Just like old times

Roger Franklin

Apr 29 2024

1 mins

American blogger John Kass is writing of the eruption of anti-Semitism on college campuses across the US, but his thoughts apply equally to Australia:

…You never hear in these anti-Israel demonstrations a hope for a two-state solution. No, only chants calling for Oct. 7 again and again.

The demonstrators’ stated target might be Israel but make no mistake, their hatred is also aimed at America and Western civilization. The U.S. flag has been burned. Chants of “Death to America” punctuate protests.

These poisonous demonstrations are deliberate attacks aimed at disrupting life and commerce in cities, interrupting public accommodations like highways and airports, shutting down education at campuses — and intimidating Jews in all walks of life.

Jews are told by authorities they’re unsafe on college campuses, and some flee. Think about that. We are witnessing organized mass bigotry on a scale not seen in this country since the days of Jim Crow.

These demonstrations are coordinated by radical organizations like Students for Justice in Palestine and funded by far-left groups such as the Open Society Foundations, according to an examination of financial records by the New York Post. Open Society was founded by George Soros, the billionaire whose pocketbook has helped elect anti-police and coddle-the-criminal prosecutors in major cities…

The post, Is the Worst Yet to Come?, can be read in full here. Below, with no Jews handy, violent and profoundly stupid pro-Hamas demonstrators in Melbourne go all jihad on a curious footy fan.

Roger Franklin

Roger Franklin

Online Editor

Roger Franklin

Online Editor

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