Posted on 08/08/2016 11:00:07 AM PDT by GilGil
I, along with many other rabbis who support civil rights and racial equality, was deeply troubled by the Black Lives Matter movement’s recent decision to refer to Israel as an “apartheid state” in its platform. If the movement wants the Jewish community as an ally, it must understand there is no place for accusations that Israel is currently committing genocide. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed recently drew national attention and justified praise from our local Atlanta Jewish community for understanding such truths.
I, along with many other rabbis who support civil rights and racial equality, was deeply troubled by the Black Lives Matter movement’s recent decision to refer to Israel as an “apartheid state” in its platform. If the movement wants the Jewish community as an ally, it must understand there is no place for accusations that Israel is currently committing genocide. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed recently drew national attention and justified praise from our local Atlanta Jewish community for understanding such truths.
Reed was approached by local leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement with a list of demands that included ending the city police department’s anti-terrorism training partnership with “Apartheid Israel.” He refused, saying ““I’m not going to do that; I happen to believe that the Israeli police department has some of the best counterterrorism techniques in the world, and it benefits our police department from that longstanding relationship.”
As someone who strongly supports civil rights, but who is also deeply concerned about attempts to delegitimize the State of Israel...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Black Leftist Mobs don’t matter.
So, that’s the only thing he disagrees with them about, huh.
“If the movement wants the Jewish community as an ally...”
They don’t. This must be one slow rabbi if he hasn’t noticed yet that the left only tolerates jews who renounce God, the Torah, and Israel. Basically, you need to spiritually uncircumcise yourself in order to be accepted on the left.
Yeah, I’d like to see the list of things the rabbi finds okee dokey with #bm.
BLM and Occupy and MANY more ‘suddenly-arisen activist groups’ are all funded by enemies of America (like Saudi Arabia, other Moslem dictatorships and terrorist groups, and of course sick old NaziSoros!) and would not achieve instant national organization and media prominence without such funding...
do not assume such “instant radical success” groups are natural grass-roots movements.... they are largely just using people to disrupt American society and now our elections
BLM = KKK for Blacks. The Klan with a Tan.
Black activists (and white leftists) had become radicalized by the failure of the liberal promise: white resistance, police violence, and the persistence of poverty and segregation suggested that liberal whites could not be trusted. And Jews constituted one of the largest and most visible segments of liberal whites. Nor did it seem that polite, liberal strategies could successfully challenge racism. Might confrontation, even violence, be appropriate? Should primacy be given to individual rights, when black rights were systematically threatened by virtue of their being members of a group? Perhaps race blindness was not as effective as programs that emphasized group rights. To pay for the structural changes required, black manifestos demanded aid and reparations from government, churches, and synagogues. Pan-African nationalism and anti-colonialism shifted black sympathy from Israel to the Palestinians – just at the time of the *Six-Day War . Black antisemitism became visible again. All these developments left Jews feeling threatened and, perhaps more importantly, betrayed.
Meanwhile, riots, violence, nationalism, and confrontational black demands reinforced Jewish racism. Skeptical Jewish leaders backed off from earlier alliances. Many of their constituents, now in suburbs, felt less concerned with urban strife. Others became neoconservatives, arguing that liberalism had lost its way. So African Americans in turn felt betrayed by Jews, whom they believed had abandoned them, and the fight for civil rights.
Dozens of incidents from the late 1960s through the 1990s reveal these stresses, from the struggle over control of schools in Brooklyn, New York's Ocean Hill-Brownsville to the refusal of most Jewish groups to support the NAACP in the 1974 and 1978 affirmative action cases; from Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" remarks of 1984 to New York City Mayor Ed *Koch 's claim that Jews would "have to be crazy" to vote for Jackson. The Nation of Islam and its leader Louis Farrakhan advertised its antisemitism, while academics and students fought their own battles on campuses across the country. At the City University of New York, for example, Professor Leonard Jeffries blamed Jews for the problems facing black people, and Professor Michael Levin insisted that black people were inferior to whites. And of course there was real violence like that in the Afro-Caribbean and Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Brooklyn's Crown Heights in 1991. After a member of the Lubavitcher rebbe's entourage accidentally hit and killed a black child, black youths attacked Jewish passers-by. One Jewish youth was stabbed to death. One early dimension of affirmative action particularly troubled Jews: quotas. African Americans intended quotas as a floor, designed to open up and include them, but Jews, for whom quotas were historically used to exclude and limit, balked. Once the legal concept was clarified, most Jews came to support affirmative action.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0003_0_03042.html
[[I, along with many other rabbis who support civil rights and racial equality, was deeply troubled by the Black Lives Matter movement’s recent decision to refer to Israel as an “apartheid state” in its platform. ]]
This isn’t about civil rights or racial equality, it’s about covetousness.
It is very good to help people , it is something else to enable them in bad behavior which the government has done.
This is the fruit of enabling bad behavior just as the Palestinians horrid behavior is the fruit of the world enabling them .
“As a Rabbi” he should be talking to all other jews and getting THEM to support Israel.
Oh, boy. Another unfocused rabbi. Just what we needed.
Jews are toast - most have turned mainstream judaism into a democrat party with holidays. Like cafeteria catholics, secular jews don’t give a rats rear end what any rabbi says. Religious jews are voices in the wind and don’t make any difference at the polls. Meh.
“Democratic Party with holidays” Brilliant!
Black lives Matter is a phoney movement for the communist left funded by George Soros. Which is why Hillary supports it!
Read “White Girl Bleeds A lot!” The black community is suffering the effects of their support & idolization of the thug sub-culture in their community! Because of this sub-culture white Americans are afraid of the American black community. The sub-culture creates the violence the community experiences.
If the American black community’s rises up against the thug sub-culture they would not need to be afraid of white Americans & police.
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Marcus Luttrell said it best at the RNC Convention:
“In order for ANY life to matter, we all have to matter....understand?”
Rabbi Dorsch, I can’t support BLM either.
What does have anything to do with anything?
The reason not to support them is that they are a racist violent organization.
Black Lives Matter are getting so far away from their original purpose that they will soon become irrelevant.
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