{"id":116866,"date":"2017-08-22T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=116866"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T17:04:39","slug":"alt-right-jew-charlottesville-was-a-wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=116866","title":{"rendered":"Alt-Right Jew: Charlottesville Was A Wake-Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alt Right Jew Joshua Seidel writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nEven after Charlottesville<\/a>, I still don\u2019t know what to think of Richard Spencer<\/a>. It\u2019s Saturday night and I\u2019m watching him compare<\/a> his movement to Zionism on Israeli TV. He\u2019s wearing a nice shirt and I\u2019m not surprised; the man has fine taste in clothing, especially in vests. I\u2019d challenge anyone to name a public figure who pulls off vests better than Richard Spencer.<\/p>\n

As Jewish people, we can make psychic space for the rough anti-Semite, the uneducated man who hates us because he knows no better, the man in ripped jeans and rebel flag shirts. The \u201cnerdy Nazis\u201d with their polos, marching in Charlottesville can also be explained away, categorized, rendered less frightening. But a man who knows his vests? A man with a winning smile? This is an intrusion, a sign that the containment of the anti-Semitic virus has failed, that the good, the educated, the nuanced people of this world can no longer be assumed to be safe. No matter, though. I still tell people Richard is no Jew-hater. It\u2019s impossible for a real anti-Semite to be so objective about Zionism, to go on Israeli TV\u2026 and to wear those nice vests.<\/p>\n

After Charlottesville, all nuance is lost. I can\u2019t blame my fellow Jews. The video, pictures and stories are awful. Hundreds chanting<\/a> \u201cJews will not replace us,\u201d Nazi flags, the synagogue threatened<\/a>. However Spencer feels about Jews, he will now attract genuine anti-Semites, moreso than before, and more of his events will devolve into this. Is this what he wanted?<\/p>\n

We must be honest about Charlottesville. No one was there to help us. The police in Charlottesville refused<\/a> to watch the synagogue, despite specific threats (they later denied<\/a> this). Antifa, claiming that they mobilized to \u201cprotect the community,\u201d did nothing to protect the Jewish community. Jews in Charlottesville had to rely on hired guns<\/a>. Where were the \u201canti-fascists\u201d we hear so much about? Where were the police? It seems we can only rely on ourselves.<\/p>\n

Jews still thinking the left has any interest in defending us against Nazis are fools. I\u2019ve warned for quite awhile that the left will start seeing Jews as White, and the hatred and derision they pour upon white people is headed our way. There are countless vigils, teach-ins, Facebook posts from the left about Charlottesville and Nazis; few mention Jews. We feel this in our online spaces. Jews are an afterthought on social justice Twitter, an annoyance on leftist Facebook. Our concerns \u201cget in the way\u201d of the far more important issues for \u201cpeople of color\u201d \u2014 which of course we are not. I try to explain all of this to the Jewish race-warriors: turn our public discourse into race shaming, my peeps, and Jews will pay the price. We will always<\/em> be the wrong race, under any formulation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alt Right Jew Joshua Seidel writes: Even after Charlottesville, I still don\u2019t know what to think of Richard Spencer. It\u2019s Saturday night and I\u2019m watching him compare his movement to Zionism on Israeli TV. He\u2019s wearing a nice shirt and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t