The notion that Jews are being ‘overrepresented’ and taking the rightful places of larger minority groups echoes the argument made in tsarist Russia and other nations that imposed the notorious ‘numerus clausus.’
DEI will destroy the market economy. It is not possible to have equality of outcome and a free market. The two are incompatible. You cannot have quotas and a free market.
You have been voting for socialism all your life.
You already destroyed the market economy when you votes for clinton, gore, obama, clinton again, and Biden. You have fully centralized industry and increased barriers to entry.
Perhaps you ought to be apologizing to Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, and so many others that tried to save America from people like you. People who were good hearted, relatively moderate, but didnt understand a damn thing about economics.
And where, precisely, is antisemitism brewing on the "hard right"? Who is the hard right? According to the NYT the hard right is anyone who disagrees with them, including Jordan Peterson, and your former student Ted Cruz.
Name one person that is "hard right". Do you mean MAGA? The 70M people that support non woke policies, fiscal responsibilty, border security, safe streets and homes, and a free market are "hard right"? Is a non interventionist foreign policy "hard right"?
Are you referring to the small group of neo-nazis marching, the same actors hired by the Southern poverty law center?
Do you mean Alex Jones, the guy who rails against the deep state, klaus schwab, and the military industrial complex? Kennedy and Eisenhower expressed similar concerns. Are they "hard right"?
Can you name one person? Who is the leader of this "hard right" movement?
Alex Jones is an antisemite and yes he's hard right. There's a difference between the likes of him and conservatives. Just like the hard left and mainstream liberals are not the same. The democrat party today is controlled by outright Marxists. Don't be mad at Dershowitz, he's maintained his traditional liberal and civil libertarian pro-American views. BTW, when did being against our military become a "conservative" value?
I agree 100%. Good article. As Ronald Reagan once said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Have you ever listened to Paul Harvey's "Freedom to Chains"? You would dig it...Your comment reminded me of Harvey's "Freedom to Chains" from I'm guessing around the time of Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" TV Special
The enemies of Jews are enemies of the white race in general.Jews are simply an identified substrate of white people, and yes I know there are a few Black and Asian Jews, but the many Jews I have known have known are white, By that I mean there are Spanish Jews, Italian Jews, French Jews, German Jews and Scandinavian Jews all for the most part indistinguishable from the area in which they live of originated, indistinguishable from white people and have the same diversity as their fellow white people. Some Jews may think that they are in another category, neither white nor brown or black, but Jews. In My Opinion they are fools. My point is that all whites are being discriminated against, all whites are being humiliated by DEI and CRT, and we must all unite on pushing back. Killing DEI, CRT and other Marxist creeds is a goal that must be shared by all whites including Jews, for if they destroy the Jews we are next on the woke,connie, Leftist menu.
My daughter has sent me a number of Instagram links, such as @jewhatedb, that show that antisemitism is rampant and widespread throughout social media, places of employment, academia, and everyday life. I imagine some of this has been in reaction to the Israel-Hamas war, but I believe that these people were always antisemitic but now feel justified to be open about it in public. Definitely the "Golden Age" for Jews in America is gone.
Somehow Alan separates Jews from the rest of the white population and fails to understand that Jews are just one of the targets of the woke, commie Leftists. Yes, they stand out and there is NO ADA for non-Jews. If you truly want to stop antisemitism you have to stop DEI and CRT.
Some people vociferously oppose and disrespect the Arab Christian and Muslim branch of the semitic family. Yet these people react predictably with the epithet "Anti-semitic" when the _Jewish branch of the family is condemned for its obvious participation in genocide. Is it not grammatically correct at least to apply a different epthet instead? After all, those Jews committing and supporting the current genocide should at least be categorized as "antisemitic" to the Arab branch of the family.
Check your dictionary. Antisemitism only means Jew-hatred. The term was coined in the 19th century by Wilhelm Marrs who sought to coin a more scientific term for Jew-hatred. Of course, Jews can hate Arabs, just as Arabs can hate Jews. I'm still a little mystified why anyone would classify what is going on in Gaza as a genocide. That seems a very inflammatory term, unless you think all war is genocidal. In 1967, there were 150,000 residents of Gaza and today there are over 2,000,000. It's hard to know how many civilians have been killed in Gaza, but probably less than 20,000. That hardly seems like a genocide, given a war in a crowded urban area. I do wonder whether you think that Israel has no right to defend itself against people who have launched 15,000 rockets into Israel in the last five months, not to mention crossing the border and attacking unarmed civilians.
Do some research on the term ‘anti-semitic’. Without that history, you might have an interesting point of view. However, in light of what antisemitism actually means in practice over decades, your comment seems misguided, ignorant, and to my ears harmful. Oh, and look up genocide, methinks (nay, meknows ;) you’re wrong there too and using it based on your own anti-Jewish point of view.
Here we go again. Another hard core zionist with readinjg and listening disabilities claiming without evidence the contrary of the ICJ's well-evidenced preliminary finding of "plausible genocide" carried out by the IDF. And then because I cite that finding, Fulton deems me anti-Jewish---a typical Ashkenazi move speaking for all the independent branches of Judaism and claiming leadership of them.. So wrong and even lacking in nuance. I am certainly not anti-falasha, anti-sephardic, anti-hasidic, anti-lubavitcher, all of whom -not to mention the ultra-orthodox who are refusing military service specifically because an IDF culture of genocide is incompatible with their yeshiva studies. Devotees of these types odf Jews might have the same standpoint as I do about Israeli (and primarily Israeli Ashkenazi ) genocide. Tell you what ,let's compromise and call me anti. Israeli Ashkenazi, who are not very semitic anyway.
Funny. I was polite in suggesting you might want to look harder at the AS definition and you respond with a put down. Classic. And then you use a lot of words for “I still don’t understand what genocide is.” And BTW there is serious talk in Israel about the lack of fairness of the Haredi skipping out on serving and making changes to that. Sephardi have high rates of support for Likud and other right-leaning parties. And, none of the groups you mention, as well as the foreign workers murdered, would have gotten a pass on 10/7 and they wouldn’t if it happened again - regardless of what you think is their position on ‘genocide.’ And you think what is happening in Gaza now is anywhere in the same neighborhood nay universe of the Shoah, Rwanda, Armenian, the Killing Fields…You’re joking right? That’s got to be it.
So here’s how I understand your stance: you’d willingly sacrifice your children by not retaliating against your murderous neighbor - who has said he won’t stop until you and your children are dead - for fear of hurting/killing his innocent children?
Terminating the threat is the moral necessity. You’d do the same to protect your own, and if you respond and say you would let your loved ones perish and not do what it takes to protect them even if it means other innocents have to die (which is not the definition of genocide and is what Hamas uses to turn the ‘global immorals against Israel), based on the vociferousness of your reply to me, I don’t believe you.
Whoa. A natural law, reflected in statutory American law in all 50 states is that self-defense is a limited right. No law allows an settler aggrieved by a bloody attack to go after not only the attacker, but also his wife, children, grandparents, neighbors, friends, acquaintances, the attacker's grocery store clerk, his previoius teacher, the man who walked on the same side of the street last month and the person who has a pet dog of the same race. This is the problem with the IDF that South Africa boldly took up and the ICJ which issued an injunction restraining the IDF, as if the IDF would be restrained when it was getting a surplus of weapons for killing civilians from the Biden Administration.. In short I woiuld NOT committ genocide under the circumstances of Oct. 7. America did not commit genocide followinjg 9/11. Rage and personal loss are not excuses for genocide. Since WW2 enlightened people stimulated internarional treaties prohibiting disproportionate killing of civilians. These laws of war are called International Humanitarian law. Israel committed itself to this Treaty/Law in 1949. Yet Israel disobeys whenever treaty obligations are deemed inconvenient. The ICJ has issued a prelininary ruling finding it "plausibel" so far to categorize the -IDF and its government as war criminals commiting genocide. The treaty defines "genocide". . Instead of being a slave to an ideology of zionism and looking for any argument to defend it, why not google International Humanitarian Law and Genocide Convention. Actually Dershowitz has not done this either
Hmmm. You miss the whole meaning of intent. The IDF is not targeting the whole list of innocents you mention. Collateral damage, while horrible, is a reasonable expectation of removing the threat…and you dodged my question about how you’d personally handle the situation…bringing it down to the personal helps clarify the moral necessity.
If Israel had a genocidal intent like so many of its enemies seem to have toward it, it could end Gaza quite quickly. And Palestinian population seems to keep growing. The math doesn’t support your argument. You also seem to want to find evil among Israelis/Jews when the vast majority that I know would be open to sharing. If the Palestinians had recognized the legitimacy and right of Israel’s founding, and had also decided to share and to build their own State, they’d likely be the most successful ’non-oil reliant’ Arabs in MENA. And Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world would be better for it. Instead there’s some sort of wicked belief that the Jews have no indigenous rights despite a plethora of archaeological, historical, cultural and religious proof that binds them to this area. Really? We can’t figure a way to share it? We’re all on this minuscule flying rock through space and this is the best we got?! It’s really, truly exasperating and disappointing. I try to be as objective as I can and recognize there have been errors committed - even heinous ones - but I just can’t get over the intransigence of the Arab position…after 75 years. There are very talented Palestinians who have withered on the vine because of this intransigence. Israel has built an enormous success that could have benefited an even larger, broader population across countries, cultures etc. Shame.
Excellent analysis. However, many children of liberal Jews have not figured this out. Obvious example. You are personally non grata at Harvard. I went to a selective private school with no quotas whatsoever. Everything was based on merit and there was No DEA garbage. In my day, it was a majority Jewish school. Today it is nearly all Asians. They get it, children of liberal Jews do not.
What comes to my mind after agreeing with this column about meritocracy is a fantastic organic chemist, Dr. James Tour from Rice University. He is Jewish descent and reaches out to help university students from minority groups start businesses with their inventions! (e.g. amazing graphine and it's multiple uses!)
This is also going on against Whites. First they came for the Whites... then they came for the Jews... [or reverse the order]. It's racism and discrimination no matter what.
C'mon Alan. The Golden Age is a long, long way from its discontinuation. There is of course no perceptible change economically; the Mega Group, the billionaires' group known for sponsoring Jeffrey Epstein, is alive, well and still both very wealthy and mega-influential. Significantly AIPAC's foreign agent activity is not at all diminished, and actually has intensified. AIPAC, maintains its Capitol Hill purchasing power by owning the votes regarding Israel of a big majority of elected officials in the House of Representatives, the Senate and going further to include decision-makers and the managers in the Executuve Branch.
It is both tiresome and irrelevant for you to reach back to your grandfather's time in Khazar areas of Tsarist Russia and turn Frank Zappa's words around, saying "It will happen here"..America has a problem with its "democratic deficit" and it would be decidedly a good thing to restrain AIPAC bribery so America can have control of its foreign policy and strategic activitiesd.
There is a famous (or infamous) adage regarding the Jews that left Europe for America... From the ship, the Jew would look back on Europe and say "Goodbye G-d I am going to America" .It is obvious that Jews flock to Judaism in times of trouble but take on the attributes of any country that allows the harbor. As to the reverse... Jews were warring against each other in Jerusalem even as the Romans were breaking down the walls to butcher them all. Blame Jewish family life. Thank G--d for the like of Chabad !!
DEI will destroy the market economy. It is not possible to have equality of outcome and a free market. The two are incompatible. You cannot have quotas and a free market.
You have been voting for socialism all your life.
You already destroyed the market economy when you votes for clinton, gore, obama, clinton again, and Biden. You have fully centralized industry and increased barriers to entry.
Perhaps you ought to be apologizing to Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, and so many others that tried to save America from people like you. People who were good hearted, relatively moderate, but didnt understand a damn thing about economics.
And where, precisely, is antisemitism brewing on the "hard right"? Who is the hard right? According to the NYT the hard right is anyone who disagrees with them, including Jordan Peterson, and your former student Ted Cruz.
Name one person that is "hard right". Do you mean MAGA? The 70M people that support non woke policies, fiscal responsibilty, border security, safe streets and homes, and a free market are "hard right"? Is a non interventionist foreign policy "hard right"?
Are you referring to the small group of neo-nazis marching, the same actors hired by the Southern poverty law center?
Do you mean Alex Jones, the guy who rails against the deep state, klaus schwab, and the military industrial complex? Kennedy and Eisenhower expressed similar concerns. Are they "hard right"?
Can you name one person? Who is the leader of this "hard right" movement?
I wish I could Like this a 100x.
Alex Jones is an antisemite and yes he's hard right. There's a difference between the likes of him and conservatives. Just like the hard left and mainstream liberals are not the same. The democrat party today is controlled by outright Marxists. Don't be mad at Dershowitz, he's maintained his traditional liberal and civil libertarian pro-American views. BTW, when did being against our military become a "conservative" value?
I agree 100%. Good article. As Ronald Reagan once said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Have you ever listened to Paul Harvey's "Freedom to Chains"? You would dig it...Your comment reminded me of Harvey's "Freedom to Chains" from I'm guessing around the time of Reagan's "A Time for Choosing" TV Special
The enemies of Jews are enemies of the white race in general.Jews are simply an identified substrate of white people, and yes I know there are a few Black and Asian Jews, but the many Jews I have known have known are white, By that I mean there are Spanish Jews, Italian Jews, French Jews, German Jews and Scandinavian Jews all for the most part indistinguishable from the area in which they live of originated, indistinguishable from white people and have the same diversity as their fellow white people. Some Jews may think that they are in another category, neither white nor brown or black, but Jews. In My Opinion they are fools. My point is that all whites are being discriminated against, all whites are being humiliated by DEI and CRT, and we must all unite on pushing back. Killing DEI, CRT and other Marxist creeds is a goal that must be shared by all whites including Jews, for if they destroy the Jews we are next on the woke,connie, Leftist menu.
My daughter has sent me a number of Instagram links, such as @jewhatedb, that show that antisemitism is rampant and widespread throughout social media, places of employment, academia, and everyday life. I imagine some of this has been in reaction to the Israel-Hamas war, but I believe that these people were always antisemitic but now feel justified to be open about it in public. Definitely the "Golden Age" for Jews in America is gone.
Somehow Alan separates Jews from the rest of the white population and fails to understand that Jews are just one of the targets of the woke, commie Leftists. Yes, they stand out and there is NO ADA for non-Jews. If you truly want to stop antisemitism you have to stop DEI and CRT.
Some people vociferously oppose and disrespect the Arab Christian and Muslim branch of the semitic family. Yet these people react predictably with the epithet "Anti-semitic" when the _Jewish branch of the family is condemned for its obvious participation in genocide. Is it not grammatically correct at least to apply a different epthet instead? After all, those Jews committing and supporting the current genocide should at least be categorized as "antisemitic" to the Arab branch of the family.
Check your dictionary. Antisemitism only means Jew-hatred. The term was coined in the 19th century by Wilhelm Marrs who sought to coin a more scientific term for Jew-hatred. Of course, Jews can hate Arabs, just as Arabs can hate Jews. I'm still a little mystified why anyone would classify what is going on in Gaza as a genocide. That seems a very inflammatory term, unless you think all war is genocidal. In 1967, there were 150,000 residents of Gaza and today there are over 2,000,000. It's hard to know how many civilians have been killed in Gaza, but probably less than 20,000. That hardly seems like a genocide, given a war in a crowded urban area. I do wonder whether you think that Israel has no right to defend itself against people who have launched 15,000 rockets into Israel in the last five months, not to mention crossing the border and attacking unarmed civilians.
Some people are vociferously out of contact with reality.
Do some research on the term ‘anti-semitic’. Without that history, you might have an interesting point of view. However, in light of what antisemitism actually means in practice over decades, your comment seems misguided, ignorant, and to my ears harmful. Oh, and look up genocide, methinks (nay, meknows ;) you’re wrong there too and using it based on your own anti-Jewish point of view.
Here we go again. Another hard core zionist with readinjg and listening disabilities claiming without evidence the contrary of the ICJ's well-evidenced preliminary finding of "plausible genocide" carried out by the IDF. And then because I cite that finding, Fulton deems me anti-Jewish---a typical Ashkenazi move speaking for all the independent branches of Judaism and claiming leadership of them.. So wrong and even lacking in nuance. I am certainly not anti-falasha, anti-sephardic, anti-hasidic, anti-lubavitcher, all of whom -not to mention the ultra-orthodox who are refusing military service specifically because an IDF culture of genocide is incompatible with their yeshiva studies. Devotees of these types odf Jews might have the same standpoint as I do about Israeli (and primarily Israeli Ashkenazi ) genocide. Tell you what ,let's compromise and call me anti. Israeli Ashkenazi, who are not very semitic anyway.
Funny. I was polite in suggesting you might want to look harder at the AS definition and you respond with a put down. Classic. And then you use a lot of words for “I still don’t understand what genocide is.” And BTW there is serious talk in Israel about the lack of fairness of the Haredi skipping out on serving and making changes to that. Sephardi have high rates of support for Likud and other right-leaning parties. And, none of the groups you mention, as well as the foreign workers murdered, would have gotten a pass on 10/7 and they wouldn’t if it happened again - regardless of what you think is their position on ‘genocide.’ And you think what is happening in Gaza now is anywhere in the same neighborhood nay universe of the Shoah, Rwanda, Armenian, the Killing Fields…You’re joking right? That’s got to be it.
So here’s how I understand your stance: you’d willingly sacrifice your children by not retaliating against your murderous neighbor - who has said he won’t stop until you and your children are dead - for fear of hurting/killing his innocent children?
Terminating the threat is the moral necessity. You’d do the same to protect your own, and if you respond and say you would let your loved ones perish and not do what it takes to protect them even if it means other innocents have to die (which is not the definition of genocide and is what Hamas uses to turn the ‘global immorals against Israel), based on the vociferousness of your reply to me, I don’t believe you.
Whoa. A natural law, reflected in statutory American law in all 50 states is that self-defense is a limited right. No law allows an settler aggrieved by a bloody attack to go after not only the attacker, but also his wife, children, grandparents, neighbors, friends, acquaintances, the attacker's grocery store clerk, his previoius teacher, the man who walked on the same side of the street last month and the person who has a pet dog of the same race. This is the problem with the IDF that South Africa boldly took up and the ICJ which issued an injunction restraining the IDF, as if the IDF would be restrained when it was getting a surplus of weapons for killing civilians from the Biden Administration.. In short I woiuld NOT committ genocide under the circumstances of Oct. 7. America did not commit genocide followinjg 9/11. Rage and personal loss are not excuses for genocide. Since WW2 enlightened people stimulated internarional treaties prohibiting disproportionate killing of civilians. These laws of war are called International Humanitarian law. Israel committed itself to this Treaty/Law in 1949. Yet Israel disobeys whenever treaty obligations are deemed inconvenient. The ICJ has issued a prelininary ruling finding it "plausibel" so far to categorize the -IDF and its government as war criminals commiting genocide. The treaty defines "genocide". . Instead of being a slave to an ideology of zionism and looking for any argument to defend it, why not google International Humanitarian Law and Genocide Convention. Actually Dershowitz has not done this either
Hmmm. You miss the whole meaning of intent. The IDF is not targeting the whole list of innocents you mention. Collateral damage, while horrible, is a reasonable expectation of removing the threat…and you dodged my question about how you’d personally handle the situation…bringing it down to the personal helps clarify the moral necessity.
If Israel had a genocidal intent like so many of its enemies seem to have toward it, it could end Gaza quite quickly. And Palestinian population seems to keep growing. The math doesn’t support your argument. You also seem to want to find evil among Israelis/Jews when the vast majority that I know would be open to sharing. If the Palestinians had recognized the legitimacy and right of Israel’s founding, and had also decided to share and to build their own State, they’d likely be the most successful ’non-oil reliant’ Arabs in MENA. And Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world would be better for it. Instead there’s some sort of wicked belief that the Jews have no indigenous rights despite a plethora of archaeological, historical, cultural and religious proof that binds them to this area. Really? We can’t figure a way to share it? We’re all on this minuscule flying rock through space and this is the best we got?! It’s really, truly exasperating and disappointing. I try to be as objective as I can and recognize there have been errors committed - even heinous ones - but I just can’t get over the intransigence of the Arab position…after 75 years. There are very talented Palestinians who have withered on the vine because of this intransigence. Israel has built an enormous success that could have benefited an even larger, broader population across countries, cultures etc. Shame.
Excellent analysis. However, many children of liberal Jews have not figured this out. Obvious example. You are personally non grata at Harvard. I went to a selective private school with no quotas whatsoever. Everything was based on merit and there was No DEA garbage. In my day, it was a majority Jewish school. Today it is nearly all Asians. They get it, children of liberal Jews do not.
“Jewish doctors are still saving lives” - not for long. Check the data regarding Jews admitted to medical school , now and for the past few years.
Sadly the free market and free-enterprise are rapidly fading from America’s list of values. I welcome professor Dershowitz to the ranks of liberals.
What comes to my mind after agreeing with this column about meritocracy is a fantastic organic chemist, Dr. James Tour from Rice University. He is Jewish descent and reaches out to help university students from minority groups start businesses with their inventions! (e.g. amazing graphine and it's multiple uses!)
Please look him up and invest in his work.
You should see what is happening to the WASPs.
This is also going on against Whites. First they came for the Whites... then they came for the Jews... [or reverse the order]. It's racism and discrimination no matter what.
C'mon Alan. The Golden Age is a long, long way from its discontinuation. There is of course no perceptible change economically; the Mega Group, the billionaires' group known for sponsoring Jeffrey Epstein, is alive, well and still both very wealthy and mega-influential. Significantly AIPAC's foreign agent activity is not at all diminished, and actually has intensified. AIPAC, maintains its Capitol Hill purchasing power by owning the votes regarding Israel of a big majority of elected officials in the House of Representatives, the Senate and going further to include decision-makers and the managers in the Executuve Branch.
It is both tiresome and irrelevant for you to reach back to your grandfather's time in Khazar areas of Tsarist Russia and turn Frank Zappa's words around, saying "It will happen here"..America has a problem with its "democratic deficit" and it would be decidedly a good thing to restrain AIPAC bribery so America can have control of its foreign policy and strategic activitiesd.
There is a famous (or infamous) adage regarding the Jews that left Europe for America... From the ship, the Jew would look back on Europe and say "Goodbye G-d I am going to America" .It is obvious that Jews flock to Judaism in times of trouble but take on the attributes of any country that allows the harbor. As to the reverse... Jews were warring against each other in Jerusalem even as the Romans were breaking down the walls to butcher them all. Blame Jewish family life. Thank G--d for the like of Chabad !!
I refuse to believe that is the future. Resistance is growing daily and when the pot boils over they will be consumed.