There is an ugliness brewing on the left, my fellow Jews, and we need to be prepared. They will come for us in the name of righteousness and justice, which will make them the most dangerous foe we've faced since 1945.
It begins with business boycotts, expulsions from universities, and being chased out of organizations and public places. Those who dare to wear the symbols of our faith are being attacked. Loyalty oaths against our own people are being demanded.
It was said that my great-grandmother could see what was coming years ahead. She urged my grandfather and my father, then 4 years old, to get out before it was too late. She felt she was too old to leave and was deported from Paks, Hungary, and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
Are the "camps" coming from the left rather than the expected right? All I know is that the dehumanization of Jews is finding its most fervent support from the left. I am a progressive, myself, but I cannot ignore what I am seeing.
We Jews know that danger can come from anywhere. But the hooded, swastika-armbanded, tiki-torch-bearing antisemites are growing anachronistic. The acceptable way to hate Jews now is in the name of social justice. I've seen every vile antisemitic slogan switch from right to left.
It is not that the left is "naturally" antisemitic. I am a leftist, myself. It is that antisemites see an opportunity to exploit the rhetoric of social justice and turn it against the Jews. Antisemitism is a disease that infects left and right. It is going viral now on the left.
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