Three figures have contributed to the rampant antisemitism sweeping the US: Former President Barack Obama, the current President Joe Biden, and the Jewish Senator Chuck Schumer. For years, they have created a snowballing effect of loosening the reins against the State of Israel. The purveyors of antisemitic hatred in the US understood that the soccer field was open, with no goalkeeper at the goal.
President Obama embraced the poisonous antisemitic sermons of pastor Jeremiah Wright in Chicago for years, seemingly internalizing some of the messages. At one point, his girlfriend during his student days urged him to speak out and act openly against anti-Semitism among his black activist peers, but he did not, leading to their separation.
Since entering the White House, Obama pursued an appeasing policy toward Islamic states, particularly toward the Muslim Brotherhood movement. Conversely, he focused on creating distance between the US and Israel, weakening Jewish organizations. Simultaneously, "Jewish" and "Jewish left" organizations identifying with the Palestinian cause emerged on the fringes of the Democratic Party, such as Street J, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and more. In his view, there is only one legitimate Israel - led by the Israeli Labor movement. Right-wing Israel, especially under Netanyahu's leadership, is illegitimate.
At some point, current President Biden began delegitimizing Israel's operations in Gaza, shifting the public perception in the US – within mere weeks of the Oct. 7 attack, the criticism over humanitarian matters began. Since December-January, the President and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken have concentrated their blows against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On the one hand, Biden supplied Israel with weapons and ammunition, and on the other hand, he attempted to curry favor with pro-Hamas protesters who flooded America.
Delegitimizing the war
What happened at Columbia University this week and on numerous other campuses is an escalation of antisemitism. Since the war's onset, we've witnessed an outburst of bloodthirsty rage against Israel and Jews, not due to the IDF's attacks but rather the violent and sadistic pogrom-like assault on Jews in Israel.
For many years, Israel's elite has blinded itself to the hotbeds of hatred within the left and the academic and media elites. "Antisemitism stems from the right-wing," is the prevalent mindset in the media-academia complex. Allegedly, the far-right comprises Trump supporters, the Charlottesville marchers, and the Pittsburgh synagogue shooters. To this day, there is a senseless debate over whether anti-Zionism differs from antisemitism. That debate ended over 70 years ago when Stalinist antisemitism erupted in full force in the Soviet Union and its metastases, threatening to annihilate the surviving remnants in the birthplace of socialism. Today, it is safer to be Jewish in reviled states like Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, and even in Vladimir Putin's Russia than in the liberal democracy of the US. It is also highly unsafe in Britain and France. Soon, we'll witness the antics of Greta Thunberg's comrades at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmö, Sweden.
Senator Chuck Schumer, in his speech against Netanyahu calling for elections in Israel before it becomes a pariah state, marked a kind of apex of the international isolation campaign initiated by Biden, Blinken, and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron. The result, according to professional analysts, is that Iran understood that the image of Israel is vulnerable and that it is possible to attack it. But the Schume-Biden attack did not unleash wrath only against Israel, but also within the American establishment, and the Islamic-Leftist tentacles of the universities began occupying campuses.
When the President does not immediately stop a campaign portraying Israel as committing genocide or fueling a campaign about "starvation in Gaza," the meaning is inverted. Those longing and hoping for genocide in the Land of Israel receive a tailwind and intensify the persecution of Jews wherever they can be found while accusing Israel of genocide.
Seeking out Jews on campuses
Analysts who warned us of neo-Nazis congregating in dark German forests misled the Israeli public. Effective, threatening antisemitism originates from the left, as Professor Shmuel Ettinger diagnosed over 40 years ago. The New Left, Arab states as the spearhead of the Third World, and the Marxoid antisemitic residue arriving from the ruins of the Soviet Union are the sources of modern anti-Semitism. The frenzied mobs at Gaza's border have transformed into the violent stampede of American youths seeking out Jews. Therefore, it is crucial that the IDF resumes conducting short, decisive campaigns culminating in an overwhelming victory. The future of Jews lies in Israel – France already understands this. In the US, the internalization process will be longer. The situation becomes unbearable no less in the US neighbor, Canada. Yet, Jerusalem awaits.
