Sometimes one has to lay out some harsh reality to a longtime friend. And right now even many “liberal” Jews are realizing that their loyalty and dedication to leftwing causes gives them no protection from the baked-in-Jewhate of The Left when the chips are down.

Of course, that’s not all “liberal” Jews. Take Thomas Friedman, for instance. Who looks at the barbaric slaughter of Oct 7 and tells Jews to just ignore it.

I am watching the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza today and thinking about one of the world leaders I’ve most admired: Manmohan Singh. He was India’s prime minister in late November 2008, when 10 Pakistani jihadist militants from the Lashkar-e-Taiba group, widely believed to be linked to Pakistan’s military intelligence, infiltrated India and killed more than 160 people in Mumbai, including 61 people at two luxury hotels. What was Singh’s military response to India’s Sept. 11?

He did nothing.

Singh never retaliated militarily against the nation of Pakistan or Lashkar camps in Pakistan. It was a remarkable act of restraint. What was the logic? (snip)

Chief among the reasons, (India’s foreign minister at the time, Shivshankar Menon) explained, was that any military response would have quickly obscured just how outrageous and terrible the raid on Indian civilians and tourists was; “the fact of a terrorist attack from Pakistan on India with official involvement on the Pakistan side” would have been lost. Once India retaliated, the world would immediately have had what Menon called a “ho-hum reaction.”

Friedman seems to realize that comparing 160 horrible deaths in a vast country with a population 1.4 billion to a tiny sliver of a nation – population 9 million – is not going to pass the sniff test and rambles on about the bad press that Israeli retaliation would bring.

And then he handwaves at the worldwide demonstrations of Muslim immigrant communities and their enablers, including on American college campuses, that occurred PRIOR TO ANY ISRAEL COUNTERSTRIKE.

What.the.#@$&.is.wrong.with.Friedman? Oh, right. He hates Bibi and his so-called “Jewish supremacists”.

And he feels that kind of public “Look at me, I’m one of the Good.Jews” will save him and his family when the Left’s beloved footsoldiers of Antifa, BLM and Islamists come paint the Star of David on his home or find out what plane he is on when traveling.

Pro Hamas mob chanting “Allahu Akbar” just stormed a Russian airport because they heard a flight landed carrying jews. #HamasNazis pic.twitter.com/R6KWgosG8E

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 29, 2023

We know this stuff can happen here, too. Unless you feel Jewish students locking themselves in a library away from a braying mob was just paranoia.

The Left has used Jews for decades — their money, their loyalty, their talent — as a kind of racial human shield against criticism. And liberal Jews went along because they felt it necessary to separate themselves from the more religious members who embarrassed them so and to feel they were doing good by taking on the cause of the [selective] downtrodden. Meanwhile, the racial spoils system of the Left, the baked-in anti-individual ethos that regularly discards whole populations when they were no longer useful for The Revolution, changed. Whites became irredeemably bad, Asians became “honorary Whites”, Jews, too, along with women and parents. Flooding Europe and now America with young men from cultures incompatible with classical Western liberalism has brought its reward. Illiberal demonstrations where no one is afraid to say exactly what they want.

Israel annihilated and every last Jew dead.

The awakening of liberal Jews is pretty painful …

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It was no accident that Hamas came across into the kibbutz communities which are filled with leftwing peaceniks like Friedman, and, if reports are right, employed many of the Gazans who came to murder them.

Even if Israel took Friedman’s advice and did nothing to Gaza, it won’t make any difference to those with a hatred of Jews. They have a goal, and no amount of jawboning will change it.

Dear Jewish family and friends. Choose wisely who and what you support.

We’re here for you.

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