Weimar America - We may be headed for a 1930s nightmare

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Something eerie, something creepy, is happening in the world—and now in
America as well. The dark mood is brought on by elite universities, the
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion industry, and massive immigration from
illiberal nations and anti-Enlightenment societies.

At Hillcrest High School in Queens, New York, hundreds of students rioted on
news that a single teacher in her private social media account had expressed
support for Israel. Waving Palestinian flags, and screaming violent threats,
the student mob rioted, destroyed school property, sought the teacher out and
tried to crash into her classroom—before she was saved from violence by other
teachers and an eventual police arrival.

The subtext was that the overwhelmingly minority students (whose school is
ranked academically near the bottom among New York City schools) were
acculturated to the racist reality that as the “oppressed” they were exempt
from any punishment for hunting down their own teacher. As a Jewish (and thus
white) “oppressive” supporter of Israel, she was reduced to, in the words an
enthusiastic commenter on a Tik Tok video of the riot, a “cracker ass bitch.”
And so the student pack tracked her down as if they were hunting an animal.
The old Nazi youth gangs tried to kill Jews because they were not considered
“white;” our new Nazis hunt them down because they allege that they are. The
common denominator between the 1930s and 2023 is an unhinged hatred of Jews.

Hundreds of such incidents are now occurring on a daily basis—as the country
is leaving its Weimar phase and heading at warp speed into normalizing Jew-
hatred and worse. Instructors singled out Jewish students in classes at UC
Davis and Stanford. Pro-Hamas students ripped down posters, swarmed public
buildings, and disrupted traffic.

A pro-Israeli demonstrator in Los Angeles was hit on the head and killed by a
pro-Palestinian university professor.

Jewish students were trapped in a Cooper Union university library surrounded
by pro-Hamas demonstrators. At MIT, Jewish students were warned to keep away
from particular areas of the campus deemed dangerous for them.

What would happen to a university president who warned black or Latino
students to keep clear of areas where she could not guarantee their safety
from other students?

A bankrupt media deserves much of the blame. They daily broadcast Hamas’s
suspect casualty figures, as if that terrorist organization has ever been
capable of speaking the truth.

The Western news regurgitated “500 dead at a Gaza hospital,” due to a
supposedly deliberate Israel bombing. In fact, the hospital parking lot was
hit by an errant Islamic Jihad missile intended to kill civilians in Israel.

No matter—few reporters apologized for spreading Hamas-fed misinformation,
despite the previous Hamas lies that they never harmed civilians, that
tunnels were not beneath hospital grounds, that they did not murder 1,200
Israelis; or their lies that Hamas gunmen do not rape, when they engaged in
mass rape on October 7.

The media normalizes Hamas’s atrocities by treating it as if it were an
ordinary government, not a murderous terrorist clique that decapitates
civilians, takes children as hostages, and mutilates those it slaughters.
That the terrorist organization has kidnapped at least ten American citizens
and killed perhaps another 31 is lost on the “journalists,” many of them
Americans who could care less about the fate of their fellow citizens.

The media fixates on the Israeli response to mass murder, but rarely the mass
murder of 1,200 Israeli civilians that prompted the current war. During
ceasefires do Israeli terrorists drive into Gaza cities, and shoot and kill
innocent civilians—and then brag, as did Hamas recently, that such murdering
will only increase?

Sometimes the anti-Semitic hatred reaches Orwellian levels of absurdity. A
British reporter asked an Israeli official whether his country valued life
less than Hamas did because it had agreed to Hamas’s demand to release three
convicted terrorists in exchange for one Israeli captive. The media fawned
over a released disfigured Gazan terrorist—without mentioning that her
injuries came from a car bomb she exploded in hopes of killing Jews.

The media is further emboldened by the Biden administration. When asked about
the outbreak of anti-Semitism across the U.S.—nearly 60 percent of hate
crimes are committed against Jews, who make up 2.5 percent of the population
—Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre dismissed them with the false claim
that the White House “had not seen any credible threats” to Jews. And then
she claimed that the real danger to American residents was Islamophobia and
threats to Arab-Americans. Hate crime and interracial crime statistics do not
support Jean-Pierre’s assertions, which prompts the question of why she made
them in the first place.

Note that almost all the violence in demonstrations over the current war
comes from the pro-Hamas side that shouts “river to the sea” genocidal
threats, swarms the Capitol rotunda and the White House wall, disrupts
traffic, occupies bridges at peak traffic, defaces private and public
property, shouts down speakers on campus, harasses passers-by, and often
battles the police. One wonders whether, should the U.S. military be forced
to try to rescue American captives, the demonstrators would cheer for the
American troops or Hamas hostage-takers.

Abroad, the world has gone even crazier.

The United Nations has appointed Iran—a theocratic, terrorist-supporting
government that kills dissidents and takes hostages—as the chair nation of
the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum. What a cruel joke.

But what would one expect from the UN when its secretary-general, António
Manuel de Oliveira Guterres, a former Portuguese socialist politician,
condemns the Israeli response to October 7, but rarely, if ever, the Hamas
mass killing of civilians that prompted it. Right after the mass killing
Guterres opined, “The attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum.” According
to the secretary-general’s logic, I suppose, Pearl Harbor, the 1939 Nazi
invasion of Poland, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine did not happen in a
vacuum either.

When told that an Irish citizen hostage was freed by Hamas, Irish Prime
Minister Leo Varadkar declared that the “lost” child was finally “found.” In
other words, he wished to hide the obvious fact that a terrorist organization
had kidnapped an Irish citizen child, held her hostage for 50 days, and
released her only when Israel gave up convicted terrorists to obtain her
release.

Our domestic political leadership is not helping the situation.

Just days after October 7, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, along with the
foreign minister of the now often hostile Turkish government, were calling
for a cease-fire to prevent an Israeli response.

When the Islamic Jihad rocket aimed at Israeli cities went off course and
damaged a Gaza hospital (leading to the fake story that Israel bombed the
hospital), President Biden joked, “You got to learn to shoot straight.” Did
Biden mean that, had the terrorists only launched a successful terrorist
rocket into Jewish neighborhoods, there would have been no ensuing
controversies?

Biden later apologized for doubting fatality figures provided by the Gaza
Health Ministry, which is controlled by Hamas—a terrorist organization that
has lied about the hospital “bombing,” denied it had tunnels under hospitals,
denied that it had engaged in mass rape in Israel, and has supplied no proof
of its civilian casualty numbers. Has Hamas released figures of how many of
its terrorists were killed, and does it separate those numbers from lost
“civilians?” And so are there really vast new cemeteries in Gaza to handle
the 15,000 graves for those who, Hamas asserts, were killed?

What explains the collective madness?

For the last 40 years, while Western leftists have naively supported
Palestinian terrorists, their governments have appeased terrorist-supporting
Middle Eastern governments for very practical reasons. The old subtext to
such mollification was that 500-million irate Arab Muslims, and a Middle East
with 40 percent of the world’s oil reserves, in realist terms, simply argued
against the interests of 10 million Israelis.

But now there are two new, venomous elements in the matrix.

One is that the racist DEI industry assumes that all intersectional nonwhite
communities are victims of white privilege and supremacy. Therefore, as
permanently oppressed, they are declared incapable of being racist
themselves. And so they can harass with impunity the supposed victimizers—in
this case American Jews, who are declared culpable whites.

So the oppressed, according to the DEI bible, cannot be anti-Semitic, though
many certainly are. And they apparently cannot be held accountable for their
hatred or frequent violence.

Secondly, in the last two decades there has been an epidemic of immigration
into Western nations from the Middle East. In often-divided democracies like
ours, politicians seek to appease as many pressure groups as possible,
whether citizen voters or merely resident demonstrators, to acquire and
maintain power.

Such pro-Hamas demonstrators, rah-rahing from a free, prosperous, and secure
West, expect no rebuke for their obvious hypocrisy in cheering on an
autocratic, dictatorial Hamas that has wrecked the economy of Gaza, shoots
dissidents, and allows no free expression. And Middle Eastern guests and
immigrants are never reminded that their very demonstrations are predicated
on not being physically present in their homelands, where they might be shot
for what they say and do freely in the West.

We are on a trajectory similar to that of 1930s Germany.

Every time a student is cornered, harassed, or threatened; a high school mob
tries to swarm and harm a teacher; a government spokesperson dismisses such
hatred; or American soldiers are targeted by Iranian-fed terrorist
organizations; the madness, racism, and anti-Semitism will increase—until it
reaches a saturation point of abject violence in our streets.

Once a society mainstreams the values of thuggish brownshirts, and ignores
their “from the river to the sea” eliminationist chants and screams of “beat
the f—king Jew,” then the next emboldened step is foreordained.

True, most Americans were appalled by October 7 and accept that every nation
has the right to defend itself from terrorist killers. Most Americans deplore
vicious demonstrators and their calls for violence on behalf of the Hamas
death cult. And most Americans want their President to demand the release of
American hostages and to deter Iranian-backed terrorists who attack U.S.
military personnel in the region.

But unless the public demands that their universities enforce on campus the
Bill of Rights and the right to move freely in safety, that police enforce
laws against mob violence on America’s streets and in our schools, and that
the United States stops greenlighting mass immigration from anti-Western
nations and extending student visas to residents of anti-American,
terrorist-supporting, and autocratic Middle East regimes, then in suicidal
fashion we are headed for a 1930s nightmare.

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Let's go Brandon!