There was a time years ago when I suggested that the
accusation of antisemitism should be criminalized because it was a weapon of
character assassination that had the same effect as physical assassination.
It is that I had not heard of Erielle Davidson at the
time. I don't believe she was writing then, but if she were and I had known
about it, I might have waited to see the effect of her writing before
suggesting that the accusation of antisemitism be outlawed. What is bubbling at
the surface nowadays, is that a classless horde of young Zionists, Erielle
Davidson among them, is transforming the accusation of antisemitism from being
a weapon aimed at opponents into a self-administered poison.
Much of what Davidson has written supports that point
of view, but nothing illustrates the point as starkly as her latest column. It
came under the title: “Bernie Sanders Enables The Corbynistas Of The American
Left,” published on February 12, 2020 in The Federalist.
There are ways to measure the effectiveness of
someone's artistic output on the audiences if you don't have a live audience at
hand whose reaction you can watch and evaluate. One of the ways would be to
assess the class level that is attained by the artist’s work –– be that a
writer, a painter or what have you –– and determine where it would fit among
the pantheon of other similar works.
In fact, this can be done with any of Davidson's
articles, but what makes her latest column special is that she provided the
means by which to make an instant comparison between what fuels her thinking,
and what fuels the thinking of her nemesis. Juxtaposing the output of the two,
provides a chance to see the contrast between one that is classy and one that
is classless.
The saying that Erielle Davidson chose to attack, is
that of her nemesis Linda Sarsour. This is what Davidson has quoted Sarsour as
saying:
“In my opinion, on an issue like Palestine, you've got
to choose the side of the oppressed … And if you're on the side of the
oppressor or you're defending the oppressor, or you're actually trying to
humanize the oppressor, then that's a problem, sisters and brothers, and we've
got to be able to say that is not the position of the Muslim-American community”.
And here is how Erielle Davidson has attacked that
saying while giving her own views on the same subject:
“Sarsour has been accused of antisemitism.
The 2020 Democratic runner Bernie Sanders allows her to serve as surrogate
despite her supporting the antisemitic BDS and cavorting with antisemitic Louis
Farrakhan. Sarsour's defenders will use her support for Sanders as evidence she
is not antisemitic. By allowing her to represent his campaign, Sanders assigns
legitimacy to her rhetoric. He is Jewish – he can't possibly support
antisemites. Wrong; he can and is. The rise of Jeremy Corbyn has allowed the
antisemitic rhetoric to infect the party. There is a gap between Corbyn and
Sanders, but it is closing. Sanders is mainstreaming the Corbynist wing of his
party. Antisemitism within the party has rationalized Jew hatred. Party
officials hid accusations of antisemitism. The left's denial of antisemitism
within their ranks, mainstreams antisemitism. By allowing Sarsour to remain a
surrogate, and accepting an endorsement from Ilhan Omar, Sanders normalizes
antisemitic opinions”.
When you focus on the contrast that exists between the
two sayings, you cannot help but be impressed by the difference you see between
Linda Sarsour's classy and uplifting Arab-style literary study, and Erielle
Davidson's Jewish-style classless and debased haggling.
This situation prompts asking the obvious questions:
What's wrong with the Jews? After thousands of years of misery, repeating the
same performance, do they not realize there is a better way to behave? The
answer is that they are aware of the alternative. In fact, they are so good at
mimicking normal behavior, they fool the people of the community each time they
go into a new one. It's only after they feel secure in their new home that
their leaders begin to pull the tricks by which they hope to take control of
the community. That's when the ordinary people turn against them, and chase
them away.
The latest caper of the Jews is now unfolding in the
United States of America. The signs are already there, and if the old pattern
holds, a bag of misery should be unleashed on the Jews sooner or later.
But something else has been unfolding at the same
time. It is that during the first half of the twentieth century, a harsh kind
of rule put roots in several spots around Europe under such names as Nazism,
Fascism, Marxism and other offshoots. When the bag of misery was unleashed on
the Jews, it proved to be so powerful and thorough, the world pitied the Jews
and went out of its way to accommodate them after the Second World War.
No one at the time could have predicted that in no
time at all, the Jews were going to pull their bag of tricks and play the same
old stunts on the human race. But they did, thanks to characters such as
Erielle Davidson and others of her ilk.
The world took notice, and ordinary people around the
globe are preparing to make their feelings known when the bag of misery will
have been unleashed on the Jews … whenever this will happen.
Come to think of it, maybe it was a good thing that
the accusation of antisemitism was not outlawed, given that the Jews have
abused it the way they did the Holocaust, turning both into moot cracks lacking
in any level of depth for all to see. And this can only be a good thing.