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Frida Ghitis : Progressive antisemitism presents itself as a paradox for progressives.
She says they believe in comprehensive progress, meaning diversity is not allowed in their view of history.
Ghitis says Voltaire ’s hatred of Jews and Judaism is notorious.
He says Thomas Paine 's main goal was to use Judaism to attack Christianity in Europe .
For Paine and many others, the rage was against religion in general, and Judaism in particular, writes David Gergen .
Gergen : Jefferson ’s anti-Judaism , like that of other Enlightened thinkers, probably was connected with a large project of liberation from religion as it had been known in Europe and America before the Enlightenment.
The progressive turn against traditional Judaism has an international complement, Gergen says.
Frida Ghitis: Progressivism is a delusion that progressivism will never be, progressivism a delusion.
She says Jews insisted on remaining Jews for a few thousand years , and this was a problem for the votaries of progress, and universal emancipation.
But once that project started to become a practical reality, of Jews actually returning to Israel , it became a problem.
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