They start whatever bizarre position they are justifying as "I'm a Christian and I believe [non-Christian position]," or "I believe Jesus would support [anti Christian position]".
Excellent! I also find it quite bizarre when "anti-Zionists", Christian and Jewish and otherwise, refuse to listen to those who actually live under Sharia Law, like Hamza Howidy in Gaza and Toomaj Salehi in Iran, people who are tortured and imprisoned and who support Israel because the know what they are fighting against, and instead listen to rabid anti-Zionists like Norman Finkelstein, who, because he's a Jew and his parents were in the Holocaust and he's a good propagandist,, has become the voice of the anti-Israel movement because he, conveniently, says what they want to hear.
Leftism is an intra-Western movement/affair, so people from other cultures, for better or worse, are either symbols or props, wheeled out to support existing beliefs/arguments but otherwise ignored.
Western Leftists will only ever care about people being tortured in Iran if it supports their eternal crusade, which is more or less for them to control our societies and replace liberal democracy with total rule by Leftist philosopher-kings blessed with "critical consciousness".
This is why if a city is leveled by a bomb from, say, Syria or Iran, it's like a tree falling in the forest, but if the bomb comes from Israel or America, it must be denounced in the most florid terms and painted as a genocidal war crime.
Reasons, morals, right/wrong, just war etc are replaced by WHO/WHOM. Western Leftists don't care about helping Muslims, they care about hurting Westerners.
Or as I think Saul Alinsky put it: “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.”
Absolutely. It's one thing to commit intellectual suicide. It will be something else entirely when the war comes to their doorstep. Suddenly philosophy goes out the window.
I have many friends (mostly in NYC and LA) who are Jewish writers and artists and they are under constant intense pressure now to denounce and disown Israel, and thus they hide behind things like hating Netanyahu and/or opposing "genocide/apartheid" and/or being "anti-Zionist not anti-Jewish".
I always ask them: why are every people of every other faith and ethnicity allowed to have their own homeland but not Jews? why is the Jewish state painted as the world's most evil when there are many worse malefactors? how is keeping people out of your country "apartheid" when the last time this was allowed they blew themselves up on buses and inside restaurants? how is it "genocide" to fight a war against an enemy that hides behind their own people and builds bases inside or under schools, hospitals, apartment buildings? A war they started!?!
Of course I'm met with either mumbling or vague platitudes about how "no one wants to see an innocent person/child wounded"—they can't argue/think clearly here because this isn't an intellectual or moral response but a fear response.
What young urban educated Jews are waking up to in the West is that the shared faith of their cohort—Social Justice, which is supposedly a movement meant for Oppressed victims and their allies to fight all forms of Oppression, usually based on race and sex—has decided that Jews need to be humiliated if not eliminated, as they are too wealthy and successful and their existence has harmed too many members of the "marginalized", especially Muslims and Palestinians, who are poor brown people who just want liberal democracy like the rest of us, but are being held back by the Jewish boot on their necks.
I feel sorry for these young liberal Jews and what they're going through—it's like waking up one day to find out that your family hates you and wants you dead. Right now they seem to be in the denial or bargaining phases but hopefully soon they will wake up and accept that the people they considered friends and allies commited to "Justice" are just garden-variety Jew haters, no different than any previous believers in "If we just kill the Jews, all will be well", and should be treated as such.
Now we see the government and many young people standing by and saying… that the individual state education leaders are wrong to have Bibles in their schools. That it is a violation of Separation of Church and State. Yes there are many religions, but if a State is in the “Bible Belt”, Bibles in the class room were as common as chalk for the chalk board, and were used in many cases for the basis of their discipline of the students. Does every tradition and belief need to erased. Because in all the 200+ years that our Nation even our currency had stated “In God We Trust” and our pledge has stated “…One Nation Under God, with Liberty and Justice for All!
“As a Jew” token Jews of the antisemitic left represent nobody and care about nobody - they’re narcissists engaged in virtue signaling. Substack has several of these amoral self-promoters such as Sam Kriss, Jonathan M Katz, Marissa Kabas, and thankfully the latter two have moved on in a huff after their self-promoting, gaslighting ultimatum against “Nazis” was ignored. Amusingly both have openly boosted Hamas supporters and fans of Palestinian terrorism. So much for worrying about Nazis.
I agree with you, Jeff! Christ was a Jew! But the authorities felt that He was a threat to their own Jewish laws. They didn’t understand that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the scriptures. The Jews have always been hated and persecuted, no matter the “type” of Jew they are. God knew this would happen starting with Abrahams Sons Ishmael and Israel. And their Sons fought each other. Down through the ages people have always harassed and persecuted the Jews. This conflict was to deepen their faith in God and God’s promises…
So “As a Jew” God and His Word told you to expect to be persecuted, that the Jews were a peculiar people… and always will be!
I've never understood people who need to publicly announce their personal decisions. I neither need nor care to hear their reasons.
My ears (or eyes) might open a bit more though if they opened with, "As a Jew, I've decided to abandon the community I was raised in, so I can prove to those who want to annihilate us that I should be spared." Because that is what their words mean to me.
These "Jews" ignore and trash Jewish history, culture, and traditions in their desire to protect themselves. They should excise themselves completely, and stop identifying as Jews altogether.
One side is saying „I am only critizising the Israeli government“, the other: „but in actual fact you‘re an Anti-Semite“. Both sides are playing disingenuous word games in my view, the one pretending that Israel is at the moment a normal state in a normal state where in fact any outside „criticism“ will help undermine Israel’s medium- to long-term ability to bring back a resemblance of order and security to the region. The other placing those „critics“ instantly in the vicinity of Nazis (that really is the subtext of „Anti-Semite“), thereby not only further normalizing and trivializing the crimes of the 3rd Reich but also - I fear - pushing maybe ill-guided but otherwise well-meaning people into the „opposite camp“. This letter is disturbing for me as an outsider. There are only about 15 million Jews in the world, and you are beginning to split that group conceptionally into those who may and those who may not speak and write „as a Jew“? Is there now a club where not only goyim may not join but where there‘s also a bouncer at the door who is letting only „real Jews“ in? This would be so self-defeating and -destructive.
Interesting view. From what I read of the letter, this division has ALWAYS existed, its just more prominent now with social media. And yes, already in Judaism there are divisions. Something the Jews do very well is argue (the whole Talmud is nothing more than a serious of arguments). Ask the Charedim how they feel about the Jews in Israel and already you will find that divide. Then ask the Charedim how they feel about certain other Orthodox Jews and you'll see even more division. Judaism is open to interpretation in so many ways that the only thing that unites us as a people are the antisemites!
I think the issue is that there are people who solely or primarily use their "Jew-ish" identity (probably just Jewish ancestry, with minimal if any literacy with, involvement in, or affinity for Jewish cultural heritage, religion, etc.) as a weapon for attacking the Jewish people as a whole. If your main reason for referring to yourself "as a Jew" is to attack the Jewish people, then you're not really a "Jew," you're a Jewish antisemite. Unfortunately, there have always been many of these people, who currently are happy to "Jew-wash" the antisemitic pro-Hamas demonstrations and encampments.
Fact based criticism of Israel or the Israeli government is not antisemitic. Many of the things described in the article, along with many of the events we have witnessed recently (such as masked rioters blocking entrance to a Los Angeles synagogue a couple weeks ago and hurting people) is not only antisemitic, but reminiscent of the KKK.
Fabulous! A grade for this and all “as a Jew” Jews is an F! For f**k them! All these anti Zion is Jews would have been treated the same by Hamas on October 7, or today… simply as Jews! It’s time for them to wake up before it’s too late!!
In Christianity we have these too.
They start whatever bizarre position they are justifying as "I'm a Christian and I believe [non-Christian position]," or "I believe Jesus would support [anti Christian position]".
Crazy but true! Using being a Christian as a label not a true belief in Christ!
Excellent! I also find it quite bizarre when "anti-Zionists", Christian and Jewish and otherwise, refuse to listen to those who actually live under Sharia Law, like Hamza Howidy in Gaza and Toomaj Salehi in Iran, people who are tortured and imprisoned and who support Israel because the know what they are fighting against, and instead listen to rabid anti-Zionists like Norman Finkelstein, who, because he's a Jew and his parents were in the Holocaust and he's a good propagandist,, has become the voice of the anti-Israel movement because he, conveniently, says what they want to hear.
Leftism is an intra-Western movement/affair, so people from other cultures, for better or worse, are either symbols or props, wheeled out to support existing beliefs/arguments but otherwise ignored.
Western Leftists will only ever care about people being tortured in Iran if it supports their eternal crusade, which is more or less for them to control our societies and replace liberal democracy with total rule by Leftist philosopher-kings blessed with "critical consciousness".
This is why if a city is leveled by a bomb from, say, Syria or Iran, it's like a tree falling in the forest, but if the bomb comes from Israel or America, it must be denounced in the most florid terms and painted as a genocidal war crime.
Reasons, morals, right/wrong, just war etc are replaced by WHO/WHOM. Western Leftists don't care about helping Muslims, they care about hurting Westerners.
Or as I think Saul Alinsky put it: “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.”
Absolutely. It's one thing to commit intellectual suicide. It will be something else entirely when the war comes to their doorstep. Suddenly philosophy goes out the window.
I have many friends (mostly in NYC and LA) who are Jewish writers and artists and they are under constant intense pressure now to denounce and disown Israel, and thus they hide behind things like hating Netanyahu and/or opposing "genocide/apartheid" and/or being "anti-Zionist not anti-Jewish".
I always ask them: why are every people of every other faith and ethnicity allowed to have their own homeland but not Jews? why is the Jewish state painted as the world's most evil when there are many worse malefactors? how is keeping people out of your country "apartheid" when the last time this was allowed they blew themselves up on buses and inside restaurants? how is it "genocide" to fight a war against an enemy that hides behind their own people and builds bases inside or under schools, hospitals, apartment buildings? A war they started!?!
Of course I'm met with either mumbling or vague platitudes about how "no one wants to see an innocent person/child wounded"—they can't argue/think clearly here because this isn't an intellectual or moral response but a fear response.
What young urban educated Jews are waking up to in the West is that the shared faith of their cohort—Social Justice, which is supposedly a movement meant for Oppressed victims and their allies to fight all forms of Oppression, usually based on race and sex—has decided that Jews need to be humiliated if not eliminated, as they are too wealthy and successful and their existence has harmed too many members of the "marginalized", especially Muslims and Palestinians, who are poor brown people who just want liberal democracy like the rest of us, but are being held back by the Jewish boot on their necks.
I feel sorry for these young liberal Jews and what they're going through—it's like waking up one day to find out that your family hates you and wants you dead. Right now they seem to be in the denial or bargaining phases but hopefully soon they will wake up and accept that the people they considered friends and allies commited to "Justice" are just garden-variety Jew haters, no different than any previous believers in "If we just kill the Jews, all will be well", and should be treated as such.
Now we see the government and many young people standing by and saying… that the individual state education leaders are wrong to have Bibles in their schools. That it is a violation of Separation of Church and State. Yes there are many religions, but if a State is in the “Bible Belt”, Bibles in the class room were as common as chalk for the chalk board, and were used in many cases for the basis of their discipline of the students. Does every tradition and belief need to erased. Because in all the 200+ years that our Nation even our currency had stated “In God We Trust” and our pledge has stated “…One Nation Under God, with Liberty and Justice for All!
“As a Jew” token Jews of the antisemitic left represent nobody and care about nobody - they’re narcissists engaged in virtue signaling. Substack has several of these amoral self-promoters such as Sam Kriss, Jonathan M Katz, Marissa Kabas, and thankfully the latter two have moved on in a huff after their self-promoting, gaslighting ultimatum against “Nazis” was ignored. Amusingly both have openly boosted Hamas supporters and fans of Palestinian terrorism. So much for worrying about Nazis.
Hear, hear. How about saying “as a chosen people of God?”
Then there would be no woke statement to follow.
I’m just a grafted in gentile. But I’m blessed beyond measure to see what is happening right now.
I pray that all who say “as a Jew” will soon see their Messiah for who He is. All will be speechless before Him.
Could those who feel they have something say be more imminent?
I agree with you, Jeff! Christ was a Jew! But the authorities felt that He was a threat to their own Jewish laws. They didn’t understand that Jesus Christ was the fulfillment of the scriptures. The Jews have always been hated and persecuted, no matter the “type” of Jew they are. God knew this would happen starting with Abrahams Sons Ishmael and Israel. And their Sons fought each other. Down through the ages people have always harassed and persecuted the Jews. This conflict was to deepen their faith in God and God’s promises…
So “As a Jew” God and His Word told you to expect to be persecuted, that the Jews were a peculiar people… and always will be!
Thank you
I've never understood people who need to publicly announce their personal decisions. I neither need nor care to hear their reasons.
My ears (or eyes) might open a bit more though if they opened with, "As a Jew, I've decided to abandon the community I was raised in, so I can prove to those who want to annihilate us that I should be spared." Because that is what their words mean to me.
These "Jews" ignore and trash Jewish history, culture, and traditions in their desire to protect themselves. They should excise themselves completely, and stop identifying as Jews altogether.
Even if they were to excise themselves, when the time comes, they will be eliminated.
The “asajews” make me wish we had a pope that could excommunicate them.
One side is saying „I am only critizising the Israeli government“, the other: „but in actual fact you‘re an Anti-Semite“. Both sides are playing disingenuous word games in my view, the one pretending that Israel is at the moment a normal state in a normal state where in fact any outside „criticism“ will help undermine Israel’s medium- to long-term ability to bring back a resemblance of order and security to the region. The other placing those „critics“ instantly in the vicinity of Nazis (that really is the subtext of „Anti-Semite“), thereby not only further normalizing and trivializing the crimes of the 3rd Reich but also - I fear - pushing maybe ill-guided but otherwise well-meaning people into the „opposite camp“. This letter is disturbing for me as an outsider. There are only about 15 million Jews in the world, and you are beginning to split that group conceptionally into those who may and those who may not speak and write „as a Jew“? Is there now a club where not only goyim may not join but where there‘s also a bouncer at the door who is letting only „real Jews“ in? This would be so self-defeating and -destructive.
Interesting view. From what I read of the letter, this division has ALWAYS existed, its just more prominent now with social media. And yes, already in Judaism there are divisions. Something the Jews do very well is argue (the whole Talmud is nothing more than a serious of arguments). Ask the Charedim how they feel about the Jews in Israel and already you will find that divide. Then ask the Charedim how they feel about certain other Orthodox Jews and you'll see even more division. Judaism is open to interpretation in so many ways that the only thing that unites us as a people are the antisemites!
I think the issue is that there are people who solely or primarily use their "Jew-ish" identity (probably just Jewish ancestry, with minimal if any literacy with, involvement in, or affinity for Jewish cultural heritage, religion, etc.) as a weapon for attacking the Jewish people as a whole. If your main reason for referring to yourself "as a Jew" is to attack the Jewish people, then you're not really a "Jew," you're a Jewish antisemite. Unfortunately, there have always been many of these people, who currently are happy to "Jew-wash" the antisemitic pro-Hamas demonstrations and encampments.
Fact based criticism of Israel or the Israeli government is not antisemitic. Many of the things described in the article, along with many of the events we have witnessed recently (such as masked rioters blocking entrance to a Los Angeles synagogue a couple weeks ago and hurting people) is not only antisemitic, but reminiscent of the KKK.
Fabulous! A grade for this and all “as a Jew” Jews is an F! For f**k them! All these anti Zion is Jews would have been treated the same by Hamas on October 7, or today… simply as Jews! It’s time for them to wake up before it’s too late!!
So true whether it be the life of a fellow Muslim or that of a “non believer “ it matters litttle!
Thank you for helping me understand the mentality of the Jews who march with the monsters who will eventually destroy them.