The Woke and Gaza

 

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I always seen “Woke” as an establishment thing. It´s the “left-liberal” or leftoid wing of the establishment. So part of me is a bit confused by the present contretemps of the Woke. Most of them seem to support “Gaza” (Hamas?) against Israel – and therefore, against the United States establishment. Witness the recent conflicts at Harvard University between anti-Zionist and Zionist students, the latter backed by Zionist donors, with the university administration trying to be “neutral”. So what´s going on here? Logically, the Woke should either support Israel or take a “neutral” UN-type position. Indeed, didn´t the Woke support the Israeli left during the recent (pre-war) mass protests against Netanyahu´s government?

So what´s going on here? The most obvious explanation is that there are establishment factions which oppose exclusive support to Israel for a wide variety of reasons. Business opportunities in the Muslim world, perhaps, or mass immigration from the same to the Western nations. Maybe somewhere, somebody is for more “inclusive” geopolitics. These factions can use the more militant pro-Gaza “solidarity movement” as their street stormtroopers, in a way similar to how Antifa were used by the US Democratic Party in 2020. In a similar way, Extinction Rebellion are simply the rowdy wing of pseudo-Green capital.

The “radicalism” of the leftists doesn´t gainsay the above, since most of it is a pose anyway. Several *generations* of leftist radicals have passed by since 1968, yet “revolution´s tired”, indeed it´s more tired than ever. Sure, some crackpots and idealists actually wanted a socialist revolution, but most were simply fighting to reform the system, and instead of being killed by Operation Stay Behind, were promoted to the system´s ideology-producing apparatus, or to its vast bureaucracy. So will the present generation of “radicals”, like those elite Harvard students. The radicalism of the really existing left doesn´t threaten the system, it *perfects* it, making it even more “liberal” (or whatever term we should use). The radicals are those who are ahead of the curve with one or two generations.

But if so, an ominous prospect opens up. What if the crazies who protests “for Gaza” today are the future establishment of the Western world in 20 years? A Woke establishment in weird alliance with Third World immigrants, mostly Muslims, sacrificing Israel and the Jews. Is that the prospect of the future? If so, Jews really have reasons to be very, very afraid. What an irony, then, that many Jews used to be for multi-culturalism and open borders, and that many joined the Woke…