The antisemites on the right

Very interesting comments by Jeffrey Blehar in “The Wail of the Israel Haters“ (National Review):

And as soon as the first Israeli strikes were announced on Thursday, the weirdos scuttled out from behind the woodwork and poured forth over Twitter/X, chirruping angrily and helplessly about Israel, about Jews, and about worldwide conspiracy theories to yoke America to the Zionists. Yes, old-fashioned nuttery was once again out in the open, as all the most obvious suspects ran rampant.

There was Candace Owens — a woman who swears she is not an antisemite even as she “just asks questions” about the myth of Simon of Trent — reverting perfectly to form upon hearing the news: “Get ready, white American men! It’s time for you to go die for Israel again.” There was Tucker Carlson’s favorite “historian,” Darryl “MartyrMade” Cooper, offering prayerful words of consolation to his followers: “Don’t worry, friends: as arrogant and invincible as he may seem, in the end the devil and all his children are cast into the lake of fire.” (Remember, my friends: Cooper — who also believes that Churchill was the villain of World War II and that Europe would have been better off had Hitler won — insists that he is in no way an antisemite.)

As if to top them all, purported comedian Dave Smith — last seen sidekicking as a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist spouting accusations of Israeli genocide in Gaza on Joe Rogan’s hyperpopular podcast — went one step further. Referring to reports that Trump is fully supporting Israel’s action, he called Trump a traitor to his own movement:

If this is true, Trump is the most impotent b**** of a leader imaginable. He’s allowing one side of a war, who clearly wants to drag us in, to lie about our involvement while not correcting the record.

Either way, Trump has betrayed MAGA and every principle of America First. He is no longer worthy of any of our support. He probably never was.

I am as worried about the potential outcome in the Middle East as any sane man would be. (In particular, I would be very careful about breezily calling for immediate “regime change” without further consideration of what a post-mullah Iran, brought to heel by Israeli military action, would look like.) But it does my heart good to see all the worst people absolutely enraged, and in such repulsively sputtering ways, about Israel’s success to date.

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For those who don’t know, Dave Smith is a total moron. I’ve heard him “debate” on the Israel-Gaza conflict and he knows nothing. He would babble about a two-state solution on the popular 1967 borders until he realised Egypt and Jordan occupied Gaza and Judea and Samaria from 1948. And even if we pretend that there was a country called “Palestine”, and that we could revert to the 1967 borders, or even the 1948 borders; why did the Arabs reject every single partition plan before these borders were demarcated and tried to take the entirety of the land by force? No answer. These people parrot “ending the occupation” or “from the river to the sea” which is an antisemitic dog whistle. It means the eradication of Israel and the Jews. 

Tucker Carlson is an isolationist conservative. The problem here is that this inclination is apt to sometimes involve conspiracies about the Jews and world dominion. Tucker did also “interview” Putin and, worst of all, gave Darryl Cooper a platform on his show for his deplorable David Irving historical revisionism of WW2.