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https://www.jns.org/mark-levin-gives-tucker-carlson-a-well-deserved-dressing-down/

Tucker Carlson is a master of disingenuousness, to put it generously. That’s why the only viewers still charmed by his trademark deer-in-the-headlights act are those on the right who champion the conspiracy theorists and antisemites to whom he regularly provides a platform.

Some of his interviewees are overt Jew-haters; others covert ones who pretend that their only beef is with “Israeli policy.”  You know, just like a huge swath of the Democratic Party that they loathe.

Tucker’s neat trick, no longer so tidy, is to react to critics—fellow supporters of President Donald Trump with a whole different take on foreign policy—by engaging in not-so-plausible deniability where his true feelings about Jews and the Jewish state are concerned. One method is to refer to the Tribe as “neocons.”

Never mind that the isolationists in the MAGA camp purposely abuse the term or are willfully ignorant about its origin. Neoconservatism was the name given to a movement of liberal intellectuals who opposed the tenets of the New Left—the “woke” of the 1960s and ’70s—and shifted allegiance to the Republican Party.

Ironically, they were the “Make America Great Again” crowd of that period, and instrumental in Ronald Reagan’s 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter. Many, but by no means all, were Jews.

A key element of their patriotism had to do with American greatness, exceptionalism and power on the world stage (does “peace through strength” sound familiar?). Rejecting détente and taking a tough stand against the Soviet Union, in order to win the Cold War, were central.

That defeating one’s enemies has become a dirty concept for the likes of Tucker and his echo chamber—who use the failures of Iraq and Afghanistan to accuse backers of U.S. intervention in the Middle East of “war-mongering”—is suspicious, to say the least.

It’s one thing to conclude that spreading democracy among Islamist regimes is problematic, if not impossible. It’s something else entirely to attribute the mistake to “neocon” trigger-happiness. Unless, of course, the aim is to blame Israel for “dragging” the United States into battles on behalf of the Jews.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/15/will-the-trump-administration-follow-the-antisemitism-trail-wherever-it-leads/

The Trump administration has taken a series of decisive, direct steps and executive actions that make clear its intention to end the chaos of antisemitism on American campuses and streets. But will it follow the trail of foreign funding and influence wherever it leads?

Amid the flurry of executive orders—including one on January 30 to “combat antisemitism”—and memoranda issuing from the new Trump administration over its first few weeks, one memorandum from Attorney General Pam Bondi at the Department of Justice stands out. On February 5,  2025, a memorandum from her established the Joint Task Force October 7 (JTF 10-7). As explained in the memo, the purpose of the initiative is to seek “justice for the victims of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attack in Israel” and to address “the ongoing threat posed by Hamas and its affiliates” in the homeland.

Among the specified priorities of the JTF 10-7 is “investigating and prosecuting those responsible for funding Hamas.” A partner organization is the DOJ’s newly established Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, led by civil rights attorney Leo Terrell. On February 26, 2025, in remarks to Israel’s Channel 12 News, Terrell promised those “supporting Hamas and trying to intimidate Jews” that “[W]e are going to put these people in jail—not for 24 hours, but for years.”

If indeed the Justice Department is serious about pursuing this investigation and these initiatives to combat antisemitism wherever they may lead and then holding those responsible legally accountable, inevitably that will lead where the Trump administration may not have expected or intended.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/on-being-called-nazi-filth.php

I’m in New York for last night’s Manhattan Institute’s annual Alexander Hamilton Award dinner. Held last night at Cipriani on 42nd Street, this year the award honored long-time Manhattan Institute chairman Paul Singer. As of last night, Mr. Singer has stepped down and been succeeded as MI chairman by Betsy DeVos.

Mr. Singer is the founder and president of Elliott Investment Management. He is also the philanthropic supporter of conservative and Jewish causes.

Is that the reason that the lunatic left was out in force at the event last night? I don’t know, but they were. If NYPD had not been out in force to provide security along with others, the “protesters” would likely have shut down the event. Walking in with my daughter and one of her Jewish colleagues and his father, the loudest loudmouth among the nuts shouted out in a throaty voice that we were “Nazi filth.” That was a new experience for me.

Among the guests singled out for recognition last night was Daniel Penny. He may have received the biggest ovation of the evening.

The New York Post covers the “protest” in “Daniel Penny attends Manhattan Institute fundraiser — where swarm of protesters staged a ‘die-in.’” The Post identifies Third Act NYC as the organization behind the “protest.” The “protest” appears to have covered the gamut of causes promoted by the left at present. I don’t think the reporter hung around for the “Nazi filth” part of the proceedings.

https://www.jns.org/choosing-sides-in-the-battle-over-fighting-antisemitism/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Syndicate%20Emails&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-

The latest round of congressional hearings about antisemitism on college campuses that took place this week showed that some academic leaders still haven’t gotten the message that the era of woke leftist discrimination against Jews has got to end. In an echo of the clueless and transparently discriminatory stands of the presidents of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania in December 2023, the head of Haverford College demonstrated that she was both in denial about the plight of Jewish students and unwilling to do something about it.

What’s worse is the fact that some of those we ought to expect to regard this issue as not merely a priority but a matter of life and death are opposing the first and only serious effort to rid the education system of this vile prejudice.

That’s the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn from recent events, as President Donald Trump’s administration and congressional Republicans are stepping up their campaign against institutions of higher education that have either tolerated or encouraged Jew-hatred on their campuses.

This crisis had been brewing for years as progressives completed their long march through institutions of higher education and imposed toxic ideas like critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism on curricula, as well as admissions and disciplinary practices throughout the nation. The widespread adoption of the woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) fomented the surge in antisemitism that broke out following the Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist attacks on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. By seeking to racialize and divide society, in addition to pointedly excluding Jews from the protections afforded to other minorities, DEI reigned over colleges and universities, setting the stage for an unprecedented siege on Jewish students.

Yet instead of giving their wholehearted support to Trump’s effort to force schools to end the harassment of Jews and the practices that backed it up, groups like the American Jewish Committee are siding with the opponents of the administration’s program, including a list of more than 500 rabbis from the Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist movements.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/29/antisemitism_the_modern_forces_fueling_an_ancient_scourge_1106612.html

The Anti-Defamation League recently asked people in 103 countries whether they agreed with 11 antisemitic statements including: “Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars,” “Jews have a lot of irritating faults,” “Jews have too much control over the media,” and “Jews’ loyalty is only to Israel.” 

The ADL Global 100 survey for 2024 classified almost half of respondents as “possessing antisemitic attitudes” because they agreed with at least six of the 11 statements.

Of course, an average that high means that in some places, the percentage stands considerably higher: 92% in Saudi Arabia, 62% in Russia, 58% in China, and the highest level, at 97%, in the West Bank and Gaza. 

Another ADL survey polled 4,143 Americans in January 2024, finding that 24% embraced at least six antisemitic sentiments..

Not surprisingly, some of these findings are connected to Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing military response. A January report from the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Israel found a 340% increase in total antisemitic incidents at a global level in 2024 compared to 2022. This included a 562% rise in Canada, 450% in the United Kingdom, 350% in France, and 288% in the United States.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/the-dehumanization-of-the-jews/

The “dehumanization” of the Palestinian Arabs is a common feature of their victimhood propaganda against Israel as their never-ending jihad to destroy the Jewish state continues.

In late March, the far-left “journalist” Chris Hedges interviewed the deceptive anti-Israel propagandist Muhammad el-Kurd in a video decrying “the dehumanization and infantilization of Palestinians by Western activists and media, and the psychological toll it has on its subjects.” That video appeared shortly after another piece of Palestinian victimhood propaganda showcased a “Palestinian-Canadian doctor, Tarek Loubani, spinning tall tales of alleged Israeli atrocities in Gaza.

In describing the supposed dehumanization of the Palestinians, Loubani said: “Ask yourself: what did you feel the last time you killed a mosquito? A mosquito that bites and takes your blood is literally taking a drop of your blood to feed its children. They cannot complete the reproductive process without a tiny bit of your blood. And yet you felt nothing. That’s kind of a small window into dehumanization.”

Back in the real world, however, the dehumanization was all going in the other direction. In fact, the dehumanization of the Jews is deeply embedded in Islamic religious texts. The Qur’an is well known for describing Allah transforming the disobedient Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-66; 5:59-60; 7:166). To this day, Hamas and other jihadis delight in calling their opponents “the sons of apes and pigs.”