If a Catholic blog does not liberally use the ban hammer, whenever Israel is in the news Jew haters claiming to be Catholic would dominate the com boxes with their bile.
Yep
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
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Eh, matter of curiousity: I don’t spend any time on twitter or most blogs. What are people saying against the Israelis?
I believe they should divorcé themselves from the ADL as most only know (of them via cancel) them thru that arm. They (ADL) even joined case against J6ers so you will have to cut some slack …
Precisely why I am on NO social media and don’t think I have missed anything. E-Mail is quite satisfactory for the few people I want to hear from.
@John Flaherty…from what I have seen, and I haven’t really gone looking for it, there are some professed Catholics who claim that no Catholic can ever support Israel for any reason, and that the Israelis are just evil Pharisees who deserve whatever comes their way. This vile viewpoint claims to be unrelated to secular politics.
Antagonism to Israel is the mode in palaeo / alt-right circles and some of that intersects with Catholic circles. (The late Joseph Sobran was an example of that intersection). Catholics of the ‘social justice’ type tend to be hostile to Israel as well, some I suspect for idiosyncratic reasons and some because Israel’s ethos and modus operandi repel people who have a social work mentality.
I think the Democratic Party would be hostile to Israel if Jews did not supply so much of its funding and elite manpower. The political culture of American Jews differs quite radically from that of Israeli Jews and American-born Jews are unusual in Israel, but American Jews recognize enough of an affinity for Israel to work to keep poisonous elements in the Democratic Party in check.
Art:
Joe Sobran was a thorough-going isolationist and was only antagonistic to Israel as he would have been antagonistic to Britain in the era of world wars. He didn’t like US participation foreign wars period. Another nation’s survival was not our business. Dumb idea, but not inspired by antisemitism as far as I could read. You do find the kind of hostility you’re talking about in the pages of the Remnant, as if the death of Christ was caused by Jews currently alive, and so Israel should not exist. Even then it seems a sort of passive hostility: begrudging help rather than calling for destruction (despite the fact the result would be the same, of course).
Sobran definitely had a bug up his behind about Jews:
https://www.aei.org/research-products/testimony/for-fear-of-the-jews/
http://www.sobran.com/establishment.shtml
Joe Sobran was a thorough-going isolationist and was only antagonistic to Israel as he would have been antagonistic to Britain in the era of world wars. He didn’t like US participation foreign wars period. Another nation’s survival was not our business. Dumb idea, but not inspired by antisemitism as far as I could read.
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Sobran had lots of dumb ideas over the years, like offering encomiums for the editor of Instauration and also for Mark Weber of the “Institute for Historical Review”. I suppose you could puzzle over whether or not that made him an ‘anti-semite’ (a term whose meaning he professed to not understand); such an exercise seems kind of twee, though.
The more you learn about Sobran, the more you realize the man was a screwball-and-a-half who wrote elegantly and had an occasional aperçu worth pondering.
Precisely why I am on NO social media and don’t think I have missed anything. E-Mail is quite satisfactory for the few people I want to hear from.
The greatest thing about social media is that everybody can have a voice.
The worst thing about social media is that anybody can have a voice.