Posted on 12/30/2013 5:25:11 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Jay Michaelson, a gay Buddhist of Jewish descent, has taken to the pages of the Forward to warn that if you don’t like Pajama Boy, you’re an Anti-Semite.
Arguably the State of Israel is a better barometer for antisemitism than Pajama Boy, a creepy Obama-loving manchild. But considering that Jay Michaelson is not exactly a fan of Israel, you can see why he would rather use Pajama Boy as the measure instead.
A few weeks before penning for “Leave Pajama Boy Alone” screed, Jay Michaelson wrote that Israel was worse than South Africa.
By 1996, Israel and South Africa were on radically different courses. Mandela was president of a united South Africa, Netanyahu prime minister of a divided Israel. As far as Israel and Palestine are concerned, the situation today is not so different. Yet South Africa has grown, despite enormous challenges and persistent social inequality, into a free and democratic state.
No amount of Israel advocacy can change mathematics. Unless Israel changes its policies, it will soon be quite similar to South Africa in the 1980s, and it’s hard to see why it won’t follow white South Africa’s road to extinction.
While Jay Michaelson can’t see anything anti-semitic about demented ravings of that sort about the Jewish State by a gay Buddhist who wouldn’t survive 5 minutes in Hamastan, he does see anti-semitism in anyone who dislikes Pajama Boy.
“Yes, Virginia, Pajama Boy is a member of the tribe. Look at him. Pale Ashkenazic skin, Jew-fro’d black curls, Woody Allen specs. Even the smart-ass expression on his face screams of the Wise Son from the Passover Seder,” Michaelson writes. “Parenthetically, the model himself is one Ethan Krupp, an Organizing for America staffer who is, in fact, Jewish. But whether Krupp himself is circumcised or not, Pajama Boy is semiotically Jewish, even stereotypically so.”
Pajama Boy doesn’t look particularly Jewish. He does look particularly hipsterish. Plenty of people have compared him to Leonard from Big Bang Theory played by actor Johnny Galecki of Polish, Irish and Italian descent.
In fact, Pajama Boy stands at a centuries-old nexus of anti-Semitism and misogyny. As scholars including Sander Gilman and Daniel Boyarin have shown, Jewish men have been accused of being unmanly for hundreds of years – including by other Jews, such as the early Zionists, whose muscular Judaism was a direct response to diaspora Jewish emasculation.
If you’re following Jay Michaelson’s mental breakdown, Zionists are anti-semites for accusing him of not being masculine enough.
Whether or not the Pajama-Boy bashers are unconsciously anti-Semitic or not, I don’t know. Consciously, they are against everything “Judaism” stands for, at least as construed by its enemies: outsiderness, cosmopolitanism, liberalism, a progressive rather than nativist agenda,
That’s actually not what Judaism stands for. Not that Jay Michaelson would know what Judaism stands for since he isn’t Jewish.
A well known “BuJu” or Buddhist Jew, Jay’s contemplative path includes Theravadan Buddhism, post-denominational Judaism, and earth-based spirituality.
In short, Jay Michaelson is a Buddhist of Jewish descent who is lecturing Pajama Boy critics on being anti-semites. As a Pajama Boy critic who, unlike Michaelson, actually is Jewish, can I just ask the honorable gentleman from Gay Buddhistan to stick to debating issues of relevance to gay Buddhists and stay out of our backyard.
Now if Jay wants to argue that conservatives hate Pajama Boy because he is a stereotypical gay Buddhist, he’s welcome to it.
Words cannot capture the absolute insanity of the left. If you’re against anything, you’re immediately a racist or a bigot or a -phobe. Personal feelings are no longer acceptable to the progressives. You MUST feel the same as the collective, or you are an outcast.
And if you’re against ObamaCare, you’re a racist.
Weren’t we being told just a couple weeks ago that even to utter the word “ObamaCare” was to identify yourself as a racist?
Jewish has nothing at all to do with it. The guy’s a typical liberal girly man ObamaBoy. Simple as that.
Find me one person in 10,000 who would automatically assume Pajama Boy is Jewish just by looking at the picture.
Wonngg.
It’s waaycyst, don’cha know.
Maybe a Few Centuries of wandering Europe and after finding places that accept you they are in-turn overrun and you forced out again will that PUTZ figure out why we don't like the idea of giving up OUR land for empty promises.
Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how well you play chess, the pigeon just knocks over the pieces, craps on the board, utters unintelligible, vaguely obscene sounds, and struts around like he won.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Gay Anti-Israel Buddhist.
ROFL
Now there is something you don’t see everyday...not that I’ve been looking.
“As I live and breathe ...”
YOU’RE A RACIST!
Hey jay... no one accepts the race card any longer... the company backing it went bankrupt and there is no capital left to back it... so sorry.
Typical of the left.
They intentionally use representatives of historical victim groups as “front people” in order to associate any critics with historic atrocities like slavery and the holocaust.
It has a twofold effect - shaming the critics to silence, and re-affirming the leftists’ self defined moral superiority.
It’s all about Torah. This clown rejects the Torah as all liberals do. They claim to be it’s adherents at the same moment they are attacking those people who actually stand for the Torah Sex Ethic. These are the hypocrites who hated and killed the prophets of Israel, including the Nazarine. They are not Jews.
Pajama Boy himself was accused of antisemitism when he was writing jokes for a college paper.
Yes, so what? If you do like Pajama Boy you are anti-straight, anti-Christian, anti-White, and anti-male.
Why do we always have to go on the defensive? Why do we always have to explain ourselves? Its time we put these lowsome Commie freaks on the defensive.
If you like Pajama Boy, you probably like gladiator movies and show tunes.
And what lover of Lerner and Loewe could be dubbed an anti-Semite?
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