readers are familiar with both.
Here are a few examples:
Of course they did nothing to deserve being (56+ / 8-)killed. But the role the current Israeli leadership plays in endangering Jews around the world cannot be ignored. Otherwise you're discussing the issue in a vacuum.So, Paleo is not arguing that they deserve it, but that it is perfectly understandable why any Arab or Muslim would want to kill Jews, because the Israeli government has them, rightfully, filled with impotent rage. Your average "Kossack" believes, therefore, that Arabs have every right to kill Jews.
by Paleo on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 11:08:46 AM EST
Sure, the victims don't deserve it, but Israel...
Or, say, this for an example:
The actions of the Israeli state create a clear and present danger to Jews across the world. That's not debatable. To discuss the issue of murderous anti-Semitism among jihadi extremists without acknowledging their best recruiting tool is simply dishonest.Dallasdoc thinks that Israel manufactures hatred for the Jewish people and, thus, danger for the Jewish people and that this conclusion is "not debatable." The crazed Jihadis may do the killing, but behind the Jihadis lurks the evil Jewish state which causes radical Islamists to go into a murderous rage at random Jews.
by Dallasdoc on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 11:29:06 AM EST
They just cannot help themselves.
Sure, the victims don't deserve it, but Israel...
Whether the Jewish people of the world like it or not, they are tied to the actions and existence of Israel as a Zionist state. I can understand you do not want to discuss it but unless you want to turn this into a book review of Leon Uris's Exodus book, expect others to disagree with you.Sinan is a bit more strident concerning the Jew Rule. We are tied to Israel and, therefore, responsible in some measure for its behavior. Thus it is perfectly natural for Muslims to seek to kill random Jews anywhere in the world.
by Sinan on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 01:30:39 PM EST
Sure, the victims don't deserve it, but Israel...
Or, how about this one?
To not address the obscene Israeli policy, euphemistically called "mowing the Palestinian lawn", which involves the starvation, imposition of drought and killing of innocent Palestinians as having some relationship to the re-emergence of anti-Jewish violence may be interpreted as purposely deceptive.
When the noble term "Never Again" is meant not as a declaration that humanity will no longer abide by genocide, no matter who the victims, but is instead used as a justification for Israeli preemptive violence against their neighbors, that declaration loses all moral authority.
If we're attempting to analyze the circumstances that contribute to such violence, we must not be myopic and view events in a vacuum.
by elesares on Sun Feb 15, 2015 at 11:36:05 AM ESTThis person obviously sees the world through the eyes of Hamas. She honestly believes that the Jewish people of the Middle East are so utterly immoral that the government of Israel would intentionally starve Arab children and impose drought upon them... as if Jews command the weather.
This is the contemporary blood-libel and anyone who thinks that Israel is this evil is unquestionably an anti-Jewish racist.
When Obama told Jewish Israeli college students that they needed to see the world through "Palestinian" eyes, is this what he had in mind? Self-loathing? That we should hate ourselves through the eyes of those who hate us? Perhaps what is really needed is for the great Arab majority to try to see the world through Jewish eyes, for a change.
In any case, sure, the victims don't deserve it, but Israel...
Again, no one would suggest that the murder of the three young Muslims in Chapel Hill was in any way due to anything other than whatever hallucinations, racist or otherwise, that Craig Hicks may have endured when he opened fire. However, whenever a Jew is killed by a Muslim the act is justified by pointing the trembling finger of blame at the Jews of the Middle East.
The western Left is, in fact - as we see by the behavior of Barack Obama - endeavoring to drive a wedge between the Jews of the diaspora and the Jews of Israel. If Israel represents, as I believe it does, the salvation of the Jewish people, then progressives in places like Daily Kos are trying tell Jewish people that we are immoral for embracing that country and, thereby, defending ourselves and our people.
They prefer their Jews weak, guilt-ridden, and compliant. Israel, however, stands as a constant reminder that traditional Jewish subservience can no longer be expected. Individual Jews may exhibit the galut mentality, but the Jews as a people are redeemed by Zionism; that is, by autonomy grounded in collective self-defense.
Here is another example of how Daily Kos progressives seek to divide the Jewish people from the State of Israel in order to undermine our well-being, solidarity, and security.
In a piece entitled Will Netanyahu Ask US Jews to Become Traitors, someone writing under the nom de blog, tsackton, suggests that if American Jews agree with Benjamin Netanyahu, in his dispute concerning Iran with Barack Obama, then we are traitors to the United States. He writes:
Our President is trying to negotiate a deal to prevent another war in the Middle East, and most of the country supports him on this. For Netanyahu to imply that you cannot be an American Jew and still support these negotiations with Iran is a call for Jews to abandon America.Of course, Netanyahu has implied no such thing.
The purpose of this "diary," ultimately, is to give notice to American Jews that if we disagree with Barack Obama then we are traitors to our country. The purpose is to keep American Jewry in-line in the most egregious manner possible short of violence.
Israel has become a violent, anti-democratic (no equal rights for palestinians) and vastly corrupt and racist country.In other words, this individual despises Israel and is threatening American Jews.
If Americans are forced to choose, the outcome will not be pretty.
This is what the progressive-left has evolved into.
The Jew Rule reigns and Honig should be commended.
Michael Lumish is a blogger at the Israel Thrives blog as well as a regular contributor/blogger at Times of Israel and Jews Down Under.