This past month has seen the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
It has also seen the worst global spike in antisemitism since the Holocaust. According to Reuters, “In countries where figures are available from police or civil society groups, including the United States, Britain, France, Germany and South Africa, the pattern is clear: the number of antisemitic incidents has gone up since Oct. 7 by several hundred percent compared with the same period last year.”
But there’s something peculiar about all the media reports about the extravagant spike in antisemitism: They all carry notes about a supposedly concomitant rise in “Islamophobia.”
This is odd, to say the least.
What the hell does Islamophobia have to do with antisemitism?
The answer is: precisely nothing.
Precisely nothing, that is, unless you wish to suggest that response to antisemitism is linked with Islamophobia — that if you wish to oppose radical Muslim antisemitism, that is an aspect of Islamophobia.
Which, of course, is precisely what antisemites are suggesting these days. Take, for example, Corey Saylor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is the most frequently cited group on “rising Islamophobia.” CAIR is a group that, by the way, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the trial of Hamas front charity, the Holy Land Foundation. Saylor refuses to condemn boycotts on Jewish businesses; he told The Washington Post that “it is 100 percent on the table to criticize supporters of Israeli apartheid.”
CAIR itself accuses Israel of “textbook ethnic cleansing” and “war crime” for defending itself, trots out antisemite extraordinaire Linda Sarsour, and promotes the Hamas lie that Israel bombed a hospital (it was Palestinian Islamic Jihad). On Oct. 7, the date of the Hamas massacre, CAIR National tweeted, “We join @USCMO and the American Muslim community in reaffirming our support for the Palestinian people’s right to freedom and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation, which kills hundreds of Palestinian civilians every year, subjects millions of Palestinians to racist oppression, and sparks the deadly violence that we see again and again, including today.” On Oct. 7, before any Israeli response, they also called for an end to American aid to Israel and the Abraham Accords.
The group has not offered a single word condemning Hamas.
CAIR is, by any stretch of the imagination, a fomenter of antisemitism.
But that’s the point of focusing on supposed Islamophobia: The goal is to treat response to antisemitism as a form of Islamophobia. So Saylor claims that it is Islamophobia to publicize the names of students who sign petitions siding with Hamas, while claiming it is not antisemitism to boycott Jewish businesses.
Fascinating.
The legacy media feel the same way. That’s precisely why, since Oct. 7, the media have rushed to link antisemitism and Islamophobia, as though the two phenomena are part of a “cycle of hatred.”
That’s a disgusting and wrong take that excuses antisemitism through false charges of Islamophobia. But it’s extraordinarily common on the Left these days. One variation on the theme comes from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has emerged as one of the nation’s leading antisemites. She now accuses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of being an “extremist group” attempting to undermine American democracy and targeting “members of color.”
The Biden administration is falling into the trap of linking antisemitism and Islamophobia — a link that has the purposeful goal of demonizing opposition to Hamas. Fearful of their own base, the Biden administration announced yesterday a White House National Strategy to combat Islamophobia. Karine Jean-Pierre explained, “For too long, Muslims in America, and those perceived to be Muslim, such as Arabs and Sikhs, have endured a disproportionate number of hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents.”
Why is the White House playing this game? Because they’re attempting to buy back the support of Muslims across the United States who are enraged that the White House has sided with Israel instead of Hamas. The latest polls show that nearly six in 10 American Muslims agree that “Hamas was justified in attacking Israel as part of their struggle for a Palestinian state.” The White House is trying to buy off the Hamas fans by jabbering about the supposed victimhood to which they are subjected.
It’s perverse. It continues to drive a false narrative that opposition to Hamas is opposition to Muslims — a proposition that Muslims themselves should reject, although precious few have done so publicly. It is not Islamophobic to oppose Hamas and its supporters. It is antisemitic to push that lie.
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Notice how the Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR) has the same hateful, disgraceful, dishonest character as Democrats.
Yogi Berra once said “ Baseball is 90 % mental, The other half is physical”,,, with confused Hamas, it is hatred that is 90% mental and the other half physically violent, making for 140% in combined insanity. Unlike Yogi who advised to “stay humble, trust your instincts, and when you come to a fork and the road take it”,, Hamas when arriving at the fork, just resorts to animal instincts to pick up the fork and stab people.
Islamophobia only enlightens when it is directed by the Islamists at their own morally unevenly divided well-earned hatred of self, where it is not the love that conquers all, but their hatred that becomes all conquering. They consciously hate and envy others of success, because at an unconscious level they know in their hearts that their unconscionable actions disqualify them being defined as defined within the ranks of the human good. Fear of self, and one’s own capacity of violence is a petty and fearful existence indeed, and is usually only assuaged by affiliating with like sick twisted others, whose similar penchants for violence act as a justifying criteria where misery loves company, in the sick twisted thoughts of these socio paths that use religion as an excuse for their self-destructive existences, as well as the destruction of others whose success and human integrity shames them to the point they must destroy it, whether the righteous others or their unrightreous selves,,,usually ending up destroying BOTH.
AND as i keep saying.. WITH WHAT WE keep seeing from islam, HOW IS IT “PHOBIC” [which is described by most every dictionary as an Irrational fear of something], to FEAR ISLAM?!
More real is the media driven Judeophobia of Jews by Arabic dolts who get shamed by Jewish successes in science, business, banking etc, and particularly in showing the world how to eradicate sociopathic people who hate and envy unto death, the success and accomplishment Jewish survivor people, whose very success and accomplishments on a Jewish national level shame the backward tribal failed illegitimate Arabic children of Abraham, who love their hatred of the Jews more than they love their own sacrificeable children, whose distorted upbringing in this hatred of the past 4 generations has doomed any children who were not blessed with tons of oil revenue, used only to cover the sins of their fathers that create even more generations of hateful Hell bent murderous Hamas social solutions. Were it not for oil revenues the entire region and people would have remained in the stone age of poverty-stricken tribal totem worshippers and starvation. Their idea of their own people who are deemed “the salt of the earth”, are those like Lot’s wife who look back to their ancestral celebratory days of Sodom and Gomorrah, reflected in their imaged cave created city of Gaza where about as much safety and sanctuary is found as that now created in our own Democrat run sanctuary cities. No surprise that Democrats and Hamas birds of a feather would flock together in politics, propaganda, and prose.
ANd has anyone asked “SO WHERE exactly is the proof OF this ‘islamophobia’??
THE JEWISH PEOPLE,AND ALL MUSLIMS-
” THE ART OF WAR.
“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” ― Sun Tzu
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I for one have become totally immune from & even comfortable with the now ho-hum predictable knee jerk accusations of Islamophobia & racist.
I admit having phobias / irrational fear of cockroaches, rats, snakes & cancer.
I don’t consider phobia to mean justifiable fear or the extreme loathing, antipathy & total contempt I have for the fundamental belief system of Islam.
And I feel same toward BLM, antifa, vicious & threatening mobs rampaging thru streets & campuses, rapists, career criminals & most of the Dem Party.
So I think a more accurate term for those who feel like me would be Islam-averse & the same added -averse for all the other “domination by terror, threats, force, mayhem & destruction” people & groups.
I agree. Averse is more of an apt name for it.