Thread by @bansisharma

1. The Left Is No Friend To Jews

David Harsanyi, a Hungarian Jew who is a descendant of Holocaust survivors and victims, has written a compelling piece debunking leftist hypocrisy on yesterday's events. Here, I serialize it to honor it.

2. The Left’s response to the mass shooting of Jews is an act of bad faith. How are Americans ever going to 'come together' if the first thing a political party sees when it sees dead Americans is a partisan cudgel?

3. It is ironic to see many of the same liberals, who recently fought to prop up the world’s most powerful Jew-hating terror state, Iran, lecturing us on the importance of combating anti-Semitism. But here we are.

4. The same Voxers who had long rationalized, romanticized, and excused the Jew-killing terror organization of the Middle East are now blaming the existence of the evil, anti-Semitic Pittsburgh shooter on Republicans.

5. The same Podcasters whose echo chamber deployed anti-Semitic dual-loyalty tropes to smear critics of the Iran deal are now incredibly concerned about the Jewish community.

6. Some other liberals decided to dip into a little victim blaming as well. Hadn’t American Jews been a little too Jew-centric and pro-Israel for their own good?

7. For those who confuse progressivism with Judaism — which is to say many — it might be difficult to understand that undermining the Democratic Party isn’t an act of anti-Semitism. The Trump administration, in fact, has been the most pro-Jewish in memory.

8. Every Jew who’s ever prayed understands the importance of Jerusalem in Jewish faith, culture, and history. It is President Trump, not any of the other presidents who promised the same, who recognized Jerusalem as the undisputed Jewish capital.

9. It is President Trump who withdrew from the Iran deal and once again isolated the single most dangerous threat to Jewish lives in the world, the Holocaust-denying theocrats of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

10. It is Trump who cut more than $200 million in aid to a Palestinian govt that was not only inciting terrorists (including the murder of a Jewish-American, Ari Fuld; but since he never wrote for WaPo, you might not have heard of him) but also rewarded the killers’ families.

11. It is President Trump's administration that kicked the Palestine Liberation Organization, the most successful Jewish-civilian murdering organization of the past 60 years, out of DC.

12. It is President Trump's administration that cut funding to the anti-Semitic U.N. Relief and Works Agency. It is also the Trump administration that turned around the unique Obama-era legacy of standing against Israel at the United Nations.

13. It is the Trump administration that cracked down on anti-Semitism on college campuses and that deported one of the last real-life Nazis.

14. At the same time, the liberal activist resistance wing is being led by a couple of Louis Farrakhan fangirls, and most Jewish Democrats are scared to death to say a single word in protest.

15. Anti-Semitic shootings aren’t new, and anti-Jewish hate crimes have long dominated religious bias in this country. This ancient hatred comes from both fringes and runs through presidents of both parties and occurs in nations across the world.

16. Yet what was the most vital lesson partisans could derive from the massacre of elderly Jews attending a bris in Pittsburgh? Stop saying mean things about billionaire progressive sugar daddy George Soros.

17. But if you’re not upset about the vile accusations that are incessantly thrown at someone like Benjamin Netanyahu, while you think calling out Soros is de facto anti-Semitism, your main concern is liberalism, not the Jewish people.

18. If you think Trump should turn down the temperature but you fail to mention that a progressive yelling about “health care” tried to assassinate the entire GOP leadership on a baseball field, you don’t really care about the temperature.

19. If you fail to mention that Democrats have been accusing Republicans of wanting to the kill the poor and young, of trying to destroy the planet, of being “terrorists” after every school shooting, you don’t care about the temperature.

20. If you rationalize mob behavior every time you don’t get your way in the electoral process, you don’t care about the temperature. And if your first instinct is to play politics with tragedy for partisan gain, you are part of the problem.

The End
thefederalist.com/2018/10/28/the…