Army Bob: AntiSemitism apparently still alive and well

by Robert M. Traxler

The progressive movement has evolved. The cancel culture would have gone after anyone who disagrees with the politically correct movement; race, color, creed, nation of origin, sexual preference, weight, height, employment all are above criticism, we must be tolerant of everyone and everything.

Perceived harsh language and bullying were condemned, even canceled, and improper language or incorrect news were banned. What a difference an attack on Israel by Hamas and a rapid violent response by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) make.  

Let’s take a look at the chants the free thinkers and the smart members of our society are using, the tolerant compassionate loving politically correct progressive movement, the free thinkers the individualists, the nonconformists (all dressed alike) who are never wrong use in the latest round of protests. From the river to the sea Palestine must be free, police are KKK, Palestine is occupied by America, Israelis are Nazis, genocide Joe (President Biden) has got to go, I am Hamas, and some with language not family friendly. Group think and group chants speak to the individualists in the pro-Hamas movement; one person with a megaphone shouts a rhyme and the group chants in unison.  

Paying in excess of $100,000 a year for an Ivy league university (Columbia and Yale, if you fact check the numbers use today’s costs not 2021 costs) and they are canceling classes? Anyone think they will refund the tuition? A portion of the tuition? Know what fat chance means?

Rights of Jewish students, a minority of less than 2.5% of our nation, are being violated, but they are considered a majority group by the current politically correct protest group. LBGTQ++s are 7.1%, more than twice that of Jewish folks, but they are a solid minority. African Americans are 13% and are also a solid minority, but Jews are not? Go figure. The rights of the majority in the Middle East are paramount and the minority has no rights, not even the right to live.

“From the river to the sea” is calling for the destruction of the Jewish minority, but the self-appointed smart ones in our elite colleges and universities will call themselves the champions of the minority. Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

Spending many formative years in the deep South in the 1960s, one heard a recurring statement; a favorite saying of stone-cold racists was that they do not hate Negros (a politically correct term in the 1960s), but they hate n*ggers. We look at this statement as industrial strength stupid and ignorant.

Fast forward to today and we hear the pro-Hamas/Palestine/Islam folks say they do not hate Jews, they hate Zionists. Negros/n*ggers, Jews/Zionists, new terms, same hate, same narrow-minded bigotry, just politically correct among the enlightened students at many colleges and universities.

The Negro/n*gger analogy was repeatedly used by one of President Biden’s mentors, the late Klansman Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia.       

Divest from Israel is saying we must punish the filthy rich Jews who are colonizing what was called for centuries Judea. The Jewish folks were in Judea for thousands of years before the Muslim religion was founded, in the years between 610 and 620 BCE in the same region. 

Intelligence agencies report upward of 10,000 Hamas soldiers are still in Rafah, trained, organized, well equipped and led, but Israel must not attack them. Ten thousand soldiers are the number in an American light Infantry Division, a very formidable force, many dozens of times larger than the combined terrorists’ forces that attacked Israel Oct. 7.  To leave them intact would be military malpractice and lead to the Hamas government declaring a second victory over Israel, the first being the Oct. 7 attack. 

The fact that at least 12 United Nations (UN) staff members were directly involved in the October attack on Israel and roughly 10% of all UN employees in the region have direct family ties to Hamas should not be overlooked. The numbers of non-military deaths reported by the UN need questioning.

The Israeli demand that the UN convoys not be “guarded” by armed guards was criticized by our media, who failed to report the facts concerning the UN’s complicity in Hamas. A reasonable and prudent person would not allow an armed enemy in your rear area of operations.  

Antisemitism is still alive worldwide, and still racism and bigotry. My opinion.