| There is no inoculation for the virus of Jew-hatrednoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 26 Feb 05:45 AM My post about Jimmy Carter's antisemitism last wee | | My post about Jimmy Carter's antisemitism last week prompts a question: but what about all the wonderful things he has done? One cannot argue that Carter has not been sincere when he works with Habitat for Humanity, for example. His Middle East work may be influenced by his antisemitism, but he has worked on many other worthy causes. How can those things fit together?
But one can ask the same thing about lots of other antisemites. Alice Walker is a gifted poet and storyteller, but that doesn't make her immune from antisemitic attitudes. Roger Waters was a good songwriter in the 1970s, but that doesn't mean he doesn't harbor antisemitic attitudes. Roald Dahl wrote fantastic children's books, but also hated Jews.
Then again, we can go back in history and ask the same questions. Voltaire was a groundbreaking philosopher, but he was also a racist and antisemite. Martin Luther was a brilliant theologian and an obsessed Jew-hater.
If theology can coexist with hate, perhaps that invalidates the theology. But pioneers in theology and philosophy and humanitarianism and progressivism and socialism and science and even medical ethics have been found...Read More |
From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: How worrying is the far-right's 'Day of Hate' stunt? The proper response to this sort of Internet-inspired attempt at intimidation is for Jews to choose to gather on that day specifically to demonstrate their contempt for antisemites and solidarity in the face of threats. Like the national Jewish response after the Pittsburgh shooting, efforts like that of groups like StandWithUs to promote a "Shabbat of Love" or Club Z's call for massive synagogue attendance on Feb. 25 demonstrate a healthy unwillingness to be terrorized by a tiny cadre of neo-Nazis. Equally significant (and well-timed) is a Times Square celebration on Saturday night for thousands of young people as part of the annual CTeen Shabbaton sponsored by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. Still, it is more than likely that such efforts won't command the same kind of support as those organized by left-wing groups like the National Council of Jewish Women, who used the previous Shabbat to promote their stands in favor of abortion. That's an issue that seems to generate far more fervor among most American Jews than those that revolve around efforts to defend Jews against attacks, either in the United States or Israel. The hate groups aren't really focused on what the organized Jewish community does. But should neo-Nazis or white supremacists attempt some sort of organized march to intimidate Jews, they know...Read More |
From Ian: Yair Rosenberg: The Invisible Victims of American Anti-Semitism In December 2019, two gunmen shot up a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, killing four people and injuring three. In the aftermath of the attack, Representative Rashida Tlaib posted a tweet alongside a picture of one of the Jewish victims, declaring simply, "This is heartbreaking. White supremacy kills." When it became clear that the culprits were, in fact, tied to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, the lawmaker deleted the tweet, and did not post a replacement. In this, Tlaib is not exceptional but representative. When Americans do not have a convenient partisan frame through which to process an anti-Semitic act, it is often met with silence or soon dropped from the agenda. We understand events by fitting them into established patterns, and without them, we can't even see the event. To be sure, anti-Semitic incidents elude our attention for other reasons as well. If an anti-Jewish attack leaves its victims bloodied but breathing, as happened in Los Angeles, it is less likely to make headlines. What's more, if there is no explicit violence at all, as in the townships of New York and New Jersey, there is often no news. Without a body on the pavement to illustrate the impact, such discrimination remains abstract. There is also the uncomfortable question of the perpetrator's identity...Read More |
From Times of Israel: Law enforcement and Jewish groups in the US are urging vigilance ahead of an antisemitic "national day of hate" planned by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups for Saturday. The white supremacists have called for followers to distribute antisemitic messaging with banners, stickers, fliers and graffiti. There are no known threats of violence and a Jewish security group said it did not expect widespread participation. "Take a stand, and expose the international clique of parasitic vermin that infest our nation," said a statement attributed to the hate groups. "Make your voices heard loud and clear, that the one true enemy of the American people is the Jew." It is definitely getting American Jews spooked. But I can't help but think that "Day of Hate" is just a far-Right version of the many Palestinian "Days of Rage" we have seen dozens of times. And it is not like the "Days of Rage" are only in the territories. Israel hating groups have organized plenty of them in the West: In both cases, they are angry at Jews and only Jews. In both cases, they call for the masses to join and show their hate. The emotions are the same. The antisemitism is the same. But the anti-Israel "Days of Rage" are far better organized, more professional and attract far more people. Of course, the far-Right are more likely to engage in violence. I don't want...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Biden's less than ironclad commitment to Israel The Bidenites' purported belief in being even-handed inevitably means they end up punishing the victim and empowering the aggressor. Yet suddenly a fresh double standard has arisen over America's newly tough policy of supporting Ukraine. Speaking in Warsaw, Biden said, "Autocrats only understand one word: no, no, no. No, you will not take my country. No, you will not take my freedom. No, you will not take my future. Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia. Never." Yet Biden doesn't say no to the Palestinian Arab autocrats; he doesn't tell them they will never take the Jews' country; he doesn't tell them that they will never have victory over Israel. Instead, he appeases them and subsidizes their murderous incitement. Biden went on: "If Russia stopped invading Ukraine, it would end the war. If Ukraine stopped defending itself against Russia, it would be the end of Ukraine." But this merely appropriated the well-known saying: "If the Palestinians stopped attacking Israel, it would end the war; but if Israel stopped defending itself against the Palestinians, it would be the end of Israel." Yet while America believes this about Ukraine, it clearly doesn't believe it about Israel. Israel unfortunately needs America, not least to deal with Iran, which is now dangerously close to a nuclear breakout thanks to America...Read More |
The Muslim paranoia about something that doesn't exist remains high.
From the Turkey News Agency: The new "Abrahamic religion"... a threat whose goal is to destroy Islam
Ali Demir23/02/2023 Intellectuals, preachers, and academics are raising their voices to warn of the danger of the new so-called "Abrahamic religion," pointing out that its goal is to destroy the Islamic religion with attempts that will end in failure. According to observers, the sources of the promotion of this religion are huge and mysterious research centers that have recently spread around the world and called themselves "centers of spiritual diplomacy", funded by the largest and most important international bodies such as the European Union, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the United States of America. Observers warned that "the apparent vision and message of these research centers depends on the assertion that religions are the main and fundamental reason for igniting the most violent conflicts throughout the ages, and the reason for not accepting the other is because of the lack of understanding of the texts of their religion." And the "spiritual diplomacy centers" that work within the framework of spreading love and tolerance have taken upon themselves the task of inviting the senior clerics of the three Abrahamic religions, in order to find general common values between religions such as "love, tolerance, equality, coexistence and...Read More |
The announcement that Jimmy Carter is entering hospice care at his home is prompting a wave of fawning pre-obituaries about what a wonderful humanitarian he is. No one is talking about his antisemitism.
Carter's animus towards Israel is legendary, but the source of that hate is not his progressivism or humanitarianism, but old fashioned Christian antisemitism.
For decades, Jimmy Carter gave a weekly Sunday sermon at his Georgia church. Some of his lessons promoted classic Christian antisemitism, way beyond what the Christian scripture says.
He says that modern Israeli Jews are persecuting Palestinian Christians in line with alleged Jewish persecution of Christians in the New Testament because of Jewish supremacism:
"…this morning I'm gonna be trying to relate the assigned Bible lesson to us in the Uniformed Series with how that affected Israel and how it affects us through Christ personally… It's hard for us to even visualize the prejudice against gentiles when Christ came on earth. If a Jew married a gentile, that person was considered to be dead. … How would you characterize from a Jew's point of view the uncircumcised? Non believer? And what? Unclean, what? They called them DOGS! That's true. … What was Paul's feeling toward gentiles in his early life as a Jewish leader? [Paul was not a Jewish leader. Ed.] Anybody? Absolute commitment to persecution! To the imprisonment and even...Read More |
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