The Anti-Jewish Jews

The Anti-Jewish Jews Why Jewish leftists hate Israel and the Jews. August 28, 2018 Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

But as Caroline Glick notes, there was every reason for Israeli authorities to question Beinart’s visit, because the anti-Israel BDS activist had participated in anti-Israel protests in Israel. Beinart was not, despite his claims, detained. He was asked about his participation in that protest by the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. The Center, despite its name, is used by Jewish Voice for Peace members, a BDS hate group, which also, despite its name, advocates for and supports terrorists who attack Israel.

JVP members are on the banned list. Beinart had participated in a protest organized by a group that it used as a vehicle. So it’s completely normal that he was asked about it just as visitors to this country are asked about their membership in prohibited organizations such as the Nazi, Communist and other totalitarian parties. The BDS blacklist that bigots like Beinart rave about is no different than the United States blacklist on anyone who “has used a position of prominence to endorse terrorism.”

JVP declared that it was proud to host Rasmea Odeh. Odeh had been convicted of a supermarket bombing in Israel that killed Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner: two Hebrew University students. It called the terrorist an “inspiration” and used the hashtag, #HonorRasmea. That’s using “a position of prominence to endorse terrorism” which gets you banned from both the United States and Israel.

Beinart writes for The Forward, a paper notorious for attacks on Israel and Jews that veer into the anti-Semitic. Typically anti-Semitic Forward headlines include, "3 Jewish Moguls Among Eight Who Own as Much as Half the Human Race” and "Why We Should Applaud The Politician Who Said Jews Control The Weather."

Beinart, an anti-Jewish activist of Jewish descent, is the perfect fit for an anti-Jewish tabloid of Jewish descent. The Forward's rebranding dropped the "Jewish" part of its name in 2015. That was also the year that Beinart accused Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel of a “tendency, to whitewash Jewish behavior.”

"He is largely blind to the harm Jews cause," Beinart railed against Wiesel in terms ominously similar to those used by anti-Semites. Israel, he claimed, "leads gentiles of goodwill to fear that if they criticize Israel they’ll be called anti-Semites." Peter Beinart or Richard Spencer: who wore the bigotry best?

But the gauzy line between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism is if anything even thinner among obsessive Israel bashers of Jewish origin like Beinart or The Forward’s Jane Eisner, its radical editor who stripped the lefty tabloid of its Jewishness, but not of its poisonous hatred of Jews. On the cocktail party circuit, Beinart is misleadingly billed as a ‘liberal Zionist.’ Like the Holy Roman Empire, he’s neither a liberal nor a Zionist. Neither liberals nor Zionists excuse Hamas or blame the victims of terror for their own deaths.

Terrorism is a "response to Israel’s denial of basic Palestinian rights," Beinart has insisted. It’s “the Israeli government is reaping what it has sowed.” His vicious hatred of the Jewish State is matched by his crush on Hamas. "Hamas is the final frontier," Beinart bloviated in 2009. “A shift in US and Israeli policy towards Hamas is long overdue,” he insisted in 2011. And seven years later, it’s still overdue.

Recently in The Forward, Beinart compared Israel's embargo on Hamas to Soviet gulags and Hiroshima. American Jews, he poisonously insisted, were responsible for "the strangulation of 2 million human beings." (Much of the column is actually recycled from a 2014 Beinart column. This self-plagiarism is typical of Beinart who hasn't said anything new in a decade. He only says it more shrilly.)

In that same column, Peter Beinart blamed Israel for not having “embraced” a Hamas government. Unlike Israel, Beinart has embraced Hamas and spent a decade blaming Israel for not following suit. Beinart castigates American Jews for giving Israel the benefit of the doubt, but that’s exactly what he does for a genocidal Islamic terrorist organization that has been killing Jews, in its Muslim Brotherhood incarnations, before the Gaza blockade, before the Six Day War, and before an independent Israel.

Like most anti-Semites, the anti-Zionism of Beinart, The Forward and most of the anti-Jewish Jews is a pretext. Bashing Israel is just an excuse for bashing Jews. It’s why Beinart’s critique of Wiesel’s position on Israel quickly becomes a discourse on Jewish power and the “atrocity” of the Purim story.

It's why Roger Cohen's New York Times column praising Beinart's attack on Zionism was titled, "The Dilemmas of Jewish Power." Jewish power is the theme that Beinart returns to again and again in his attacks on the Jewish community. It’s also the theme of The Forward’s clique of Jewish bashers. And it’s the quintessential theme of anti-Semites on the left and the right, Jewish and non-Jewish.

Reducing the question to Jewish power is a classic leftist formula for legitimizing anti-Semitism. The left is not concerned with questions of right and wrong, but with power and powerlessness. Every leftist critique of Israel takes the same microscopic view, ignoring history and context, zooming in on the relative strengths of Hamas and the IDF, the GDPs of Israel and Gaza, while ignoring over a thousand years of Muslim persecution of Jews, and the Muslim world that stands behind Hamas, and announcing that might makes wrong. But Beinart and The Forward take that formula way beyond the green line.

When a black Washington D.C. councilman affiliated with the left claimed that Jews control the weather, Eisner’s Forward published not one, but two defenses of his hateful views, by attacking Jews.

"We are pretending Jewish education is showing our brutal historical treatment in ghettos — while in the same breath stepping over today’s ghettos to do so, and attacking a man representing one of them," Rafael Shimunov railed against Jews with, "300 times his wealth, and 1,000 times his privilege."

Shimunov wears multiple hats. He’s a top dog at the Working Families Party which was an ally of the weather control councilman, and a member of the anti-Israel hate group, If Not Now, dubbed by Beinart in The Forward as a Jewish Black Lives Matter. But If Not Now disavowed Beinart’s praise. BLM claims to stand for black lives, while If Not Now isn’t fighting for Jewish lives. It’s fighting to destroy them.

Whether it’s Hamas or an anti-Semitic council member, the left’s argument is the same. Bigotry and murder are only wrong when practiced by the powerful against the powerless. Instead of defending themselves or protesting, Jews must realize that they are the guilty ones because of their power.

The left has two types of identitarian movements. Those of the powerless take power. And those of the powerful destroy theirs. Jews have been marked as a powerful group. The only Jewish movements that the left will tolerate are those that, like If Not Now, are dedicated to the destruction of the Jews. That’s why a leftist Jewish civil rights organization is an impossible contradiction in terms.

The Forward is full of critical headlines about “Jewish Power,” from “New Film Reveals The Perils of Jewish Power,” to “The Burdens of Jewish Power” and “How the Jews Are Tarnished by Money.”

Jewish power, Karl Marx, whose bearded visage still sneers from The Forward’s old building, claimed, is self-interest. That self-interest has corrupted Jews. And Jewish self-interest has corrupted the world. Only socialism, enlightened global altruism, can redeem the world from the corruption of the Jews.

Behind the special pleading, the foaming outrage, the laughable invocations of Jewish tradition and morality, Beinart, Eisner, The Forward and Jewish Voice for Peace are working off the same Marxist critique of Jews. Israel’s crime and that of its Jewish supporters, they contend, is that its self-interest has corrupted Jewish morality. The only way to redeem the Jews is to destroy Jewish self-interest.

Only by abandoning their self-interest, their power, even their survival, can they atone for what Marxist anti-Semites, from their great bearded master on down, see as the ‘original sin’ of the Jews.

Marx saw Judaism as the embodiment of Jewish self-interest. For the latter-day left, for whom Judaism doesn’t exist, Israel is Marx’s embodiment of Jewish clannish power. Like Marx, the anti-Israel left is convinced that Israel corrupts and controls America. Even, echoing the old leftist anti-Semite, that America is becoming like Israel. Destroying Israel will liberate Jews from their selfish Jewishness.

Peter Beinart, The Forward and JVP aren’t putting forward bold new ideas. Their Jewish sources are not, as they claim, the prophets of Israel or the Kotzker Rebbe, but the original prototype of the anti-Jewish Jew. Their prophet is the pathological anti-Semite who raved, “What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.”

Over a century and a half later, Marxist criticism of the Jews has made few innovations, replacing Judaism with Israel, and to a lesser degree, money with power. Leftist anti-Zionism is so hard to distinguish from anti-Semitism because its roots are still in the same anti-Semitic Marxist sewer.

The Anti-Jewish Jews preach the salvific powers of the left to redeem the selfishness of the Jews. Only the left can save Jews from Jewish power. Only the left can redeem Jews from clinging to their guns, bible, and land by destroying Israel.

Karl Marx was right about one thing. There is a struggle between Judaism and the left. For the left to win, Judaism must be destroyed. And Beinart and The Forward are still waging his war on Judaism.

And the Jews of Israel are winning through the traditional Jewish strategy of surviving. Every Jewish child born in Israel, every Jewish home that rises on a hill, is a defeat for Beinart, The Forward, and the left.

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There are even delusional Jew-protecters and the real Jewish people who protect those obtuse protectors, who will pounce on people who let out the tiniest peep against liberal, secular media titans who cr*p all over Trump and Palin.

They will do this to you over the very most normative criticisms of that group delivered in the most sober tone, i.e., that they have taken the lead in destroying western culture.

They will scream antisemite at you and launch into Holocaust matters.

I mean here at FreeRepublic —it’s amazing.

My takeaway here is that the Jews worst enemy are the considerable numbers of Secular Progressive Jews to whom that philosophy transcends their being Jewish. So much to say Judaism is being eaten out from the inside by some it’s own people.
Men like Soros and Steyer are using their considerable wealth to erode what Judaism stand for.

Anti Jewish Jews are anti about more than just Jewish

It’s messianic progressivism with anything we all hold dear on the table for destruction and utopian replacement with themselves of course naturally ensconced in dacha on the shore level elitism insularity

If you’re a leftist Jew and are far enough gone to hate Israel or prefer Arabs or Muslims over Israel then it’s a strong possibility you disdain Western Civilization and it’s mores as well and are likely an anti Christian bigot too.

Likely do well at Unitarian and Wiccan services though

“Don’t know if you’re Jewish, but if you are..?

I LOVE Jews like you.”

No, I am not Jewish! That said, when I compare, on the whole, the Jews in Israel with those in this country, I am disheartened by what I see here. The world's population of Jews is pretty much divided between America and Israel, and it is a minuscule number comparatively speaking. The actual long-term survival of the Jews is being threatened by Secular Progressivism (or worse). I am left wondering just where the failure to effectively educate their young fell apart. Jews are highly effective, well-educated people whose effect on the world far outstrips what one would expect from their relatively small number. When you look at this nation's Judiciary, it is largely the province of Jewish lawyers ( at least when given consideration to their minuscule percentage of our population). And almost to the man, they are Secular Progressives who see their role as trying for all they are worth, to transform this country into a Socialist "paradise." Ditto for Jews who are serving in elective office. Chuck Schumer is a prime example. He has no morals, he worships Socialism. Or the Jewish judge in Taos, NM who just released the Muslim group there that was plotting to shoot up schools and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. So maybe you can share your thoughts with me, because I am at a loss as to how to explain what is happening with the majority of Jews in America today.

Traitors from within is the same problem we are experiencing in this country from some of our left wingers.

The very physical survival of Israel from the Muslims is more at stake now than is our survival.
If we don't recognize the threat from Islam and the threat from our traitorous left, we can be in the same position as Israel in the future. - Tom

“The very physical survival of Israel from the Muslims is more at stake now than is our survival.
If we don’t recognize the threat from Islam and the threat from our traitorous left, we can be in the same position as Israel in the future. - Tom”

I completely agree. That’s why I applaud Trump’s pulling out our funding for the “palestinians.” This bull$hit has gone on there since the end of WWII. In reality, there is no such thing as a “palestinian” historically. These people who claim to be “palestinians” are just the leftover Arab $hit that none of the other Arab countries wanted, and they thought could be used as a foil against Israel. And they’ve been right thus far. It is time for this war of attrition there to be done with. Israel isn’t going away. If the Arab $hit in the West Bank and Gaza can’t be made to understand that fact, they need to be told they will be wiped off the face of the earth. To do that, the best way is to cut off all aid, both money and material. They will either get the message or they will cease to exist. Sometimes, the only way to kill off hatred, is to kill off it’s supporters. That time is now!

This bull$hit has gone on there since the end of WWII. In reality, there is no such thing as a “palestinian” historically. These people who claim to be “palestinians” are just the leftover Arab $hit that none of the other Arab countries wanted, and they thought could be used as a foil against Israel. And they’ve been right thus far.

I found that out years ago when I got bombarded with Palestinians this, and Palestinians that, in the news.
I am fairly good at geography but couldn't remember a Palestinian country.
So I got curious about how Palestine was structured, and to do that, I tried to find the Palestinian Constitution that would tell me.
I couldn't find it, because Palestine as a country never existed. - Tom

The irony is they think it’s about the State of Israel or some plot of land.

Well, I guess any plot of land where a Jew might find himself would be attacked but, only because he was on it. After he was destroyed the plot of land would no longer warrant any coveted attention.

It’s 100% about being Jewish

Period

Good luck finding any evidence of palestinians:

In a architecture

In archaelogical digs

artifacts

language

distinct blood

etc

To understand how the left sees Jews, make one simple adjustment to their lexicon that strips away a common euphemism. When Forward editor Jane Eisner wonders, “Are African Refugees Paying The Price Of Jewish Power?”, the right way to read that is to spell “Power” as “Evil.” The Forward is full of critical headlines about “Jewish Power,” from “New Film Reveals The Perils of Jewish Power,” to “The Burdens of Jewish Power” and “How the Jews Are Tarnished by Money.”

Greenfield breaks the left's hate code...

“I couldn’t find it, because Palestine as a country never existed. - Tom”

The Arabs “manufactured” Palestine to do two things:

1) To have place for the Arab $hit people they didn’t want to assimilate into their various countries.
2) To use them as a “human weapon” against Israel and Jews in general

And for more than 75 years, it’s worked remarkably well. “Palestinians” are like the Blacks in this country who can’t come to the realization that they are being used by people who don’t give a $hit about them. Skin color and religion two sides to the same coin.

The shame of it all is just how many people have lost their lives because of it.

Look at LIEberman, once he was nominated for VP he threw his orthodoxy out the window for the Party!
Exclusive: Prominent Rabbi Says Lieberman was Excommunicated and it is Still in Effect By John-Henry Westen
Joe LiebermanNEW YORK, August 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Eight years ago when Al Gore selected then-Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman as his Vice Presidential running mate, an Orthodox Jewish Rabbinical court formally excommunicated Lieberman over his stands on partial birth abortion and homosexuality. The excommunication is said to stand to this day.

Being a Jew and residing in Brooklyn for quite a while as a teen and young adult I can tell you most of my Jewish friends like myself are really not religious. So how can we Relate to Israel and Jewish Torah teachings? That being said I am so proud of my fellow Jews who have reestablished Israel and President Trump for acknowledging that fact with unparalleled acts of recognition. God Bless America and Israel!

“...an Orthodox Jewish Rabbinical court formally excommunicated Lieberman over his stands on partial birth abortion and homosexuality. The excommunication is said to stand to this day.”

But the fact that he’s been excommunicated from the Jewish Faith does not mean he’s no longer a Jew by birthright! Being a Jew, is both a faith and an ethnicity! And from my personal experience working for half my working life in the Silicon Valley (where the Jews literally control all of the high-tech companies), generally, the top executive positions are all Jews by birth. I worked for a time at KLA-Tencor, a company that was put together from two existing mega-businesses. Ken Levy Associates (KLA) and Tencor, which was founded by Carel Urbanek. Urbanek had died, but his spouse, Nita Urbanek was a board member of the resulting company. I remember having lunch with her on one occasion.
I also worked for another firm that was a supplier to the Silicon Valley. It was run by a Russian Jewish immigrant who didn’t really know anything about Judaism (when his mother died, he had to as the Sales Manager, who was an observant Jew what to do about a funeral). That said, he was still named “Jewish Businessman of the Year” by CNET. When they came to interview him, he asked me in confidence, if he should put his Porsche behind the building because he thought it might convey the wrong message. Also, he had a Chinese partner whom he screwed.

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