Should Jews Join the Right?

It may not be accurate, but it is not the least little bit surprising that to criticize the Left one is automatically docketed onto the Right and then simply dismissed as "right-wing" or "conservative." No discussion or argument is, apparently, necessary.

So that, for example, if I point out that Nazi Swastikas entwined in Stars of David at progressive-left "peace rallies" indicates a big problem with the political Left, it is not appropriate to simply dismiss my concerns as "right-wing." The problem here is that anti-Semitic anti-Zionism has infested the progressive movement.

The problem is not me pointing it out and there is nothing "right-wing" or "conservative" or "Republican" about doing so. The progressive movement can never reform itself until it acknowledges the problem. The problem is that the Left... the progressive-left... as a movement has accepted ideological anti-Zionism as part of the larger coalition today.

Today, on the Left, and within the grassroots-netroots of the Democratic party, there are any number of constituencies. There are ethnic constituencies, such as African-Americans and Jewish-Americans. There are also, of course, ideological constituencies. These include feminists and anti-war activists and anti-corporate people and anti-Semitic anti-Zionists and environmentalists and so forth.

The acceptance of anti-Semitic anti-Zionists as among the progressive-left constituency represents nothing less than the Left's betrayal of the Jewish people. The progressive-left as a movement has betrayed the Jews not because it is crawling with anti-Semites... as I continue to insist... but because they do not mind the ideological anti-Semites (BDSrs) among them.

There is hardly a journal on the Left that does not feature progressive anti-Zionism. Daily Kos does. The Huffington Post does. The UK Guardian does. And then we have venues on the progressive-left that absolutely specialize in anti-Semitic anti-Zionism such as Mondoweiss and the Electronic Intifada.

These are progressive-left publications and there is nothing equivalent on the Right.

The political Right has succesfully marginalized their anti-Semites, while the political Left has embraced theirs under the flimsy cover of anti-Zionism.

Face the truth.

Acknowledge the obvious, because you cannot resolve this problem until you are willing to face it and name it. That is the absolute minimum that is required. Acknowledging the obvious is merely the starting point if anyone wants to resolve this problem.

But, until such a time as you guys are willing to face what you apparently do not want to face, you will continually play on the defensive against people within your own political movement who would see the Jews robbed of self-determination and self-defense. Time and effort that could have been put into other progressive causes get used daily, continually, by Jewish liberals to defend the rights of the Jewish people to a home on land where Jews originally came from.

Is this how you want to spend your time as a progressive political activist?

Day in and day out defending yourself and your people against your ostensible allies?

Why is it that the Jews are the only people on the entire planet who believe that they have some moral imperative to support a political movement (the progressive-left) that actively seeks to undermine Jewish well-being?

{Some day someone will actually answer one of my questions and I will have a heart-attack out of pure shock.}

Anyway, I have never advocated for the political Right, but if this keeps up I will probably start doing so.