oatmeal<p>Quoting Chaim Levinson: "A Jew who votes for the Republican Party is a suicidal Jew"</p><p>[...] There is nothing more dangerous to the Jewish people than the rise of fascist populists, even if they are 'pro-Israel'. The entire essence and being of populists is to arouse and encourage crudeness, simplicity, brutishness, and poverty of spirit, hatred between parts of society as a substitute for seriousness and relevance, for complexity and social processes. It is the weapon of the unsophisticated to reach a position of power. And even if for a moment it seems that Jews and Israelis are on the 'right side' of the populists, it's only for a moment. Because Jews are always the stranger, the other and the 'them', the exploitative global elite, and in an instant all this positive energy will turn against the Jewish people. A Jew who votes for the Republican Party is a suicidal Jew, who with his own hands brings to power the most disturbed, extreme, and violent currents in American society. He thinks he's friends with the mafia boss who will take care of him, and doesn't understand that he's next in line to pay protection money.</p><p>Hebrew <a href="https://www.haaretz.co.il/gallery/galleryfriday/chaimlevinson/2024-09-11/ty-article/.highlight/00000191-dbf2-dac5-a5b3-dff655d80000" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">haaretz.co.il/gallery/galleryf</span><span class="invisible">riday/chaimlevinson/2024-09-11/ty-article/.highlight/00000191-dbf2-dac5-a5b3-dff655d80000</span></a> or <a href="https://archive.ph/6GVS5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/6GVS5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>histodons</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harriswaltz2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harriswaltz2024</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProIsraelLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProIsraelLobby</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ADL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Netanyahu</span></a></p>