Very well said. We live on West coast, but my husband is from NE, we know Brookline area well. What you have expressed is true in all blue woke, “progressive” areas. I’m disgusted by the abhorrent antisemitism on the left. IMO, Jews should not be afraid. We all should be standing up for ourselves and speaking out loudly & clearly! Thank you for doing that with this letter.
At a forum sponsored by the so-called “Brookline Peace Coalition,” I did not hear one of the five speakers defend Israel’s right to exist as a state for the Jewish people, even as they all passionately called for a Palestinian state.
In my opinion, the "Brookline Peace Coalition" is precisely the kind of "progressives" whom this column addresses. But that is strictly my own personal opinion.
That so many white, Christian/Catholic/Jewish and so many black people have turned from 'peaceful marches for peace and for a ceasefire' to violent calls for the destruction of Israel, equating a tiny country of fewer than 9 million (the size of London) under threat from its neighbours on all sides with an Imperialistic Colonial oppressor is down to group brainwashing and hysteria. Few of these self-righteous protesters are giving money to Palestine or relief efforts. Instead, they are causing millions of dollars/pounds/euros worth of damage and wasting police time. Hamas is not listening (just laughing at the progressive gullibility) and Netanyahu certainly isn't. Easy to sit at home and rant about genocide without understanding the meaning of the word. For the liberal left, all capitalist countries and democracies are Zionist. They want the right to protest, to speak out, to practice their own religion, to be educated, to be gay, to be trans, to have an abortion, to be actors and dancers, to be a woman and single etc, but they condemn Israel, the only country in the Middle East where such rights exist. What hypocrites!
Thank you for eloquently expressing what is on all of our minds. I left Brookline after living there for 60+ years because I no longer recognize the town in which I grew up and went to school; it has become a hostile environment for anyone who doesn't toe the progressive line, and buy into the obtuse progressive way of thinking, which now includes acceptance of open anti-semitism. Now I know what it must have been like for Jews living in Germany prior to the Holocaust. Thank you Brookline for showing me that "progressive" thinking and Nazism aren't ideologically that far from one another.
Very well said. We live on West coast, but my husband is from NE, we know Brookline area well. What you have expressed is true in all blue woke, “progressive” areas. I’m disgusted by the abhorrent antisemitism on the left. IMO, Jews should not be afraid. We all should be standing up for ourselves and speaking out loudly & clearly! Thank you for doing that with this letter.
That was amazing! Things I have said over and over in pieces are all here in one concise essay
Same! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Thank you and well said.
At a forum sponsored by the so-called “Brookline Peace Coalition,” I did not hear one of the five speakers defend Israel’s right to exist as a state for the Jewish people, even as they all passionately called for a Palestinian state.
In my opinion, the "Brookline Peace Coalition" is precisely the kind of "progressives" whom this column addresses. But that is strictly my own personal opinion.
That so many white, Christian/Catholic/Jewish and so many black people have turned from 'peaceful marches for peace and for a ceasefire' to violent calls for the destruction of Israel, equating a tiny country of fewer than 9 million (the size of London) under threat from its neighbours on all sides with an Imperialistic Colonial oppressor is down to group brainwashing and hysteria. Few of these self-righteous protesters are giving money to Palestine or relief efforts. Instead, they are causing millions of dollars/pounds/euros worth of damage and wasting police time. Hamas is not listening (just laughing at the progressive gullibility) and Netanyahu certainly isn't. Easy to sit at home and rant about genocide without understanding the meaning of the word. For the liberal left, all capitalist countries and democracies are Zionist. They want the right to protest, to speak out, to practice their own religion, to be educated, to be gay, to be trans, to have an abortion, to be actors and dancers, to be a woman and single etc, but they condemn Israel, the only country in the Middle East where such rights exist. What hypocrites!
Thank you for writing this -- honesty and facts go a long way towards civil discourse, and people have to be willing to listen with an open heart.
Thank you for eloquently expressing what is on all of our minds. I left Brookline after living there for 60+ years because I no longer recognize the town in which I grew up and went to school; it has become a hostile environment for anyone who doesn't toe the progressive line, and buy into the obtuse progressive way of thinking, which now includes acceptance of open anti-semitism. Now I know what it must have been like for Jews living in Germany prior to the Holocaust. Thank you Brookline for showing me that "progressive" thinking and Nazism aren't ideologically that far from one another.