July 24, 2003

A FAILED LOVE STORY: JEWS AND THE LEFT

        "Love is a madness" wrote Shakespeare, and surely there is no more telling illustration than the passion of Jews for left-liberalism. Once, when liberalism was young, it was a reciprocated love. That was many, many years ago, before liberalism became fatally infected by utopian fantasies, requiring scapegoats. Here is a remarkable essay by the Italian journalist Fiamma Nierenstein, a former Communist, who awoke from her irrational dreams and records her subsequent intellectual and emotional journey. Liberalism, as much as Communism, is the God that failed. She notes: "...The Left blessed the Jews as the victim "par excellence," always a great partner in the struggle for the rights of the weak against the wicked. In return for being coddled, published, filmed, considered artists, intellectuals and moral judges, Jews, even during the Soviet anti-Semitic persecutions, gave the Left moral support and invited it to cry with them at Holocaust memorials. Today the game is clearly over. The left has proved itself the real cradle of contemporary anti-Semitism..."
        When will America's liberal Jews awake?

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