An old Russian joke tells about a poor peasant whose better-off neighbor has just gotten a cow. In his anguish, the peasant cries out to God for relief from his distress. When God replies and asks him what he wants him to do, the peasant replies, “Kill the cow.” (Charles Colson)
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Otto Fors is a Left Voice columnist who can barely conceal his antisemitism. He apparently believes that if he only substitutes the word "Jew" with "Zionist," then he is somehow rendered innocent of being antisemitic. Demanding "kill all the Jews" is too blatant, but executing all Zionists is perfectly A-OK. The conceit is while "Jew" is a racial/ethnic/religious category, "Zionist" is a political opinion--one that is punishable by death. Any fair-minded person can see through the charade.
Mr. Fors contributes a piece in Left Voice with the sub-heading Establishment Democratic candidates are being defeated by anti-Zionist challengers. The movement for Palestine has made support for Israel toxic — let’s keep it up! There are at least two things wrong with this:
- "Anti-Zionist challengers" should be replaced with "anti-Jewish challengers."
- "Movement for Palestine" should be replaced with "movement for Hamas."
Hamas is loudly, proudly and unambiguously antisemitic. Their key demand is Free Palestine, which means a Palestine that is cleansed of Jews. The Jews should be expelled, or better yet, exterminated. Anybody who supports Hamas--as Mr. Fors does--supports the extermination of the Jews.
Mr. Fors quotes former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who claims his opinion is "grounded in a sincere commitment to Israel’s future security and prosperity." In our comrade's opinion this convicts him of "Zionism." But why can't Mr. Fors champion Israeli prosperity? For any prosperity is better than none at all. The Arab populations in Israel and the West Bank are definitely richer than their counterparts in other countries because Israel is prosperous. Does Mr. Fors really think they'd be better off poorer?
And that's what reminds me of the Russian joke. Like the Russian peasant, Mr. Fors doesn't care at all if Arabs are impoverished. He just wants to kill the Israeli "cow," ie, the economy. He is not motivated by justice or well-being--his passion is purely envy. He doesn't hate the Jews because they're evil, but instead because they're successful.
Mr. Fors identifies himself as "...a college professor in the New York area." I googled his name and discovered no mention of him on any college faculty list. Sometimes adjunct faculty aren't listed by name, or perhaps he's an unemployed professor. Either way, the man is not successful in his chosen career. Presumably he has a Ph.D. degree, which means he's invested a huge amount of time in academia, and likely has no other skill that qualifies him for any other job.
Higher education is a shrinking or possibly dying industry, beset with all kinds of problems: demographics, artificial intelligence, and political polarization to name just a few. Getting a job in higher ed is really, really hard these days, so it's no surprise that Mr. Fors is a failure. Though he should've known better--all those years spent in a useless Ph.D. program should have been enough to teach him a thing or two.
Anyway, Mr. Fors looks up, and what he sees are a whole bunch of aging tenured professors in whose footsteps he wishes to follow. A lot (perhaps 30%) of those old folks are Jewish, who entered the profession (like me) a long time ago when the odds were much better. And our comrade is just green with envy! That is why he hates the Jews.
He's not alone. The two Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) ladies who upset longstanding Democratic incumbents in the recent New York congressional primaries are both rabidly antisemitic.
According to the NY Post
Scandal-plagued far-left congressional hopeful Darializa Avila Chevalier attended an anti-Israeli rally in the Big Apple one day after Hamas’ horrific Oct. 7 massacre in Israel, according to reports.
The 32-year-old radical with a twisted history of bashing Israel joined a hateful Times Square mob on Oct. 8, 2023, that torched the Israeli flag and flashed swastikas after hundreds of Jews were slaughtered by Islamic terrorists in a surprise attack on the Jewish state.
Chevalier, who is gunning for Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat’s seat in New York’s 13th House District, justified her attendance by declaring she is simply a lifelong advocate of Palestine.
Her colleague, Claire Valdez, is equally against the Jews, demanding an "end to the genocide." Odd because there is no genocide (only a small fraction of Gaza's 2.3 million inhabitants have died in the war), and the suggestion evokes the medieval blood libel against the Jews--that Jews suck the blood of gentile babies as part of their secret rites.
Anyway, will it surprise us that both of these ladies are frustrated academicians? From Wikipedia (footnotes omitted):
Avila Chevalier began a PhD program in sociology at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, becoming a doctoral candidate by 2025. Her research has focused on immigration law and policy and incarceration in the United States, especially on the ways Black immigrants from Latin America have been affected by the US criminal justice system and deportation.
Valdez received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studying painting and art history. She worked a series of service jobs, including at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and Trader Joe's, before moving to New York City to pursue a career in art.
Neither these ladies nor Mr. Fors are members of the oppressed working class. Instead they're overeducated, no-longer-young adults who have discovered that all their book-learning has not delivered on the promise of upper middle class jobs in the professoriate. They take it out on the Jews.
Some months ago I read a terrifying article in Left Voice authored by Otto Fors. It described pro-Hamas demonstrations in the New York suburb of West Orange, NJ, which Mr. Fors described as "heavily Zionist." As mentioned, Zionist is his synonym for Jewish, and he is correct--West Orange is approximately 30% Jewish, including a large Orthodox community. According to Mr. Fors, the "Zionists" objected to pro-Hamas demonstrations in their public parks.
And they're right to be upset! Hamas' demand is the extermination of Israel's Jews, and if you take their slogan Globalize the Intifada literally, they demand the extermination of all Jews around the world, including those in W. Orange. In Mr. Fors' telling, the Jews were unreasonably objecting to the such antisemites rallying in public parks. The circumstance reminds one of Skokie, IL, where back in 1978 a group of Neo-Nazi protesters wanted to march through the Jewish suburb.
I made a mental note of the article, intending to comment on it, only to discover that it had been scrubbed from the web. Perhaps my memory deceives me--maybe there was no such article? Maybe Mr. Fors didn't write it? If somebody knows better, please message me in the comments. But I think the mask slipped too far--the piece was just too obviously an embarrassing expression of rank antisemitism.
Because the claque of failed academics who write for Left Voice hate the Jews--Otto Fors first among them. It's a passion born of envy.
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