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Posted on 11/19/2018 5:34:25 AM PST by SJackson
As the global antisemitic tsunami intensifies, most Diaspora Jews seem to have lost the plot. In the past, when an external foe emerged, Jews would put aside their differences and unite in the face of those seeking their destruction. Prior to the establishment of the State of Israel, Jews suffered from persecution, pogroms and murder, culminating in the Shoah.
Today, despite a powerful Jewish state that can provide a haven to Jews facing persecution, Diaspora Jews are utterly disunited, and many of them seem to have lost their bearings. They are laying the foundations for an unprecedented eruption of violent antisemitism.
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Despite the tragedy of the brutal slaying of 11 Jews in Pittsburgh, American Jewry remains the most peaceful community in the Diaspora. And even today, despite the election of radical anti-Jewish elements – including self-hating Jews – within the Democratic Party, there are still more pro-Israel elements in Congress after the midterm elections.
Those elections took place in an unprecedented atmosphere of political hysteria.
But despite predictions of defeat, it would seem that President Donald Trump was the overall winner.
In virtually all midterm elections, the ruling party experiences losses. The country is divided. The larger cities lean Democrat and mid-America is overwhelmingly pro-Trump. The concept of respect for a president, which has prevailed over most of America’s history since the Civil War, no longer exists. The nation is divided down the middle with most voters being either passionate lovers or zealous haters of Trump – with Jews at the forefront of the hatred.
While the Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives, they lost fewer seats than the Democrats did when losing the House in the 1994 and 2010 midterms. And more importantly, they held, and perhaps widened, their majority in the Senate (where two races remain undecided).
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Thus, while Trump will face ongoing tensions domestically, the Democrats will have to be careful not to be seen as extreme and subsequently generate further backlash. And Trump has a virtual free hand in continuing to direct foreign policy. Even more importantly, he will strengthen conservative elements in the higher and lower courts, undoubtedly altering the liberal mentality that has dominated American courts in recent generations.
THERE IS one bizarre aspect to this. The clear majority of Jewish Americans continued the tradition of voting Democratic and have emerged as leaders of the anti-Trump brigade. The fact that many Jews with a liberal tradition oppose Trump’s conservative policies and dislike his aggressive tone is not surprising. But what is incomprehensible is the hysterical abuse they shower on the president – and that they do so in a Jewish context. The almost lunatic attacks on a president by such a wide section of the Jewish community – including progressive rabbis, Jewish lay organizations like the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish women’s groups, which had until now avoided partisan politics – is utterly unprecedented.
The venom expressed suggests that a dybbuk – a malicious spirit – has instilled a collective madness on a major component of the American Jewish community. Jews even demanded that Trump not be present at the mourning ceremony in the Pittsburgh synagogue.
Some Jewish leaders blamed him for the massacre, alleging that his aggressive political style was responsible for the actions of the lone neo-Nazi antisemite. Never mind the other shooting rampages perpetrated during previous administrations, for which no president was held responsible. Nobody blamed President Barack Obama for the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting which killed 50 people, nor the other 37 mass shootings during his tenure.
Antisemitism escalated well before Trump’s election. The media, buttressed by the ADL and other Jewish groups, have repeatedly alleged that today its new waves primarily represent white nationalist antisemitism. They include in their fake figures Internet hoaxes that were not even motivated by Jew-hatred. The facts belie this. Beyond occasional mad neo-Nazi fringes on the radical Right, the situation has remained constant. The principal sources of visceral antisemitism are still Muslim extremists, as well as the burgeoning far Left which leads the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish pack.
One thing is clear: American Jews do need to employ security services at synagogues, schools and community centers as is the case today in virtually every Diaspora community around the world.
IT IS NOTEWORTHY that the ever-growing influence of anti-Israel and antisemitic elements seeking to radicalize the Democratic Party is rarely mentioned by the liberal press or the ADL. In the midterm elections, a number of Democratic candidates hostile to Israel and Jews won seats – some in districts with significant Jewish populations.
Nor have there been serious efforts to restrain burgeoning antisemitism from pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel left-wing groups on college campuses.
There were few complaints when Obama treated Israel like a rogue state and characterized Israeli self-defense and Palestinian terrorism as being morally equivalent. And there are few complaints now, after it was recently revealed that in 2005 Obama met the head of the Nation of Islam, the radical antisemite Louis Farrakhan, for a photo op.
The allegations that Trump contributed to the current polarization of society by his aggressive rhetoric may be true, but that is more than matched by the hysteria from the Democrats.
This is intensified by the dramatic revolution in social media, which – in contrast to only 20 years ago – reaches a massive audience, including extreme hate-mongers. It may well be time to review America’s credo of upholding unlimited freedom of expression. We should assess this in the context of today’s social media, which undoubtedly serves as a platform for promoting racism, violence, and above all, antisemitism.
By far, the most obscene aspect of this mudslinging is the concerted Jewish attempt to portray Trump as tolerating Nazis and being an antisemite. This lie has been reproduced so frequently in recent months by progressive rabbis and Jewish lay leaders that it has become embedded in the minds of many Democratic supporters.
But this reflects the madness in the air. Trump has a daughter who converted to Judaism and is religiously observant; he has always had Jewish friends; some of his key executive officers are Jews; and following the tragedy in Pittsburgh, he made a statement condemning antisemitism that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not have expressed better.
BUT ABOVE ALL, Trump has proven to be the most pro-Israel president since the state was established. He is the first to have told the Palestinians the truth and reduced funds that were not being used appropriately; he stopped funding UNESCO when that organization admitted Palestine as a full member; he told the Palestinians to forget about their claimed right of return to Israel; he moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem despite enormous pressures; he warned the Palestinians that paying salaries to murderers and aid to their families was unacceptable; and he was the first to stand up, virtually alone, to promote Israel’s case to the world.
Now, American Jews may hate Trump, but to describe this man as pro-Nazi and an antisemite qualifies them collectively as crazy. What is more alarming is that if this psychotic behavior accusing Trump of Nazi sentiments is not quashed, Middle America, which adores Trump and has supported his Israeli policies with far greater enthusiasm than the Jews, could unleash their frustrations against the “ungrateful” Jews, and then the ADL predictions about antisemitism would be realized.
We live in troubled times. While Israel has never been as well off as it is today, throughout the Diaspora antisemitism is rising dramatically – and now many American Jews seem to be acting like lemmings on a suicide march.
The tragedy is that Israel, which formerly served as the vital factor maintaining Jewish identity for those with limited Jewish education, has now drifted almost into irrelevancy for large swathes of American Jewry. Unless a massive effort is invested into overcoming Jewish illiteracy, the future seems bleak.
Those concerned with having Jewish grandchildren should now seriously evaluate making aliyah or at least encouraging their children to do so.
Aliyah is the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel. Also defined as “the act of going up”—that is, towards Jerusalem—”making Aliyah” by moving to the Land of Israel is one of the most basic tenets of Zionism.
I think that cultural Marxism trumps religion for American Jews, just as it does for many liberal American Catholics under Pope Marx.
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The suthor's generalizations are a bit over the top, though it must be remembered one of his objectives is to convince American Jews to move to Israel.
I think that the author has “hit the nail on the head” in this excellent article.
In Exile, large percentages of a Jewish community abandoning their Jewish identity is a familiar phenomenom. Today’s globalism makes return to the Land of Israel almost imperative.
For a huge swath of irreligious Jews, cultural Marxism has become their religion.
I don't know the absolute accuracy of the quoted statement, but it is very troubling that a fair number of the American Jewish community are lukewarm about Israel - and some even anti-Israel. It's also troubling that the American Jewish vote is near monolithic for the Democrats.
The Jewish population in America is almost as high as in Israel, and is a very high percentage of the total population of Jews in the world. Thus, through the policies and politicians they support in the US, the Jewish population in America can have a very significant effect on all Jews throughout the world. In my opinion, this potential effect on Jews throughout the world should be a very serious consideration of American Jewish voters.
The ADL, like the ACLU, the SPLC and NAACP, has morphed into a Democrat-Socialist front organization.
“Progressive” Jewish Rabbis are no different than MANY Lutheran, Methodist, Episcopalian and Catholic prelates, among others in the Christian faith, who have been infiltrated by anti-American, anti-western, anti-Judaeo-Christian elements which seek to impose a new globalost world socialist order. They are similar to the communists of the early 20th century.
But these destructive elements are far more dangerous. Thet have infiltrated all the institutions of learning from grammar school to graduate school. They have virtually monopolized a once free press. They have imported hordes of low information, under-educated illegal aliens
who are too ignorant to see through their promises. They have taken over the entertainment industry, parts of the courts, the House and the legal profession ( Bar Association).
It’s a very complex problem involving nearly every element of our society and no one group is totally responsible for or free from this pernicious and destructive political philosophy.
The leftists of today are most certainly NOT the liberals of the mid 20th century.
They are dangerous iconoclasts and violent revolutionaries.
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He is the first to have told the Palestinians the truth and reduced funds that were not being used appropriately; he stopped funding UNESCO when that organization admitted Palestine as a full member; he told the Palestinians to forget about their claimed right of return to Israel; he moved the US Embassy to Jerusalem despite enormous pressures; he warned the Palestinians that paying salaries to murderers and aid to their families was unacceptable; and he was the first to stand up, virtually alone, to promote Israel’s case to the world.
Now, American Jews may hate Trump, but to describe this man as pro-Nazi and an antisemite qualifies them collectively as crazy. What is more alarming is that if this psychotic behavior accusing Trump of Nazi sentiments is not quashed, Middle America, which adores Trump and has supported his Israeli policies with far greater enthusiasm than the Jews, could unleash their frustrations against the “ungrateful” Jews...
Our support of Israel is stronger than Isi Leibler understands... Conservatives backed Israel before Trump and we'll back him long after 'Jewish democrats' exhaust their Trump hatred...
Our support of Israel is stronger than Isi Leibler understands... Conservatives backed Israel before Trump and we’ll back Israel long after ‘Jewish democrats’ exhaust their Trump hatred...
“...the Democrats will have to be careful not to be seen as extreme and subsequently generate further backlash. “
No they won’t. Now that the election’s over, they can let it all hang out, and hang out with all the anti-Semites they want. Nobody will remember by 2020, when they are so cocksure that they will win, because of course they know everyone hates Trump and they have the MSM. They will be swinging from the ceiling, over-the-top extreme for the next 365 days, then sober up and pretend to be rational again. Look for major meltdowns after election day 2020 when they lose. Snowflakes? Ha! They’ll need a whole new term for it.
American Jewish community are lukewarm about Israel
Jews, Catholics, and etc.
Yes, for sure. You could almost say that the more intense the religious tradition, the more violently those who leave the tradition will embrace the religions of atheism, such as Communism, Nazism, and environmentalism.
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