We have reached the point in America today, writes Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute, where “Jews must now be afraid”
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After punk rock duo Bob Vylan led tens of thousands of concertgoers in chanting “Death, death to the IDF” at the Glastonbury Festival in Great Britain, Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote an incisive piece in the Free Press describing what is going on. “What happened at Glastonbury… is part of a coordinated, ideological insurgency against the Jewish people. Not just against the Israeli military. Not just against Israel. Not just against Zionism. Against Jews.”
The goal, she avers, is not just to erase Israel from the river to the sea, but to erase “the Jewish people from the moral map,” by painting “Israel as the nexus of evil and every Jew who does not loudly denounce it as complicit.” Jews are the oppressor and must either sacrifice their dignity or be driven from polite society.
Hirsi Ali describes this insurgency as a weird amalgam of “Islamism soaked in Maoism weaponized for the social media era.” Zohran Mamdani serves as the poster boy for that implausible alliance of Islam and Maoism.
“Islamism brings the fire — holy rage, the fixation on martyrdom, and a visceral hatred of Jews that predates the State of Israel,” according to Hirsi Ali, who grew up as a Muslim in Somalia. “Maoism brings the strategy, the long march through institutions, the cultural struggle session, the rewriting of history, the reframing of reality through social media.”
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