"As Tablet magazine noted, the LA protests are being supported by the same progressive alliance of Democratic Party funders, unions and street-level radicals as those other disturbances"
"If the images coming out of Los Angeles this past week seemed familiar, it was no accident. As the left took to the streets of America's second-largest city, images displayed some of the same thuggish tactics, masks, keffiyehs, signs and even flags being waved by those participating in other iterations of the "progressive" mindset that are familiar to the pro-Hamas mobs that have been demonstrating on college campuses since Oct. 7, 2023.
Much like the way Greta Thunberg, the Swedish environmental extremist, switched her focus from trying to destroy the economies of the developed world in the name of "saving the planet" to supporting the destruction of Israel (as seen in her performative stunt trying to sail to Gaza with a paltry amount of goods), so, too, are many American leftists diverting their efforts to another issue, at least temporarily.
For a short while, their priority is not the cause of erasing the Jewish presence "from the river to the sea." Instead, they are proclaiming the importance of open borders and demonizing efforts by President Donald Trump to close them, as well as to deport those who have broken the law by entering and remaining in the United States without permission. And, as with their devotion to the Palestinian cause of eliminating Israel, they are claiming the mantle of "human rights" while doing so.
Crossover riots
The crossover between these causes is no coincidence. The cause of undermining U.S. sovereignty is not as disconnected from the war on Israel as some might think.
Many political liberals, including Jews, may think that open borders and the cause of immigrants, illegal or not —while at the same time opposing Trump —is a religious or political obligation. But the effort to flood the United States with economic migrants from Central and Southern America, and elsewhere, is in no way analogous to the era of Jewish mass immigration to North America or the flight of Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe.
More to the point, the notion that anyone ought to be allowed to cross into the United States, regardless of their legal status, is not a question of human rights. It's an assault on the right of a sovereign nation to defend its people and identity against those who, as the foreign flags being waved as part of the unrest indicate, believe that the American republic deserves no respect because it is an irredeemably racist construct. It's connected to the same toxic woke catechism of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) that has racialized and divided society, along with the toxic neo-Marxist ideas of critical race theory, intersectionality and settler-colonialism that seek to overturn Western civilization and that fuel antisemitism. So, it is little surprise that the LA riots bear a striking resemblance to other protests organized by the left.
It's true that not all of those who are opposing efforts of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to arrest illegal immigrants care about the effort to "free Palestine" and oppose the existence of the one Jewish state on the planet. Indeed, many traditional liberals, including Jews, think there's something immoral about enforcing immigration laws, even when it involves court orders for deportation for people who have already received due process and then some.
The hypocrisy at work here is mind-boggling." . . .Full article...
