
JEWS FOR SPITTING ON OUR FRIENDS AND SLOBBERING OVER
OUR ENEMIES
By Don Feder
March 20, 2006
One
thing must be noted at the outset – Not only is
there nothing authentically Jewish about the agenda
of the Jewish left – It is, in fact, anti-Jewish in
every detail. It rejects Torah-based morality,
sanctions Muslim and left-wing anti-Semitism and
champions causes that would lead to the extinction
of the Jewish people – not to mention the end of
civilization.
OK, now I’ll tell you what I really think.
Though they occasionally try to justify
themselves with vague references to what they call
“Jewish tradition” -- and often include in their
ranks those to whom the title “rabbi” is misapplied –
there is nothing remotely Jewish about their
worldview.
By Jewish left, I mean those occupying the
modest territory to the left of the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) and Reform Judaism’s Religious Action
Center.
Which brings me to an article in the
influential Jewish Forward by E. J. Kessler,
published on March 17th (“Activists
Prepare for New Church-State Battle”).
The Forward quotes me on the upcoming War
On Christians Conference (March 27-28), where I’ll
be speaking on a panel called – “Jews Confront The
War On Christians,” along with Rabbi Aryeh Spero,
Michael Horowitz (a Hudson Institute scholar) and
Joseph Ben Ami of the Institute for Canadian Values.
For an opposing point of view, the Forward presented a
website called Jews on First! – whose
self-proclaimed mission is to “expose the
intimidation” tactics of “right-wing Christian
fundamentalists.” (As opposed to middle-of-the-road
Christian fundamentalists? But then Jewish leftists
have always been big on verbal overkill.)
The Forward says Jews on First!
(love that exclamation point) was formed to “expose
and counter the people at the March 27-28
conference.” The site is the joint project of Jane
Hunter (“a one-time Pacifica Radio journalist and
longtime leftist organizer”) and Rabbi Chaim Dov
Beliak.
Point of information: California-based
Pacifica Radio makes the rest of Public Radio look
like the Rush Limbaugh Show. In June of 2003, Pacifica’s KPFK-FM in Los Angeles hosted a 32-hour
marathon by one Dr. Kwanku Person-Lynn (could I make
up something like this?) called “African Mental
Liberation Weekend.”
Among other liberating factoids,
Person-Lynn claimed Jews ran the slave trade and
that Jews and white gentiles were “the pale horse
(of Revelations) with Death as its rider and Hell
close behind” – probably not intended as a
compliment. These reflections were interspersed with
pre-recorded ravings of the always informative Louis
(“Judaism is a gutter religion”) Farrakhan.
How proud Ms. Hunter must be of her
association with Pacifica. And what excellent
credentials for putting oneself forward as a
defender of the Jewish people.
Jews on First! and its allies --
“Tikkun Magazine,” Michael Lerner, Noam Chomsky,
Barbra Streisand, Ed Asner, etc.-- might be called
the left’s kvetching amen corner.
The
site warns of the “intimidation of judges by
Christian fundamentalists.” By “intimidation” it
means – criticism, analysis, reform proposals –
really, anything other then acting like a puppy that
wants its belly rubbed, in the face of judicial
assaults on representative government.
Among other smears, Jews On First!
accuses Focus On The Family of “an anti-Semitic
attack on (a) federal appeals judge.”
Focus is headed by Dr. James Dobson (who
would bleed for Israel, if it came to it). The
anti-Semitic outrage in question? The February
issue of the organization’s “Citizen” magazine
contains a cover story on Appeals Court Judge
Stephen Reinhardt (think Ruth Bader Ginsburg on
crack cocaine), who, in a recent ruling, said
parental rights stop at the school house door.
Reinhardt also wants to take God out of the Pledge
of Allegiance.
According to Jews On First!, the Focus
publication “unnecessarily called attention to the
fact that Judge Reinhardt is Jewish in a way we find
offensively anti-Semitic.” (To wit: It interviewed
his ex-wife, who observed that Reinhardt “thinks
about his Jewish heritage a lot.”) Oh, no, say it ain’t so!
How I wish all of the long, bloody,
history of Jew-hatred amounted to no more than this. Imagine the stereotypical Nazi from central casting
in a bad B-movie, telling his victim: “Ve haf vays
of unnecessarily calling attention to the fact that
you are Jewish.” Not exactly “Schindler’s List”
stuff.
The site also denounces another stalwart
friend of Israel, Pat Robertson, for calling Islam
“satanic.”
Now,
let’s see: The imam who’s paid $76,600 a year to
serve as a chaplain for New York City’s correctional
system rails against Zionist control of the media;
French Muslims fire-bomb synagogues and Jewish day
schools; a French Jew named Ilan Halimi is kidnapped
and tortured to death by a Muslim street gang, the
president of Iran says Israel “should be wiped off
the map;” Saudi clerics preach the annihilation of
Jews (calling us “the descendants of pigs and
apes”); Egyptian television serializes a
dramatization of “The Protocols of The Elders of
Zion,” Syrian President Basher al-Assad told Pope
John Paul II that Jews “try to kill all principles
of divine faiths with the same mentality of
betraying Jesus Christ and torturing Him,” and the
party that constitutes the new government of the
Palestinian Authority boasts that its minions drink
the blood of Jews.
And Jewish leftists run around denouncing
Pat Robertson for saying mean things about the
religion that introduced “jihad” into our political
vocabulary. (On the other hand, no Moslem
publication
has unnecessarily called attention to the fact that
Judge Stephen Reinhardt is Jewish. So there’s still
hope for universal brotherhood and understanding.)
By the
way, with
his “satanic” observation, Robertson joins that
hoary hate-monger Winston Churchill, who said of
Islam, “No stronger retrograde force exists in the
world.” Britain’s World War II prime minister also
admonished that the religion of peace was a breeding
ground for “improvident habits,” “a degraded sensualism,” and a “murderous fanaticism” – as well
as for exerting an influence that “paralyzes social
development.”
Would you like to know just how
dogmatically reality-disconnected the Jewish left
is? On March 13th, FrontPageMagazine.com
ran a story by David Meir-Levi noting that an
organization called Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (the
so-called Covenant of Justice and Peace) has
assembled 387 RINOS (rabbis in name only) who’ve
signed a petition opposing a move in Congress to cut
off aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
The Hamas
Covenant – which says the
end-times will unfold after every Jew on earth dies
-- recently posted a video on its website where a
suicide bomber in-waiting joyfully proclaimed: “My
message to the loathed Jews is that there is no God
but Allah... We are a nation that drinks blood; and
we know that there is no better blood than the blood
of Jews.”
No matter how murderously psychotic its legions,
Palestinian statehood is an article of faith for the
left.
If
Palestinian Muslims donned SS uniforms and began
building gas chambers and crematoria, the Jewish
left would still want to “maintain a dialogue” with
them, greased with millions from U.S. taxpayers – as
they ranted at the Christian right for wanting to
display the Ten Commandments and ban gay marriage. My generation had a word for it -- “mind-boggling.”
Writing in The Jewish Press on December
14, 2005 (“The Real Reason Liberal Jews Fear
Evangelical Christians’), Levi Sokolic asks: “What
is it that many Jews really fear from the perceived
power of the Christian right? They fear for the
secular, leftist causes, beliefs, practices and
values they espouse and hold dear. But then, Torah
Judaism is even stronger in its opposition to what
secular Jews believe and how they define
themselves.”
Abortion, gay marriage, mainstreaming
homosexuality, feminism, radical secularism (a
religion-sanitized public square), philo-Islamacism
– this is the “Torah” of the Jewish left. Its fear
and loathing of Christian conservatives is driven by
their opposition to said agenda.
At least the Nazis hated Jews for the
right reason -- because they perceived authentic
Judaism as the principal moral force opposed to
their values. The Jewish left hates Christian
conservatives for upholding Jewish values. It’s
almost funny – in a sick sort of way.