Am I an ‘Uncle Jake’?--A Jewish ‘traitor’ contemplates his selling-out

Jewish World Review ^ | 12-20-05 | Dennis Prager

[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.

[rabidralph]

LOL! Gotta love Uncle Leo.

[Itzlzha]

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".

You missed some...

Leftist Jews (Shimon Peres/Ehud Barak) try to negotiate away the Israeli security and land for "Peace" from those who's sole mission is to cleanse Arab Lands from "Jooooos", all the while licking the hands of the DemonRATs like Klinton who really DO hate Jews!

Leftist Jews believe that a Nuclear Arab Nation is only in response to Israel's evil posession of Nukes...and if Isreal disarmed, then the Arabs wouldn't need Nukes, and would drop their efforts.

And finally...

Leftist Jews who call good evil, and evil good...have already chosen their side, and they call it "good".

[sheik yerbouty]

Some of the Jewish lefties suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. I'd trace some of this back to events in the NYC teachers strike in 1968, and "activist" incited threats and violence.

[rogue yam]

Jake?

I like Morty. I want my Jewish uncle to be Uncle Morty.