{"id":42140,"date":"2012-03-21T16:16:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42140"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T00:16:53","slug":"why-are-so-many-jews-on-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=42140","title":{"rendered":"Why Are So Many Jews On The Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Jacob Cherub writes: \u201cThroughout history there have been repugnant dictatorships on both the left and right,\u201d and their \u201crepression and brutality is really no different than communist repression and brutality.\u201d He then cites, among other examples, fascist Italy, Franco\u2019s Spain, Nazi Germany, various Latin American dictators, the shah in Iran, Zimbabwe\u2019s Robert Mugabe, Ne Win in Burma and Sudan\u2019s Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir.<\/p>\n

This is close to constituting a perfect example of how leftist teachings pervert history and thereby distort the thinking of those who believe those teachings.<\/p>\n

It is morally indefensible that anyone would write \u2014 after the communist genocides in China (65 million to 75 million), Ukraine (5 million to 7 million), Russia (about another 20 million to 30 million), North Korea and Cambodia \u2014 that there is no difference between communist regimes and other kinds of dictatorships.<\/p>\n

There are two rather significant things wrong with Mr. Cherub\u2019s list of dictators: Many are not rightists, and none came close to communism in terms of the number of people murdered and enslaved. Yet, nearly everyone on the left thinks as Mr. Cherub does, namely, that left and non-left dictatorships (they label all non-left dictatorships \u201cright\u201d) are morally equivalent. That is why so many on the left supported the Khomeini revolution \u2014 anything would be an improvement over the right-wing shah, the left reasoned. But, of course, what replaced the shah has led to incomparably more suffering among Iranians than under the shah \u2014 not to mention the first threat of Jewish genocide since the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not only about the shah that Mr. Cherub is so wrong.<\/p>\n

While Mugabe is indeed a monster, he is no rightist. In fact, he is a self-described Marxist. And his destruction of Zimbabwe has been done entirely in the name of African solidarity and fighting white racism.<\/p>\n

So, too, Sudan\u2019s al-Bashir is not a rightist; he is an Islamist.<\/p>\n

And as regards Nazism, it was neither right-wing nor left-wing (even though Nazism stood for \u201cNational Socialism\u201d). It was sui generis, a unique racial, not rightist, doctrine.<\/p>\n

Mr. Cherub ends his letter: \u201cIt seems Prager wants to paint anyone politically to his left as evil and comparable with Stalin and the like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently it doesn\u2019t matter to some people that I have written in every column concerning the left that there are good and bad people on both the right and the left. And while I am convinced that leftism has damaged Jewish life and almost everyone and everything else it has strongly influenced, I find it quite easy to distinguish between people with left-wing opinions \u2014 many of whom I know to be fine people \u2014 and leftism. I have never in my life written, said, implied or even thought that anyone politically to my left is comparable with Stalin and the like. That is a smear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes: Jacob Cherub writes: \u201cThroughout history there have been repugnant dictatorships on both the left and right,\u201d and their \u201crepression and brutality is really no different than communist repression and brutality.\u201d He then cites, among other examples, fascist … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[29204,29203,29202,29201,29199,29200],"class_list":["post-42140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-al-bashir","tag-fascist-italy","tag-jewish-genocide","tag-khomeini-revolution","tag-latin-american-dictators","tag-list-of-dictators"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}