Monday, January 14, 2019
The Self-Hating Jew
On my old blog, The Hesperado, I wrote a couple of essays on this odd phenomenon of the "self-hating Jew". At the time, I didn't know about an article that had been written years before (2010) on Front Page Mag, The Pathology of Jewish Anti-Semitism, an illuminating exploration with a lot of information to back it up.
One crucial question which I didn't really bring up, and the author of the article linked above -- Steven Plaut -- didn't either, is whether the Jewish phenomenon of PC MC/Leftism is significantly different than the broader PC MC of the West, which includes various Christians, atheists, and agnostics. I have tentatively concluded that there is at least one difference: Jews who are not PC MC and who therefore recognize the exigent problem of Islam tend to be more delicate and gingerly about calling out their fellow Jews who defend Islam. Sure, there are instances of Jews like the author Steven Plaut who do, but they are few and far between. Christians in the Counter-Jihad, on the other hand, are far more willing to condemn fellow Christians who defend Islam; ditto for atheists, or agnostics, or Hindus in the Counter-Jihad
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