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The deadly consequences of Progressive politics

President Trumps’ inaugural speech and his message of rejecting in its entirety, the progressive agenda of the past four years of the Democratic Party, fell on the sympathetic ears of the American public. President Trump convincingly portrayed the progressive agenda as totally detached from Main St. while alienating the average American. President Trump promised to conduct the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, make the streets safe, demand accountability from the Justice Department and end the revolving-door criminal code, revamp energy regulations, remake federal health agencies and abandon legal protections for transgender pupils stating matter of fact that there are only two genders, male and female.

President Trump’s total rejection of the progressive agenda is based on his understanding that the damage caused by progressive politicians has been at a deadly cost. Trump told his supporters at his inauguration eve rally on Sunday in downtown Washington, D.C. “We’re going to stop the invasion of our borders. We’re going to reclaim our wealth. We’re going to unlock the liquid gold that’s right under our feet. ... We’re going to bring back law and order to our cities. We’re going to restore patriotism to our schools.” His greatest criticism was in response to the deadly consequences, the criminal negligence and total failure of progressive politicians in their efforts to ending the Southern California wildfires, ripping progressive leaders as “incompetent” and witnesses to “one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country.” With tens of thousands of homes and public buildings burning to the ground, while many killed and injured.

The disaster of the Los Angeles fires is the greatest deadly example and reflects the inherent danger of progressivism that has dominated governmental agencies over the past four years. From a progressive viewpoint, sustaining basic infrastructures are less important than addressing ‘climate change’ and what’s known as ‘social justice’. The Los Angeles fires exposed how progressive adherents, LA Mayor Karen Bass and California Gov. Gavin Newsom cut over the years the fire department’s budget while diverting and prioritizing large budgetary expenditures to make LA a sanctuary city and defend illegal immigrants. These progressive politicians ignored the need to expand water systems infrastructure, critical in a perennially drought-threatened state like California.

Here in Israel, we have our own local version of the progressive agenda abided by politicians that have over the past half a century taken Israel down the path of progressivism, at a cost of repetitive wars, and thousands killed and wounded by terrorism by Hamas and Palestinian terror throughout Israel. The “first Intifada”, the Oslo Agreements, the “second Intifada” in 2000, the “Disengagement and withdrawal from the Gaza Strip allowing the terror organization Hamas to gain control are all examples of how progressive political decisions brought death and havoc on the people of Israel leaving scars that have yet to heal, with the October 7 massacre being only the latest manifestation of how progressive politicians and their progressive agenda have resulted in deadly consequences for the people of Israel.

Israel’s progressive agenda has created a legal and justice system that protects terrorists, even those that attacked Israel on October 7^th, at the expense of IDF soldiers. Progressive politicians have created domestic pressure on the government of Israel aided by the legacy media, academia, and the judicial system to freeze the war on Hamas despite the likelihood that a temporary ceasefire will only result in renewed conflict. Over the past 50 years, imposed ceasefires as an end goal of negotiations lead by progressive politicians have always created a scenario of permanent war for Israel against her enemies, rather than ending the conflict permanently. The human toll at the expense of Israel’s citizens on the Home front, and soldiers of the IDF on the frontlines.

The most vocal example of Israel’s progressive political agenda is the former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who by the way was Israel’s shortest serving Prime Minister, with his term abruptly ended after less than two years, the shortest ever for an elected Israeli Prime Minister. Ehud Barak’s term as Prime Minister and his pursuit of a progressive political agenda brought about the “Second Intifada” with thousands killed and wounded. Over the past two years Ehud Barak has been a central figure in the protest movement against Israel’s ruling government coalition and the proposed judicial reform and has been one of the main architects behind the mass demonstrations against the democratically elected government led by Benjamin Netanyahu holding a majority of 64 Knesset mandates. In July 2020, a video surfaced featuring Barak’s talk to today’s anarchist progressive leaders leading the mass demonstration against the government of Israel. In this video, he revealed: “A friend of mine, a historian, once told me, Ehud, they will call you when bodies will float in the Yarkon River. I wish to stress: not the bodies of illegally residing Palestinians from the territories will be floating, and not Israeli Arabs. The floating bodies will be of Jews that were killed by Jews.” This murder fantasy shared by Ehud Barak epitomizes the progress agenda for what it is; a moral failure to protect the general public from the lethal consequences of the progressive agenda.

Whether in the United States or here in Israel, President Trump’s election victory has shown to all that, the Progressive moment is over. Defund the police and promote lax law enforcement, promote tolerance for social disorder, empty the jails, get rid of fossil fuels and have a “Green New Deal”, abolish ICE and decriminalize illegal immigration, promote DEI and discourage excellence based on merit, looking at moral issues through the lens of identity politics, are all examples of the progressive agenda that have been rejected by a large majority. The era of deadly consequences of Progressive politics has come to an end.

Where are all the brilliant Jewish legal minds?

One of the most famous Jewish lawyers of our time, Alan M. Dershowitz, himself a renowned attorney, law professor, and author, wrote a book about the biblical patriarch Abraham who was not only the forefather of the Jewish people, but according to him was also the world’s first Jewish lawyer; “the patriarch of the legal profession: a defense lawyer for the damned who was willing to risk everything, even the wrath of God, in defense of his clients.” Dershowitz demonstrated how today’s typical American Jewish lawyer and the patriarch Abraham share many characteristics such as a willingness to challenge authority and stand up for the rights of others.

Throughout the millennia, and leading up until the modern era as well, Jews have reached prominence and the pinnacle of the legal justice system as judges in America - among them Brandeis, Cardozo, and Felix Frankfurter. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the first Jewish woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court. In Britain between 1996 and 2008, two of Britain’s three Lord Chief Justices were Jewish: Peter Taylor and Harry Woolf. In Germany in the early 1930s, though Jews were 0.7 per cent of the population, they represented 16.6 per cent of lawyers and judges. Today, 50% of New York City’s lawyers are Jewish and there are hundreds of thousands of Jewish lawyers throughout the world, high and beyond their percentage of the population wherever they reside.

The laws' interpreters differentiate and make a distinction between supporting violent consequences and the actual committing of violence. Even those demonstrators or activists who fantasize and want to see all Jews dead are, in their view, protected by their first amendment right to free speech, as long as their actions are unconnected to actual violence. But incitement to violence is not protected by free speech.

This widespread interpretation of the first amendment defies the lessons of 9/11 and the massacre perpetuated by Hamas on Oct 7, 2023. Pro-Hamas supporters who support genocide against Jews and the State of Israel, such as those who chant “from the river to the sea” or “globalize the intifada,” in the campuses and on the streets of American cities can and have crossed the blurred line between free speech, speech promoting violence and committing actual violence. In their minds participating in such acts themselves has become justifiable and held up as an understandable reaction to Israel’s war of self-defense on Hamas.

If the barbaric acts of Hamas murderers, rapists, and kidnappers are emulated and glorified by these pro-Hamas and pro-Palestinian Arab supporters, then what prevents them from crossing the line into domestic terrorism as we have seen over the past year? The growing list of hate crimes, shootings, knifings, physical attacks, arson, and vandalism against Jews and Jewish institutions from those who sympathize with Hamas, the Palestinian Arabs and their political goals has already shown us that the line that separates rhetoric calling for violence against Jews and domestic terrorism no longer exists. Instead we are witnesses to unlimited examples of judicial appeasement and non-existent police enforcement culminating in a general atmosphere of Jew hatred becoming the new norm. Should you decide to simply walk around town in the West as an identifiable Jew, you are literally endangering your life. It seems as if the judicial system and the enforcement authorities are simply unconcerned when it comes to protecting the Jews of America, England, Australia, and the European continent.

Despite pro-Hamas supporters continuing their disruption of campus life for Jewish as well as non-Jewish students, and the disruption of free movement on the streets and roadways of America, and other major cities of the world; why does the Jewish communal world, the major Jewish organizations that raise well over a billion dollars a year for Jewish causes, seem unable or unwilling to implement a coordinated and effective legal response to hold those committing violence against the Jews accountable by compelling local, state, and federal district attorney’s, police authorities, the FBI and other relevant federal authorities to act. These legal, enforcement, and judicial authorities can discourage and create the necessary deterrence by investigating the very real threat of domestic terror by Hamas and pro-Palestinian Arab supporters.

Over the past four years, the Biden administration’s Department of Justice has shown little if any interest in investigating and holding the tens of thousands of pro-Hamas demonstrators, activists, and sympathizers legally accountable for their actions. The major Jewish organizations have refrained from enlisting a small army of Jewish lawyers to petition district attorney’s, public prosecutors, FBI investigative teams, and the judiciary to do their job and criminalize the surge of anti-Semitism and Jew hatred. Why the hesitancy? Are major Jewish organizations, who themselves are closely aligned with the Democratic Party and many of today’s progressives policies unwilling to question their blind allegiance to a worldview that has been formed by toxic radical anti-Jew ideologies? The liberal and progressive mainstream in the judiciary, in the media, and in academia who insist on treating these pro-Hamas and anti-Jew supporters as nothing more than well-meaning “idealists” has to be challenged and Jew haters need to know that there are consequences for their actions.

At the forefront of demanding legal accountability are two niche organizations that were brought to my attention; “The Lawfare Project” established by attorney Brooke Goldstein - serves as a legal think tank and litigation fund to uphold the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and attorney Lori Lowenthal Marcus who founded “The Deborah Project” - use legal skills and tools to uncover, publicize and dismantle anti-Semitic abuses in educational systems, with the aim of bringing wrongdoers to justice and deterring future abuses.

Major Jewish organizations themselves must be held accountable for not challenging the progressive legal world to do their job and start indicting and jailing those Hamas supporters who have crossed the line from free speech to incitement to violence and often, the violence itself. Federal and state laws can easily be applied against those participating in hate crimes and domestic terrorism against Jews. The lack of initiative by these major Jewish organizations is appallingly apparent and must stop now. Jews are threatened daily, Jews can no longer depend on the law to protect them, and Jews are being blamed for being the victims of this hatred.

Candice Owens, a symptom of the times

Candice Owens rose to prominence as a Black conservative commentator, a MAGA supporter, and a fierce critic of the Black Lives Matter movement. It was during the 2016 Presidential campaign, when she first gained widespread national attention by embracing conservative values and aligning herself with Donald Trump. Trump’s vocal and non-stop criticism of the progressive legacy media complimented her own personal experiences and first hand exposure to the difficulties faced by black-Americans. Owen’s support for Trump at the time, particularly as a young, intelligent, and articulate Black women yet belonging to a political movement that was accused of inherent racism in the past had made her a unique persona, facilitating her natural ability to build a substantial following among Americans. Owens has millions of followers on various social media outlets, including YouTube, X and Instagram, as well as her own podcast.

At the time, Owen’s enthusiastic and public support for Trump resonated with many of her followers, particularly on issues such as the bias of the legacy media, patriotism, and the inherent racism of the progressive agenda. Owen’s combative style complemented Donald Trump’s own straightforwardness and eagerness to challenge the progressive political establishment that had lost contact with the common sense of much of the American public. Owen’s stand on abortion was especially enlightening. She spoke of the progressive support and availability of elective abortions as a silent genocide against black-Americans. She presented a convincing argument against abortions in general, especially among black women. According to Owen, 40 % of all abortions in the City of New York are among black women; more black babies are aborted than born alive. She further claimed convincingly that since 1973, 18 million abortions were performed on black women nationally and had they not, the population of black Americans would be double today.

Despite her success, Owens has no legitimate education, or expertise in politics, or public policy. She is just a person who says things. Her status is solely built on the oxymoron of a Black woman who is unapologetically against the Black Lives Matter movement. So, despite her meteoric popularity and success, the Hamas massacre on Oct 7^th of last year affected Owen’s in a manner that no one could have imagined or anticipated. After the barbaric massacre of 1200 innocent men, women, children, and infants in the communities of southern Israel, Owens came to routinely promote anti-Semitic tropes and spew anti-Semitic rhetoric on her podcast and social media channels to her millions of followers. Her embracement of Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism over the past year, despite the surging level of incitement and violence against Jews on the campuses and streets of America has become counterintuitively a visible marker of the times.

In her remarks, we can get an inside glimpse into today’s anti-Semitic thinking; Owens equates Jews with Marxists who want to “rewrite” history. She claims that the “media” has tried to convince people that Stalin and Lenin were anti-Semitic but were actually “part of the Jewish cabal.” Owens has claimed that Judaism was a “pedophile-centric religion that believes in demons...[and] child sacrifice ...” She added that she is “waking people up to the fact that pedophiles are in power.” Owens has argued that people who questioned information about Kabbalists (presumably Jews) were silenced and labeled insane and insinuated that some were even killed. “They’ve realized the voices that cannot be controlled have to be shut up.” Owens posted a roughly one-minute video to X in which she accused Israel of being behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy and warned that criticizing Israel could result in being killed and added that Israel has “taken over” the U.S. “Do you think it’s normal...that basically, every person who speaks about Israel has to basically say a statement that... ‘you know I don’t want to get killed’?” she ranted in the video, which circulated widely on X. On August 18, Owens held a live broadcast on X titled “The Truth About Zionism”. In the broadcast, she began by presumably talking about Jews, declaring: “There is ...a group of people in this country who can just keep lying on people …trying to ruin people’s lives and there’s just no accountability, because then you just get to flip it and say oh, it’s antisemitism.” She then turned her focus on Israel. “It's the fact that when things happen on our soil and we find out that there is potentially Israeli involvement we are basically hushed up, called crazy.” Owens has also promoted the “blood libel” conspiracy, the false charge that Jews used the blood of Christian children for ritual purposes, which in past centuries led to Jews’ being violently attacked. She claimed that the family of Leo Frank (a Jewish man lynched in 1913 by a mob in Georgia after being wrongfully and falsely accused of murdering a young girl who worked at his factory) believed in pedophilia and incest “as the sacramental rites and they would commit these acts, things that would normally be termed blood libel were actually happening.” In a July 2024 podcast episode, Owens engaged in Holocaust distortion and denial,: “The reason why this particular episode is so detrimental to Zionism is because they have polluted American minds to believe that we must defend Israel out of morality and the evils of the Holocaust.” In July she was criticized for minimizing the Holocaust after calling Mengele’s experiments on Auschwitz prisoners “bizarre propaganda”.

Candice Owens has moved from one conservative outlet to another after leaving or being forced to leave, yet still maintains her fan base. She has a huge social media following, with over 5 million followers on X and Instagram each, and over 2 million followers on YouTube. Much of her anti-Semitic rants are reminiscent of what’s written in “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” (a fabricated text purporting to detail a Jewish plot for global domination”, published in 1903. The “Protocols” are deeply imbedded in the mindset of today’s Jew hating, anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian coalition of white supremacists, progressive-leftist activists, and Muslim-Americans. Candice Owen has joined this blood-thirsty crowd of Jew haters by giving them the platform to espouse ideas that have fueled this past year’s declaration of war on the Jews of America, and is very much a symptom of the times.

Liberating the world from Jews

Over the past year since the October 7th massacre, and for most of the past four years of the Biden Presidency, we have witnessed a spike of Jew hatred and open anti-Semitism on the campuses and streets of America, with pro-Hamas Muslims and Arab-Americans at the vanguard. During this period, many of these Muslims and Arab-Americans have made the leap from harboring anti-Semitic thoughts to physically attacking Jews, desecrating Jewish institutions, and any symbol of the Jewish people or the State of Israel. Over a relatively short time span, these Jew hating mobs have created an atmosphere of fear and intimidation that most Diaspora Jews are conscious of whenever they exit the front door of their homes.

In what was commonly referred to as “the good old days”, we were accustomed to the classical type of anti-Semitism, the “gentlemen’s agreement” type of bigotry and discrimination against Jews; residential restrictions, academic restrictions, cultural restrictions, and employment restrictions. American Jews did not condone it, but overcame it and even thrived. For the past century America was a “safe haven” for American Jews enabling the Jewish community to reach the highest pinnacles in all fields of endeavor. Yet as we move backwards to the future, and as Jews are hunted down and attacked violently in broad daylight on the campuses and streets of America, all you have to do to understand this new phenomenon is listen to the declarative pronouncements made by these mobs of Muslims and Arab-Americans as they viciously attack Jews arbitrarily for no other reason than the fact that they are Jews. They openly express that they want Jews to die, and that they want to annihilate the Jewish community as a whole. They want to “kill the Jews,” perhaps with their own bare hands, and show their actions to the world through social media.

The common thread unifying this desire for the total destruction of Jews is shared by both radicalized pro-Hamas Muslims/Arab-Americans and classical Nazi ideology prior to and during the Holocaust era. This modern alliance between pro-Hamas supporters and the Nazi ideology is only the latest manifestation of a common bond dedicated to “purifying” humanity of any Jewish presence and promoting the total destruction of Jews and the State of Israel.

Underlying this unholy alliance of Jew hatred upheld by modern day radical Muslims and the Nazi ideology now spans a period that began during the 1920’s of the previous century. The Nazi ideology spoke of “redemptive anti-Semitism”, namely a form of anti-Semitism that explains all in the world by offering a form of “redemption” by exterminating and purifying humanity from the Jews. According to this idea, exterminating the Jews will prevent them from corrupting the world any further and will enable people to be redeemed and purified. “Redemptive anti-Semitism” provides a pathway to be liberated from the Jews. It begins with physically attacking Jews, expelling Jews from their homes and communities, and ends with their physical annihilation. The manifestation of “redemptive anti-Semitism” diligently implemented throughout Europe during the Holocaust, has been passed on to pro-Hamas supporters who freely profess their hatred of Jews and the State of Israel.

Islamic religious and political leaders adhere to a parallel concept that divides the world into Dar al-Islam (House of Islam) and Dar al-harb (House of War) as they broadcast daily sermons of incitement to murder Jews, promising heaven and redemption for those that carry out this call to rid the world of Jews. The Dar al-Islam are all those lands in which a Muslim government rules and the Holy Law of Islam prevails. Non-Muslims may live there on Muslim sufferance. The outside world, which has not yet been subjugated to Muslim rule, is called the "House of War," and strictly speaking is in a perpetual state of jihad, of holy war, as imposed by the Sharia law, a canonically obligatory perpetual state of war until the whole world is either converted or subjugated to Islam.

These Islamic doctrines dissociate themselves from the prevailing values, mores, constitutions, laws, and legal regulations of American culture and society. They go one step further and claim that Sharia Law is above all "human made" local rules and regulations and have no true intent to allow for real integration but want to use the freedom of Democratic societies to strengthen their message, that Islam is not and will never be subservient to any other religion or political system. Hamas, the terrorist group that occupies Gaza, is dedicated to the murder of all Jews in Israel – a goal spelled out in its charter: the end to the Jewish state and the creation of an Islamic state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. As stated in its founding document, the Hamas Charter, Hamas is committed to waging Jihad, or holy war, in order “to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine.” Its stated goal is to eliminate the Jewish state and kill Jews. That is precisely what Hamas has set out to do, and has been doing, in its present savage campaign of mass slaughter since Oct 7th.

Social media tweets and comments such as “As long as there is Jewish life in the world, peace is not possible.” have become the new norm and “redemptive anti-Semitism” will continue to radicalize Muslims and Arab-Americans to continue their crusade to free humanity from the Jews. Signs in the campuses and on the streets of America held by supporters of Hamas; “From the River to the Sea” - “Hitler was right” while waving a Palestinian flag – “Do you want to survive America? Kill the Jew snake” - “God hates Jews” – “support humanity not Israel” – “glory to the martyrs” – “let’s wipe out Israel”, are all manifestations of how “redemptive anti-Semitism” has evolved over the past four years and more so since the Oct 7th massacre. Muslim and Arab-American supporters of Hamas no longer differentiate between American Jews and Israel, no longer differentiate between a rapist and his victim, and no longer differentiate between a murderer and those murdered.

Dar al-Islam begins with the Jews only as a first step, the rest of humanity will follow.