“The problem as that liberal Jewish leaders, including the Communist and FDR-duped Rabbi Steven Wise (of same named synagogue fame) trusted Roosevelt and the Left to help save European Jews. It didn’t really work.”
I wouldn’t even say Wise was duped, by FDR or by the Communists. Going by this article, he’s if anything even WORSE than a dupe, he’s an up and out sell-out, a quisling, a fellow traveler even: https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/11/04/the-shameful-legacy-of-rabbi-stephen-wise/
Like, for example, did you know it was Wise who directly suggested to FDR that he ignore 400 orthodox Rabbis who were protesting for more action in 1943? Or how about his denouncing Ze’ev Jabotinsky as a traitor during that time, or his referring to Peter Bergson, the leader of the Bergson Group, as “worse than Hitler” just for trying to raise awareness of the Jewish persecutions there, allegedly because somehow, millions of Jews evacuating would increase anti-Semitism. Apparently, Rabbi David Kestenbaum was even phoned by Wise repeatedly to stop pressuring FDR to save the Jews in Europe, even implied that to do so was un-American.
Probably the BIGGEST stain upon him is that he’s not only a likely fellow traveler for Marxism, but he also had the utter gall to actually claim that Marxism is one and the same with Judaism. I believe his exact words to that May 5, 1935 edition of The American Bulletin were “Some call it Communism; I call it Judaism.” So much for being pro-American, or pro-Jewish (especially when the Soviets even under Lenin were arguably even WORSE anti-Semites than Hitler. And let’s not forget Karl Marx, whose writings if anything helped inspire both the Holocaust [The Final Solution being a direct reference to Marx’s On the Jewish Question] and the Doctor’s Plot). Now, I have my own negative views of the Talmud (namely the fact that the authors were arrogant enough to actually claim they beat God in a debate and restrained him to such an extent that he can’t do so much as pee without a majority of the Rabbis to be very blunt. Korah had the exact same idea when he advocated for democracy in Exodus. Look what happened to him and his followers by God’s hand. Long story short, he and the top leaders suffered the same fate as Sodom and Gomorrah, and his remaining followers had a plague inflicted upon them until they cried uncle. Not to mention one passage of the Talmud implies the Jews were to outright ignore the Old Testament, aka the Torah, altogether. I also want to make clear that while I’m anti-Talmud, I’m if anything pro-Semitic.), but to actually claim that such a genocidally anti-Semitic ideology like Marxism (which if anything had more in line with Voltaire’s Candide than it did with either the Torah or the Talmud) is one and the same with Judaism is flat out insane and morally repugnant.
Thanks for the additional history on Rabbi Wise. His record of supporting the Communist Party through its front is well documented in the hearings/reports of the HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVIES, esp. Appendix IX volumes, and of its successor, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), from about 1936 - mid 1940s.
So of these are online.
FYI: The late Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League JDL, was the modern successor to these groups mentioned in this threat. I knew Kahane and interviewed him for a major national newspaper organization.
He was meshuggana but wiley like a fox. He advocated for American Jews to defend themselves. He also worked with Herb Romerstein of HCUA/HISC to get historical materials on anti-Semitic into congressional reports. Don’t tell anyone that I told you this. /sarc
How do I know this? Besides being a dampened good investigative reporter, I knew Herb very well and he, plus the late FBI undercover agent Herb “I Led 3 Lives” Philbrick, were my mentors.
Small world isn’t it?