Sunday, January 8, 2012

Why the Progressive-Left is Bad for the Jewish People


Elder of Ziyon and Cif Watch are discussing a story about Daylife / Reuters that, in my opinion, offers an excellent example of just why progressive-left I-P assumptions are dangerous to the Jewish people.

As the Elder writes:

First there were "settlers."

But that wasn't inciting enough.

So we then had "Jewish settlers."


So then came "Right-wing Jewish settlers."


So now we have, from Daylife/Reuters:




Adam Levick over at Cif Watch is none too happy with this story, either:



His name is Yaakov...





This is, of course, just one small story among many others just like it in which journalists portray ordinary Jews who live in the eastern section of Jerusalem, or in the area of land that Jordan dubbed "the West Bank," in the most biased and provocative terms possible while white-washing Palestinian violence. It has become a progressive default to almost always portray Jewish people in the conflict in unflattering terms that justify violence against them.

It's a disgrace and a dangerous one, at that.



  1. If this era will be recorded and remembered, examples such as the photograph that is the subject of this article will seen as the Western racist genocidal anti-Jewish photojournalism that it is.

    Compare and contrast this photograph, and the huge mass of others such as this photograph, which are the images that constitute the entirety of the images that the Western mass media presents as the image of Israel, with the actual reality of Israeli life and culture.

    The following are my YouTube channels, on which I have playlists on which there are videos which display actual Israeli life and culture: (my personal channel) (my main other channel - "Israeli Life and Culture")


    It's the 1930's all over again, but even worse - more perverse, more widespread, more pervasive, more sophisticated - globally encompassing - and almost no one is noticing - let alone almost any Jewish people.

    Just like before.

    The myopic, timid, oblivious, imperceptive, Jewish people.

    History has not been taught. Therefore, history is not known. Therefore, history has not been remembered. Therefore, history is repeating itself.

  2. "unless, of course, you consider an extremist to be any Jew who lives in neighborhoods across the arbitrary green line."

    Therein, of course, is the rub; far too many people, including far too many leftist/Progressive Jews, think exactly that. It is a political stance that is part of their ideology. Framing is therefor necessary to recognize who is bad and who is good in their universe. In a way it's the same old good Jew, bad Jew scenario.

  3. Well, I do not know that I would go so far as to say "the 1930s," if you get me, but there is no question that outside of the Arab and Muslim worlds the greatest haters on the Jewish state, and thus the Jewish people, comes from the progressive movement.

    For this reason I remain disgusted that so many Jews support a movement that is at best indifferent to Jewish well-being and, at worst, genocidal.

  4. Karmafish,

    I'm vexed and dismayed that most Jewish people (and almost all non-Israeli Jewish people) do not know nor understand the reality of the current situation.

    Equivalence of circumstances does not mean exact replication of phenomena.

    I think that very many Jewish people (most Jewish people - almost all Jewish people) do not know nor understand very many of the essential conditions that were occurring in the 1930's.

    I think that very many Jewish people (most Jewish people - almost all Jewish people) do not know nor understand very many of the essential conditions that are occurring at the current time.

  5. Thank you for the links, Dan.

    I particularly recommend Ken Levin on what he calls "the Oslo Syndrome," but what we tend to call Jewish Stockholm Syndrome.

  6. Especially given the fact that Israel is now surrounded by so many Jew hating nations which now are controlled by the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood and worse. Those that aren't soon will be from the looks of it. And the nervous West seems to be whistling past the graveyard.