This is what the Democrat Party, from President Biden on down to the lowliest local activist is absolutely refusing to acknowledge, let alone condemn.
“Online classes make it really convenient,” said another Jewish student. “Whether I’m out of town, sick in bed, or hiding in an attic to avoid being assaulted by an angry mob who want me and everyone else of my ethnicity wiped off the face of the earth, I don’t have to worry about missing any assignments.”
At publishing time, the Columbia administration had put forth plans to load Jewish students onto train cars and transport them to special camps to help them concentrate.
If you are busy with other things, like raising children, holding down a job (to two), maintaining a marriage and generally living a full life, you may not have had time to explore the depths of depravity occurring at our elite (and other) universities. Or, you may have an inkling, but don’t really want to deal with it.
Well, if that’s the case it’s time to stop reading. But for anyone interested, it appears that the power on the Democrat Left have decided that nothing short of a Fascist/Marxist (only in America) revolution can ensure that they remain in power.
So, firstly, hers’s a summary of the situation from a Spiked! article titled “A howl of rage against civilisation” (emphasis added).
Columbia has rang out with cries of ‘We don’t want no two states / We want all of it!’. You don’t need to be an expert in Middle East affairs to decipher this demand. It’s a sick call to seize the entirety of Israel – all of it – and create a new state more in keeping with the Israelophobic yearnings of both privileged Westerners and radical Islamists. Their longing for Israel’s erasure was made even clearer in a follow-up chant: ‘We don’t want no two states / We want ‘48!’ That is, 1948, a time when the modern state of Israel didn’t yet exist. They want a world without Israel. They want to lay waste to the national home of the Jews. …
For months, Israelophobes have insisted that their slogan, ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, is not a call to erase Israel. We can now see through that lie. ‘We want all of it’ rips the mask from their fake anti-war posturing and reveals the nuclear-level loathing for the Jewish State that lurks beneath.
Unsurprisingly, such feverish hatred for the Jewish nation can morph with startling speed into open loathing for the Jewish people. We’ve seen this around the Columbia camp. When counter-protesters turned up waving the Israel flag, one of the ‘pro-Palestine’ agitators cried: ‘Uncultured-ass bitches, go back to Europe.’ The Jews were taunted with yells of ‘Go back to Poland’. Not content with cleansing the Middle East of Jews, some also want to cleanse America of these problematic people. It’s fascistic hate masquerading as anti-militarism.
But isn’t this just the ravings of moronic, privileged students, soon to pass away. We can hope and pray so, but people who know more about the Left are sounding alarms.
In the Wall Street Journal, MEMRI executive director Steven Stalinsky looks at “Who’s Behind the Anti-Israel Protests.” He is concerned that this protest is in collaboration with terrorist organizations (emphasis added):
On March 25, the Columbia University Apartheid Divest student group hosted an event called “Resistance 101” on campus. It featured leaders of the PFLP-affiliated Samidoun, Within Our Lifetime and other extremist organizations. At the event, former PFLP official Khaled Barakat referred to his “friends and brothers in Hamas, Islamic Jihad [and] the PFLP in Gaza,” saying that particularly after Oct. 7, “when they see students organizing outside Palestine, they really feel that they are being backed as a resistance and they’re being supported.” On March 30 on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV, Mr. Barakat said “the vast majority” of young Americans and Canadians now “support armed resistance” because of “the introduction of colonialism, racism, and slavery studies into history curricula.”
Stalinsky concludes with a warning:
The collaboration between senior terrorists and their growing list of friends in the U.S. and the West has real-world consequences. These groups are designated terrorist for a reason. They don’t plan marches and rallies—they carry out terrorist attacks. And when the U.S. and Western activists, including college students, see that their marches and protests aren’t achieving their goals, they may consider their next steps—which will be influenced by the company they have been keeping.
As is often the case, it takes commentary by Mark Steyn to adequately summarize the danger and depravity of it all (emphasis added).
The al-Qassam Brigades are the fellows who pulled off October 7th. Me again, from almost two decades ago – March 2006:
If I were a Palestinian, I’d occasionally wonder what I had to do to get a bad press.
Well, now we know that murder and rape and kidnapping and torture and kiddie-burning ain’t gonna cut it, not with your Ivy League co-eds. As Julie Burchill says in The Spectator, “‘anti-Semitism’ doesn’t cover what’s going on right now”. That’s true: there are people who find Jews all a bit Jewy and don’t want them in the country club …and there are people who cheer on the gang-rape of the Jewesses and the torching of their infants. A term that embraces the lot doesn’t seem terribly useful when the children of white upscale American liberals have moved en masse to the hardcore end of the spectrum – and pointing out Hamas atrocities doesn’t resonate with them because that’s what they like about it.
We are nearing a Presidential Election that pits American against American in a manner not seen since at least the Vietnam War. We have two political parties that are both riven by internal conflict. And, we have a Democrat Administration that is attempting to talk out of both sides of its mouth on Middle East policy.
We may somehow, God willing, be able to hold it together, but powerful forces are in play seeking to blow our nation wide open. May God have mercy on our souls.
The content of these elite university demonstrations is openly genocidal and totalitarian.
The fact that President Biden chose to share a stage with the most influential Marxist, antisemite Representative in the Democrat Party and then affirmed her support of the Hamas loving university barbarians is a scandal beyond anything that has even been fantasized by Democrats against their opponents. Biden’s Press Secretary couldn’t bring herself to say one word in condemnation of the campus Cultural Revolution mob when directly asked. Incredibly, she retreated back to the one-time, long past incident at Charlottesville rather than comment on the here and now, Left-Wing, genocidal, totalitarian demonstrations supporting Hamas on many university campuses. This incident completely undercuts any pro forma denunciations that have been released by some Democrat politicians, including President Biden and Mayor Adams.
Make no mistake, these moronic and wicked student protestors are the poisoned fruit of the Leftist tree that has been planted, tended and harvested by the faculty of these universities even as they have been empowered by the Democrat Party.
This is all happening in conjunction with off-campus Hamas supporting demonstrations in our major cities. Bridges, airports and highways are being blocked for hours, preventing emergency vehicles from getting through and causing thousands of people various levels of inconvenience, including loss of critical medical appointments.
Even in the likely case that these protests are unsuccessful in their immediate goals, they have already been successful in normalizing genocidal, antisemitic, totalitarian activism. Bari Weiss plaintively asks “What will the response be?” The answer under the Fascist Democrat Party state is that the response will be utterly impotent by design. The power center of the Democrat Party is driving this monstrous process and has lost its mind through ideological lobotomization.
This madness has been well summarized by Chris Bray in his Substack post. It’s impossible to predict to where this madness will lead over the next six months, but the possibilities are deeply troubling.
There is no world outside their heads. They’ve descended into self-hypnosis and ritual psychosis. They don’t see. And it’s really interesting, because the precise way they don’t see is harming them, but they can’t make a course correction. They don’t even see that they’ve wandered off the map.
One possibility is this. Buckle up America.
Indeed, Maher’s past tweets would be hard to distinguish from satire if one randomly stumbled across them. Her earnest, uncompromising wokeness—land acknowledgments, condemnations of Western holidays, and so on—sounds like they were written by parody accounts such as The Babylon Bee or Titania McGrath. In her 2022 TED Talk, she faulted Wikipedia, where she worked at the time, for being a Eurocentric written reference that fails to take into account the oral histories of other peoples. More seriously, she seems to view the First Amendment as an inconvenient barrier for tackling “bad information” and “influence peddlers” online.
Hey, did they steal my Titania McGrath reference? I’m calling my lawyer!
Christ’s Incarnation was necessary, not just incidental. Here’s Jonathan Edwards’ exposition on the incarnation of Jesus, an excerpt from his ‘History of the Work of Redemption‘.
Christ became incarnate, or, which is the same thing, became man, to put himself in a capacity for working out our redemption. For though Christ, as God, was infinitely sufficient for the work, yet to his being in an immediate capacity for it, it was needful that he should not only be God, but man. If Christ had remained only in the divine nature, he would not have been in a capacity to have purchased our salvation; not from any imperfection of the divine nature, but by reason of its absolute and infinite perfection: for Christ, merely as God, was not capable either of that obedience or suffering that was needful. The divine nature is not capable of suffering; for it is infinitely above all suffering. Neither is it capable of obedience to that law which was given to man. It is as impossible that one who is only God, should obey the law that was given to man, as it is that he should suffer man’s punishment.
And it was necessary not only that Christ should take upon him a created nature, but that he should take upon him our nature. It would not have sufficed for Christ to have become an angel, and to have obeyed and suffered in the angelic nature. But it was necessary that he should become a man, upon three accounts.
1. It was needful in order to answer the law, that the very nature to which the law was given, should obey it. Man’s law could not be answered, but by being obeyed by man. God insisted upon it, that the law which he had given to man shall be honoured, and fulfilled by the nature of man, otherwise the law could not be answered for men. The words, “Thou shalt not eat thereof,” etc. were spoken to the race of mankind, to the human nature; and therefore the human nature must fulfil them.
2. It was needful to answer the law that the nature that sinned should die. These words, “Thou shalt surely die” (Genesis 2.17) respect the human nature. The same nature to which the command was given, was that to which the threatening was directed.
3. God saw meet, that the same world which was the stage of man’s fall and ruin, should also be the stage of his redemption. We read often of his coming into the world to save sinners, and of God’s sending him into the world for this purpose.—It was needful that he should come into this sinful, miserable, undone world, in order to restore and save it. For man’s recovery, it was needful that he should come down to man, to man’s proper habitation, and that he should tabernacle with us: “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us” (John 1:14).
Blessings!
I’ll be the first to admit that my previous analysis of the madness behind the antisemitic / anti-zionist movement in the West has been incomplete. In particular, I didn’t connect the general psychosis of unresolved civilizational guilt to the enthusiastic support of the Hamas genocidal project. So, I have been absolutely stunned, and shamed, by the number of Americans who have, thoughtlessly or with cold-blooded premeditation, taken the side of the monsters.
Clearly, some new ideas are required to understand this phenomenon. The place where I found a fascinating and credible new hypothesis for this madness is a blog titled Neo and a post titled “Victim envy.” Here’s how Neo begins this post.
Jillian Becker writes of a phenomenon she calls Leidensneid. It’s a word she made up, one of those composite German terms that combine two other words, in this case “leiden” (to suffer) and “Neid” (envy).
Leidensneid is a part of virtue signaling and is particularly rampant on the left these days. But it’s been around for much longer than that.
Neo goes on to provide excerpts from Becker’s article, “Leidensneid: Envy of Suffering,” along with her own insightful commentary. The key, essential, statement excerpted, the one that opened new vistas of thought about this tragic situation is this (emphasis added by Neo):
[Meinhof’s] passionate, confused statements made only one thing clear: she and her like-thinkers hoped that by identifying themselves with victims — of the Nazis, of the present social order in the First World, of “colonialism” and “imperialism” in the Third World — they could free themselves from guilt; or, more accurately, protect and preserve themselves from accusation. It was a way of asserting a moral superiority over their own nation and their own class. None of them really wanted to be poor, or oppressed, or hurt, or deprived of liberty, or killed, or compelled to do manual labor. What they wanted, what they envied, was not what victims had to endure, but the supposed esteem in which victims are held, their freedom from culpability, their high moral status. To be a victim—they seemed to believe—was to be innocent. And to be innocent was almost the same as being heroic.
This idea of victim envy directly connects the general civilizational guilt that I had previously identified to the specific case of Hamas’ genocidal project. Here is the key statement “by identifying themselves with victims … they could free themselves from guilt.”
So, Hamas has claimed to represent the “victims” in Gaza and is therefore defined by the Left to be morally pure. And, members of the Left in the West seek to identify with these morally pure butchers in order to gain absolution for their sin of being in the West. Yes it is utter madness. But it’s a madness capable of destroying Western Civilization if submitted to by the majority who know better. Don’t submit!
The Reformed Sojourner 