Democrats Greenlight Campus Zionist Purge By Passing Over Shapiro
Democrats just gave anti-Zionists a win. It will be like blood in the water in a campus pool infested with anti-Israel sharks.
Since the October 7 massacre, driving Zionists off campus has become a rallying cry. Democrats just threw fuel on the fire by capitulating to the anti-Israel base of the party in denying Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro the vice presidential nomination.
It’s hard to overstate how toxic and endemic anti-Zionism has become on many campuses.
At Harvard last year, Jewish students were harassed and physically assaulted by anti-Israel activists. Jewish students were hounded out of public spaces and hid in their dorms. A federal judge just allowed a lawsuit to go forward against Harvard over its failure to address campus antisemitism.
Similarly, at Columbia, a Jewish student had a rock thrown in his face and his Israeli flag was torched. He and his friends were chased out of campus and told to “go back to Poland.” At UCLA, “Zionists” were attacked and physically blocked on campus, and proclaiming anti-Zionism was the price of admission to public spaces.
As numerous congressional hearings and investigations have documented, anti-Zionism has become the cover for antisemitism.
Shapiro should have been Democrats’ dream vice presidential nominee – hugely popular in a critical must-win swing state, articulate, young, and liberal. Shapiro was the VP candidate Democrats had been waiting for. Shapiro was at the top of almost every list as the likely nominee.
Shapiro had an insurmountable problem, however, and it was not that he was Jewish. Shapiro was the wrong type of Jew for the progressive Democrat base, sharing with the overwhelming majority of American Jews an open support for Israel.
That vocal support created “progressive” opposition to Shapiro that exploded when Shapiro’s 1993 op-ed in his college newspaper regarding the Oslo Accords was revealed. In the column, Shapiro expressed a hope for peace, but recognized that a Palestinian society steeped in political dysfunction and an unwillingness to accept Jewish sovereignty in any part of Israel made that dream unlikely. Shapiro’s essay was prophetic and has stood the test of time, but it was too much for Democrats to tolerate.
He was called “Genocide Josh” by detractors who launched a website and social media campaign to scuttle a Shapiro pick. Influential groups like the Democratic Socialists of America started organizing against him on the grounds that “Governor Shapiro is an outspoken supporter of the Zionist project in Palestine.”
The anti-Zionist purge of Shapiro took on distinctly antisemitic undertones. As Democrat activist and commentator Van Jones said on CNN: “But you also have anti-Semitism that has gotten marbled into this party…. How much of what just happened is caving in to some of these darker parts in the party?”
Shapiro tried to walk back his pro-Israel position, but it came across as groveling. To try to appease the baying mob, Shapiro did what many Jewish students on campuses feel compelled to do, to run from their deeply held beliefs.
But it was too late. Tim Walz, the far-left Governor of Minnesota, was substituted for Shapiro on the ticket in a last-minute decision. DSA claimed credit, and anti-Israel Democrats were ecstatic.
Democrats turning away from picking Shapiro is a green light to the anti-Zionist campus organizers. Groups like Students for Justice in Palestine are already building their fall campaigns and conducting training to drive Zionists off campus. The success in stopping Shapiro will encourage such efforts in every nook and cranny of campus life.
Democrats just gave anti-Zionists a win. It will be like blood in the water in a campus pool infested with anti-Israel sharks.
This fall, when Jewish pro-Israel students get to campus, expect them to face a tidal wave of hatred and violence. We can call it the Shapiro Effect.
[Featured Image: Columbia University]
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Divine/karmic/cosmic justice will see the vile and wretched Harris-Walz kamikaze ticket go down in flames, reminiscent of Mondale-Ferraro’s immolation, leaving Governor Shapiro unscathed and in prime position for future Party advancement.
The country is experiencing 20%-40% (or more) Biden-Harrisflation on household goods, groceries, fuel, rent, etc.; open borders lunacy, fentanyl importation and crime; and, corrosive and racist “DEI” diktats — among myriad other destructive policy outcomes/conceits that are punishing the middle class. Middle-class voters are not voting for another four years of this callous nonsense and excrement.
It will, net, probably cost them some votes. But we didn’t elect Biden either and he was installed. Still have to overcome the cheating margin, and they’ll have new surprises and cheating methods waiting for this year’s election.
I hope you’re correct.
Too many Democrats will rationalize and still claim it’s only anti-Israel, not anti-Jewish, even when blatant, so they can sleep better.
Anti-Israel, or, the increasingly favored “anti-Zionist/Zionism.” Reprobates who oppose the right of Jews to live in the modern revival of their ancestral homeland (where they’ve resided for millennia, before Islam’s founding), in peace and unmolested by the persistent and belligerent predations of genocidal Islamofascists and Muslim supremacists.
We weren’t unmolested for long back then either. Maybe we can do better this time.
It’s just the lowest form of life showing their true colors.
the left wants and is getting their segregation agenda fullfilled
with a minor slowdown b/c its election year
but they wont have to worry about that much longer as they control the msm and the truth about leftys segregation will be given on a need-to-know basis
They’re having a hard time with Musk. He owns X and he’s apparently in a partnership to own Youtube. The Dems can control “mainstream media” all they want, and they will, but does anyone read it or watch it?
They’re getting ready to pass a “disinformation” law in the UK making it illegal for social media to allow fake news. Of course it’s up to the Labour government to decide what’s real and what’s fake. I’m not sure if they can outlaw VPNs and get around the dark web, but they’re trying to get rid of X by any means.
My mental health and desire for a stress-free work environment sure seems to be interrupted by the DEI policy of promotion of ineptitude while ignoring experience and reality.
“….and it was not that he was Jewish.”
Sorry, William. It was precisely because he is Jewish. Indeed, a proud Jew. There is absolutely no reason for you to give any of those Jew haters any benefit of any doubt. There is no doubt. A substantial wing of the Democratic Party are out and out antisemites. Jew haters. You should stop kidding yourself. You weaken what should be the growing outrage against that political party and its punishment at the polls. Stop sugar coating the problem. Call it what it is: Jew hate.
You could say that the Jews have greatly assisted the formation of the radical LEFT, a phenomenon that the great Irving Kristol called their “political stupidity”. That stupidity is demonstrated by the fact that now they are no longer needed and can be discarded, much like what happened in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Many secular Jews like Trotsky, the creator of the Red Army, and Yagoda, the creator of the Gulag system, and many more Jewish commissars were shot during the “purges” in the late 1930s, with Molotov praising Stalin for those mass-murders. After WWII Stalin, an obvious paranoid, wanted to get rid of all Jewish doctors too, but his death seems to have scuttled that program.
They’re not being discarded, well maybe some thought that they were no longer useful to the anti-Israel cause, but now they’re getting up and leaving.
And that distinction — Jew or not, rather than right-wing vs. left-wing Jew, is becoming the critical one now. The Dems are probably desperate because after 10/7, quite a few of the “left-wing Jews” typically “Reform Jews” are identifying as, quite simply, Jewish, and with Israel.
If I were such a Dem, I would not “trust” a left-wing Jew to continue discarding his or her heritage much longer.
If we use the Orwellian newspeak of the left, we can say that indigenous people who were driven from their ancestral land by “ settler colonists” have every right to regain their land by any means necessary. Well then, apply that concept to the Jews. They are the indigenous people of Israel/Palestine by virtue of 4000 years of living on the land. Many were expelled by the Roman settler colonists, and later by Arab settler colonists, but we agree that people expelled from their homeland have a right to reclaim their land. Therefore the Zionist “ project” is virtuous and all progressive people should support it.
Alas, logic plays no part when blind hatred rules.