Posted on 03/17/2016 8:40:21 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Donald Trump's appearance at the upcoming AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington has at least one Jewish group planning to protest.
The group of professionals and clergy, which calls itself "Come Together Against Hate," says that Trump and his hate speech have no place at the annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
"We are committed to saying that Donald Trump does not speak for us or represent us, and his values are not AIPAC's values," wrote Rabbis David Paskin of West Palm Beach Florida, and Jesse Olitzky of South Orange, New Jersey in announcing the action.
"They are not the values of the Jewish community. They are not the values of our founders' vision of an America where all citizens are 'endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.'"
The group, which has a growing growing Facebook presence, will distribute stickers and flyers at the conference, organizers said. They also plan a silent walk-out during Trump's speech, planned for Monday evening (others, they say, will simply not attend); and a simultaneous group Torah teach-in.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Jews, particularly East Coast Jews, who revere their parents as Jews tend to do, also revere the obsolete and leftover-from-the-30’s views of their parents. There is a remarkable lack of thinking involved with this; they parrot opinions they have heard relentlessly since childhood. Roosevelt, one step below God himself, even though he did essentially nothing (the classic example being bombing rail lines leading to the camps; though I suspect that would have done little.....) Unions, all the way. Evangelicals, actually worse than Muslims because they want Jerusalem but they want it for their own reasons. Liberals, of course, are great because they believe in freedom, but Conservatives want to control everything you do.
These are people who fancy themselves as being very smart but they are blitheringly stupid when it comes to having thought any of these things out for themselves. They have simply never done so. They are classic bumper-stickerists.
I recently reconnected with an old pal from the 70’s with whom I pal’ed around for years. He had moved to Hawaii in the early 80’s and though I had visited him once or twice, not since 1986. We were very apolitical except for being hippies. Born in Long Island, (me in NJ) his parents were actually members of CPUSA, sub rosa. It was very hush hush. Frankly, I have utterly zero need to convince people, let alone old friends, of anything. I really do not have the patience to battle through lib dogma. I much prefer enjoying the friendship and tacitly avoiding certain topics. I see nothing wrong with that. That’s agreement, that is comity. But after claiming he was very well read and accusing me of being a nutcase because I really do not like the idea of PP selling baby parts, he absolutely would not believe me when I told him that Sanger, the originator of PP, was a fervent eugenicist and in many, many instances advocated for the “culling” of black people. And Jews, by the way.
It came down to a situation of, if I wanted to be his friend, I had to believe and accept a towering pile of crap that was documentably false, while he “didn’t have the time to even consider my stupid views.”
I couldn’t accept that. Back to not being in touch and not caring one way or another.
The Judean Peoples’ Front.
I’ve probably been in a Synagogue more times than most of these “Jews.”
“Why is that?——at 93 I never understood why Jews would continually vote this way after WW2—”
They don’t “understand” it, either. It’s just what they do because they have accepted the thinking that has been done for them. They have very simply never considered alternative views.
"Rabbi" Olitsky is supposedly a Conservative rabbi of a synagogue that advertises it's open to all people, including interfaith couples. That one little item completely shoots down the credentials of that building as a synagogue. It may be decorated as a synagogue, it may call itself a synagogue, but it does not follow Jewish law---ain't no synagogue, that. The people spending their time there are unfortunately being misled that they are following Jewish practices.
Having revealed who these guys are, I can then assure you that whatever these clowns are peddling, it is NOT in accord with Jews living an authentic Jewish life. They have taken Judaism and added some stuff they liked here, snipped away some stuff they found too hard to follow there, and wound up with a mutilated parody of Judaism. Just because they claim they represent Jews doesn't make it true. It's like comparing real leather to Naugahyde. They are following their version of G-d, which is based on money and their endlessly trying (in vain) to sanitize their Judaism to a level they deem acceptable to their non-Jewish friends and business associates---approximately zero. I've seen this close up so many times. An affinity for bagels is OK, though.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Protesting is fine. If they do it inside, during his talk, they should be arrested. It's a Federal crime. AIPAC is and should be a non partisan organization. And has indicated anyone disrupting, sorry protesting, will be banned for life. Inside. They can jump up and down, burn and stomp on flags, whatever outside. That's the authorities problem.
On the other hand, there’s Jackie Mason, who actually makes sense by comparison.
Not limited to one group. It’s an American Jewish disease, sort of like Tay Sachs, which kills infants, only they live and it gets worse with higher education.
Do these “Jews” think that Hillary - that ANY modern democrat in this age of Obola’s hatred - would actually EVER do anything to protect or shelter Israel, or the Israel people?
Haven’t a clue. This is about domestic politics, not Israel. They care not a whit about Israel, in this context at least.
They are shooting themselves in their fis.
Speeches to lobbyist groups by our candidates need to be made public.
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