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Jews celebrating Hanukkah were just slaughtered by Muslim gunmen on an Australian beach, in an imitation of the October 7 massacres.
An inert Europe is canceling Christmas celebrations out of fear of threats of violence from Muslim minorities. In the West, when an Islamist shoots a Jew, politicians often offer two bizarre remedies: gun control or a task force to tackle Islamophobia.
Yet, our political class rarely offers data on the overwhelming preponderance of targeting Jews rather than Muslims, much less the vast disparity in Jewish-on-Muslim versus Muslim-on-Jewish violence.
To catalog all the recent violence against Jews in the Western world would fill a book.
We know the causes. Anemic Western leaders – politicians, college presidents, media grandees, and celebrities – fear Muslim terrorism, growing Muslim voters, and their own growing antisemitic campus constituencies.
So, they never call out antisemitic violence other than with nauseating nothings like, “Such violence has no place here.” Or “We condemn such violence in the utmost terms.” Or “This is not who we are.”
The prime minister of Australia – a country that produced some of the most heroic soldiers of World War I and II and still is a bulwark of the West in the Pacific – goes through a series of linguistic contortions daily to avoid identifying the threat to Jews and how to stop it. He talks as if guns were animate and murdered Jews without the aid of radical Islamic killers.
So nothing much follows in the West, and Jews are becoming the hunted. The attacks will increase because there is no foreseeable force to combat them.
Just a few years ago, it used to be that antisemitism was mostly on the Left and repugnantly identifiable and condemnable by most.
In 2009, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright grew angry against his former favorite parishioner, then newly elected President Barack Obama, and scoffed in anger, “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me.”
Many leftist icons used to voice blatant antisemitism, such as Jesse Jackson (“Hymietown”), Al Sharpton (“If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house”), or Louis Farrakhan (“your gutter religion”).
Do we remember the utterances of once White House press corps liberal icon Helen Thomas (“Jews should get the hell out of Palestine. They should go home to Poland, Germany, America, and everywhere else.”)?
Their left-wing legacy is now amplified by Rep. Ilhan Omar (“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby”). The so-called Squad, New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, the “The Democratic Socialists of America,” and the legions of campus protestors never disown the slogan, “Palestine will be free from the river to the sea” – a call to destroy the current state of Israel and everyone in it – because they either all believe in it or assume their clueless followers have no idea what it means.
Again, when the elite say, “River to the sea,” does that mean they will erase all the Jews in Israel but spare its two-million-Arab citizenry, about the only Arabs in the entire Middle East who vote in free and fair elections and enjoy constitutional rights?
Of course, no left-wing Westerner visiting the Middle East would wish to publicly express his free speech, atheism, or pro-gay/trans support either in the West Bank or in Gaza.
The combination of providing DEI exemptions to biased minority activists, the anti-Israel and antisemitic indoctrination in universities, and no-borders immigration has turned the Democratic Party into the natural home of those who dislike Israel in particular and feel free to demonize Jews in general.
Indeed, most polls show that 60 percent of Democrats favor the Palestinians over the Israelis. Translated, that means they prefer a terrorist autocracy over a Western liberal constitutional government.
The Right used to be a unified corrective to left-wing antisemitism. It still polls nearly 70 percent in favor of Israel. For a while longer, it is far more likely to condemn antisemitic violence than the Left.
But recently, its own base, in varying degrees, has come full circle and joined the Left in its distaste for Israel and Jews in general.
The new anti-Israel Right despises Israel and the U.S. support of it, either in terms that are commercial (there are more Arabs, with more money and oil), cowardly (trashing Jews does not earn terrorist reprisals; rebuking Muslims can), political (Jews more often vote Democratic), or simply antisemitic (cabals of Jews control Wall Street, Hollywood, the media, etc.).
Once-fringe antisemites like Nick Fuentes are now welcomed to air their views openly, but mostly the conspiracy venom is of the more insidious sort, like “I’m just throwing this out there…” or “Here is something to consider…”
In the last few weeks, we have been told – without any evidence – by right-wing influencers that the Jews may well have had a hand in killing Charlie Kirk, in bombing an Iranian nuclear facility, in pressuring the Maduro kleptocracy, and in the 9/11 slaughter.
One hallmark of the new right-wing furor against Jews and Israel is the strange symbiosis they employ. Formerly edgy podcasters become vicarious hosts of virulent antisemites. The partnerships are a way of not directly owning up to their toxicity but just “putting it out there.”
Candace Owens initially championed Kanye West (“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up, I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”).
Then she graduated to expressing her own old antisemitic tropes: “There is just a very small ring of specific people who are using the fact that they are Jewish to shield themselves from any criticism. … All Americans should want answers because this appears to be something that is quite sinister.”
Tucker Carlson hosted critics of the U.S. effort against Hitler in World War II and Israel-behind-it conspiracists before escalating to inviting Nick Fuentes on in a mostly friendly manner – which might be attributed to his interview format, except he has attacked fellow conservatives far more than has odious Fuentes.
But now Carlson himself too throws out story-line hints about just maybe Jews’ involvement in Charlie Kirk’s death, or a sort of/kind of Jewish effort behind 9/11, or perhaps it was those Jews eating humus, not the Roman prefect of Judea who ordered Jesus killed for supposed sedition – a common fate of any provincial residents who even appeared to defy the absolute authority of the Roman imperial state.
Carlson strangely categorized Israel as an “insignificant” country. But is not Israel a democratic Western outpost in a sea of Middle East autocracy, the most technically advanced and scientifically sophisticated nation for its size in the world, and the ancient home of the Judeo-Christian tradition
Somehow, many on the Right forgot who funds the virulently anti-American mouthpiece Al-Jazeera, or where the 9/11 murderers came from, or who has killed Americans in Syria, Lebanon, and on the Red Sea, and or whom the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS, and theocratic Iran have vowed to destroy.
And as for October 7 and what followed, Israel waited in vain for nearly three weeks for Hamas to give up the 3,000 terrorists who murdered 1,219 Jews, wounded 3,400, and took 254 hostages before mounting a full invasion of Gaza.
Where does it all end?
Either there will be an 11th-hour Western intolerance of antisemitism, a limit of student visas and immigration from the illiberal nations of the Middle East, a return to melting pot assimilation, an end to DEI tribalism, and a reform of the weaponized university curricula, or we will see more images of gunmen shooting Jews as if they were mere animals.
“Images of gunmen shooting Jews as if they were mere animals.”
The battle lines have been drawn. There are those that these find these images extremely horrific and disturbing and those that rejoice and revel at them. Good and evil, the struggle continues in the human race.
It’s much worse online than “the Jews killed Charlie Kirk.”. I don’t even go to the dark corners of the Internet but I’ve seen in comments posted to conservative posts on YouTube all sorts of wild ” the Jews did it” conspiracy theories from “the Jews killed JFK” to “the U.S. government is controlled by Jews” and everything in between. They call Jews “the small hat people,” “loxists,” “juice,” and threaten that when “they” get power we will be expelled “or worse.”. They frequently proclaim that “Weimar problems require Weimar solutions,” by which I don’t think they’re referring to Weimar Germany’s fiscal policy. Getting very weird out there.
I never heard of loxists till reading this but I like this and I will adopt it for me.
I’m a Loxist.
I’m a lox and bagel junkie
I think blintz are funky,
If we don’t make a major course correction now, I think we know how it ends. But we must all do our part to shift the tide. I hope VDH will not only continue to be a voice of sanity, truth, and reason, but will stop appearing on Megyn Kelly’s show. She has joined the sickly circle of lunatics he mentions in this piece and deserves to be marginalized and shunned. By appearing on her program, you give legitimacy to her voice, something she no longer deserves.
Judaism is a foundational principle of Western civilization so Marxists must destroy it. It then helps destroy Christianity and thus all Western civilization. That is the purpose of the left.
If what you say is true then I ask: are Christians going respond like a lion or like sheep? In this world, the strong survive, the weak perish. That is an imperative of nature from which humans are not exempted.
We already know the answer: Christians are the lambs led to the slaughter … there’s no turning this thing around … all that remains are the judgments of God … sorry!
Yep. Marxist nihilism in action. Burn it all down so we can build a “perfect” society. And we will just deal with Islamic intolerance and totalitarianism later, uh, I guess. Right.
You forgot to mention the Greeks and Romans. Western Civilian is a European franchise rooted in Christianity. Western Civilization didn’t come out of the middle east, Asia or Africa.
It came out of Jewish civilization as in living under laws – the word “judicial” from a place called Judea. The 10 commandments that used to be in court rooms and schools – yes, the Jews too!
The god of the Christians? Yup, a Jew. Lets be grateful for the Judeo-Christian founding of the US (several of the founders. read Hebrew). and also of the actual contributionss to human civilization without needing to try to erase the Jews.
My Founding Father’s were way more grounded in Latin and Greek. No one spoke Hebrew during the time of Jesus anyhow, except the isolated priest class. This country was not Judeo Christian founded and never has been. The European people who came here, colonized built it and made it great were ALL Christians. Sorry- not one founder was a Jew. The Old Testament was of course important to Christians, but the Talmud was rejected same as today.
Of course our values come from Judeo-Christian values, Tammy! The laws and moral codes came from the Old Testament (the 10 Commandments, the idea of charity, and more) and our Founders quoted the Old Testament. And Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who preached from the Old Testament. Read about George Washington and what he wrote. You cannot separate Judaism from Christianity, unless you erase the foundations that nurtured and inspired Jesus, which many haters are trying to do by presenting all sorts of contorted religious views and “Replacement theory.” And to those haters I always ask (and never get a coherent answer): Why was Jesus born a Jew? Why did God reveal Himself first to Jews (as “one God, not many gods)? Why not come to Earth as a pagan? Or a child-sacrificing religion? And why would anyone except a Jew hater even want to deny the Jew’s contribution to Western Civilization? What purpose does that serve?
I have been surprised, stunned actually, by some friends who lately have begun to show signs of a prejudice against Isreal. This is always the safe route to follow. Hate Israel or Zionists. It’s a sort of litmus test. To show open hostility toward Jews is far less acceptible.
These friends appear to have swallowed some cleverly packaged propaganda against the State of Israel — like the “Greater Isral” nonsense. It takes something that actually exists, blows it out of proportion, gives a false setting and prominence. It is always some that will appeal to the “isolationist” stream in our culture.
Fifty years ago in graduate school with many, I mean hundreds, of Europeans, Iranians, Arabs, I would often hear from them initially “I don’t like Israel.” After they’d become rather comfortable with my acquaintance it would typically slip into “I don’t like the Jews.”
Your last sentence answers the “question” of the commenter above who claimed “not to understand” why Western Jews are being attacked for the government of Israel’s actions in Gaza when Russian people in the West aren’t being attacked for Putin’s actions in Ukraine. The reason for this purportedly “incomprehensible” double standard is found in the last phrase of your comment: “I don’t like the Jews”. Lurking beneath the lie, “We hate the government of Israel not the Jews”, is the truth: “We mouth this slogan so we can get away with open Jew hate!” Claiming otherwise is disingenuous duplicity and transparent equivocation and is the reason why political demonization and public violence against Jews is happening again just as it did in 1930s Europe. I’m not Jewish or Christian or conservative. I am anti-totalitarianism and I see this malignant open Jew hate as a gateway drug for so many Western people to release suppressed hatreds that lurk like poisons within the liberal heart of darkness just waiting for societal permission to release them. Making Jews into the Hategoat “oppressor” of islamic Gazan “oppressed” to justify hatred towards them is a Wannsee Conference level decision. To chose this path in 2025 proves that Western society deserves to die.
The West is earning its death. Whatever is available in the world to replace it has a record of being worse.
Blame the Jews when they live.
Blame the Jews when they die.
Blame the Jews when they are stateless and powerless.
Blame the Jews when they have a state.
Blame the Jews when they are rich.
Blame the Jews when they are poor.
Blame the Jews when they succeed.
Blame the Jews when they fail.
Blame the Jews because they are communists.
Blame the Jews because they are capitalists.
Blame the Jews when they are defenseless.
Blame the Jews when they defend themselves.
Blame the Jews when they are slaughtered.
Blame the Jews when they refuse to be slaughtered.
When in doubt, blame the Jews.
It has worked for thousands of years.
Why stop now?
We are all things to all haters.
It’s exhausting.
As long as the radical Left tries to hold on to power or obtain more of it, the anti-semitism movements will keep growing. Who is going to stop them???
Off topic: nice reminder above of Ilhan Omar’s quote: “It’s about the Benjamins, baby.” Yeah, she wasn’t kidding….
These supposed “right wing influencers” are nothing more than opportunists masquerading as conservatives. There’s lots of money in division, most of it flowing from our enemies.
They’re leftist plants and are likely undercover members of the Communist Party USA.
The Communist Party was started by Karl Marx. Were you thinking he was a Hindu?
VDH, I will have to nod that Israel had a lot to do with the bombing of the Iran nuclear facilities. Israel and USA.
As a student of the Bible for 37 years, as well as other areas in life, I have to say this about this article being an over lay for today’s news, that this is how Bible prophesy is unfolding and following this logic, therefore Israel is the apple of YHVH’S eyes and therefore has had and will always have G-D’S hand of protection on the nation where Christ will return and rule from. Which does not void Israel and the USA’s need to be strong and eventually to wipe out the terrorists! The battle of Armageddon, God and Magog and all this is yet to come or are we in it now?
Armageddon to ya?
Zechariah 2:8: “For thus says the LORD of hosts: ‘After the glory He has sent Me against the nations which plunder you—for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye'”.
Deuteronomy 32:10: Describes God finding Israel in a desert and guarding them “as the apple of his eye” during their wilderness journey.
America’s focus– and the world’s attention should be on the most persecuted group on earth– Christians. Christians are being arrested, murdered, their children slaughtered, raped and their homes and churches destroyed all over the world. None of this is happening to the Jews. Why aren’t the Jews focusing on this instead of themselves?
Well aren’t you the rabid little Jew-hater?
Anything else you wanna lay at our door while you’re at it?
Instead of whining about what you think us Joos aren’t doing, why don’t you try doing something about the rapists, murderers and persecutors of Christians?
Oh yeah, I know. There’s no danger in having a go at us, is there? But you try calling out the real monsters and you could meet a very nasty end. What a hypocrite and a coward you are.
A typical Christian hater. Your vitriol belongs in your country– not mine.
Like the moslems, you and others throw the word ‘coward’ around not knowing what it means because of your language barriers. No one is afraid of you, or your words, or your deception. Perhaps you should be afraid of us…. we’ve had enough.
Why was my comment highlighting the killing of Christians removed?
The roots of this awful Muslim murderous hostility towards the Jewish people is the result of a firm but blind and unquestioning Muslim faith in the Qur ‘an. Which instructs in violence and killing of disbelievers for the cause of Islam. As found in, for example, 4: 89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. T.
To add to this ruthless death inflecting command for the Qur ‘an, this “sacred book” of Islam clams that Jew are “apes and swine.” in human form. As seen in the Qur ‘ran in 2:65; 7:166.; 5:60.
Muslims with this, as stated above firm but blind and unquestioning faith that is of Divine origin of the Qur’ an those Muslim terrorist of Hamas engaged in the unconscionable jihad murders of many peaceful Jewish people on October 7th 2023 then less than two years later two other Muslim terrorist mass murder attack, this year at a Hanukkah festival on December 14th. Sydney, Australia.
It’s amazing in the most horrendous sense of the word, that a religious hoax of a book cause and inspire to much murderous evil , in this current time and throughout history.
For a more full understanding of the actual nature of the Qur ‘an is very important since it instructs in violence and killing for the cause of Islam As found in ,for example 2:191. 4:89. 5:33. 9:5,111,123. 47:4. So to understand that “holy book” of Islam. a person need to look back in time before the coming of Muhammad and then the Qu ran . Back to the First Century AD which was the time of early Christian church. For the Early Christian Church had and now in modern times the Christian church still has the Gospel of Christ, First Corinthians 15:1-4.
Much later, in time, came Muhammad and he gave much information, that many believe to be divine, some of which is said to have been obtained from an angle from heaven. This information was written down on different objects and things Those written words in different objects was then compiled together and then eventually went into the composition of what is now called the Qur ‘an .
The Qur ‘an is actually, that is in reality, another gospel, apart and greatly different from the Gospel of the Christian Church. Such a thing was predicted in the Bible. For the Bible does warn about those who will come and offer to people another gospel other than the one shown above, First Corinthians 15:1-4. For it is warned about any other “gospel” in the Bible. For it is written in the Bible “But though we or an angle from heaven preach any other gospel onto you than which we have preached onto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if man preach any other gospel onto you than ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8, 9. [ K.J.V.]
That specific angle that Muhammad met with in that cave was fallen angle, a demon ,the masquerading as the unfallen good angle of God.
Therefore, the Qur’ an is the result of the deception of a false prophet, Mathew 7:15., who may have come in contact with a fallen angle, a demon, So the imams and mullahs who preach it a truth to other are accused of and by God.
When we have given up our right to criticize any government the end of free speech and our form of government is lost. Must I ask VDH for his permission before I speak? Did I misunderstand what transpired to cause my Lord and Savior to be crucified? Who demanded his death and choose to free a criminal? Does anyone know the story of the USS Liberty? Am I an antisemite for bringing up the Government’s role in that crime?
I worship no man only my Lord and Savior.
In this second decade of this twenty –first century there have been two murderous jihad attacks at Jewish festivals by Muslim terrorist. This first being was on October 7th 2023, this most recent jihad murder attack, this year at a Hanukkah festival on December r 14th. Sydney’ Australia In the five years left in this decade, let’s pray and hope Islamic murderous jihad attack at a festival or any other place or event,
Nevertheless, the sever malice -filled demonic hate of those Muslims for the Jewish people should not be understated, in that they will not lose interest in their deadly jihad against the Jews,
For Satan’s false religion and pride and joy which is Islam will demonically inspire other Muslims to because terrorists. It’s sad and even tragic many people are see and comprehend diabolical essence of Islam, because its deceptive nature appears “godly” to numerous people.
So, in reality, that religious book of the Devil, the Qur ‘an , even those in look good a face value is the cause of Muslims engaging in death inflection terrorism.
Therefore, the Muslims terrorists who engaged in that death inflecting jihad massacre were obeying the command of Islam’ “holy book” the Qur’ an ,as it instructs in Surah 47:4 , which instructs “Whenever you encounter the disbelievers strike of their heads until you made great slaughter among them…”
The use of modern weapons is a much more effective method of making a “great slaughter among them than a sword can.
The reason why Muslim terrorists, as that shooter at the Hanukkah festival , can commit to many brutal cruel vicious actions of cold –blooded murder and murders and feel no remorse about it. at all Is explained in the Bible, which reveals to its reader that some men are completely callous and unfeeling for the suffering of others is because they have had “their own conscience seared with a hot iron.” First Timothy 4:2. [N.K.J.V.]
For those Muslim terrorists that “hot iron” is Islam.
Mostly agree with this post. Except for the HAMAS propaganda that Israel killed innocent Palestinians. It did occur but not because Israel didn’t do its best to avoid that. HAMAS used civilians as human shields.
Exactly what I was thinking. The repeating to what was obviously Hamas propaganda undermined an otherwise cogent post and is almost inexplicable. It certainly reveals questionable reading and analysis.
May VDH have a speedy recovery
There are no legit criticisms of “Israel/Netanyahu” and no criticisms of such are silenced. Instead, they are monetized.