New York City Ain’t Hymietown Anymore
The headline is a reference to Jesse Jackson’s characterization of New York City during his presidential campaign in 1984. He did not mean it as a compliment. He was alluding to both the number of Jews who live in the Big Apple and their influence in banking, media and politics. It was a common antisemitic trope against the perceived power and influence of Jews. In that moment, Jackson revealed the backburner antisemitism that has existed in the Black community and among New York’s more WASPish elite for generations.
Arguably, the most outrageous example of Black antisemitism is the Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. Despite his hateful preaching against Jews, Farrakhan was quietly embraced by Democrat politicians. One of his Acolytes, Keith Ellison, is now the Attorney General of Minnesota. During an earlier CNN interview with Jake Tapper, Ellison denied any association with Farrakhan. That denial got him four Pinocchios from the Washington Post.
It is ironic – or perhaps revelatory – that the most extreme examples of leftwing antisemitism would now erupt in New York City – one of the left-wing’s political strongholds. What we have seen in the past few days is nothing less than the greatest outpouring of anti-Israel and antisemitism in the history of the United States. While it has been garbed in expressions of concern for the victims of the war launched by the Hamas terrorist organization, the public protests emanating from elite educational institutions are founded on antisemitism.
The anti-Israel sentiment in the Democratic Party is so politically powerful that leading Jewish politicians – such as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Senate Majority Leader and Chuck Schumer, and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (both representing New York City, by the way) bend to the Hamas propaganda view of the war. They accuse Israelof committing atrocities and call for an unconditional cease-fire. Schumer even called for regime change in Israel.
The fact that the least safe place for Jews in America is the streets of New York City – and several campuses in other left-wing communities says all that needs to be said.
While antisemitism is isolated to small fringe groups on the right – and they are dangerous — the cancer of antisemitism has long ago metastasized throughout the radical progressive political community on the left.
Just as the vast majority of Americans are NOT racist, most Americans are not antisemitic. Antisemitism has its greatest influence and impact within the elite academic intelligence – and among the radical left-wing political component of the Democratic Party. It is a leadership problem.
It is no coincidence that the most rabid manifestation of modern antisemitism should be occurring in New York City – and other sancta sanctorum of the left-wing establishment and the Democratic Party.
So, there ‘tis.
NOTE: It is Horist that chooses to use the term “Hymie Town” is his headline adding absolutely nothing of value to his “story.”
His “story” is a lot of contentions with very little statistical or factual support relying on his reader’s acceptance through pre-conceived notions.
In other words: bullshit.
But he is correct: NY, and probably NYC is the leader of the nation in antisemitism. But he is wrong when he states: “It is ironic – or perhaps revelatory – that the most extreme examples of leftwing antisemitism would now erupt in New York City – one of the left-wing’s political strongholds.” It’s been that way for years….. If one looks at the facts. Could it be, where you find more Jews that you find more Jew haters? What a concept……
According to ADL, from 2019 through 2022, New York leads in antisemitic acts. Then my beloved NJ, then California make up the top three. But joining them, and close behind, comes Florida, the Cracker State, and Texass. ADL states: “Combined, these five states account for 54 % of the total incidents.” And it ain’t “Antisemitism has its greatest influence and impact within the elite academic intelligence – and among the radical left-wing political component of the Democratic Party” in Florida, the Cracker State. Horist is wrong.
He also has issues delineating between antisemitism, anti-apartheid, and anti-Israel protests. It really is not that much of a nuance, but if you want to generalize about the evils of the Democratic party, you can’t sweat the small stuff.
At least he didn’t say nigger town
Really Gilbertson: the N WORD????? And you wonder why google disses you…..
I have all ways thought the dems did not care really for Jews obambo and biden even helped there enemy all they could Now we have a dem pres that the house speakers runs to to see how he can help him YEA YEA i know his talk But i SEE his vote and the NWO rep go right along with the dem but will do the talk of dealing Like unions the dems want more than they know they can get then the speakers makes deal and they get what they wanted in the first place I wonder how much the RNC make off lobbies God is going to have to work to help Israel now that biden want them to do like our generals did in Afagn when they CHARGED out leaving every thing but there boot But i cant have faith the the RNC but i can in God helping Israel
Jerry, another glowing result on the American education system. Or the foreign disinformation system. U B da judge.
Frank Stetson …. LMAO. You are so predictable. I knew you would get your undies in a bunch over the headline. LOL But it was not gratuitous as you suggest. I used it to draw attention to the FACT that left-wing antisemitism is not new or confided to nutty white Nazi groups. And thanks for supporting my contention about progressive antisemitism with you noting that the top three states are all very blue states. It is a top down problem. You are a piece of work. You declare me wrong after you prove that I am correct. LOL
Yes, Horist, unlike the spin master general that you are, I follow the facts wherever they lead. And Florida and Texas are right in the mix. Don’t you get it? Glad your headline intent was to stir emotions about your racism. Mission accomplished that your racist headline was seen as racist. Brilliant. About your confiding to nutty nazi groups……
Who says you can’t teach an old Horist, new tricks? Trump lies. He lies a lot. It’s his superpower. Not the lies, anyone can do that as conservative press often shows, but Trump’s super ability to withstand the feedback and pushback without any remorse, guilt or other normal human emotions and reactions that tend to make getting caught lying not fun. Because of this strange emotional state, Trump can cover a lie with another lie and just keep going. That’s weird, but weirder yet, is his followers, like Horist, brush off the lies for a variety of explanations and pretend they know what he really means. Trump covers lies with lies and his supporters like Horist normalize them.
One of Trump’s tricks now picked up by Horist is their re-establishment of the child’s taunt in the form of a strategy. The taunt: “I’m rubber, you’re glue; whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you,” is now a grade school comeback for liars to accuse others of lying too. Or anything else. The trick here is accuse the other side of exactly what they have proved you did. The difference is that Trump and Horist don’t need proof, evidence or facts. They just cover the lie with another lie. It’s a superpower.
So, Trump lies, there’s a database. And now Biden lies just like Trump or worse, supposedly. No database. Trump is indicted. Biden should be indicted too. Trump impeached, Biden in up for impeachment too. Trump fucked with Ukraine, Biden did it too, through Hunter, of course. Trump got impeached for it, Biden gets FOX news spots. Trump’s business is a felony criminal empire so Biden is mastermind of a crime family without an adjudicated crime. Trump crazy, Biden dementia. Funny thing, Biden has both dementia and brilliant crime mastermind status. How does he do it?
Like a school-ground retort used by children to suggest that one’s insults are being ignored by the intended recipient of the insult and counter that the insult rather refers to the insulter, Horist attempts to toss every Trump proven shortcoming back onto Biden.
This time it’s racism in the form of antisemitism.
It’s pretty clear that while all Republicans are not racists or antisemites, most racists, white supremacists, and antisemite groups support Donald J. Trump for some reason, perhaps because he provides approval via nuanced tropes. As do a lot of Republicans. None of these groups support Biden. Even Horist had to go with Hymietown for his header, a really strange choice of words that adds no value to his story except for his name dropping a racist term he can tie to a Democrat from the 80’s. Are there racists and antisemites supporting Democrats. Absolutely. Groups, very few, if any. That’s a Republican hallmark. They like the votes just like the Dixiecrats did.
Other headlines in the RECENT news:
“Poll: Nearly 7 in 10 US Jews think Republican Party holds anti-Semitic views” Gee, Horist could have gone with that…. Horist wouldn’t go with that, but I think it’s better.
“Texas GOP executive committee rejects proposed ban on associating with Nazi sympathizers and Holocaust deniers,” GOP and Nazis’s together again.
“But it was not gratuitous as you suggest. I used it to draw attention to the FACT that” right-wing antisemitism is not new or confided to nutty white Nazi groups, but they are there too.
Horist’s conservative pundits routinely throw out anti-Jewish red meat to conservative consumers: You are exactly right,” Elon Musk recently posted on X: “Exactly right” was a white-nationalist account saying the following: “Jewish communties [sic] have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” Mush also endorsed DeSanctimonious after that, DeSantis said nothing, just shrugged and said: thank you sir, may I have some more?
Trumpian antisemitic tropes against Jews can be found throughout his campaign literature and are being repeated and amplified by many Republican leaders. Over 200 of these racist bastards in Congress rallied to MTGreene who calls for assassination of opponents. Greene (Ga.), has suggested that the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, where white supremacists chanted “Jews will not replace us,” was actually an “inside job” to “further the agenda of the elites” while sharing video where a Holocaust denier said an “alliance of leftists, capitalists and Zionist supremacists have schemed to promote immigration and miscegenation” to begin “breeding us out of existence in our own homelands.” She said the Israeli intelligence service assassinated John F. Kennedy, and the Rothschilds set forest fires in California using lasers from space. Horist cannot see this horse shit happening right under his nose in his own party lead by the racist he will vote for a third time in a row this Fall. Other Republicans Horist overlooks include:
Louie Gohmert said: “George Soros is supposed to be Jewish, but you wouldn’t know it from the damage he’s inflicted on Israel,” Gohmert said. “And the fact that he turned on fellow Jews and helped take the property that they owned. It’s the same kind of thing.” That’s right, Gohmert claims Soros took property from Jews during WWII. Gohmert is of German heritage and supposedly an adult. Soros was 14 during WWII.
Kevin McCarthy twittered to accuse three Jewish billionaires: Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg of buying the midterms with their Jewish money. Soros got a pipe bomb at his home. These racist bastards made McCarthy Speaker of the House.
Matt Gaetz invited Holocaust denier Chuck Johnson* to be his guest at the State of the Union saying “He’s not a Holocaust denier; he’s not a white supremacist. Those are unfortunate characterizations of him.” The guy is a top Jew hater, it’s proven.
Gaetz loves going on Alex Jones’ Infowars where he said: “it’s not that Jews are bad, it’s just they are the head of the Jewish mafia in the United States. They run Uber, they run the health care, they’re going to scam you, they’re going to hurt you.”
Steve Scalise spoke at a white supremacist European American Unity and Rights Organization convention. David Duke founded this gaggle of racists. Scalise likens himself to David Duke without the baggage.
Steve King told the NYTimes: “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”
Paul Gosar claimed that Charlottesville where marchers chanted “Jews will not replace us” — was “created by the left” and led by an “Obama sympathizer” saying Soros footed the bill and during WWII he “turned in his own people to the Nazis.” Again, Soros was 14.
Gosar’s family said: “We are aghast that Paul has sunk so low that he now spews the most despicable slander against an 87-year-old man without a shred of proof,” and “It is extremely upsetting to have to call you out on this, Paul, but you’ve forced our hand with your deceit and anti-Semitic dog whistle.”
Gosar’s brother David said: Paul “helped feed the anti-Semitism that just resulted in the murder of 11 people in a Jewish synagogue and an attempt on Mr. Soros’s life.”
What’s happening here? Racism is bad wherever you find it. And you find it anywhere and everywhere. In lots of forms. Overt is terrible with widespread intimidation felt by many. Systemic, as the name implies, grinds you down, year after year, relentless. It’s all a drag. Traditionally, except for the civil war and before, but since then traditionally the Republican party has been the refuge of racists. Overt, in your face, racists. Systemic, IMO, comes from anyone who controls: laws, systems, processes. It’s all of us, everywhere. Much of the racist Dixiecrat Democrats “converted” to Republicans after LBJ passed civil rights that Republicans could not. But all Republicans, most Republicans, the vast majority of Republicans are not racist. Either are Democrats. IMO, Horist is wrong on this. It’s just that racists, mostly, vote for Republicans, show up to support, donate, etc. because they think Republicans give them more than Democrats. PERIOD. That said, Horist, and others, look to “level” the playing field to say “it’s dem Dems agin.” “Rubber/glue.” Whatever. Point is racism is evil wherever you find it. There is no free speech of racism. Not in America. Not for Democrats or Republicans. And certainly not worth a “rubber/glue” narrative. The issue is antisemitism in view of recent college protests, their enablement, and endorsement. Next musing for that one.
Oppps, my bad. The Dem’s turning away from racism was not the civil war, but a century later. Make that Dems, via Dixiecrats, owned racism until the 1960’s and LBJ. After that, a lot of Dixiecrats migrated to the Republican party and today, the GOP courts them, enables them, and they vote for Trump.
Frank Stetson … So Dems turned away from institutional racism a century after the civil war — putting it around 1965. LMAO If you are not lying, you are certainly hopelessly ignorant of your history. You seem ignorant of the fact that Republicans overwhelmingly supported the civil rights bills of 1957, 1960, 1964 and 1965 — while dams were voting against and mounting filibusters. You seem to be totally ignorant of the Massive Resistance Movement by Democrats against school integration that carried through into the 1970s.. You seem not to know that all those Confederate battle flags that were added to state flags, symbols and flown at state capitals were added in the 1960s by Dem administrations and later removed by GOP administrations. To the day he died, MLK was protesting against Democrat administrations and public officials in the south and north. I cannot recall his taking his crusade to a single GOP-run city. You seem oblivious to the fact that for decades after the 1960s civil rights groups were protesting and rioting against racism in Democrat strongholds. You are blind to the fact the Democrat cities are segregated to this day — keeping million of blacks impoverished, uneducated, without jobs and without safe housing and safe streets. . And where have we seen the worst institutional police racism. Again Dem cities. Where are the worst public schools in America? Dem cities. I could go on and on, but you will have to wait for my book due out in July or August. But are you really that stupid or you just shoveling garbage in to feed your anti-Horist obsession? I did not read your laborious loooong rand above, but I did see my name included several times. So I know it is more jealous mendacious garbage. LOL Carry on!
Mr Horist:
I am sorry, I thought I was pretty clear tween overt and systemic racism, that the racist Democratic racists and racism I was noting as migrating to the Republican party was overt; and that systemic racism is created by all of us, anywhere.
For sake of simplicity, I was differentiating between the two and focusing on the overt, in-your-face hate crime sort of racism and so I will put all of your comments about that in the parking lot for another day, especially since we have beaten that Horist to death.
Yes, Republicans supported the Democratic civil rights bills of the 60’s, LBJ’s. So what? Some didn’t too. Some Democrats didn’t also, some even looked by Dixiecrats.
Confederate battle flags, school integration busting, Republicans taking it away, MLK against Democrats —- all good, would love to see actual proof, evidence, links, an example —- whatever, since I am not sure what you are talking about. For example, much Democratic push back on school busing, not for racism, but because not a great solution for integration. Seems based on current history, they were right, Biden included since he was one of those. Plus, that’s systemic anyways.
Feel free to go on and on since, as I have noted in the past, generalizing really does not seal the deal in discussion and NO, everyone does not know this.
But again, I am addressing overt, hate crime level racism. You diverted the discussion to systemic which is a good subject, but not my focus. I listed a nice list of overtly racist Republicans that currently, or recently, walked the halls of Congress. Got beef? You called us racists. Hymietown screaming racists. Got list?
Horist is nothing but predictable in these opinion segments. No flies on the right ever. No good can ever come from the left, never.
When you, Larry, consider your next topic for some disparaging and muck racking it’s always todo with the left. Left hatred inspires the dire tales of doom and despair you spin.
You would have your readers accept the conspiracy theory and right wing conservative propaganda that you serve up. It not a straight forward and simple as you would have readers see. This country’s political makeup happens to be more diverse today than just Republican and Democrat classic division’s. There are a variety of political philosophy shades that show differentiation between individuals’ perspectives within this country’s population..
However, when elections come along, we the people are forced into choosing the party and its candidate whom is believed to more closely represent one’s personal view than other candidates.
The candidate with a majority of all votes wins. But that person’s policies in office may not totally agree with many in the same party.
Generalizing political typology into simple right and left categorical distinctions may work for pundits and would be political journalists. But reality, truth, honesty, and ideological balance is set aside in favor of the writer’s own take (opinion) aka produced bias.
Ego reinforcement is valued over truth, fairness, others rights. Trampled facts, ignored context, and wild conjecture would not pass as authority in a court of law. The same bending to fit the writer’s fancy should be considered like a hung jury is in a court’s decision. Jury persons who see the facts differently are not judged to be ignorant, uninformed, and unfit humans. True democracy accepts all people. That means “all” not only those who are like you.
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