The evil that is now running rampant across our country is ostensibly directed at Israel, but Israel is only the pretext, a target of convenience. We have seen in recent months that “anti-Zionism” is merely a cover for anti-Semitism. If Israel disappeared tomorrow, the anti-Semites here, in Western Europe and elsewhere, wouldn’t miss a beat.
But it doesn’t stop there. In Iranian and al Qaeda ideology, Israel is only the Little Satan. America is the Great Satan. So, what would happen if someone brought an American flag to an anti-Israel demonstration? A few brave souls tried it:
We went to a “pro-Palestine” rally with only American flags to see how people would react. The responses we got should sadden and anger anyone who cares about America, democracy, liberalism, and peace. Clearly, this is not just about Israel. pic.twitter.com/yZg3QF4Foh
— Elisha (Lishi) Baker (@LishiBaker) April 16, 2024
The al Qaeda and Iranian dogma that America is the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan has now been adopted by the American left, including most of the Democratic Party. In Minnesota, where I live, the Little Satan/Great Satan ideology has been endorsed by our state government and is being taught to all public school students.
Under new K-12 Social Studies standards adopted in January 2024, public school students in Minnesota will be told that the great evil of world history is “settler colonialism.” And it turns out that, despite the countless instances of invasion and migration through human history, there have been only two instances of “settler colonialism.” Imagine that! The two instances are, of course, Israel and the United States.
So, if you thought that the Ayatollah Khomeini and Osama bin Laden were hopeless cranks whose ideas could never catch on, think again. They are accepted by mobs in New York City, at MIT, at Harvard, at Columbia, at Penn, and so on. Worse, in some states at least, they are accepted by the liberals who run the public schools.