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Marxism More Than Antisemitism Is Responsible for University Riots

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For the politically illiterate, the Palestinian cause is an easy sell. Concepts like “genocide,” “occupation,” “ethnic cleansing,” “liberation,” and “free Palestine” have been used to undermine and proselytize students into the political cult that is Marxism. A 3,000-year-old history set against a decades-long ideological campaign would seem overwhelmingly easy enough to paint a clear picture of knowledge. The fact that a Palestinian identity is a synthetic invention and has no basis for legitimate claims goes unnoticed. The radical Left’s dialectical maneuver for political power has exploited Islamism’s October 7 attack on Israel beyond the imagination of many. We are witnessing a low-level, quasi-insurrection at high-profile American university campuses where the existing order is being challenged.

Allan Bloom's classic, The Closing of the American Mind (1987), warned about dangers of curriculum changes, which began in the 1960s and gained a foothold by the 1970s, in the U.S. higher educational system. The Jewish American philosopher argued that this posed a threat to democracy and freedom of thought and expression. The “changes” Bloom noted, all stemmed from intellectual inroads that drew their fire from Marxist Critical Theory. The extension of a series of grievance studies programs with inherent postmodern appendages has succeeded in virtually monopolizing U.S. university courses. There is an ignoramus student body that has been indoctrinated as planned. 

It is disappointing and dangerous to see the bulk of the American political class and media commentators dwelling on the symptoms rather than the cause. The recent passage of the “Antisemitism Awareness Act” in the House of Representatives (still pending Senate approval) is an example of this erroneous perception. This “hate speech” legislation is horrific, as far as a free society is concerned. It curtails freedom of expression, is counterproductive to Israeli interests, and excuses the unwillingness of public officials to enforce existing civil rights laws.

The virulent attacks on Jews and the State of Israel in university campuses are clear, as is the unlawful takeover of public spaces and common university premises. However, the opinion that the protests and attacks on Jewry and the Jewish state are primarily grounded in antisemitism is simplistic and flawed. It overlooks an overarching underlying element that is present and substantiates this action. The context of the Palestinian “liberation” cause is at the heart of what drives the young university Jacobins to fanatism.

Herbert Marcuse, Franz Fanon, Edward Said, and Jean Paul Sartre are more responsible for these subversive actions that are being displayed, than hatred of the Torah, the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible), the Talmud, or Zionism. Critical Post-Colonial Theory, a variant of the Frankfurt School’s concocted Critical Theory series of revolutionary calls to war premised on selected oppressor/oppressed dichotomies, underpins these acts. The British and French Mandates lawfully carved out West Asia and the Middle East from the partition of the Ottoman Empire. The State of Israel came to be, as did the modern-day states of Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. Palestinian Arabs, it should be noted, were also given territory and the opportunity to form a state, but they rejected the offer. The former Soviet Union and the international communist community capitalized on this and immediately partnered with Arab nationalists linked to the geographical zone of Palestine. Thus began the Marxist wars to “free” Palestine and the invention of the labeled Palestinian identity. 

The rogue acts of subversion happening on U.S. campuses are well funded and organized. The money that underwrites many of the groups that are logistically coordinating the vandalism, protests, and public space occupations and destruction is a major donor to far-left groups, causes, and Democratic Party politicians. This includes benefactors of President Joe Biden. Mega tax-exempt structures such as the Tides Foundation, Tides Center, Libra Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have, at different intervals, flowed generous amounts of money to the most aggressive ultra-left movements spearheading the pro-Hamas protests. 

Groups like the Jewish Voice for Peace, IfNotNow, Palestine Legal, Solidaire Action, Climate Justice Alliance, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, and Immigrant Defense Project are some of the field militias that have spearheaded the despicable acts. All have received funding from one or more of the tax-protected donor conglomerates mentioned previously. Who heads these donor organizations? George Soros, Nicholas and Susan Pritzker (heirs of the Hyatt Hotel empire), Bill and Melinda Gates, and David Rockefeller Jr. It is well to note that Soros and the Pritzker’s are Jewish. This should emphasize the point that antisemitism is not the principle instigating factor.

The common denominator of this multidenominational force seeking to disrupt civility and challenge the American democratic order is Marxism, epistemologically, particularly Critical Theory, and globalist socialism, methodologically. In other words, Marxist doctrines are the most suitable intellectual frameworks, considering their emotional appeal. The practical finale is a Fabian socialist-like centralized globalized order. The State of Israel is, for them, part of Western civilization. Israel and non-Marxist Jews embody, according to this Marxist-Islamic alliance, white supremacist, colonialist, and patriarchal structures of power. The domestic problem of terrorist apologia and activism in American universities and cities is Marxism.

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Can a New Minister Turn Around Cuba’s Battered Economy?

Question Joaquín Alonso Vázquez was appointed as Cuba’s economy minister after President Miguel Díaz-Canel fired Alejandro Gil from the position on Feb. 2. Since becoming minister of the economy, Alonso has had the task of presiding over a beleaguered economy and growing public discontent over government policies and rising prices. What has Alonso accomplished so far in the first weeks of his tenure, and what seem to be his principal goals as economy minister? What policies does Alonso need to implement to turn around Cuba’s economic crisis? What role could protests and political instability have on Cuba’s economy and Alonso’s policy aims?

Answer Julio M. Shiling, director of Patria de Martí and the CubanAmerican Voice:

“Cuba has a chronic systemic problem. In the economic sense, this is what János Kornai described in his 1980 monograph, ‘Economics of Shortage.’ Cuban communism has maintained its economy in a socialist enclave, despite its market ventures using state-owned enterprises and concessionary capitalist tools. This has helped the Cuban regime to survive. The Cuban people, pragmatism. The Cuban regime’s economic ministerial replacement is of little relevance. Cuba is still a totalitarian state. Seminal decisions regarding policies, particularly ones that could be consequential, are decided beforehand by the top echelon of power. By the time it reaches the desk of Joaquín Alonso, as was the case with Alejandro Gil, they are simply orders to implement. Not even the Chinese or Vietnamese variants of market socialism appear workable in the Cuban context. This is clearly out of fear of losing power. Corruption is another mainstay in Cuba. It has molded into its essence. At the top levels of government, the pillaging of state assets, as well as the exploitation egregious. Scapegoating is another systemic characteristic. Gil is serving that role now. Cuba is transitioning to a socialist kleptocracy, a Putinism with Cuban characteristics. The people are aware of this scheme, which makes obvious the haves and the have-nots. The protests are a sign of popular discontent beyond recognition. It is a change of system, not a change of economic minister, that is desperately needed.”

Source: www.thedialogue.org/latin-america-advisor-2024-03-29

 

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Biden’s Costly Betrayal

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Appeasing evil has been proven to be historically costly. The Biden presidency, or better expressed, the Biden-Obama regime, has outdone any previous U.S. administration in advancing radical ideologies and their movements and making the world a more dangerous and less free place. Enamored by Shia Islamism and far-left proposals, first Barack Obama and then his proxy Joe Biden have managed to destroy equilibrium and, subsequently, the political ecosystem of the Middle East.

Claiming to have responded to an Israeli attack on the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, a massive air attack was launched by the Islamic Shia dictatorship on Saturday, April 13. Iran launched 320 air assault weaponary consisting of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones. These are serious weapons of war. Had Israel not possessed its emblematic, state-of-the-art missile defense system, the country would have been devastated. The decision by Islamic despotism to take this brazen action marks a pivotal defeat for the West and proof that the U.S. under the current leadership has lost its path.

American foreign policy failures often have catastrophic and long-standing consequences. The Iranian tragedy began when Jimmy Carter betrayed the staunch pro-Western Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, thus enabling the radical Islamist Ruhollah Khomeini to seize power. The U.S. has not learned the lesson that often the medicine is worse than the disease. Dwight Eisenhower made the same mistake with Batista in Cuba and Carter, again, in Nicaragua with Somoza. What followed was much more tyrannical, impoverishing, and costly to democratic order. If you are going to strategize for the tumbling of an authoritarian regime, make sure its replacement will not be a totalitarian one.

From the onset in 1979, the Iranian Shiite dictatorship declared a jihad on the U.S., Israel, and Western civilization. This war has never let up. The Islamic Republic of Iran facilitated its territory and state networks to partner with extremist Sunni movements and far-left regimes to make the world deadlier for democracy. Fortunately, the West was able to count on Israel and moderate Muslim Sunni countries to counterbalance the revolutionary ambitions of radical Islam. Obama sabotaged the delicate Middle East balance by favoring Khomeinist Iran and Islamic terror groups such as Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Hezbollah. The use of Iranian land, money, logistics, and state power to further international jihad, a fused toxic blend of Islamism and Socialism, has had an enormous extraterritorial reach.

When Obama shepherded an infamous deal in 2015 that granted Iran access to an estimated $150 billion, which was made available in 2016, the needed funds for the jihad against the West were found. Money, commodities, and non-liquid financial assets are all fungible. It does not take much brilliance to conclude the enormous value of this transfer of wealth. The fact that the money “belonged” to Iran is irrelevant. It was kept from the coffers of the terrorist Islamic regime by the same rationale that assets are separated from organized crime units and drug cartel warlords. These lawless groups kill people and do terrible things. The U.S. Defense Department had conclusive evidence, as early as July 2015, that Iran was directly responsible for the deaths of over 500 U.S. soldiers by IED artifacts. The testimony of General Joseph S. Dunford, Jr., before the Senate Armed Services Committee confirmed this fact. However, this disturbing information did nothing to dissuade Obama from pursuing this fatal giveaway to Iran.    

Biden, serving as Obama’s surrogate, deconstructed the sanctions that Donald Trump had placed on the Iranian dictatorship. Business was not only returned to usual; it was amplified. Authoritarian but pro-Western states such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates, among others, were pivoted again to the disadvantaged regional position of the Obama days. Iranian radicalism returned to being a pampered and protected American entity in Middle Eastern politics. Not even the audacious October 7 Hamas invasion of Israel and the horrific slaughter and enslavement of Israeli citizens produced a divorce between Biden’s America and Khomeinist Iran.

Hamas has a symbiotic relationship with the Ayatollah regime. Without Iran, it would not have been possible to attack Israel. Despite this known and undisputable fact, Biden granted the Iranian regime a waiver on March 13, 2024, which gave Tehran access to $10 billion. This occurred a full five months after the Hamas invasion and in the middle of Israel’s exercise of its sovereign defense and hostage rescue attempts. Biden’s betrayal does not stop there. It goes on to arrogantly rewrite the rules of engagement in war, configured to benefit the Islamic aggressors.

Barak Ravid of Walla, an Israeli news website, reported and updated on Sunday, April 14, that Biden had told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a telephone call, that the U.S. would not support Israel in a counterattack on Iran. Furthermore, a week earlier, Biden blatantly warned Israel that the U.S. would terminate support if an “immediate ceasefire” was not established, and the Israeli Defense Force withdraw from southern Gaza. Just as Israel is concluding it’s just war against Islamic jihadism, the current American president appears to want to avoid the collapse of Hamas.

During this time of darkness in American political leadership, which is owned by Islamism and the ultra-left, Israel must pursue total victory in Gaza, and it must strike back against the Islamic Republic of Iran. To not follow through with either of the objectives mentioned will only produce deadlier actions from the Islamic aggressors and their Marxist allies. The state of Israel, the lives of Jews and Christians, and the survival of the West are at stake. In the end, American society will not abandon Israel, even if Biden and the Left have already done so.

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