Left Wing Bias

“The Left has decided that Jews who are not victims are not true Jews…”

-Rabbi Dr. Gerald Meister, former advisor to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs [1A]

There was a time that the political Left supported Jews and the idea of a Jewish homeland [2].  But that has since changed.

While strident antisemitism was always prominent on the communist far Left, it has now spread to the liberal mainstream [3].

Media Bias

Liberal bias is most obvious in the media.  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is generally mischaracterized as Western colonialism.  Reporting invariably takes a sympathetic view of the Palestinians, a supposedly oppressed people.

This slanted approach not only ignores the true history of the area, but miscasts the current reality.

History

From 1517 to 1917, the West Bank was part of the Ottoman Empire [4].  From 1917 to 1967, the territory was administered first by Britain, then Jordan.

Israel acquired that territory in the defensive Six-Day War the nation fought in 1967 against a coalition of larger Arab states which included Egypt, Syria, and Jordan [5].

A War of Ideologies

“What Westerners don’t understand is that it’s not a war over land.  This is not a war over land…What they [radical Muslims] want is what you see them doing to Joseph’s tomb…They want the destruction of everything Jewish.  They want the destruction of everything Christian.”

-Walid Shoebat, former PLO terrorist [1B]

The Arab world has never come to terms with Israel’s existence.  Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) are explicit about their animosity toward Israel [6][7][8].  All deny the Holocaust, but favor outright extermination of the Jews.

Not surprisingly, Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is widely disseminated in the Arab world [1C].

Categorization of an unaffiliated group of inhabitants of the West Bank as a disenfranchised people was a masterstroke of propaganda, giving Muslim genocidal intentions toward the Jews a veneer of morality [1D].

Two-State Solution

In point of fact, Israel would be agreeable to a two-state solution with security conditions guaranteeing its right to exist.  But this proposal has only radicalized more Arabs.

Media Influence

“The problem of the Left’s antisemitism is that it is born not only of antisemitism but of self-hate and anti-Americanism.  It doesn’t occur in a vacuum.  And it’s not theologically motivated.  It goes to the hostility toward values that Jews share with believing…Christians…”

-Rabbi Dr. Gerald Meister, former advisor to Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs [1D]

Rarely is liberal antisemitism recognized as such [9].

If acknowledged at all, it is rationalized as the defense of a mistreated minority.  Analogies are made to the Anti-Apartheid Movement, with Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians compared to the Nazi treatment of the Jews.

This bias is extremely dangerous.  The mainstream press has a broad reach into American society and American universities.  Campus debates about the Mideast are increasingly marred by hate-filled rhetoric and threats of violence [10].

Antisemitism has even made inroads into some mainline Protestant high churches which, for the most part, are already liberal theologically [1E][11].  But it is not biblical.

“And God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob…but Israel shall be your name.’…The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and to your descendants after you I give this land” (Gen, 35: 10, 12).

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[1A through 1E]  “Focus on Israel, Episode 3, The New anti-Semitism” (DVD).  See, https://pjtn.org/product/focus-on-israel-ep-3-the-new-anti-semitism/.

[2]  LSE Theses Online, “The Left’s Views on Israel:  From the establishment of the Jewish state to the intifada” – PhD Thesis submitted to the London School of Economics and Political Science by June Edmunds, 2014, http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2847/1/U615796.pdf.

[3]  INSS, “Left-Wing Antisemitism in the United States:  Past and Present” by Prof. Stephen Norwood, 10/13/21, ttps://www.inss.org.il/publication/antisemitism-left/.

[4]  Wikipedia, “West Bank”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank.

[5]  Wikipedia, “Six-Day War”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War.

[6]  Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports, “Lebanese Hezbollah”, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10703.

[7]  Council on Foreign Relations, “What Is Hamas?” by Zachary Laub and Kali Robinson, 8/8/23, https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-hamas.

[8]  Wikipedia, “Palestine Liberation Organization”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organization.

[9]  Anti-Defamation League (ADL), “Antisemitism and Radical Anti-Israel Bias on the Political Left in Europe”, 8/8/23,  https://www.adl.org/resources/report/antisemitism-and-radical-anti-israel-bias-political-left-europe.

[10]  US Commission on Civil Rights, “Campus Anti-Semitism”, 11/18/05, https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/docs/081506campusantibrief07.pdf.

[111]  Wikipedia, “Mainline Protestant”, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainline_Protestant.

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