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Donny Deutsch, Michael Hayden and the Moral Collapse of American Jewish Institutions
Townhall.com ^ | June 26, 2018 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 06/26/2018 11:00:05 AM PDT by Kaslin

Last week, on the MSNBC TV show "Morning Joe," MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch said that every American who votes for President Donald Trump is a Nazi. His exact words: "If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter -- you, not Donald Trump -- are standing at the border like Nazis going, 'You here. You here.'"

Now, as virtually every Jew of Deutsch's generation knows, a Nazi saying, "You here. You here," refers to guards at Nazi extermination camps sending Jews to gas chambers or to work the barracks.

Also last week, Gen. Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA (a fact that, among other things, gives credence to the increasingly widespread realization that our intelligence elites have been morally and intellectually compromised) tweeted a photo of the tracks leading into Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous Nazi extermination and concentration camps, with the caption "Other governments have separated mothers and children."

Deutsch, Hayden and the myriad other fools who compare Trump to Hitler and the Nazis have utterly trivialized the Holocaust. As everyone who isn't on the left knows, there is nothing morally analogous between the way the last three presidential administrations dealt with some children of immigrants who are in the country illegally and what the Nazis did to Jewish children.

American children are routinely separated from their parent when that parent is arrested, and if the arrestee is a single parent, the child is taken into government custody until other arrangements can be made. With regard to immigrants who are in the country illegally, the only way to avoid separation is to place the children in detention along with their arrested parent(s). But this was expressly forbidden by the most left-wing court in America -- the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals -- if detention lasts longer than 20 days, as it nearly always does when either a not-guilty plea or an asylum claim is made.

Moreover, as awful as separation from a parent is, these children were not treated like animals in cages but transferred to the care of relatives or foster homes, or housed with other detained children where they were provided with room, board, education, sports facilities, etc.

By contrast, Jewish children separated from their parents by Nazi guards were sent to gas chambers to die a gruesome, painful death by their lungs being filled with poisonous gas. And their parents almost always eventually suffered the same fate unless they were worked, starved or tortured to death.

Comparing the two is not only a trivialization of the Holocaust; it is actually a form of Holocaust denial.

If Jewish children were treated by the Nazis the same way Central American children have been by America, then everything we know about the Holocaust is false. Jewish children weren't subjected to torturous medical experimentation, and they weren't gassed and cremated. They were simply separated from their Jewish parents for a finite period of time, sent to stay with Jewish relatives or provided for by foster families while their parents were detained pending due-process legal proceedings. According to Donny Deutsch, Michael Hayden and all the leftists comparing America and Trump to the Nazis, Jewish children weren't gassed; they played soccer while waiting to be reunited with their parents.

What is even more depressing than Deutsch and Hayden is the reaction -- or silence -- of most American Jewish organizations.

The Anti-Defamation League, which once defended Jewish interests, is becoming just another leftist interest group. I looked for some condemnation of Deutsch or Hayden and found none. Instead, in the words of the Israeli (left-wing) newspaper Haaretz, the ADL "made a direct comparison to the Holocaust." It tweeted: "Children separated from their parents during the Holocaust speak out about the trauma it has caused. How can anyone defend such inhumane policies?"

The only criticism the ADL could muster was this: "People need to be extremely careful in drawing comparisons to the Holocaust and the Nazi regime in whatever context it is used." But it offered no condemnation of those who actually made this odious comparison.

Leftism has poisoned much of American Jewish life. That is the primary reason, as reported in the just-released American Jewish Committee poll, American and Israeli Jews are so divided on so many issues.

There were rabbis who announced they fasted when Trump was elected. Non-Orthodox synagogues around America sat shiva (the religious mourning period for a deceased immediate family member) when Trump won. And the Hebrew Union College, the Reform Jewish movement's rabbinical seminary, had an Israel-hating writer as this year's graduation speaker.

If you support Trump or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or hold almost any traditional Jewish worldview -- like God creating the human being as male and female -- you must either hide your opinion or risk being ostracized at almost any non-Orthodox synagogue.

To their credit, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Zionist Organization of America and a few other organizations did condemn those who equate America under Trump with Nazi Germany. But most Jewish organizations kept quiet, offered tepid caution or actually echoed the sentiment.

In other words, at this time many American Jewish organizations are bad for the Jews, bad for Judaism and trivialize the Holocaust in order to score political points.

If it's any comfort (and it isn't), things are no better in mainstream Protestantism or at the Vatican.

But here is real comfort: If the left keeps on smearing nearly half its fellow Americans as Nazis, it will assure more Republican victories this coming November.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: antitrump; deutsch; hayden; nazi; prager; simonwiesenthal

1 posted on 06/26/2018 11:00:05 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

He’s an aptly named dirtbag.


2 posted on 06/26/2018 11:03:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Kaslin

Excellent opinion piece by Prager.


3 posted on 06/26/2018 11:07:43 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Kaslin

It’s interesting how often antisemitism is associated with other evils.


4 posted on 06/26/2018 11:11:46 AM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Kaslin
Dennis Prager is awesome. (I call Deutsch and his ilk Holocaust desecraters.)
Here is the money line.

Comparing the two is not only a trivialization of the Holocaust; it is actually a form of Holocaust denial.
5 posted on 06/26/2018 11:24:34 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen ((Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong))
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To: Kaslin

So I’m no longer just deploreable, now I’m a mass murdering Jew-hater, too.

Well, fk you, Donny Douche and the diseased yak you rode in on.


6 posted on 06/26/2018 11:41:24 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: Kaslin

Das Trumpen?


7 posted on 06/26/2018 11:41:25 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Jim Robinson

It would be hard to find anyone more vapid than Donnie Deutsch. Even on MSNBC.


8 posted on 06/26/2018 11:56:05 AM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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To: Kaslin

Michael Hayden is Jewish?? That WOULD explain a lot!


9 posted on 06/26/2018 11:56:22 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

This is a somewhat long essay and I know I’ve said before that it’s a VERY IMPORTANT READ. THIS ONE IS! A sample:|
“The time has come to reboot America. The time for talk is done. We should be about the business of forming patriotic cadres, groups and movements—from the national level down to splinter cells. We should do this now. Some of you have no doubt been involved in such activities for some time. Now is the time to go into full battle mode—this is no drill.”
I’m betting, no, PRAYING, that if you read the first few paragraphs, you won’t be able to stop!
Which element of the “5-5-90 Rule” will you occupy?
5% make things happen;
5% WATCH things happen;
90% look around and ask “What the hell happened?”
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10 posted on 06/26/2018 11:57:29 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: All

Donny Deutsch Demanded Trump Supporters Be “Harshly Dealt” With.

<><>Deutch says hard-working Americans who support President Trump are “Nazis.”

<><>Deutch said voting Americans need to be “the target” and that “they need to be dealt with.’

<><>Deutch condemned Trump’s 63,000,000 voters: “If you voted for Trump, then you, the voter,
you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis...... saying you go here, you go there.”

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MSNBC’s Deutsch Says: Trump Voters Are ‘Standing at the Border Like Nazis’

It’s always a little iffy contacting the media itself......any input, however negative they’ll count as a plus.

But here’s the MSNBC contact page, if you so choose to use it.

https://www.wikihow.com/Contact-MSNBC-News


11 posted on 06/26/2018 12:01:57 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Kaslin

Practitioners of the Jewish faith contribute half the dough that goes into Dem coffers.

From the Jerusalem Post:
https://www.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-of-all-donations-to-the-Democratic-party-468774


12 posted on 06/26/2018 12:21:43 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Kid Shelleen
Dennis Prager is awesome. (I call Deutsch and his ilk Holocaust desecraters.)

Amen to everything you said...

13 posted on 06/26/2018 12:35:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (David Ignatius sided with Germans against his own country - what a jackass.)
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To: clintonh8r
So I’m no longer just deploreable, now I’m a mass murdering Jew-hater, too. Well, fk you, Donny Douche and the diseased yak you rode in on.

Amen to that... great comment. AND the rest of the 'Morning Joe' lowlifes with airs...

14 posted on 06/26/2018 12:37:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (David Ignatius sided with Germans against his own country - what a jackass.)
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To: Original Lurker
Practitioners of the Jewish faith contribute half the dough that goes into Dem coffers.

"Reform," "Conservative," "Reconstructionist, and secular Jews are not "practicing the Jewish faith."

15 posted on 06/26/2018 12:38:02 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ("Conservatism" without G-d is just another form of Communism.)
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To: Dick Bachert

I agree with you one hundred percent. There is going to be the need for a lot of cleanup once it goes live.


16 posted on 06/26/2018 12:46:53 PM PDT by .44 Special (Tiamid Buarsh)
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To: Original Lurker

“Practitioners of the Jewish faith”

Jews, yes. Practitioners of the Jewish faith, sadly, no.


17 posted on 06/26/2018 1:11:14 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: dsc

Lefists seek to destroy all institutions on their path to power. Why should jewish ones be any different ??


18 posted on 06/26/2018 1:47:56 PM PDT by elbook
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To: elbook

They have a special place.
They have been purveyors of problems since antiquities.
There is nothing new under the Sun.

Revelation 2:9.
Revelation 3:9.


19 posted on 06/26/2018 3:38:47 PM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: Kaslin

Seriously? There’s no comparison between what Trump’s doing and the Holocaust, literally no comparison. If anything, the Illegal immigrants get a LOT better treatment than the Jewish people in the Holocaust did (where they’re generally sent straight to the death camps, or in the case of Auschwitz a mixture of death and concentration camp). What’s even MORE sad is that several of these guys would have been old enough to remember it yet STILL push this false narrative. Heck, ABC even had framed a woman speaker at a Trump rally and made it seem as though she did the Hitler salute during the 2016 elections (I know of this because a person in my autism support group actually watched that clip and even assumed that she and Trump were Nazis because of it.). While I won’t go so far as to call it a form of holocaust denial (they still acknowledge the Holocaust happened, while the term “holocaust denial” would specifically indicate that you deny it ever happened), it certainly is trivializing it, making it seem not as bad as it actually was.

I’m not sure I agree that the ADL was even originally for the betterment of Jews. Sure, that’s its PR, but I heard it was always meant to be a leftist institution. Specifically, it was created by the Fabian Socialists to try and push for Communism subtly. But it is indeed disturbing that even religious jews are doing things that would indicate calamity just because Trump is elected (and let’s face it, any Jew that goes to synagogue is technically religious. The only truly non-religious jews are non-practicing ones like Jon Stewart). Probably the only ones who don’t mind Trump at all are the Orthodox Jews, which while good is not really enough.

And for the record, I may personally hold distrust of religious Judaism, especially that under the Talmud (Written Torah-style Judaism I do not mind at all, nor do I mind messianic Judaism) due to some of the Talmud’s passages ultimately coming across as no different from the Koran a few times in what it advocates such as Taqqiya (and arguably being even MORE disrespectful to God, and I don’t just mean their treatment of Jesus, but also how they depicted God the Father himself, such as depicting him basically being tricked by a Rabbi in a debate, or restraining him to such an extent that he can’t do anything without a majority vote from the Rabbis. Jeez, at least the Koran actually treated their god with actual respect, and I’m not fond of them either.), but I would STILL try to make darn sure that the Jewish people should survive, and if I had to choose between Israel and the Muslim Middle East regarding who to spare, I’d choose Israel every time. I would never advocate for something like the Holocaust, or even exiling the Jews elsewhere. Besides, eliminating Israel is a poor way to repay Jesus since he died and was resurrected in Israel.


20 posted on 06/28/2018 4:41:05 AM PDT by otness_e
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