"Israel - Not The Jews"
The Paradox of Hatred: Where the American Right and Left Converge
One sees a cultural subverter, the other a colonial oppressor, yet both American political fringes find their only common ground in despising the reality of Jewish power and sovereignty.
American politics today appears as a battlefield of opposing identities and values. Yet there is one subject where the extreme fringes of both the Right and the Left meet in perfect coordination: the hatred of Jews and the State of Israel. Although their motives seem entirely contradictory they lead to the exact same destination.
The Right and the Jew as Cultural Subverter
For the extreme Right in the United States Jews are seen as the enemy of the traditional order. They view Jews as the driving force behind what they call Cultural Marxism. From their perspective Jewish identity is linked with radical feminism with support for open borders and with the spread of pornography as a tool to dismantle Christian morality. To this Right the Jew is perceived as a wealthy and influential figure who uses resources to weaken the nation from within. This is a hatred based on the fear of cultural subversion.
The Left and the Jew as White Oppressor
On the other hand the extreme Left hates Jews for diametrically opposed reasons. For them Jews are an inseparable part of the white and colonialist structure. In this Leftist view the Jew is seen as the pinnacle of privilege: wealthy powerful religious and supportive of the establishment. For the progressives Jewishness is part of the Western system of oppression that must be dismantled in the name of social justice. Here hatred is not based on fear of subversion but on loathing of established and religious power.
Israel: The Point of Convergence
Despite these contradictions there is one focal point where the Right and the Left find common ground: the State of Israel. Why does hatred coalesce specifically here? The answer lies in real power.
In the United States the Jew can be thought of as a concept or a theory. However Israel is a living reality. Israel possesses real military and political power and it carries out actual actions of defense and governance. This is the moment where the extremes unite around the hatred of concrete action. The Right finds in Israel the expression of the global power it despises while the Left finds in it the ultimate colonialism it seeks to destroy.
Hatred of Israel allows both sides to project their frustrations onto a single strong entity. In Israel they find everything they hate about Jews: the wealth the power the religion and the nationalism. Israel is where the Jew stops being a victim or a theoretical idea and becomes a sovereign. For the extremists on both sides Jewish sovereignty is an unforgivable sin and the actual operations of the IDF are the glue that binds the modern chain of crime from both sides of the political fence.