On The Rise of Antisemitism We See Today

I'm not recording this X post in order to take sides. From what I've observed, it's pretty spot on. I think it's important for understanding the current discontent and even anger younger generations have towards Israel and the Jewish people.

X post by Christian Heiens @ChristianHeiens. Full post here.

"Young Leftists hate Jews because they hate White people in general, and they see Israel’s existence as the pinnacle of White settler-colonialism that must be dismantled and decolonized, by force if necessary. Their hatred for Jews and of Israel is identical to their hatred of all Western nations and European peoples. Some people on the Right do not understand or accept this though, because of their own personal perspective that I’ll articulate below.

Young Rightists hate Jews because of pattern recognition. They look around and see a demographic that overwhelmingly votes for and funds Left-wing parties and causes that explicitly hate them. At some point, the friend-enemy distinction kicks in and if a bloc of people consistently backs a political movement that is explicitly arrayed against you by 70-30 or 80-20 margins year over year, you’re going to start treating that bloc in the aggregate like an enemy combatant instead of an apolitical collection of neutral individuals.

It’s really that simple. Leftists hate Jews because they hate Whites. Rightists hate Jews because they see a critical mass of them as the vanguard of Leftism.

No ethnic group is politically monolithic. Europeans aren’t monolithic. Africans aren’t monolithic. Asians aren’t monolithic. Jews aren’t monolithic. Politics cannot be reduced to pure ethnicity anymore than it can be reduced to pure morality or pure economics. But at the same token, politics functions on a collective level between competing friend groups coming into conflict with each other, not on an individual level.

The same political process that drove many Whites to eventually react with revulsion over being explicitly put in a very specific box because of their ethnicity during the Great Awokening has now begun to do the same thing to Jews.

I’m not sure what can be done at this point to stop such a process other than to recognize that what makes someone an enemy is not the specific immutable characteristic that individual has, but rather whether they pose an existential threat to your way of life. For me, the enemy is Leftism, in all its forms, no matter who is espousing it."