Jan_Sobieski @37
In the linked undated 2-min video clip, Candace Owens claims it was the Frankens and Zionists, who were responsible for creating the state of Israel, likely having in mind the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Owens appears to distinguish between Zionists and religious Jews. For that she seems to have been labeled as “antisemitic.” Owen’s dislike of the claim that Israel is a U.S. ally appears to be based on her belief that Israel is controlled by non-religious-Jewish Zionists.
Her use of Leo Frank’s alleged involvement in the murder of Mary Phagen during Passover in 1913 is definitely a stretch.
It’s too bad the short video clip of Owens didn’t include identifcation of a few titles from the “ton of books” she said she had read on the subject.
Jewish Contributions to the Chinese Revolution
University of Haifa and
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Jews were deeply involved in Communist revolutions in Europe, and
primarily in Russia, often in leading positions. This is understandable given
their demographic location, extensive education and suffering over the years.
However, how could we account for the fact that they also played a role in
Communist revolutions in Asia, and especially in China? There were practically
no Jewish communities to speak of and those few who lived there had been
almost totally assimilated, and had no interest whatsoever in Chinese culture,
history and politics. Still, Jews (who arrived out of China) not only took part
in the revolution but had also helped igniting it and then stayed on or joined
later. While dealing with this puzzle in my paper, I’ll try to offer a typology
of Jewish activists and revolutionaries in China, to explain their motives (by
choice or not), and to evaluate their contributions in perspective. It appears that
their Jewish identity did not play a direct role in their revolutionary activism,
but it did play an indirect role. Included in this study are Grigorii Gershuni,
Grigorii Voitinski, Boris Shumiatsky, Michail Borodin, Adolf Joffe, Pavel Mif,
David Crook, Sidney Rittenberg, Israel Epstein, Sidney Shapiro, Solomon
Adler, Sam Ginsbourg, Michael Shapiro, and more. Their main value to the
revolution was mainly writing, translation, communication and publication.
Although they were all deeply committed to the Chinese Communist
revolution, some of them were jailed – for years – and occasionally more than
once. Nonetheless, they continued to believe in, and even to justify, the Chinese
Communist Party.”
https://ics.um.edu.my/img/files/IJCS-112-1Yitzhak-for-website.pdf
The jewish defense league, more popularly known as the anti-defamation league, was created for the purpose of defending Leo Frank, who raped and murdered Mary Phagan. This was in the south; he tried blaming a black man, but the local population wouldn’t believe it. A modern-day NGO juggernaut was formed because people in the south didn’t believe a black man raped and murdered a 13 year old girl.