Failed leftist Jewish Leadership is Causing Needless Antisemitism

 By Seth Grossman 

Editor's Note:  This excellent piece originally appeared at American Thinker, and I would like to thank the author for giving permission to republish it here, and my friend  for facilitating that. RK 

A new and vicious antisemitism has become fashionable for many young Americans on both the left and, sadly, the right. Conversations praising Hitler and joking about “a so-called Holocaust” are all over X, Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Most Jews of my “Boomer” generation know nothing about this.

We grew up in an America where it was normal for Jews to live safe and comfortable lives. We laughed at Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song because it seemed like almost everyone in public life had a Jewish connection. American Jews generously funded the ADL, AIPAC, and countless Jewish Federations and other organizations to protect Jews and fight antisemitism.

What happened?

The short answer is that America today is no longer the “goldene medina” (golden land) it was for us Boomers, our parents, and our grandparents. It is quickly becoming like the “Old Country” that our parents and grandparents left.

To make things worse, the “best and brightest” of American Jews—that is, the ones lauded and given power with the Democrat party and further left—openly and loudly promoted and cheered that “fundamental transformation” and advanced many of the worst tropes.

We need to talk. We cannot blame Netanyahu. We saw this antisemitism on October 8, 2023. That was months before Israel attacked Gaza.

Until recently, there was very little antisemitism from conservatives. Most hatred and deadly attacks against Jews came from Blacks, Muslims, and “woke” activists on the left.

Notably, in 2017, “Unite the Right” could bring only a hundred Tiki Torch boys to Charlottesville, Virginia, from all over America. Many were undercover police agents or as fake as Jussie Smollett. The media made them important headline news for weeks to embarrass President Trump. They chanted “Jews will not replace us.”. This was after the ADL joined President Obama’s lawsuit to stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws. It was after Jewish charities like HIAS resettled thousands of Muslim “refugees” throughout America.

Leftist Jewish elites—and it’s very important here to distinguish between religious Jews and those whose creed is variations of Marxism—created similar hatred against Jews in America. Here are seven examples:

1. Openly and proudly supported socialist and left-wing causes and politicians. This included “Diversity Equity and Inclusion” programs and the transgender madness that put men into women’s sports.

2. Attacked and ridiculed Christian and American values and traditions in the media, Hollywood, and TV pop culture, and in schools and colleges.

3. Openly supported, defended, and advised politicians who got rich and powerful from massive government spending, debt, bureaucracies, and Wall Street bailouts that crushed the middle class.

4. Falsely accused Bible-based Christians who supported and defended Jews and Israel of being “far-right” and “white-supremacists.”

5. Taught a narrative that falsely blamed irrational “hate” and the “far-right” for the Holocaust while avoiding the obvious cause—National Socialism. (Goetz Aly explained this in his book Why the Germans, Why the Jews?).

6. Openly and proudly supported massive legal and illegal immigration to America of Muslims and others who hate Christians and Jews and basic American values.

7. “Built bridges” with Muslims while snubbing Hindus and Christians whose families were persecuted and murdered by Muslims in Africa and Bangladesh.

For the past fifty years, nonreligious or superficially religious American Jews within the Democrat party enabled and supported our worst enemies. At the same time, they insulted and attacked our best friends. Now we are hated by both sides. We need to talk.

Seth Grossman is a retired attorney in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was active in Republican politics for many years. He was a member of the city council and county commissioners during the 1980s. He was the Republican nominee for the House of Representatives in 2018 and was narrowly defeated by the “Blue Wave” that defeated most Republicans then. He is the Executive Director of Liberty and Prosperity. That is a New Jersey organization that has promoted American liberty and constitutional government since 2003.

How Antisemitism Turned CBS Against the Left

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

Every systemic change has a dividing line and that line arrived for CBS on September 30, 2024.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a black supremacist author, whose books had taken off in the era of BLM, had made the same post-BLM shift as many others of his ilk, and had come out with a book, ‘The Message’, denouncing Israel and Jews, he claimed that Jewish history was “an enormous con” and suggested that he might have joined in the murdering and raping on Oct 7.

No one in the media, which went on hailing Coates as an “acclaimed author” and “public intellectual” (and recently trotted him out to attack the deceased Charlie Kirk as a racist) thought that there was anything amiss here. Coates had enjoyed immunity for previously suggesting that 9/11 first responders were less than human so hardly anyone objected to this latest racist rant.

Like most big woke authors, Ta-Nehisi Coates was published by Random House, a front for the ex-Nazi German publisher, Bertelsmann, which had more than enough juice to get him on CBS Mornings for a chummy chat about his new book denouncing Jews (and as usual, America.)

Just in time for the week commemorating Oct 7.

But something went wrong.

Oprah pal Gayle King was ready to gush over yet another racist, but Coates encountered unexpectedly challenging questions from host Tony Dokoupil. Unlike Gayle and fellow host Nate Burleson, Dokoupil was there to fill the morning show’s ‘serious journalist’ quota. And while he was not born Jewish, he had converted as an adult, and proved far more willing to stand up to Coates than the ordinary Jewish liberal news talking head would have thought to do.

“Why not detail anything of the first and second intifada. . . the cafe bombings, the bus bombings, the little kids blown to bits?” Dokoupil asked. Coates didn’t have an answer. He was doing what he had done all his life, put out propaganda that guilty white liberals swooned at.

No one had ever asked him a question before.

Dokoupil’s Jewish conversion would inappropriately come up often in the post-interview media cancel culture session in which CNN, the New York Times and the usual suspects set out to destroy him for describing Coates as an “extremist” and asking him why he had made no mention of Islamic terrorism. CBS executives issued an apology to Coates for an employee having asked him tough questions and the media echo chamber mulled Dokoupil’s punishment.

But something went wrong again.

Among the handful of voices defending Dokoupil was Shari Redstone: the non-executive chairwoman of Paramount and Viacom, the media industry company that controlled CBS. The Redstone family was Jewish, but like most Jewish Hollywood and media executives, did not let that interfere with their role in companies that demonized Israel and defended terrorists.

It is hard to say why this moment, of all the others, the 60 Minutes hit pieces, the past lies and smears by the likes of Dan Rather, Bob Simon to the more obscure murderer’s row of their contemporary counterparts, was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but everything had to start somewhere and maybe it started with a cozy morning show trying to run a softball interview with a defender of the mass murder of Jews to commemorate the Oct 7 massacre.

Maybe it started with CBS News personnel trying to lynch a journalist for asking a question.

The Free Press, a Substack publication started by Bari Weiss when she was pushed out of the New York Times for being a liberal rather than a leftist and pro-Israel rather than pro-Hamas, got hold of audio from a CBS News editorial meeting and condemned the news network for the disgraceful way it had brought on Coates and then gone after Dokoupil on Oct 7.

That was last year.

This year, Paramount bought The Free Press for $150 million and Bari Weiss is set to become the Editor-in-Chief of CBS News. That’s the latest development from Shari Redstone’s sale of her company to David Ellison (son of Oracle boss Larry Ellison) and a process during which Colbert’s failing late night show was canceled and 60 Minutes reached a settlement with Trump.

The media fumed, denouncing the Ellisons as “Trump allies” and claiming that Redstone and CBS were appeasing ‘Hitler’. They might have saved their breath. Shari Redstone, once a member of the club in good standing, much like J.K. Rowling, doesn’t seem to give a damn anymore. After the Coates interview, Redstone reportedly had dinner with Dokoupil, overrode attempts to sanction him and urged CBS News brass to hire more conservatives.

At an Axios forum, she warned that “we have to go back to a place where facts are what the news is about and opinions are not facts.” Redstone suggested that Weiss was a “voice that would bring a different perspective” and urged “you’ve got to give your audience credit for being smart enough to hear different points of view and being able to narrow down on the facts.”

And, more publicly, she joined an Israeli production company after the sale, certainly not because she needs the money, has spoken passionately about Israel, and Paramount became the only company to publicly reject a boycott of the Jewish State proposed by radical celebs like Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo.

The Ellison/Paramount deal was a complicated one (as any big industry deal tends to be) and it may be overly simplistic to view the Coates interview as a game changer, but the New York Times profile ties its beginning to conservations that began after the Oct 7 attacks.

Redstone notably sounds different than she did in 2023, when her public remarks tended to be peppered with Biden era pieties about “protecting democracy”, and instead now speaks about the importance of facts and different points of view. Dumping Colbert was no doubt a financial decision, as Redstone says, but a willingness to breezily violate the sacred shibboleths of the leftist club no doubt made it easier. The 60 Minutes payment and a deal with a Trump ally might have also been far more repugnant before the Left showed what repugnant really meant.

If cheering on the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7 was the price of remaining in the club, the Jewish woman who controlled the destiny of CBS (not to mention Paramount) decided that it wasn’t worth it. There is a lesson here, both for the major Jewish industry figures who have remained silent (with the exception of Sherry Lansing) and for the media which has grown complacent about bosses who sign the checks and don’t interfere with their radical antics.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tried to wrest control of the Washington Post by, in part, trying to appoint UK conservative media vets to key positions. Ellison and Redstone signing off on Bari Weiss’s role at CBS News takes a similar approach.

There comes a time when even liberals, and even liberal Jews, the greatest doormats for every radical cause the world has ever seen, have had enough. CBS found that out the hard way.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Rabbis for Appeasing Hamas

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog

The Chief Bee Whisperer, a leftist UCLA ‘rabbi’ who kicked a pro-Israel Jewish woman, the lecturer behind ‘an Introduction to Islam for Jews’ and a rabbi who claimed Hamas is ready for ‘peaceful coexistence’ signed a letter attacking Israel’s campaign against Hamas after Oct 7.

The ‘open letter’, billed as a “Jewish Orthodox response” and a “call for moral clarity” against Israel has been written up by anti-Israel outlets like the New York Times is mostly made up of anti-Israel activists and leftists, appeasers and the completely deluded.

“In my assessment it is possible to make peace with Hamas,” Rabbi Michael Melchior, the fourth signatory (his sons Jair and Joav are also signatories) had argued, claiming that the Muslim Brotherhood was open to co-existing with Israel but “that of course has never been reported here, because it doesn’t fit into our picture of Islam” and insisted that Hamas had “always kept their parts of the agreements”.

After Oct 7, Melchior claimed to be “shocked and disappointed” by the atrocities, but went on defending Hamas. “It was a personal disappointment because I know that there were very strong forces within Hamas who didn’t want the attack.”

Another of the signatories is ‘Rabbi’ Chaim Seidler-Feller, a former UCLA Hillel boss, currently with the fringe leftist Shalom Hartman Institute, whose own moral clarity manifested when he, in his own words, “hit, kicked and scratched” female pro-Israel journalist Rachel Neuwirth.

“I saw my rabbi take swings to Neuwirth’s face and kicks to her legs,” one eyewitness described after the assault provoked by the woman’s support for Israel and opposition to terrorists. Seidler-Feller had to be pulled off the diminutive woman by “three or four large college men.”

Since then, Seidler-Feller has continued signing letters condemning Israel for defending itself.

While Seidler-Feller had attended an Orthodox seminary at Yeshiva University in 1971, he stopped being an Orthodox Rabbi a few years later and was not actually ordained until he was later sent an ordination certificate in appreciation for soliciting money from Barbara Streisand.

This still makes Seidler-Feller more of an ‘Orthodox rabbi’ than many of the signatories.

A quarter of the ‘rabbis’ signing on to the letter, like ‘Rabba Amalia Haas’, the Chief Bee Whisperer of a company that “teaches about climate change through Jewish texts”, Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky, Rabbi Dina Najman, Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez, Rabbi Emily Goldberg Winer, among 20 female ‘Rabbis’ signing on, were never Orthodox rabbis at all.

Orthodox Judaism does not ordain or maintain female rabbis as a basic matter of Torah, tradition and law. A significant number of the signatories to the letter are therefore non-Orthodox clergy posing as Orthodox clergy in order to undermine Israel’s fight against terrorism, and to make it appear that there is actual opposition to the fight within the Orthodox community.

Who’s actually behind the letter which falsely claims that Israel is responsible for “starvation” and complains that “Israeli extremists” responded to Oct 7 (which was backed by the vast majority of the enemy population) with “blanket suspicion of the entire population of Gaza”?

The anti-Israel letter was posted on the website of Torat Chayim, a front group for Uri L’Tzedek, a radical leftist spinoff of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, a non-orthodox social justice seminary pretending to be Orthodox which is responsible for ordaining many of the signatories.

Uri L’Tzedek was set up by ‘Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz’, a leftist activist who had converted to Judaism, who had previously laid out his vision for “an Orthodox Judaism rooted in social justice” and who has claimed credit for working to produce the anti-Israel letter while claiming that he has concerns about Israel’s “moral compass” and the “humanitarian crisis in Gaza”.

Yanklowitz had held study sessions with ‘Rabbi’ Jill Jacobs, the head and member of anti-Israel groups, including J Street’s Rabbinic Cabinet and T’ruah which promotes boycotts of parts of Israel. Some signatories of the anti-Israel letter like ‘Rabbi’ Jonah Winer (He/Him) of T’ruah, are also members of anti-Israel hate groups. (Jonah’s wife, ‘Rabbi’ Emily Goldberg Winer of Beth Sholom is also a signatory.)

The anti-Israel letter tears the mask off Uri L’Tzedek which after Oct 7 had pretended to be pro-Israel. The group even fielded a ‘slate’ for the World Zionist Congress under the completely misleading name of Dorshei Torah Ve’Tzion (Seekers of Torah and Zion) which on a field of waving Israeli flags laid out a platform that claimed to include ‘Zionism and Support for Israel’ (alongside “LGBTQ Inclusion” and a call for “security and dignity” for the “Palestinian people”.)

The Uri L’Tzedek, Eshel (LGBTQ), JOFA (feminist) and Yeshivat Maharat (a feminist seminary) slate included multiple signatories to the anti-Israel letter including ‘Rabbi’ Aliza Libman Baronofsky, Rabbanit Leah Sarna, Rabbi Max Davis and Rabbi Barry Dolinger.

Uri L’Tzedek, like other post-Orthodox groups, claim that it draws support from an underrepresented part of the Orthodox Jewish community, but who’s really funding it?

The list of sponsors for Uri L’Tzedek consists of non-Orthodox leftist groups and includes the Nathan Cummings Foundation, tied to the Soros network, and was the funder for a variety of anti-Israel groups including J Street, the Israel Policy Forum and Americans for Peace Now.

Other backers include the liberal Koch’s Stand Together Foundation. The Koch libertarian network does not normally back Jewish groups with the exception of anti-Israel ones.

Finally, Uri L’Tzedek is funded by one of the most notorious backers of the most extreme anti-Israel groups: the Puffin Foundation. Puffin, which blatantly celebrates Communism as an ideal, funds Jewish Currents, a spinoff of the old Communist Party’s Yiddish paper, which accused Israel of “genocide” and described Hamas atrocities as “resistance”.

Simone Zimmerman, a former employee of Uri L’Tzedek and a founder of the anti-Israel hate group If Not Now, wrote in the publication, calling for a communal endorsement of BDS and declaring that “Jewish communities should ask themselves ‘What would you have done to stop the annihilation of the Jews of Europe?’ and should do just that for Palestinians now. You are either for genocide or against it.”

Uri L’Tzedek vet Zimmerman had described immigration authorities as “the American Gestapo” for deporting Hamas supporters and slurred Jews fighting antisemitism as “Nazi collaborators” for supporting Jewish students being assaulted by antisemitic mobs on college campuses.

This is the money and the real agenda lurking behind the latest anti-Israel letter.

Despite the media hype, the anti-Israel letter does not represent Orthodox Jews or any kind of legitimate rabbinic movement. Many of the ‘rabbis’ signing the letter are not qualified to be Orthodox rabbis, their ordination disproportionately comes from the non-Orthodox Yeshivat Chovevei Torah social justice institution, or from Yeshivat Maharat, which had been set up by the YCT network to ordain female rabbis. Many are not practicing rabbis, but are academics and activists who use a ‘rabbi’ title to bolster their credibility. Some have entirely different professions in medicine or law. Few actually have functioning congregations. A number are ‘campus rabbis’ or teach at various non-Orthodox institutions where there are no religious standards.

Their views are not those of Torah or the Orthodox Jewish religious tradition.

Despite claiming to be Orthodox rabbis, a number are affiliated with non-Orthodox institutions like ‘Rabbi Wendy Zierler, PhD she/her’ who teaches Feminist Studies at the Reform movement’s Hebrew Union College. Rabbi Dr. Michael Chernick also teaches at HUC.

As the Coalition for Jewish Values, an actual Orthodox Jewish organization notes, the signatories include “several openly gay clergy” like Steven Greenberg, a gay man, as well as Rabbi Daniel Landes who had ordained a gay man, also incompatible with traditional Jewish practice. Rabba Melissa Scholten-Gutierrez serves on the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), a group that defended collaborating with anti-semitic and anti-Israel activists Rabbis for Repro Advisory Board and has advocated for abortion as a “Jewish right”.

The list is full of fringe leftists involved in feminist theory, gender theory and queer theory like Tyson Herberger, who studies “queer issues in Judaism”. Rabbi Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz is a feminist scholar who offers online courses such as ‘An Introduction to Islam for Jews’. Rabbi Dr. Joshua Feigelson runs the Institute for Jewish Spirituality which promotes mindfulness and meditation. Rabbi Dr. Alon Goshen-Gottstein has promoted using Hinduism to “stretch Jewish thought”. Rabba Aliza Libman Baronofsky claims to be the parent of a “non-binary child”.

All of these are fringe views that are as representative of Orthodox Judaism as a ham sandwich.

The vast majority of Orthodox Jews stand with Israel. Just as the vast majority support President Trump. Unlike the majority of American Jews, they do not believe that Judaism must defer to liberalism and that it must adopt leftist definitions of justice to be a moral foundation. And the more they stand strong, the more the Left, under its various guises, tries to get in.

The New York Times may promote the lie that these leftist front groups taking a stand against Israel represent Orthodox Judaism, but actual Orthodox Jews will always know better.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

 

Liberal Jewish Groups Fight for Hamas Supporters

By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog 

Ahead of Passover, the Jewish Democratic Council of America sent out a mailing headlined, “Pharaoh in the White House”.

According to JDCA's head Halie Soifer, Trump was the reincarnation of the ancient tyrant at the heart of the Passover story because he was deporting antisemites.

"Legal residents and others are being illegally detained and, in some cases, deported without due process. Much of this is happening in our name, ostensibly to “fight antisemitism,” the former foreign policy advisor to Kamala complained.

“Even if we disagree with the content of the speech, freedom should mean the same thing for all people, and due process must be granted. Enough is enough of Donald Trump using the Jewish community as an excuse to deprive people of their rights and deport people ‘for their beliefs.'”

The beliefs include forcing Jews off campuses like Columbia and UCLA, assaulting Jewish students and faculty, cheering for the mass murder of Jews on Oct 7 and calling for the destruction of Israel.

The true meaning of Passover is not for Jews to stand up to those who want to kill them, but to stand up for them instead.

This attitude has permeated the liberal Jewish establishment which has tried to make the case for why Jews should be rallying for those who want to kill them.

Bend the Arc, run by Alex Soros, rewrote the famous WWII era poem to argue that “after detaining immigrants, activists, and trans people, the Nazi regime in Germany came for Jews.” The ‘activists’ in this case are the ones who want to come for the Jews making it more like, “First they came for the Nazis, then the Jews”.

“It may be pro-Palestinian protestors who are targeted and denied their rights today, but we don’t know who will be next. If we support the selective denial of protected speech and rights of others, even those with whom we strongly disagree, we fall into a dangerous trap that will only come at our own peril,” Soifer warned.

“Any Jew who thinks this is going to start and stop with a few ‘Palestinian’ activists is fooling themselves,” Amy Spitalnick, the former press secretary for the anti-Israel J Street group who now runs the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, told the New York Times.

This line of argument might have been more compelling if the supporters of killing Jews, whom Soifer and Spitalnick whitewash as 'Palestinian' 'activists' and 'protesters' had not already demonstrated that the Jews are 'first' not 'next'.

The entire 'first they came' line of argument denies the fact that Jews had been targeted on college campuses, in corporate environments and in our synagogues, resteurants and even homes with virtually no government action and hardly a word of protest from the same establishment figures warning us that we could be next.

We are first. And we always have been.

It's much too late to warn us that we could be next when Jewish professors and students have left campuses. Jews have been assaulted in front of synagogues and Holocaust museums with very little in the way of consequences. Not all that long ago, I watched Jewish community members in Los Angeles being beaten by a mob of terrorist supporters in keffiyehs while the LAPD watched and did nothing. Jewish students at UCLA were assaulted while campus security refused to intervene, CNN hunted down the few Jews who were willing to stand up to the pro-terrorist mob and the LA Board of Supervisors paid the legal bills of the mob.

It’s a little too late to warn us about the dreadful consequences for Jews that might arise from Hamas supporters being deported. The consequences of their presence is far worse than their absence. Violent bigots have always existed, but this particular set has the support of much of the liberal establishment along with a good deal of its liberal Jewish organizational contingent.

“The administration is rounding up people with no evidence of crimes or even of violating the standard of damage to foreign policy and national security they have cited,” David Saperstein, the former director of Reform’s Religious Action Center, told a Congressional hearing on antisemitism.

Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth contended in a New York Times op-ed titled ‘Trump’s Crusade Against Antisemitism Is Extremely Bad for the Jews’ that, “Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas; lists of those under government scrutiny; official proclamations full of bluster and bile — Jews have been here before, many times, and it does not end well for us.”

These amateur prophecies by a college president who a little over a week after Oct 7 was suggesting that “Muslim students on campus are feeling particularly vulnerable right now… they feel targeted as terrorist sympathizers or anti-Semites” and emphasizing ‘Islamophobia’ are unconvincing and also largely irrelevant in the face of the actual antisemitism here and now.

All this concern about slippery slopes and government crackdowns didn't exist when the FBI was targeting the KKK or non-violent abortion protesters. The same establishment figures telling us to our face that arresting Hamas supporters will endanger our civil rights applauded when elderly women were locked up for blocking abortion clinics. They're not concerned about slippery slopes or government abuses, only with protecting their political allies.

And those allies are calling for the murder of Jews.

Some American Jews are still willing to believe something as abysmally suicidal as the notion that unless they rally for the civil rights of those who want to kill them, they may be next, but growing numbers are waking up to the fact that they’ve been sold out by the Schumers, Spitalnicks, Sapersteins and Soifers who aren’t standing up for them, but for the antisemitic Left. 

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.  Thank you for reading.

 

Passover and Leftist Jews: A Study in Insanity

By Rich Kozlovich

On April 12, 2025 Daniel Greenfield posted this article, Jewish Democratic Council of America Compares Trump to Pharaoh for Deporting Hamas Supporters, noting the view of Jews who are avid supporters of the Democrat party believe the true spirit of Passover is to support Hamas, and Trump deporting them is like Pharaoh.  Do you think that's convoluted thinking?  It gets better. 

He goes on to quote "Halie Soifer, the head of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, and a former foreign policy advisor to Kamala" saying:

Trump appears to be a modern-day Pharaoh, and we must liberate ourselves and our country from his tyranny, ......We also remain committed to freeing Americans from the oppression emanating from this White House. Antisemitism is on the rise, and President Trump has fueled the fire at home and abroad. 

In addition, legal residents and others are being illegally detained and, in some cases, deported without due process. Much of this is happening in our name, ostensibly to “fight antisemitism,” while in reality, it’s an extension of the White House’s attacks on higher education, immigrants, and free speech.

Even if we disagree with the content of the speech, freedom should mean the same thing for all people, and due process must be granted. Enough is enough of Donald Trump using the Jewish community as an excuse to deprive people of their rights and deport people ‘for their beliefs.'

So, deporting those who love terrorizing Jewish students on American campuses, support killing Jews, killing Americans, killing Christians, and destroying western civilization need to be protected from President Trump, because that's "fueling the fire of antisemitism like Pharaoh"?  Did I get that right?  Yep, I did!  Does that sound insane to anyone besides me?  Yep, that's insane. 

Daniel goes on to define this insanity:

The true meaning of liberation on Passover… is supporting the freedom to call for the murder of Jews. That’s the word from the ‘Jewish’ branch of the Democratic Party.  This is leftist replacement theology being weaponized to defend antisemitism and the murder of Jews. In Haile Soifer’s complete moral inversion, defending Jews makes one into Pharaoh while supporting those who kill Jews is the true spirit of Passover liberation.

I recommend taking a look at the reader comments section, which shows a lot of people think that's insane, and they're right.  

In Chapter Six, Into the Whirlwind, of Tony Judt's book, Postwar, A history of Europe since 1945, he describes how Stalin, an ardent antisemite, and all the Eastern European communist dictators Stalin installed purged even their own party members.  Torture, forced confessions, show trials, and then execution, and lucky if sent to many years in prison, or a Siberian gulag, or work camp.  And they did it to a lot of them.  In these atheist societies the leader is a demigod, and his plans are divine, so when the plans fail it must because someone is undermining the plan.  So, someone must be  blamed, and Judt made it clear in the eyes of these dictators, if they were Jews, all the better.   

These were not practicing Jews, they were ardent communist atheists who were foundational in creating these atheistic tyrannical governments and even responsible for purging members on demand on orders from from Stalin, like Trotsky who Stalin had assassinated in Mexico. But they were Jews anyway, and if the leftist Jews in western civilization thinks anything would be different with their support of Islam now, they're grossly mistaken.   Antisemitism is foundational to Islam and has been for almost 1500 years, and to leftism since it's founding with the French Revolution.  That's history, and that history is incontestable, and nothing has changed except the faces of the fools who fall for their insane narratives.

The Divide Among American Jews

November 28, 2023 By Howard J. Warner

This week was a sad awakening for me.  I attended a discussion group regarding the situation in the Mideast at my synagogue.  Of the ten attendees I was the only one to express concern about the level of anti-Semitism which was occurring around the USA.  Others that spoke expressed their concern about the aggressiveness of the Israeli government and negative treatment of Arabs.  

I entered the room somewhat depressed that so many people will die because of the Oct 7^th attack but left even more upset.  These people were approaching the issue based upon their dislike of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and admiration for the socialist origins of Israel rather than the present facts...........

Ultra-Orthodox groups such as the Satmar Hasidim and Neturei Karta (an offshoot of Haredi Jews that originated in Jerusalem in 1938) reject political Zionism and therefore reject the state of Israel............... The alliance between Marxism and Islam has encouraged young Jews to carry signs saying “Jews for Palestine” because they are ignorant of its meaning.  ............Christians regularly tell me of their support for Israel.  But among middle-aged and older Jews I find lukewarm support with some hesitant to express strong support for the Gaza incursion.  ............In Israel it is apparent that some on the political Left has recognized that their strategy for “land for peace” and coexistence with Palestinian Arabs has not succeeded.  .......To Read More.....

My Take - One thing is clear.   If anyone ever wondered why Israeli politics is so complicated with all those political parties in their Knesset it's because Jewish views are in no way monolithic, even at the expense of the nation of Israel.

When a Jewish Teacher Union Bigwig Maliciously Scapegoats Jews

April 9, 2021m By Rabbi Aryeh Spero

Randi Weingarten, leader of the AFT (American Federation of Teachers union) has made a malicious smear against the Jewish community that would normally be characterized as anti-Semitic, but it may get a pass because she happens to be Jewish.

She was asked a very appropriate question: "Why are the teachers across the nation in major cities still refusing to go back and teach children in the classroom in public schools?"Instead of acknowledging the problem, she strangely shifted into a tirade against the Jewish community.She castigated Jews by saying, "American Jews are part of the ownership class ... who now want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it."She took legitimate criticism of her union's refusal to go back to work as a prompt to demonize the Jewish community. Historically, this was labeled "scapegoating." Scapegoating is the practice of dodging and deflecting a legitimate concern by parlaying each issue against the Jewish people or the hard-work result of Jewish financial success and ownership.

Ms. Weingarten is tragically another example of someone denouncing her own people and inciting others against Jews in order to be the darling of the left, thereby climbing the ladder of political power. She understands that today, power in leftist and minority circles is achieved by those who blame Jews.  This has become the left-wing formula........To Read More.....

Liberal Jewish Leaders Accuse Jews of Racism, Cover Up Anti-Semitism

Daniel Greenfield - July 19, 2020 @ Sultan Knish Blog

 After Black Lives Matter - Los Angeles, a hate group which has partnered with the Nation of Islam and whose lead organizer praised Farrakhan, led a protest that resulted in mass attacks on Jewish schools, stores and synagogues, the leaders of 22 left-wing Jewish organizations signed letters condemning not the attacks, but the Jewish leader who spoke out against the antisemitism of the racist hate group. They made no reference to the BLM attacks on Jews.

The letters singled out Mort Klein, the President of the Zionist Organization of America, for describing Black Lives Matter as, among other things, "antisemitic," "Israel hating", and "extremist". They did not offer a rebuttal to this accurate description because none is possible.

Instead, a letter signed by 16 members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, accused Klein of hate and divisiveness. The letter's signatories, including HIAS and Americans for Peace Now, included groups notorious for their hostility toward Israel.

A separate letter by a slate of militantly anti-Israel groups, including J Street, The New Israel Fund, which sponsors BDS hate groups, and T'ruah, which has led a soft BDS campaign against Israel, demanded Klein's expulsion from the Conference. That aligns with their previous calls for the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from historic parts of Israel.

The signatories to the letters by Conference members included the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, National Council of Jewish Women, whose previous CEO had signed a letter in defense of Linda Sarsour and agreed to work with antisemitic and anti-Israel groups, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Women of Reform Judaism, and Rick Jacobs, the anti-Israel head of the Union of Reform Judaism.

Jacobs had previously welcomed Ayman Odeh who heads Hadash, a merger of the local Communist Party, and whose current Joint List coalition includes a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood, and praised his, “inspiring vision”. But Jacobs doesn’t think that Klein has an inspiring vision, protesting that, “Black Lives Matter is at the center of one of the most critical fights for justice in our country”, while accusing Klein of “Islamophobia” and “racism”.

The Union of Reform Judaism has been a reliably anti-Israel voice in the Jacobs era.

Jacobs opposed moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and whined that, “Israel’s decision to bar U.S. Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering the country is wrong”.

Last year, Jacobs attacked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for stating that Israeli towns in Judea and Samaria were "not inconsistent with international law". These rants, like so many others by Jacobs, were all issued in the name of the Union of Reform Judaism.

While the Union of Reform Judaism found time to issue multiple press releases in support of Black Lives Matter, against the Jewish State, on the vital Jewish issue of withdrawing US troops from the Turkish-Syrian border, and in defense of Rep. Ilhan Omar, Jacobs and the URJ failed to acknowledge or offer solidarity to the victims of black nationalist terrorist attacks against a synagogue in New York and a Kosher grocery in New Jersey.

The URJ and Jacobs did manage to issue a press release over the shooting in a Texas Walmart and will respond to bomb threats and synagogue shootings, as long as they're carried out by white nationalists. If your synagogue is attacked by a Neo-Nazi gunman, Jacobs and the URJ will acknowledge it, but if a Black Hebrew Israelite swinging a machete attacks your synagogue on Chanukah, Rick and the URJ will rush out a press release blasting Israel over something.

That’s the fundamental problem that Mort Klein was getting at. Jewish lives don’t matter to the URJ. Not in Israel and not in America. The only thing that matters is its left-wing politics.

While the Jewish community of Los Angeles witnessed its synagogues and schools vandalized and stores looted over Shavuot, Jonah Dov Pesner, the director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, was praising the "national rage" which saw bigots chanting "F____ Jews" and defacing the statue commemorating the Holocaust heroism of Raoul Wallenberg.

A URJ statement declaring that Black Lives Matter is a “Jewish value”, falsely accuses "white Jews" of perpetuating "the systemic racial injustices on which the nation was founded."

That’s a line that could have come from Farrakhan.

Even as Jacobs complains about divisiveness, the URJ is dividing Reform Jews by race.

The URJ's embrace of Black Lives Matter includes the worst elements of its philosophy, including mandated intersectionality for Reform congregations, dismissal of colorblindness, and black supremacist resource texts that include Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ibram X. Kendi, as well as James Baldwin's 70s essay, Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White.

There's even a White-Ashkenazi Awareness Checklist.

The racist movement here isn’t the ZOA. It’s the signatories to the anti-Klein letter.

When Jacobs and 15 other Conference members sign on to a letter urging Jews to stand up "against senseless hatred and divisive bigotry" and "not to search for ways to keep us apart", they might start by looking at their own embrace of divisive bigotry meant to keep us apart.

Mort Klein and the Zionist Organization of America are willing to address the everyday antisemitism that Jews in places like New York and Los Angeles have been experiencing. And they’re willing to do it even when the bigots aren’t members of a safely discredited ideology.

There’s no great courage in taking on Third Reich supporters in 2020. The time to do it was during the Holocaust while the FDR administration and Joseph Kennedy were warning American Jewish leaders to keep quiet about the mass murder of millions of Jews. Where were URJ’s marches, protests, and sit-ins while Jews were being shot and gassed?

Reform Jewish leaders had gone to Herbert Hoover and Roosevelt, asking them to issue a joint statement condemning the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

The Republican agreed and the Democrat didn’t.

Or take it from Morris Waldman, the former rabbinic leader of the prominent Temple Anshe Emeth, and the long deceased executive vice-president of the American Jewish Committee.

"Some Jewish groups have some too many times protested against Hitlerism," Waldman complained.

Waldman is fondly remembered, within liberal Jewish organizational circles, as the "the first proponent of putting the human rights provisions in the United Nations Charter."

There can hardly be a better summary of the utter moral bankruptcy of the same folks now accusing Jews of racism and white supremacy for fighting against antisemitism.

The Zionist Organization of America is part of the proud tradition of Jewish groups that refused to kneel to political correctness when Jews were being attacked by politically correct mobs.

Black Lives Matter is antisemitic. Its leaders declare that they’re Marxists. Portions of the movement are openly aligned with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Synagogues and schools have been defaced and a Holocaust memorial was vandalized. But the organized kneelers are trying to silence any members of the Jewish community who speak out against antisemitism.

As the main targets of antisemitic violence, by either black or white nationalists, Jews and their synagogues need the police. By endorsing Black Lives Matter, the Union for Reform Judaism is undermining the safety and security of synagogues and worshipers across the country.

It’s time for URJ members to speak up and ask Rick Jacobs some hard questions.

Jewish history tells us that the real threat doesn’t come from those who speak too loudly about popular antisemitism, but those who remain too silent. There are far too many memorials and attacks on targets that carry no risk within their political cohort, and too little real resistance.

By speaking out, Morton Klein and the ZOA have offered real resistance to antisemitism.

Meanwhile, the Women’s League for Conservative Judaism, National Council of Jewish Women, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, Jewish Women International, the Rabbinical Assembly, the Women of Reform Judaism, and the Union of Reform Judaism are complicit in covering up antisemitism and silencing those Jews who dare stand up to the vandalism of synagogues, schools, and Holocaust memorials by smearing them as racists.

Organizations that claim to speak for the Jewish community have sold it out instead.

The Jewish community does not need leaders who will accuse it of racism to score points at their Manhattan cocktail parties for the Public Art Fund, but real leaders who will stand up for it.

In an article accusing the Jewish community of racism, Rick Jacobs claimed that, “fighting racism and fighting antisemitism go hand in hand”.

We’ve seen a whole lot of the former and very little of the latter.

Fighting racism and antisemitism doesn’t go hand in hand when synagogues and schools are attacked, and Jews are shot, slashed and beaten.

The ugly truth is that Jacobs and other leaders of leftist groups would much rather fight Jews, whether in Israel or in America, than get up off his knees and fight for them. Fighting Jews is safe. Rehashing the rantings of Ibram X. Kendi and other fashionable black nationalists won’t get leftist leaders in trouble. Standing up to them over black nationalist antisemitism will.

Like their counterparts in the FDR era, they’re cowards and traitors, and they know it.

That’s why they’re going after the ZOA. There’s nothing that cowards hate more than brave men who stand up for the truth. The only thing more humiliating than selling out is knowing that there was another way. Rick Jacobs and the organizations targeting the ZOA want everyone in the Jewish community to kneel before the pogromists, the bigots, and the supremacist racists.

Their message is that if you don’t kneel, they will destroy you.

Over 2,300 years ago, there was a Jewish leader named Mordechai who would not kneel. For thousands of years, on the holiday of Purim, Jewish children have sung the name of a man who would not kneel to an antisemite. Kneeling is not extraordinary, refusing to do so is.

Many other Jewish leaders no doubt knelt. Their names have been lost to history.

Those Jewish leaders with weak knees today might ponder how they will be remembered.

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation.

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The GOP's Unholy Assault on Iowa's Steve King

Jack Cashill

The headline of a recent Baltimore Jewish Times article reads as follows: "Jewish Republicans Tackle a Thorny Question: What To Do About Republicans Like Steve King?"

A saner question might be, "Why should Jewish Republicans — or any Republican, for that matter — have a problem with Iowa congressman Steve King?"

Certain Republican insiders, using The Republican Jewish Coalition as a wedge, are trying their damnedest to defeat King in a June 2 primary. In doing so, they not only threaten to unseat one of Israel's most solid defenders in Congress, but also risk creating a backlash against Jews.

Reporter Ron Kampeas acknowledges how GOP leadership is using the Republican Jewish Coalition. Writes Kampeas, "The RJC [is] making a case that a Republican trafficking in anti-Semitism or white supremacism carries more weight than when it comes from an outside group." What makes this strategy all the more odious is that King has trafficked in neither.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I contracted with King in December to help him finish a book project he had been working on. This article is not part of that contract. It comes from the heart............ To Read More

Liberal Jewish Opposition to Israel’s Sovereignty is Cowardly

Daniel Greenfield May 24, 2020 @ Sultan Knish Blog

 

The House of Saud, the oldest enemies of an independent free Jewish state, have at least temporarily abandoned their project to destroy it by replacing it with the Islamic terrorist colony of ‘Palestine’.

That’s more than you can say for liberal Jews.

It’s a sad day when Wahhabi Islam shows more aptitude for setting aside its fanaticism and adapting to reality than the alphabet soup organization leaders and non-profit newspapers that have been running the liberal Jewish community into the ground for over a hundred years without ever learning a thing.

This failed establishment is wringing its hands because Israeli law might be applied to parts of the West Bank filled with Jewish towns and villages that were liberated 53 years ago in the Six Day War. That means Israeli citizens living in cities like Ma'ale Adumim (pop. 38,193) would actually fully live under Israeli law, instead of a clumsy hybrid system of military law, antiquated regional law, and national law.

And, as Caroline Glick pointed out, “The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will benefit from the move because soldiers and officers will not be responsible for issues like directing traffic and providing building permits for everything from parking lots to kindergartens to neighborhoods.”

Please raise your hand if you want the military to be responsible for directing traffic. What the anti-occupation opponents of Israeli sovereignty are really fighting against is an end to the occupation.

Their weapons are terminology. They call applying Israeli sovereignty “annexation” and refer to cities like Ma'ale Adumim as “settlements”. They also insist that some Arab Muslim cities that are the same age and size are “refugee camps”. These walls of words have enraptured policymakers and NPR listeners for generations while completely ignoring the physical realities of life for Jews and Muslims.

Israel assuming responsibility for cities and villages, for territory that would remain its own, is Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan and President Trump’s plan. What counter-plan do its opponents offer?

There is the endless peace process, which its proponents believe in almost as assiduously as religious Jews believe in G-d and the Bible, though their faith is in a much more intangible phenomenon because the peace process has never existed, has never been seen or experienced, and is taken entirely on faith.

After three miserable decades, the religion of the peace process is on its last legs. No one has seen hide or hair of peace since before the internet was this strange thing that only a few people were using.

True believers used to claim that an administration actively hostile to Israel could apply enough pressure to force the Jewish States to make so many concessions that the terrorists would just have to accept.

Obama disproved that theory.

Mahmoud Abbas, the 84-year-old dictator of the Palestinian Authority, was a mere lad in his fifties when this kettle of fish was put on the stove. He has refused to negotiate with the Trump administration, and also the Obama administration, his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, sabotaged peace negotiations during the Bush and Clinton administrations. History and common sense say his successors will do the same thing.

Go to a racetrack. Bet on the worst horse, the one that can hardly stand upright, and you’ll have better odds than betting on successful peace negotiations leading to two states living together in peace.

What’s Plan B?

Pro-Israel opponents of annexation argue for playing the waiting game some more. But waiting isn’t a plan. Israel has been waiting for a generation. First it was waiting for peace partners on the PLO side. Then it settled in to wait for someone in the White House who finally gets it. Why keep on waiting?

The peace partners aren’t coming. The Arab petrocracies are worried enough about Iran that they’re making common cause with Israel. And President Trump is the most pro-Israel president in history.

There’s nothing else to wait for except the coming of the messiah.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to move forward after decades of inaction and defensive measures, to set the terms, instead of passively reacting as they are set for Israel by the terrorists.

Sovereignty isn’t going to change everything. But it allows Israel to begin restoring normalcy. It’s either that or waiting endlessly for a peace process that will never arrive or a war that much more likely will.

In the early days of the peace process, its proponents claimed that critics didn’t have a plan. Israel couldn’t just go on like this forever. Now they’re the ones who want Israel to go on like this forever.

Either that or withdraw unilaterally from everywhere and hope that the terrorists stop the killing.

3 American and 6 Israeli administrations have tried everything from negotiations to unilateral withdrawals. They’ve all failed. The remaining options are to do nothing or take assertive steps.

That’s what President Trump’s peace plan did. It’s what Prime Minister Netanyahu is trying to do.

Proponents of the perpetual status quo warn that the Democrats, the Europeans, the Arabs, and, worst of all, liberal Jews, will turn on Israel if it applies its laws to its territory that it liberated 53 years ago.

The obvious question is if they do, what is Israel’s relationship with them worth anyway?

In the real world, Democrats and Republicans are tired of being asked about the peace process. It’s burned every president who touched it. Europeans governments cynically never cared about it, but ritually bash Israel to appease their Arab trading partners and domestic Muslim populations. The Arabs hoped to use the ‘Palestinian’ hoax to destroy Israel, only to realize that they need Israel to take on Iran.

To reduce that paragraph to a sentence, no one except liberal Jews cares anymore.

Except for the Qataris, the reliable allies of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, the Arabs have moved on. There are a lot fewer ambassadors, politicians and generals coming back from the Gulf and parroting the talking points of their hosts blaming all the regional instability on Israel. The new message is that all the regional instability is being caused not by Israel, but by Iran.

The domestic Muslim constituencies, whether it’s the Imams in Manchester and Toulouse, or CAIR and Rep. Ilhan Omar, are not going to stop agitating for the destruction of Israel no matter what it does. Nor will their lefty allies who have incorporated the ‘Palestinian’ plank into their socialist rage programs.

They are unappeasable because hating Jews and Israel gives them added purpose and meaning.

The Wahhabis can readapt to circumstances, but there’s no need for the green diaspora and its red ruling class to adapt to a damn thing. There’s virtually no downside to hating Jews, bombing synagogues, or attacking Jewish students on campus. And whatever downside occurs is suffered by the red allies, Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders, not the green diaspora which will go on hating just as much.

Especially because its Muslim Brotherhood leadership is interchangeable with Hamas.

And liberal Jews? They have the same choice that they always did. They can stand with their people or their fashionable progressive friends. They can, in their cowardly fashion, blame Netanyahu for forcing them to make that choice. But they’re only lying to themselves about why they made the wrong choice.

Israel and the hard Left were irreconcilable long before Netanyahu was born. Go ask Marx what he thought of the Jews, “What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.” Go ask Lenin, “Whoever, directly or indirectly, puts forward the slogan of Jewish ‘national culture’ is… an enemy of the proletariat... he is an accomplice of the rabbis and the bourgeoisie.”

Go ask the guy who coined the term, ‘socialism’, “Every government having regard to good morals ought to repress the Jews”. That’s exactly what every moral socialist government from the Soviet Union to the Sandinistas, from Gomulka’s Poland to Chavez’s Venezuela did, for over a century.

I’m sorry that it’s awkward when Jewish liberals show up to campus intersectional protests over pipelines, police, Palestine, and other things beginning with ‘P’. But it didn’t begin with Netanyahu or Israel. Liberal Jews need to stop blaming Israel because their lefty friends are anti-Semitic bigots.

The Saudis have for the moment stopped hating Israel. Wouldn’t it be nice if liberal Jews did too?

Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

Straining to Defend Rashida Tlaib at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Why the leftist Jewish media leaped to the defense of a Jew-hater in Congress.

July 2, 2019 Kenneth Levin

Attacks on Israel that distort the reality of the Jewish state’s past and present in the service of undermining its well-being and its very survival have become ever more widely disseminated in bastions of the Left in America. This is occurring most strikingly in academia, among both students and faculty, but also in prominent mainstream media and even within the Democrat party. At the same time, those Jews who align themselves with the Left often resort to the most contrived of contortions to mitigate the message of such attacks.............To Read More...

 

 

 

Liberal Jews teach their kids to deal with anti-Semitism on liberal campuses

by Paul Mirengoff in Anti-Semitism, Higher education, Leftism

Recently I learned that my Jewish congregation is providing training for college age congregants on how to deal with anti-Semitism on campus. That’s how bad things have gotten.  I wonder whether the sad irony of the situation has registered with the congregation, the vast majority of whose members are leftists. Anti-Semitism is so rampant at America’s colleges and universities that teenage Jews need special training before entering this bastion of leftism.

During the High Holidays, I heard congregants moan at the mention of Donald Trump. That’s understandable; I had to suppress a moan myself (though not because Trump is at all anti-Semitic). But many of these same liberals found Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan chilling (though some will no longer admit it). As for George W. Bush, he was evil incarnate for many a Jewish liberal of my acquaintance.

Yet, it is the playground of the leftist social justice warriors — with whom many of my fellow congregants strongly associate — that produces the anti-Semitism my synagogue feels it must counter. The conservative ethos does not prevail on campus; nor is it anti-Semitic. ......To Read More....