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rlritt's avatar

"student mob has taken over Hamilton Hall at Columbia,"

Students who are mostly Muslim or pro Muslim and anti Semitic. That is not the far left. Anti semitism is as far right as can get

AND Columbia University is not representative of the US. I know you desperately want a both sides scenario, but this ain't it.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

The far Left is every bit as antisemitic as the far Right. ItтАЩs the horseshoe theory of bigotry.

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Al Brown's avatar

Correct. His own anti-Semitism and his tolerance of worse from others are among the main reasons that Jeremy Corbin is no longer the Opposition Leader in Britain, or even a member of the Labour Party. Anti-Semitism is very well represented on both points of the Horseshoe.

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rlritt's avatar

It's just that I know a lot far left Jewish people and not so many on the right. My longest friend is both religiously conservative and observant (but fairly liberal politically) pro Israel and I have made donations to Israel in his name because it's important to him.

However there are quite a few liberal Jews who hate Hamas but don't approve of the bombing of civilians. Point being, it's complicated. And not all Jewish people think a like.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Also, liberals arenтАЩt the Left. IтАЩm a liberal (lifelong) but would like the Rashida Tlaibs of the world slung into the sun.

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rlritt's avatar

I don't think she is left wing because she is a observant

Orthodox Muslim. Isn't that by definition conservative? But politically she is a Democrat because the Republicans wouldn't accept her. They only want ultra conservative Christians

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Oh, sheтАЩs absolutely the Left. SheтАЩs part of the Squad.

I donтАЩt know what the rules of Islam are, at all, but she is definitely Left.

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rlritt's avatar

But I think it's like she is radical and so hangs with those younger congress people, and she represents a poor ethnic area, a woman wearing a hijab is really socially conservative.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

Tlaib doesnтАЩt wear a hijab.

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rlritt's avatar

Your right,. I'm Omar.

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Kim M Murphy's avatar

No, youтАЩre right, we donтАЩt.

I should have said that antisemites on the Left are just as antisemitic as those on the Right. And a lot of them are protesting.

I support Israel 100%, but I loathe Bibi. I am not alone. I am saddened by the loss of life but I understand that this is a war and the first rule of war is that innocents die. I would never join the protesters because I think they care less about the merits of the thing than getting attention.

Jews contain multitudes.

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Ben Gruder's avatar

The far left and far right meet at antisemitism. By that point, they have become extremists, and extremists are about hatred.

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rlritt's avatar

I agree with you there.

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