Anti-Zionism and antisemitism are two sides of the same evil coin, and antisemitism is primarily based on a combination of abhorrence of the Jewish values/moral code presented in the Torah with fear of individual and collective Jewish success against all odds during nearly two millennia of exile, and continuing since the modern rebirth of Israel.
The alliance of transgender protest groups with anti-Zionist groups is irrational; the only place in the Mideast where transgender rights are protected is Israel, while Israel's enemies consist of tyrannical regimes that do not protect any of the rights taken for granted in the West, including but not limited to free speech, voting rights, women's rights, and the right to practice any religion other than Islam.
An important distinction must be made between individual rights--which should be afforded to all people--and rights being sought on a group level that interfere with other groups' rights. A person can "identify" as anything that the person wants to "identify"; that does not mean that a group of people who are not biologically women but who "identify" as women should be permitted to compete in sports against biological women, because permitting this puts the biological women at an inherent disadvantage.
Israel's enemies do not acknowledge individual rights, nor do they acknowledge the special rights being sought by specific groups, and this is why many Leftist Jews are so upset and disillusioned by the way that transgender protest groups (and queer protest groups) have embraced anti-Zionism with such enthusiasm and venom. Leftist Jews naively assumed that by partnering with other Leftists to advocate for various group rights they would be protected from antisemitism, but antisemitism is irrational and antisemites do not think rationally about Jews (or much else).
The irrationality of the alliance of transgender protest groups with anti-Zionist groups can be explained by the larger irrationality that has consumed the Left, as Stephen Pollard eloquently points out in "The Israel-Trans Protest Nexis" (June 2025 Commentary):
At the most basic level, both trans ideology and the pro-Palestine obsession are the result of developments that have been in the making for decades: the supremacy of postmodern thought on campus and the rise of moral relativism. Postmodernism reject the very idea of universal truths and objective reality. If there is no such thing as good or bad, only different and equally valid, then science too is not objective fact but rather a product of social, cultural, and political factors, including gender. Sex is therefore not a biological statement of fact but an assertion of gender, power, and social structure. The rise of Palestinian activism has similar origins. Terrorism is not terrorism; it is resistance. October 7 was not a massacre; it was an uprising. To assert this is not to fall victim to an ideological fad but to be in possession of both superior intelligence and superior understanding--and to be on the right side of history.
Pollard notes that one of the major methods for mass dissemination of these postmodernist views is connected with "the Russian and Chinese strategy of destabilizing the West through academia." Postmodernist views are not just tolerated in academia; they are fully endorsed, and because a high percentage of media members are products of academia the mainstream media outlets amplify these postmodernist views to a large audience beyond academia. Similar amplification is happening on social media. Pollard quotes Scott Galloway (a professor of marketing at New York University) stating that Tik Tok's widespread influence is equivalent to the Chinese Communist Party having "implanted a neural jack into every under-30."
The impact of postmodernist views is that their adherents seek to undermine--in the words of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic describing the pernicious influence of Critical Race Theory--"the liberal order...legal reasoning...and neutral principles of constitutional law," and replace those bedrock foundations of the West with a Marxist world view that spread misery and disaster when implemented in the former Soviet Union, China, Cuba, Cambodia, and many other countries.
A society that abandons the liberal order, legal reasoning, and neutral principles of constitutional law not only poses grave danger to Jews; such a society, if it does not reverse course, will collapse into a morass of tyranny and suffering.
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