About something I wrote on many moons ago.  That is, the idea that for the Left there is no humanity, only demographic groups.  And your value, your believability, your suffering, your place on the pyramid depends on if your demographic group is the group du jour or not.  Which means is it the one, at this moment, most able to shoot holes in the heritage of the Western Tradition?  I wrote about this little development within the Left some years ago.  You can read it here. 

Ms. Eden appears shocked that so many would accuse Israel of the hospital bombing.  Heck, I’m shocked so few did.  Jews are important for trotting out endless stories of antisemitism and Jewish hate throughout Western and American history.  Ms. Eden herself has embarked on a crusade to focus on antisemitism in the Church, in our leaders, in our forebears, in anyone White, Christian, preferably male.  To the Left, people like Ms. Eden, who are willing to keep the focus the West’s sins, are the good Jews.  Just like blacks who go all BLM or radical anti-patriarchal feminists.  Anyone who helps tear down the foundations of the Christian Western Democratic tradition is A-OK.  

Ah, but sticky point.  Israel is seen as a love child of that vile imperialistic, colonizing West.  In the minds of a growing number on the Left, the State of Israel is as bad as the Nazi Confederacy.  Plus, being not Western means innocent, pure, virtuous, victim.  Hence even our president is careful to say ‘Bad boys you Hamas people’ and insist Palestinians are not the problem.  Despite Palestinian protests at best fully supporting and sanctioning what Hamas has done.  At worst, they have made it clear they want to see more of it, with at least a couple such protests sporting signs along the lines of ‘gas the Jews.’  How many times that happened I don’t know.  The press has quickly stopped mentioning such things. Compare that to Charlottesville, which is still trotted out by the press at least every couple months as proof that defenders of America’s heritage equal White Nationalist. 

Of course it isn’t as easy as ‘bad Hamas, bad Israel, beautiful Palestinians’.  A sane non-21st Century thinker would realize this taps into that ages old rift between Arabs and Jews that saw its own brand of bigotry and racism long before Bismarck decided to make Germany a thing.  Instead, it’s an inconvenient challenge to the narrative that, as bad as Hamas is, Israel and everyone in it is worse  because of the evil West. 

That is part of the overall narrative that Ms. Eden clearly accepts.  If not about Israel, then about the unique and singular evils of anything west of the Urals.  Despite accepting these narratives, she appears shocked that they are applied even when you think they shouldn’t be.  Like when more Jews were killed in a single day than any time since the Holocaust, yet let’s just have a polite discussion and not jump to conclusions.  Unless it’s assuming Israel is the bad guy of course.  If you live by the leftwing sword, be prepared to die by it when you or what you cherish is no longer convenient. 

BTW, I was going to post a photo from one of the protests where the horrible ‘gas the Jews’ signs were held up.  You know what?  I searched hundreds of images in various news outlets and on Google, and could find none.  The closest I came to anything suggesting it happened at all was this:

I should have copied the pictures when I saw them.  Our ministry of censorship and propaganda at work.  

Again Ms. Eden, get used to it.  You matter when your various group identities can bring down the Western tradition, including its democratic and Judeo-Christian roots.  As long as you do that, you’re good.  Most valuable player and all.  But the minute you don’t, as we see here, people who are about aiding in the destruction of the West will be given carte blanche over your interests in a fast heartbeat.  If they chant ‘gas the Jews’, we’ll do our best to  insist to cover our ears and just move on.  And we’ll do it because you have no more worth for the Left as a Jewish woman than you would as a woman opposing sharing the bathroom with Trans men, or if you were black, being a black conservative.  It’s the side you’ve chosen.  Get used to it. 

UPDATE: 

Wow.  So I was informed that the comments at the link to Mark’s blog tell the tale:

Note that.  Nothing at all about the Palestinians who chanted support for Hamas, or called for more of what Hamas gave.  We won’t even discuss the explicit calls in pro-Palestine rallies for more slaughter because the victims were Jewish.  Just ignore the slaughter and the hatred of Jews, and attack Trump/MAGA.  All of this is as good as saying it’s not the slaughter of Jews we mind so much, but that their slaughter can be exploited to attack our hated political enemies.  

This is the result of that evil tendency of only caring about human misery when it can be exploited that I’ve been pounding the pulpit about all these years.  And it isn’t just at Mark’s site.  Send me examples of politicians, pundits, journalists or even Christian leaders who have called out those Palestinians who cheered on the slaughter and demonstrated hatred of Jews, as opposed to simply framing it as ‘bad Israel/bad Hamas/beautiful Palestinians.’  The narrative is already that deep. 

BTW, the video Mark links to is an Al Jazeera affiliated video that explains it’s only MAGA Trump supporters who are a threat to Jews.  In a sane world that is the last thing I’d link to after the horrific slaughter of innocent Israeli Jews.  But sanity is one of the first casualties of the anti-Western Left. 

Go here to comment.  Dawn may learn from this.  Shea is too far gone in delusion land to learn anything.  For him, the world consists of blaming conservatives for everything, facts to the contrary not withstanding.  This technique is the way he gets around the cognitive dissonance that when he decided to become a born again Leftist he had to embrace what he had hitherto despised and despise what he had hitherto embraced.  I have no doubt of Shea’s sincerity.  Fanatics always are sincere, even if their beliefs are 180 from where they were the day before yesterday.