{"id":94953,"date":"2016-05-05T13:15:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T21:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94953"},"modified":"2023-09-04T07:50:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T15:50:12","slug":"tabletmag-what-fuels-trump-supporting-twitter-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=94953","title":{"rendered":"Tabletmag: What Fuels Trump-Supporting Twitter Trolls?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tabletmag<\/a>: “Examining the identity politics that drive Trump backers to harrass Jewish writers online.”<\/p>\n

I am a public Orthodox Jew who’s in touch with all parts of the Alt-Right. I wear a yarmulke and my tzitzit out when I meet with members of the Dissident Right. Everybody treats me very nicely. I don’t get any harassment from Trump backers. Maybe it is Jewish writers who demean Trump and his supporters and the whole idea of white identity who get a backlash?<\/p>\n

Other Jewish supporters of Donald Trump, to the best of my knowledge, don’t get harassed either by the alt-Right. <\/p>\n

Maybe Jewish writers should stop demeaning white nationalism and then perhaps white nationalists won’t put them in their crosshairs.<\/p>\n

White nationalism is just another nationalism akin to black nationalism and Japanese nationalism and Tibetan nationalism and Jewish nationalism. <\/p>\n

The net effect of Jews in America in political terms is to drive the spectrum to the left. Neo-cons took over the conservative movement. <\/p>\n

In cultural terms, Jews pushed WASPs from the top of the heap and more than any other group, Jews set the Overton Window in the West.<\/p>\n

Why is Zionism wonderful but the desire for a white Christian country is horrible? How come the Japanese get to have their own country but whites can’t?<\/p>\n

Armin Rosen writes for Tabletmag<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Like the candidate himself<\/a>, Donald Trump\u2019s alt-right supporters<\/a> have a long record of dabbling in racially and politically divisive rhetoric. Do they have a specific anti-Semitism problem, to go along with their anti-immigration, anti-Muslim, and old-school isolationist views<\/a>? If so, does their anti-Semitism spring from, yet operate independently of, their larger morass of prejudices?<\/p>\n

One way of answering that question is by looking at the alt-right\u2019s attitude toward Jews who the movement\u2019s adherents are most likely to have read or interacted with online, specifically on Twitter: anti-Trump Jewish conservatives, writers who fall vaguely within the political and ideological camp that the alt-right is trying to transform.<\/p>\n

The Trump supporters\u2019 attitudes towards right-leaning Jewish commentators who oppose their candidate is a vivid illustration of why the real estate mogul has galvanized right-wingers who, until a few months ago, appeared to be well outside the conservative mainstream. For Trump\u2019s alt-right fans, Jewish conservatives who oppose Trump epitomize much of what the movement around their candidate is supposed to be cleansing from the right wing and the American political scene more generally. From their perspective, writers like the former Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro, Commentary<\/em>‘s John Podhoretz, or <\/span>The New York Post<\/em>\u2019s <\/span>Seth Mandel<\/a> are bought-and-sold traitors to their ideology, their country, and perhaps even their own people.<\/p>\n

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Would have been nice for journos to take notice of what we Jewish conservative anti-Trumpers have been fending off.<\/p>\n

— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) May 2, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n