I’m blocked so I don’t know what it says, but Media Matters has been working hard to put a target on my back during a dangerous time for Jews, and Parker is absolutely obsessed with Bethany. Very creepy stuff, but this is politics today apparently.
“Never let a good pogrom go to waste.”—Media Matters.
Though I do find it funny to see an organization that’s been trying to get me and my wife killed for some time now use the occasion of my wife expressing support for gun rights as an excuse to incite some more. There’s a sort of Inception element to it.
Key difference between now and 2016 is that this time, as we’re flooded with antisemitism, threats & harassment, there’ll be no ADL report and conference on left-wing cyber-hate. When you’re Jewish and this comes at you from the left, there is ZERO institutional support.
Part of what makes it so dangerous is that there’s no drive to fight it. We’re left to fend for ourselves. When it comes from the right, we find ourselves with lots of allies. But they’re a mirage: not real.
You learn pretty fast: condemn right wing antisemitism, as I do constantly, and your lefty ‘allies’ show up in droves. If the ppl attacking you also go after Julia Ioffe, even the ADL will get involved. But condemn left wing antisemitism and the hate doubles in force.
This is also a key difference with the UK Jewish community. They banded together against Corbynism. Here in the US, if you want to fight leftwing antisemitism, you need to do so without the help or support of the major Jewish organizations. American Judaism has atrophied.
