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asher553If you depend on the BBC for your news about who is and who is not an anti-Semite, you might have seen this article about an advertiser boycott against Elon Musk:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67460386
Now, go ahead and follow the link and take a look at the article. Do you notice anything missing? If you answered, "Yes, THE ACTUAL TWEET that caused all the trouble," then we're on the same page.
On Wednesday, Mr Musk replied to a post sharing a conspiracy theory which accused Jewish communities of pushing hatred against white people, calling it "actual truth".
The link at the phrase "calling it the actual truth" just goes to another BBC article.
Here's Ben Shapiro (via Ian Miles Cheong) to fill us in on what was actually posted:
Per Ben, the problem with the original tweet was that it conflated "Jewish communities" with left-wing Jewish organizations like the ADL, and indeed Elon quickly clarified this. Elon's tweet:
The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop.
Yoram Hazony weighs in:
https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1725921816277832064
Musk is not an anti-Semite. Neither is Trump. Neither are most of the other conservatives who have been falsely accused of anti-Semitism by lefty organizations in America and Britain since 2016.
These claims that major figures on the right are anti-Semites is a transparent dodge aimed a diverting attention from the obvious fact that the explosion of anti-Semitism in America, Britain, and other Western countries is taking place primarily on the progressive left—and that this explosion of anti-Semitism is being driven by the same alliance of “anti-racists” that have been trying since 2016 to brand most conservatives and Christians as “racists.”
Yes, there is genuine hostility to Jews in certain circles on the right, both among self-professed Christians and among anti-Christian “neo-pagans.”
But the anti-Semitic right still has only a tiny fraction of the real public presence and political influence that is wielded by the anti-Semitic left and it’s close allies, the Muslim supremacist organizations in the West.
It is the anti-Semitic left that is flooding the campuses and the streets and inciting to violence throughout the West. Nothing remotely on this scale has been organized by anti-Semitic elements on the right in the decades.
I say this as someone who follows developments on the right with great care, and who knows much more about what is and isn’t happening on the right than most of the professional “experts” on the subject.
Anyone who is trying to pin “anti-Semitism” on Musk or Trump or any other major conservative figure right now is playing the role of a “useful idiot” of the anti-Semitic progressive left.
If you actually want to see anti-Semitism defeated in America, Britain, and other Western countries, let’s see you direct your fire at the actual source of the danger and violence right now—which is two orders of magnitude greater on the Left than it is on the right.
I have very little to add to Shapiro's and Hazony's words, except to point out that it is infinitely more socially comfortable, more politically convenient, and enormously safer, for the polite-society liberals to work up outrage against conservative, western, Christian "far-right neo-Nazis", than against leftists or Islamist jihadis.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67460386
Now, go ahead and follow the link and take a look at the article. Do you notice anything missing? If you answered, "Yes, THE ACTUAL TWEET that caused all the trouble," then we're on the same page.
On Wednesday, Mr Musk replied to a post sharing a conspiracy theory which accused Jewish communities of pushing hatred against white people, calling it "actual truth".
The link at the phrase "calling it the actual truth" just goes to another BBC article.
Here's Ben Shapiro (via Ian Miles Cheong) to fill us in on what was actually posted:
Ben Shapiro defends Elon Musk’s criticism of the ADL and progressive Jewish organizations whose policies have resulted in the widespread increase in anti-Western and anti-Jewish sentiment throughout the West. pic.twitter.com/CAcRElPQ7i
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) November 16, 2023
Per Ben, the problem with the original tweet was that it conflated "Jewish communities" with left-wing Jewish organizations like the ADL, and indeed Elon quickly clarified this. Elon's tweet:
The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel.
This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop.
Yoram Hazony weighs in:
https://twitter.com/yhazony/status/1725921816277832064
Musk is not an anti-Semite. Neither is Trump. Neither are most of the other conservatives who have been falsely accused of anti-Semitism by lefty organizations in America and Britain since 2016.
These claims that major figures on the right are anti-Semites is a transparent dodge aimed a diverting attention from the obvious fact that the explosion of anti-Semitism in America, Britain, and other Western countries is taking place primarily on the progressive left—and that this explosion of anti-Semitism is being driven by the same alliance of “anti-racists” that have been trying since 2016 to brand most conservatives and Christians as “racists.”
Yes, there is genuine hostility to Jews in certain circles on the right, both among self-professed Christians and among anti-Christian “neo-pagans.”
But the anti-Semitic right still has only a tiny fraction of the real public presence and political influence that is wielded by the anti-Semitic left and it’s close allies, the Muslim supremacist organizations in the West.
It is the anti-Semitic left that is flooding the campuses and the streets and inciting to violence throughout the West. Nothing remotely on this scale has been organized by anti-Semitic elements on the right in the decades.
I say this as someone who follows developments on the right with great care, and who knows much more about what is and isn’t happening on the right than most of the professional “experts” on the subject.
Anyone who is trying to pin “anti-Semitism” on Musk or Trump or any other major conservative figure right now is playing the role of a “useful idiot” of the anti-Semitic progressive left.
If you actually want to see anti-Semitism defeated in America, Britain, and other Western countries, let’s see you direct your fire at the actual source of the danger and violence right now—which is two orders of magnitude greater on the Left than it is on the right.
I have very little to add to Shapiro's and Hazony's words, except to point out that it is infinitely more socially comfortable, more politically convenient, and enormously safer, for the polite-society liberals to work up outrage against conservative, western, Christian "far-right neo-Nazis", than against leftists or Islamist jihadis.
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Date: 2023-11-19 05:33 (UTC)