For years, progressives have poo-pooed the claim that there’s any such thing as a “War on Christmas.” The comrades have nothing against the holiday—they just want to make sure that the sacred separation of church and state is firmly maintained, as the Founding Fathers intended.
Yeah, right.
Christmas 2023 has come and gone, and for most Americans the day passed peacefully. But not in New York City and certain other urban centers, where the pro-Hamas, pro-genocide wing of progressivism went all out to spoil the holiday in the name of “Palestine.”
“No Christmas as Usual!” these antisemitic goons chanted as they marched down New York City’s Fifth Avenue on December 23. And on the day itself, the NYC demonstrations turned violent. “Christmas is cancelled here!” the activists screamed. Their demonstration devolved into a riot. Police officers who were attempting to control the situation were assaulted, several being injured. The NYPD was compelled to declare a Level Three police mobilization and by the time it was all over more than 150 rioters had been arrested.
It was much the same story in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and elsewhere around the country. And reading the news I found myself wondering: What’s the point?
Are these “activists” so clueless as to imagine that their disruptive and often violent demonstrations are furthering the cause of “Palestine”? When they chant “From the River to the Sea!” are they unaware that we know that they mean by it? Do they not realize that their antisemitism and violence prefigure the character of an independent Palestinian state? Perhaps not. The mob mentality embodies the base elements of human nature: ignorance, intolerance, groupthink, hatred, the glorification of violence. The mob, in a word, is stupid.
Behind these mobs, however, there lurks a cadre of ideologues, living and dead, who’ve supplied the ideas that, boiled down, fuel the current outburst of leftist antisemitism. Their names are familiar: Frantz Falon, Jacques Derrida, Edward Said, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Michelle Fine, Ibram X. Kendi, Robin DiAngelo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. The ideas they represent—variously anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, institutional racism, white supremacy, antiracism—are linked by a concept, invented by Crenshaw, called intersectionality. To define it briefly, that concept is based on the paranoid conviction that everything is connected, even Gaza and Christmas.
The current pro-Palestinian movement in America and Europe shows how intersectionality works out in practice. It is claimed, for instance, that “black people” in America and “brown people” in the Middle East are both being crushed under the heel of “White supremacy.” In the former case, the oppressors are a stereotyped representation of a diverse group: Americans who may broadly be categorized as “Caucasian.” In the latter case, the White supremacist oppressors are the Jews. So while it may seem surprising that Black Lives Matter espouses antisemitism, really its position makes perfect sense—in intersectional terms.
Now of course it’s true that most American Jews are nominally white, being descendants of Jewish immigrants from Europe: the Ashkenazi. But outside of the United States and Europe there are many Jews who can in no way be considered white, such as those of Ethiopian origin, who are unambiguously black. Nor can the Mizrahi Jews—those who have lived in Israel since time immemorial or trace their ancestry back to various Arab countries—be considered white. The same is true of the Sephardic Jews, who lived for centuries in Spain and Portugal before being expelled in the late fifteenth century. As for the Ashkenazi, DNA evidence shows that to a greater or lesser extent, they’re related to their Mizrahi and Sephardic brethren. The Jews, therefore, constitute an identifiable non-white racial/ethnic identity and to associate them with “White supremacy” is the crudest kind of racist claptrap.
But down among the mob, these fine distinctions disappear behind the scrum of waving posters and Palestinian flags. Intersectionality has slotted the Jews into the demonology of po-mo progressivism. That being done, the most egregious lies can be told, the most baseless charges can be leveled, the most fantastic tales of “genocide” and “war crimes” can be broadcast. Reality is inverted. The genocidal death cult that perpetrated a bloody slaughter of the Jews on October 7, 2023, is transformed into a phalanx of heroic men, vanquishing the oppressors of their county; the victims, including old people, women, and children, are reviled as “settler colonialists,” all of whom got what was coming, so screw them.
That’s the message that was served up to Americans for the 2023 Christmas season—a message that says nothing good about those who bore it into our streets or those on whose behalf it was delivered. A Palestinian state? No, thank you. There’s an oversupply of evil in the world as it is.
Intersectionality is incredibly racist when you think about it: for it to work, all White people must be exactly the same, and so must all black people. That is the only way that a White homeless man can be "oppressing" Oprah Winfrey. To see the insanity of that belief, you need to see the homeless man and the black billionaire as individuals.
Disgusting