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Am I an ‘Uncle Jake’?--A Jewish ‘traitor’ contemplates his selling-out
Jewish World Review ^ | 12-20-05 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 12/20/2005 5:37:09 AM PST by SJackson

A Jewish ‘traitor’ contemplates his selling-out

Jews who support the Christian right are "Uncle Jakes."

So says a pro-Israeli Jewish official in his recent column for the Israel Policy Forum, a pro-Israel organization. "Uncle Jake" is M. J. Rosenberg's term for Jewish equivalent of "Uncle Tom." Just as the left sees conservative blacks as traitors to African-Americans, so it sees conservative Jews as traitors to the Jewish people. I am the "Uncle Jake" most criticized in the Rosenberg column.

That a Jew on the left would use this term to describe Jews who support conservative Christians gives one an idea of how irrational, how hysterical are the arguments of the Jewish (and non-Jewish) left. And lacking a rational basis, they frequently rely on name-calling.

Speaking personally, I have been called many things in my life, but "Jewish traitor" is a first. For the record, and offered with obvious embarrassment at having to list these things about myself, here is a brief review of my Jewish activities:

From 1969 onward I was one of the leaders of the Soviet Jewry movement, beginning with being the national spokesman for the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, the leading activist group in that cause.

I have lectured in more Jewish communities in North America — federations, synagogues of all denominations, Jewish community centers — than almost any living Jew. And I have spoken at the national conventions of virtually every major American Jewish organization — including Hadassah, the General Assembly of Jewish Federations; the United Jewish Campaign; AIPAC; and the American Jewish Committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: dennisprager; unclejake
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1 posted on 12/20/2005 5:37:11 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Jake?


2 posted on 12/20/2005 5:40:07 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: SJackson

Ah, the freedom and tolerance of the loving Left.


3 posted on 12/20/2005 5:41:34 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: SJackson

Conservative Christians support the state of Israel.

Mulsims of all varieties call for the destruction of Israel.

Leftist Jews warn of "the danger of Conservative Christians".

(Just to keep the record straight.)


4 posted on 12/20/2005 5:43:50 AM PST by samtheman
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To: SJackson
Jew[s] on the left ... use this term to describe Jews who support conservative Christians

How can Jews NOT support conservatives???? Do they not realize that the next Holocaust will come from the Left? The virulent anti-semitism gnawing at Europe is not a product of right-wing thinking; it finds its home in the "enlightened" salons of France, the ennui-ridden cellars of socialist Germany, and among the iconoclastic nihilists of post-modern Britian. Every one of those groups, along with American self-loating Jews of all stripes, are apologists for the Palestinian murder cabal, and somehow manage to blame Israel's woes on the victim!

There should not be a Jew in America who supports a Democrat.

5 posted on 12/20/2005 5:44:38 AM PST by IronJack
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Posted Earlier Here
6 posted on 12/20/2005 5:48:50 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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7 posted on 12/20/2005 5:49:58 AM PST by SJackson (There's no such thing as too late, that's why they invented death. Walter Matthau)
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To: IronJack
"There should not be a Jew in America who supports a Democrat."
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as much as I respect and love my Jewish friends they can be victims of Hubris, which blinds them to the real world.
Germany of 1930's had signs of all the horror to come- but IMO hubris born of success in education and finance blinded them to this possibility until it was on them. I pray that the Jewish left wakes up soon.
8 posted on 12/20/2005 5:55:39 AM PST by ConsentofGoverned (if a sucker is born every minute, what are the voters?)
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To: ConsentofGoverned

Liberal Jews may be suffering from the hubris of the Left: the notion that they alone are right, and everyone should conform to their thinking. It's particularly important that members of their group should conform. After all, they feel themselves a small, vulnerable group. But, in general, conformism leads eventually to stagnation.


9 posted on 12/20/2005 6:18:40 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: SJackson

Gee, I'm glad liberal Jews are so committed to tolerance and diversity!


10 posted on 12/20/2005 6:20:50 AM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: SJackson

bump


11 posted on 12/20/2005 6:36:15 AM PST by fso301
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To: ConsentofGoverned

"Germany of 1930's had signs of all the horror to come- but IMO hubris born of success in education and finance blinded them to this possibility until it was on them. I pray that the Jewish left wakes up soon."

Save your prayer for those who deserve them. Liberal Jews have access to all the data, but refuse to accept reality.

Send psychoactive pharmaceuticals if you want to help, but save your prayers in this case. There are some things even God can't accomplish - and showing American Liberal Jews the essential falseness of their socialist premises is one such thing.


12 posted on 12/20/2005 6:52:57 AM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: SJackson

It just goes to show ONCE AGAIN that white Christians (and males for that matter) enjoy NO PROTECTION WHATSOEVER from racist and bigoted attacks from any MINORITY THAT CHOOSES to spit garbage from their mouth, whether they be BLACK, MUSLIM, or JEW. YES, JEW.


13 posted on 12/20/2005 6:57:18 AM PST by steel_resolve
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To: steel_resolve

This Jew supports her White Christian brothers 100% (except those of course who have a hatred for JEWS).


14 posted on 12/20/2005 7:23:18 AM PST by ariamne (Proud shieldmaiden of the infidel--never forget, never forgive 9/11)
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To: IronJack

"There should not be a Jew in America who supports a Democrat"

Maybe they aren't. Secularism is a religion unto itself, and leftist Jews, in my understanding, have left their old one. Similarly with "secular Christians." It's an oxymoron.


15 posted on 12/20/2005 7:31:07 AM PST by Frank T
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16 posted on 12/20/2005 7:37:16 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: SJackson
Here is the article that Prager is replying to
17 posted on 12/20/2005 7:39:06 AM PST by Alouette (Learned Mother of Zion)
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To: SJackson

Better a jake than a kapo. The Jewish left has aligned itself with the apologists for radical Islam, the true and literal heir of the Third Reich.


18 posted on 12/20/2005 7:44:00 AM PST by atomic conspiracy (Islamo-terrorists: Strike force of the MSM)
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To: Wolfie

Better an Uncle Jake than an Uncle Leo, I guess.


19 posted on 12/20/2005 7:52:47 AM PST by rabidralph (How 'bout them Redskins?!)
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To: rabidralph

Jerry! Helloooo!


20 posted on 12/20/2005 7:55:37 AM PST by Wolfie
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