The Democrats’ Problem With Israel
Leftist Cultural Relativism is Killing West Hegemony and How Democrats Don’t Care
Within just the last few days, thousands of disgruntled college students have assembled at various college campuses setting up encampments for prolonged pro-Palestinian demonstrations, prompting faculty members to make public statements on and even shut down encampments after numerous reports of antisemitic activity.
Democrats are noticeably divided over the radicalism quickly metastasizing under the political conditions of this movement. Online Leftist thought leaders are appealing to crowds to eschew any form of violence or confrontation in the face of law enforcement inevitably coming in to clear the encampments. In contrast, figures on the Right are utilizing these events for their ideological benefit as it pertains to the “culture war.” Christopher Rufo, culture war crusader, and self-described “political activist,” clearly demonstrates this sentiment in his personal Substack publication, writing, “This encampment escalation divides the Left, alienates influential supporters, and creates a sense of chaos that will move people against it. The correct response from the Right is to create the conditions for these protests to flourish in blue cities and campuses, while preventing them in red cities and campuses.”
Democrats Fail at Israel Messaging
The Right versus Left ideological divide is merging under the pretense that these demonstrations are uniquely militant and disruptive. However, the real reason is more straightforward albeit awkward to discuss if you are a Democrat. Support for Israel is an issue violently divorcing the Left from itself, causing the Democratic Party to split. Republicans, on the other hand, are mostly united on this issue all but for various fringe online groups. This issue is to the Left what abortion policy is to the Right; inspiring a completely schizophrenic approach towards issue signaling and suggested policy implementation.
For this reason, it has been quite easy for the Right to, with surgical precision, gesticulate towards admonishing the seemingly undisciplined and rather loud population that is college-educated American youth.
Western Suicide
Beyond reprimanding higher education institutions, the pro-Palestinian demonstrations have allowed the Right to finally successfully reveal how national cultural divisions are becoming more difficult to ignore. Since October, protests have only increased and are becoming exceedingly more violent as months pass by. This is being done for no good reason. It is safe to say that most Americans do not understand the Israel-Palestine conflict intimately enough to warrant the response we have been experiencing.
The promotion of cultural relativism and virtue pluralism, first facilitated by postmodern liberal academics, otherwise, the same people that have instructed the same faculty member presently maintaining these institutions, has allowed for the advancement of the same pluralist doctrines that are facilitating the nature of these demonstrations. At the end of the day, counteracting these demonstrations is not a question of First Amendment rights or classroom disruption. It is a question of cultural subjectivity.
The legacy of virtue pluralism bequeathed to Americans is inspiring the force behind many of these demonstrations. The protesters are aware of, or at least are willing to concede, objectives ethics, and the proper standard of human behavior. Otherwise, they would not be so passionate. However, the Left’s inability to articulate the positive components of ethnocentrism, and specifically, their inability to recognize the cultural superiority of Israel as it pertains to the Middle East, is partially to blame for these protests. Even if these protests are driven by an inherent desire for equity, justice, and rectifying the violent impact of Netanyahu’s violent response to the attacks, it fails to consider why the swift response was conducted in the first place.
“Chicken for KFC!” writes Turning Point USA founder, Charlie Kirk on X referencing a queer individual holding a sign labeled “Gay for Gaza.” Another picture floated around X the other day of a rather flamboyant man wearing a rainbow, presumably gay pride tote bag while also wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh. Although these are not necessarily demonstrations of cognitive dissonance, at least not as much as the Right may wish to think it is, there is something to be said of the suicidal nature of Leftist activism.
The Western ideals that offer acceptance of such identities would disintegrate in an Islamic world, as would the identities of queer people altogether.
That is the Left’s real problem. Cultural relativism is suicide. Democrats’ inability to accept the cultural superiority of Israel, and Western hegemony as a whole, articulates this issue in real-time.
Great article. You write really well.
I come at things from a slightly difference angle. I am a moral and cultural relativist and value pluralist. The problem is that the Woke worldview only selectively applies these things for anti-White ends (strategic essentialism.) On most issues they have an absolutist view of ‘natural rights’ and universalism.
A true moral relativist wouldn’t care what happened in Israel/Palestine. They only apply harsh standards to Israel because they see it as ‘White’, and they hate Whites