Could Europe's Anti-Semitism Happen Here?

Ever since Jews first started immigrating to the United States from Russia a century ago they have found their home on the Left. Jews experienced the universalism of socialism as a refuge from the ethnic and religious hate they had experienced in European ghettos and beyond the Pale of Settlement in Russia.

But are Jews safe on the Left any more?

Student Teresa Mia Bejan reports on the pervasive anti-Semitism in lefty Europe and in the oh-so-lefty European universities

Anti-Semitism is alive and well and living in Paris. And London, apparently. And Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid — and Oxford, too, to my shock and chagrin.

Yes. In Oxford.

Walking down the famed Cornmarket Street in central Oxford, one routinely sees the telltale combination of Lonsdale-brand jacket with Gap T-shirt — the neo-Nazi's favorite fashion statement for the clever way in which it displays NSDAP, nationalistische sozialistische demokratische Arbeitspartei, proudly across his or her chest.
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But mentions of the Holocaust at the traditional Oxford formal hall are met with derisive coughs and cries of "don't bring that up again!"

Bejan seems to think that European anti-Semitism couldn’t happen here. But of course, it already is, in the university, as colleges encourage Middle-Eastern Studies departments to fill up with Jew-hating academics.

It goes against centuries of bitter experience, but it is looking more and more as if the best friends that Jews have in the world are American Christians—you know, Red State Americans who go to work, follow the rules, go to church, and obey the law.

Fortunately there is already an advanced guard of Jews who have migrated to the conservative movement and the Republican Party. They are the dreaded neoconservatives and religiously observant Jews. There are even Jewish conservative radio talk show hosts! Let us hope that the laggards overcome their natural and well-founded mistrust and come on over soon.

The fact is that the Left is a movable feast and it only dines on the victim du jour. When Jews were dying in their millions, they counted as victims. When Jews are successfully building the State of Israel they don’t count as victims any more, and don’t enjoy the compassion and the caring of the Left any more.

While there is still time, come on in fellahs, the water’s fine!