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Jews Must Never Be Afraid to Use Their Well-Earned Power
The Gatestone Institute ^ | March 27, 2019 | Alan M. Dershowitz

Posted on 03/27/2019 10:28:10 AM PDT by yoe

No other group is ever accused of having too much power and influence. That false claim – dating back to times and places where Jews had little or no influence – is an anti-Semitic trope that tells us more about the anti-Semites who invoke it that it does about the Jews.

History has proven that Jews need more power and influence than other groups to secure their safety. During the 1930s and early 1940s Jews had morality on their side, but they lacked the power and influence to save six million of their brothers and sisters from systematic murder.

[snip]When Jewish power and influence are used in the cause of peace and justice -- as it is today -- there is nothing to be ashamed of. It should be a source of pride.

(Excerpt) Read more at gatestoneinstitute.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Israel; News/Current Events; US: Michigan; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
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Allen Dershowitz enriches our nation and Israel.


1 posted on 03/27/2019 10:28:10 AM PDT by yoe
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To: yoe
No other group is ever accused of having too much power and influence

Oh really? Seems to me that all we ever hear from liberals is how heterosexual, white, Christian men are allegedly "oppressing" everybody else.

2 posted on 03/27/2019 10:33:03 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: yoe

Jewish power and influence are used in the cause of peace and justice


If that’s code for voting Democrat,
they’ve over-learned their lessons.


3 posted on 03/27/2019 10:33:21 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: yoe

Doucheyerwitz spent his whole life getting America into the mess it’s in. Is he apologizing?


4 posted on 03/27/2019 10:46:58 AM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: yoe

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1898twain-jews.asp

Mark Twain nailed it in his essay “Concerning the Jews”

Main points..He laughs at Germans Russians and Austrians who whine that a 1% minority oppresses them.

He also points out that every pogrom or expulsion happens to coincide with a debt the monarch would rather not pay. It would be like me chasing Wells Fargo out of the country.

“To conclude. - If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one per cent. of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star-dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of; but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world’s list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers.

He has made a marvellous fight in this world, in all the ages; and has done it with his hands tied behind him.”


5 posted on 03/27/2019 10:55:53 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yoe

Fine, Alan. True and correct. But it sure would help if you ( since you have the connections to do much of this successfully) if you would please somehow get those former Jews, or JINOs..who support anti- Semitic front groups like J Street and BDS — to please drop their commie- Nazi style politics —— inho, if anyone wants to commit suicide it’s between them and their Creator to sort out. But nobody has the moral right to drag others down with them — the anti-Semitic “Jews” ( so- called) are nothing but enemy wolves parading in sheep’s clothing - and really must be shut down ASAP


6 posted on 03/27/2019 11:00:44 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Posted on 03/27/2019 10:31:34 AM PDT by EinNYC
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3737857/posts


7 posted on 03/27/2019 11:00:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie)
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To: jjotto

Yes, he’s been getting better these last couple of years. Has not confronted his past mistakes head on. At least not yet. But as this article clearly evinces, Alan is already critiquing those who still have opinions like he held before. So he’s getting pretty close, just hasn’t directly looked in his own personal mirror yet is all. Maybe this year?


8 posted on 03/27/2019 11:03:29 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: yoe
History has proven that Jews need more power and influence than other groups to secure their safety

Does the writer want it both ways then? Jews aren't a humongous financial, legal and media power despite only being 1percent of the population, but they should have this influence if they didn't? The problem with these ethnic based or run organizations is that they're overwhelmingly leftist. Case in point,the New York Times list of employees, directors, etc., reads like an invitation list to a Bar Mitzvah. When I see these people talk about how oppressed they are but how they have to run all these far left organizations to save the world from the gentile oppressors, I roll my eyes

9 posted on 03/27/2019 11:26:23 AM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I roll my eyes when people talk about being oppressed by 1% of the population. Any businesses they dominate could easily be neutralized if the 99% created and patronized an alternative.

Whining about Jews is to become a bedfellow of Stalin, the moslem throwbacks, the Boston brahmins, and the nazis. No thanks.


10 posted on 03/27/2019 12:25:39 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: yoe

Gentiles must never be afraid to use their well-earned power.


11 posted on 03/27/2019 4:48:44 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: DesertRhino
roll my eyes when people talk about being oppressed by 1% of the population. It's at least a more legitimate complaint than being Jewish and claiming-- despite having hundreds of special interest groups in your favor, the ADL, SPLC, overwhelming representation in the media, overwhelming representation at places like Harvard despite lower average test scores than Anglos and Asians, overwhelming representation in big finance, etc etc.-- that you are the real oppressed one. Add on top of that that virtually ever Jewish nonprofit is in favor of mass immigration of Muslims and other various undesirables, then they complain when one of their pets plays the knock out game on a Rabbi in New Jersey. Even Ben Shapiro was on the mass immigration bandwagon, saying the Muslim ban was immoral.
12 posted on 03/27/2019 4:55:24 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: ek_hornbeck

Yep. Jews (however ambiguously defined) are far better “represented” on the ostensibly non-representative SCOTUS than the far, far, far more numerous Protestant and Anabaptist populations.

If there were zero (leftist) Jews, and/or three of the above Gentile populations on SCOTUS, we would be continually bombarded with hateful propaganda about White Male Christian bigotry and favoritism - from both sides.


13 posted on 03/27/2019 4:55:28 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

This nation was largely colonized and founded by Christian Protestants fleeing persecution. They lacked power and influence in Europe.


14 posted on 03/27/2019 4:58:41 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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