The Hatred Whose Name We Dare Not Speak

Frontpagemagazine ^ | Jan 10, 2020 | Daniel Mandel

[SJackson]

Why the self-censorship when anti-Semitic violence is perpetrated by blacks?

Week after week come new headlines of attacks upon Jews walking the streets of ordinary, traditionally Jewish New York neighborhoods.

Since the beginning of December, there have been eight attacks upon Jews, starting with the shooting assault on a Jersey City Jewish supermarket which left three innocents dead.

Quite simply, even a mere year or two ago, this was not a problem one would have expected to see in the post-Second World War United States. A new menace to Jewish life, a reawakened anti-Semitism, reminiscent of the 1930s, with its Nazi and fascist infection, when Jews were last victimized in American streets, is now with us and a high proportion of this anti-Semitic violence is being perpetrated by African-Americans.

The problem is also large when viewed in the total context of hate crimes in the US: in the third quarter of 2019, anti-Jewish incidents comprised roughly half of all hate crimes recorded by New York City police.

After the Jersey City attacks, some local blacks despicably blamed Jews for living in the neighborhood and thus supposedly causing the attack.

Astonishingly, a local black official, Jersey City School Board member Joan Terrell-Paige, asked “Where was all this faith and hope when Black homeowners were threatened, intimidated, and harassed by I WANT TO BUY YOUR HOUSE brutes of the jewish [sic] community?” whom she accused of having “waved bags of money” in front of black homeowners.

In one of the five assaults in New York City during Chanukah, a Jewish man, walking in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was confronted by a gang of black youths screaming anti-Semitic obscenities at him, one of whom threw his drink at him.

In another assault, also in Crown Heights, a Jewish man was accosted by a group of eight black teenagers and knocked to the ground.

More serious still, this past weekend, a machete-wielding African-American man, Grafton Thomas, attempted to murder several Jews after entering a rabbi’s home in the orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Monsey in upstate New York. Thomas stabbed five people, one of whom was seriously injured.

More than a century ago, Lord Alfred Douglas, the lover of Irish playwright and wit, Oscar Wilde, devised a euphemism for the-then illegal activity of homosexual sex, ‘The love that dare not speak its name.’ Today, as though it were illegal or grossly offensive to identify anti-Semitic acts committed by anyone other than whites, officialdom substitutes the vocabulary of the mealy-mouthed. It would appear that attacks on Jews are viewed as serious and deserving of scrutiny and action only when committed by credentialed haters like white supremacists.

Thus, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed in the midst of December’s anti-Jewish attacks that “‘most’ of the ‘violent and anti-Semitic attacks around this country’ are ‘fermented systematically and in an organized fashion by right-wing forces’” and that President Trump was also largely responsible for this.

Similarly, Representative Rashida Tlaib (D–MI) asserted that the Jersey City attack was a case of “white supremacy.” Still others opt for silence.

Where are the African-American community leaders, local and national, decrying this anti-Jewish violence perpetrated by members of their community? Where are the New York City Democratic representatives? Senator Charles Schumer has condemned the attacks as “pure evil” and called for a federal investigation into the attack, but why have we heard nothing, for example, from Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Only last October, Representative Ocasio-Cortez could be found absurdly accusing President Donald Trump of anti-Semitism. Now, when confronted by actual anti-Semitic assaults in the streets of her own city, not a word was to be heard from her.

Mayor de Blasio, it is true, was not silent, observing that “It’s not enough to condemn anti-Semitism — we have to confront it … The NYPD … will bring the perpetrators to justice.”

However, as the Orthodox Jewish newspaper, Vos Iz Neias, notes, “Mayor De Blasio’s policy has proved to be consistent: send out a tweet (only sometimes). Arrest the perpetrators. Release them a few hours later back onto the streets … The mayor cannot claim to be serious about eliminating anti-Semitic attacks in the city, while at the same time refusing to keep the perpetrators of these very crimes off the streets.”

New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, has been forthright and active, describing the Monsey attack as a case of “domestic terrorism” and issuing instructions to state police to increase patrols in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods across the state, but the silence from many other Democrats and African-African-American leaders remains alarming and symptomatic of the problerm.

The systematic ignoring and misidentification of black anti-Semitic assaults is an unsustainable and unserious approach to a profoundly serious problem. Regrettably, at this moment, we have no reason to expect progress because the reluctance to confront black anti-Semitism is not mysterious: it stems from a general reluctance to condemn anti-Semitism committed by anyone other than white racists because doing so would call attention to the widespread nature of the problem and beg the question of its durability and resurgence.

Any searching examination would soon reveal that anti-Semitism is not simply another bigotry, but rather an intellectual and spiritual disease which invests Jews with virtually supernatural capacity to harm humankind as the essential first step in mobilizing the masses to persecute and even murder them.

Those who wish to rid the world of the Judeo-Christian moral and intellectual legacy can do no better than targeting its Jewish progenitors. This is why anti-Semitism has been rife across time and place, operates without the normal stimulants of ethnic animosity or competition for territory or resources, and even appears in societies devoid of Jews.

The African-American community must confront the problem of anti-Semitic sentiment and violence within and this can only start with the African-American leadership recognizing the problem, taking the lead, forthrightly condemning the assaults, and visibly engaging in acts of solidarity with Jews.

Progress also cannot occur when leaders like Mayor De Blasio and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders embrace radical Muslim activists like Linda Sarsour.

In short, positive words without positive action, or worse, coupled with negative action, has not and will not suffice.

This is a moment of truth for Democrats and for African-Americans, to be counted in substantive opposition to the haters within their ranks with a view to marginalizing them, or to quietly acquiesce in this alarming state of affairs, to the detriment of American Jews and society in general in the years to come. Their decision will shape the country the United States will become.

[SJackson]

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[Herakles]

They are all competing over the “victim” pie which is getting smaller and smaller.

I’m not a victim so it’s not my problem. I’m just an average white guy wanting to be left alone.

[wardaddy]

Why do liberal Jews denigrate Trump night after night in the media and give tacit support to a man they claim was assassinated and who was number two at a rogue jihadi nation which declares daily it wishes to exterminate Jews?

That’s worse than ignoring black on Jewish violence which frankly isn’t new

And far more dangerous for all of us

They hate western civilization which I suppose they associate with anti semitism more than Islamic nutz trying to kill them in the here and now

It is the height of foolishness and ignorance and petty behavior from a group of people I know quite well historically and who usually are not stupid and in fact damn bright and engaging

But this fatalistic self loathing is just that....dumb as hell

It’s reached heights the worst ive seen in my life

[wastoute]

Black Privlege.

[ronnie raygun]

Cuomo deblasio and the NY gov are just dusting themselves off from this with no repercussions, why? you have to ask yourself. The bonds they have with these rats are just as criminal that’s why

[Lysandru]

You are on target. This is driven in large part by Black Privilege.

I note that there is just plain Antisemitism infesting the Democrime Party, but The Approved Narrative is that black Americans are always the victims and never the perpetrators of hate crimes.

[SkyPilot]

The "Civil Rights" Act of 1964 opened Padora's Box.

No longer would Equal Treatment Under the Law be our nation's foundation. To "right past wrongs", we would enamor people with special rights.

It isn't fashionable to say this. 99% of Republicans and Conservatives will say publicly that the "Civil Rights" legislation was nirvana.

Three generations have now been taught that crying "Racism" covers all their own personal sins and serves as an excuse for whatever situation they deem necessary.

The human heart is desperately wicked.

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"

Jeremiah 17:9

Our nation gave people an excuse to blame, hate, and despise whites, claim ownership of jobs they didn't earn, and blame others for every facet and failing in their lives - - - and they ran with it. Big surprise. Things will only get worse, and worse.

Today, we have sexual perverts who have hopped on the same horse in order to spread their venom, poison our society, corrupt our children, and persecute people of faith who oppose their evil.

[Hacksaw]

Blacks were weaponized by Marxist Jews (see activity with NAACP, etc.). The same Jews did not consider that Black people would eventually regard Jews as extremely privileged Whites. It’s a lose-lose for everyone. That said, attacking people simply for being Jews is repugnant.

[kearnyirish2]

This conflict was inevitable, and is just an extension of the Crown Heights war zone. Both groups (urban blacks and Orthodox Jews) need low-cost urban neighborhoods with massive “safety nets”, and there is a finite amount of such space.

Most Americans are nowhere near the locations where this conflict occurs, but some get caught in the crossfire; in the Jersey City situation, the two Simbas killed three Gentiles (a cop, and Uber/Lyft driver, and a suspected illegal alien) and two Jewish people.

[kearnyirish2]

Jewish people are not a monolithic block; the “secular” Jews attacking Trump feel no connection to the Orthodox Jews victimized by blacks. They don’t share the same morality, customs, even language.

[bkopto]

Why do liberal Jews denigrate Trump night after night in the media

You forgot to mention that they are also overwhelmingly overrepresented in the ranks of those trying to overturn the 2016 election.

In no way do I advocate violence against any group, but this is small potatoes in relation to the elephant-in-the-room.

[RoosterRedux]

A person is naive if he expects the Left to do anything but blame the right for problems that they, the Left, cause.

That's what happens--the blame the Right thing--when you know consciously or unconsciously that your ideas of governance are ineffective and bankrupt.

Everyone knows that Marxism doesn't work as a government mechanism. So there must be another reason for Marxists to be pushing it.

I suggest that reason is that Marxists know that Marxism is a way to achieve absolute control over a population (authoritarianism) by selling a pig in a poke to those very idiots you--a Marxist--see as idiots worthy only of zoo cages.

In other Marxists are pushing Marxism so they can put the population in cages and make them work for peanuts. That's how they view humanity.

So far, it is the city folk (blue voters) wanting to put the fly-over country deplorables in cages. But as soon as the "deplorables" are in cages, they are coming for you city folk the Marxists consider less than "elite."

In the end, the great "unwashed masses" will all be in the Marxist zoo. And at the top--feeding off the work by those animals in the zoo--will be a handful of elite (like Hillary, Cuomo, de Blasio, Bernie, and Lizzie Warren).

You college kids voting for free stuff better wake up. Gorillas in the zoo get free stuff too...but they gave up the vote to get it.

Now they are under the thumb of their zoo keepers.

That's who you young Marxists are voting for. You are voting for your zoo keepers. Do you trust them enough to walk into the cage and, after giving your keepers the key, let them shut the door and lock it behind you?

[I want the USA back]

There are two specially-privileged, government-certified victim groups that hate Jews. We are forbidden to say who they are.

[wardaddy]

True

However the issue of blacks against the orthodox is largely proximity and a slight bit of cultural rub

Any white group shares turf with errant urban blacks will be targeted

Haredi unfortunately make a bright shiny target

[kearnyirish2]

It is definitely proximity - and it occurs because the Orthodox are the only white groups even desiring to live there.

[Midwesterner53]

Black/white Democrat leaders have never condemned violence by black youth in any situation. They do condemn their arrests for those crimes, the fact that the jails are packed with those criminals, but never once have I heard a black leader take the stage and say, “We have a very serious problem in our own black community with out of control, violent young people and not so young people as well.” Never heard it.

[GenXteacher]

The cancer that was Lyndon Johnson continues to injure the body politic.

[Old Yeller]

The cancer that was Lyndon Johnson continues to injure the body politic.

The more I read about Johnson, the more I find out how despicable a creature he was. A model demonicRat.

[ml/nj]

Mayor de Blasio, it is true, was not silent, observing that “It’s not enough to condemn anti-Semitism — we have to confront it … The NYPD … will bring the perpetrators to justice.”

Seems simple enough to me to have undercover NYPD officers walking around in Orthodox garb (with backup) and have them execute anyone who threatens them with physical violence.

Until something like this is implemented, I would hold Warren Wilhelm Jr. (Seig Heil, Mr. Mayor?) accountable.

ML/NJ