[ May 2, 2024 ]
For years, Jewish leaders, almost all Democrats, have targeted the most passionate voices for Jews and the Jewish state. So while this is not surprising, it is loathsome and despicable.
Liberal Jewish leaders attack Jews who point out BLM’s anti-Semitism
Kneeling is not extraordinary, refusing to do so is.
By Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag
Story continues below advertisementAfter 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 anti-Semitism 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 anti-Semitic 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.”
Siding with Israel’s enemies
The Union of Reform Judaism has been a reliably anti-Israel voice in the Jacobs era.
Jacobs opposed moving the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 anti-Semitism 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 anti-Semitism.
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.
BLM is anti-SemiticBlack Lives Matter is anti-Semitic. 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 anti-Semitism.
As the main targets of anti-Semitic 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 anti-Semitism, 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 anti-Semitism.
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 anti-Semitism 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 anti-Semitism go hand in hand.”
We’ve seen a whole lot of the former and very little of the latter.
Fighting racism and anti-Semitism 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 anti-Semitism will.
Like their counterparts in the FDR era, they’re cowards and traitors, and they know it.
Cowards hate courageThat’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 anti-Semite. 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, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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33 Comments
3 years ago
jew in name only
3 years ago
It’s only twenty-five dollah, no hollah, per year.
I’m as goyim as one can be, yet I’m a member. Some great articles, from time to time.
Jews For the Preservation of Firearm Ownership.
Gitcher self some.
3 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohandjob
I am a junior partner in the Tel-Aviv Law Firm of, Tavor (X-95) Jericho and Masada!
3 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
The IMI-Masada has really dropped in price. Sub 400, with free shipping to your FFL.
3 years ago
Reply to
Rusty
They have some great articles, posted this month.
Did you catch the article about the “Tactical Rabbi”?
3 years ago
Anti-Semitism did not dissipate during the post-war period. Indeed, the State of Israel was born, but it, too, would soon garner not only Arab-Islamic enemies but those of the West, fair-weather allies. Today, the Leftists whether self-loathing Jews or otherwise hold Judaism, the State of Israel in utter contempt.The Juden rats lay dormant during post-war reconstruction but flourished soon thereafter. Today, Juden rats are a common source of Jew, Israel-hatred, as they partner with the likes of BLM, and of course, the profoundly anti-Semitic faux-Democrats.
I have debated this fact with many Jewish friends and colleagues over the years. Many of whom dissed the fact that anti-Semitism was on the rise. Today, however, some of those with whom I debated, not of the Leftist, self-loathing variety agree. It verifies that history, indeed, repeats itself.
This culture of Jew-hatred and contempt for those who value their human and Constitutional Rights is worse than the current pandemic. This unbridled anti-Semitism that the Left-wing, the Democrats, George Soros, BLM, and a legion of hate-mongers propagate must end; if not, not merely Jews or Israel will face another Holocaust but the entirety of the so-called Western Civilization.
3 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
The left in any form is tenacious and they never give up. They just regroup and try again.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Indeed, Felix, they lost the 60s-70s Counter Revolution but learned from their errors. Now, thanks to Mao, they have honed their game plan. Indeed, they are not unlike roaches; they always find a way to survive; however, they know a heavy boot will quash their endeavors.
3 years ago
What these idiot leftist Jews don’t realize is they are on the menu too. When the cattle cars start rolling they will be rounded up, much to their astonishment.
They are useful idiots. They will be useful until they are no longer useful.
If “Never Again” is supposed to mean something here is a message to all Jews in the U.S.:
Buy guns. A lot of them. And learn to use them. You will need them.
3 years ago
Reply to
WildernessOfMirrors
Don’t forget ammo.
Never Again has become a quaint saying.
Dragged out once a year.
I left my insane liberal synagogue.
Worship of PC not G-D was de facto.
SJW BS.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jjule
Once the scales fall off your eyes there is no going back. Try to save a few more. There have to be others in that synagogue.
3 years ago
Reply to
WildernessOfMirrors
Not very possible or likely when our rabbi is PC and Liberal and Democrat-leaning like so many congregants 🙁
3 years ago
Progressive , secular Jews do not believe in God.
3 years ago
Reply to
taxpayer22
I don’t know what they believe in. I just know that it is amazing how many Jewish people don’t support Israel. That is scary. I don’t know what happened to my religion.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
As a vocal Jewish Conservative, lefties better stay away from my correct opinion. My local Jewish paper has agreed to publish my disdain for Jews supporting this crap!
3 years ago
Reply to
Millionmileman
My local paper would never do that. Where I live, democratic scum of the earth control everything.
3 years ago
Reply to
Michael Goldman
As a Jew, I am sure that we can all agree that they are not “Jews” they are JINOs through and through. And I know one hell of a lot of them. They only time that they “profess” Judaism is when the public money trough is opened for Jewish causes and tax benefits. I despise this traitorous duplicitous lot.
3 years ago
Reply to
Rivia
I’m throwing a Thank You out to Ms. Gellar for putting a lot of these stories out there. If not for her, we wouldn’t even be hearing about a lot of this. Thank you for writing Rivia. Your post is right on the “money”
3 years ago
Female and soyboy leftist ‘rabbis’ have made a farce out of reform and conservative congregations nationwide.
3 years ago
Reply to
Poetcomic1
Yes! 3 female rabbis at the synagogue I used to go to. It’s awash with this unbalanced, SJW, check your white privilege classes, are we racist seminars, it’s nauseating.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jjule
Two in our temple, and they favor gun control and “better gun control laws…”
Sad…
3 years ago
Crabs in a bucket
3 years ago
We have had to suffer kapo’s since the time of Christ. Bernie, ADL, J street just to name a few. I hate them without apology.
3 years ago
Got to be like Soros level self hater to be a jew and be a leftist at the same time, I simply just can’t understand this.
3 years ago
Reply to
arthur facteau
And than Soros and his Jewish supporters throw down the Jew card when someone calls out the Evil piece of Skin ….
It’s all from the evil unG-Dly side
3 years ago
Their is nothing lower in this world than a Jew-hating jew!
3 years ago
These liberal Soros Jews should be the first that blacks attack!
3 years ago
The liberal Jew.
Perfect example of insanity.
Doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
You’d think after 5 thousand plus years, they’d learn.
