This is an important lessons for Jews to assimilate and internalize. The Jews' claim to Eretz Yisrael does not depend on the benevolence of outsiders but on their own God-given right to the land which predates the existence of most of the nations on earth. No one questions the rights of Britons to the UK, of the French to France, not even of Americans to America, that latest manifestation of modernity for which the ancient Hebrew commonwealth was the seedbed society, which derives from the Hebrew Bible. So Jews should wake up and sign on to the deal they have so often betrayed and finally lay claim to their land; and when they find themselves elsewhere, make their enemies' lives so uncomfortable that they stop asking the Jews to deny their own existence.
"If you want our votes, prove it. If you want our donations, show it. If you want our participation, earn it." Agree with this statement but the key to it all is will Jews have the intestinal fortitude to walk away from those who ignore or take them for granted? No muss, no fuss, and no support of any kind, just walk away. These people need you more than you need them, remember that.
Some will. Most won't. It has always been like that. The ones who refuse to be conscripted in the war against our people become the remnant of a remnant who continue, and the ones who go along are the ones who G-d burns off in G-d's crucible, smelting off the Jewish people to leave only those G-d finds precious, the silver. The metaphor of burning off the dross comes up over and over in the Nevi'im. It remains relevant today. It's not pretty but it has repeated in every generation. It's G-d's way.
I used to be a Democrat. But I am revolted by the self-hating Jews in that party-Bernie Sanders I’m talking about you-as well as those who would associate with the scum who is Donald Trump. So now I am an independent. This post has helped me understand myself and my predicament.
Jews point out the shortcomings and inconsistencies of many of those who claim to "support" them; they hold a mirror up to those who supposedly "support" Jews/Israel and to those who explicitly want not to.
However, only those who think (self-)critically and are open to learning are grateful for this. Those who already believe they know everything are not.
And the latter group constitutes the ominous vast "majority" of those who claim to be "democratic" or consider themselves to be so.
Perhaps there should be introduced a test on attitudes towards Israel/"the Jews", and only those who pass it should be allowed to vote. That would probably solve many "problems."
"Jews can turn the tables: If you want our votes, prove it. If you want our donations, show it. If you want our participation, earn it. This flips the dynamic from dependence to accountability. Political parties and movements cannot simply assume Jewish support while ignoring Jewish safety, dignity, and continuity."
I'd love to see the day when two Jews can agree on any topic. Just look how many Jewish organizations there are in the US who cannot agree on anything. Those that support Israel and those who vilify and demonize the State of Israel just to seek favor with the Goyim, including pushing resolutions to boycott, defund and embargo arms to Israel.
What a disgrace 😤
Remember, we either stand side by side or hang side by side.
While this article is a excellent analysis that American Jews find themselves in, its only reaching self aware Jews who follow these writers. Instead of singing to the choir its writing to a very small segment of the American Jewish community who are in agreement with the article.
Way too many Jews actually (to put it bluntly) do not give a shit about their Jewish identity. They have in way too many cases replaced their parents and grand parents religion and culture with the new religion of either "social justice" or outright abandonment of the Jewish world. Much like the Jews of Germany in the 1920's and 30's when they said "we are Germans who happen t be of Jewish descent". Even when Hitler came to power these self deluded people who said that its got nothing to do with them and it will all soon pass. History proved them fatally wrong.
How as a group can we get respect from the wider world when a large segment of American Jews in a very public way either do not respect their own roots or actively support movements and people who wish the Jews either gone or assimilated to their idea of "Americanism"?
The way I see it we do not have any grass roots leaders like many other minorities in the states have to speak for Jews. What we have are "donors" that give huge amounts of money to get their names put up on some building they paid for which in their eyes entitles them to "speak" for people like me and others. Better that money be spent (I think) on allowing Jewish children to get a decent Jewish education either full time or part time either in some Jewish school taught by qualified teachers or meaningful after public school instruction without breaking the families pocketbook.
All these cerebral articles do is delay what has to be done because they are reaching a pitiful few Jews who have a interest in making Jewish life in the states more meaningful and yes, safe .
Very true… the malevolent contract at the top of The State here in Europe is that we must seek Protection from the very worst people who are the same people who attack and violate Jews to increase ‘State Power’. The nasty part about this is that part of the Jewish People in Israel are then made complicit in this racket, to oppress Jews. The way out is to expose this State Protection Racket for the corrupt practice which it becomes. We did so with the help of the people in part of the State who understood as I did that this made US ALL vulnerable to re-emergent Nazism. Our solidarity, Jew and Non-Jew, saved Freedom. I defend against Nazism both because I am a Jew, and I Love Freedom. And I was supported by Non-Jews who respected both. To them I say, much thanks!
💯 Well said. For those of us who want to remain attached to our heritage and history and Mothers and Fathers, we are challenged to make peace - peaceful coexistence - with one another. 2 Jews, 3 arguments, but somehow we have to show up for each other in the mundane, daily actions of life and survival.
It's not a simple way forward - many of us are rabid 'al pi Torah' others are rabid 'individuals' and many of us pick and choose between the two whether we are aware of it or not. The labels, the brands, are deadly. And, not anything goes. There are boundaries and limits.
May the Master of the Universe, ריבונו של עולם, help us navigate for ourselves, our families and friends, and Bnei Yisrael.
You write: "The Jewish People have endured precisely because they refused to be defined by others." Sadly, I think that is completly untrue. The streotypical 'Galus Jew', sad as it is, always was, and still is.
This is an important lessons for Jews to assimilate and internalize. The Jews' claim to Eretz Yisrael does not depend on the benevolence of outsiders but on their own God-given right to the land which predates the existence of most of the nations on earth. No one questions the rights of Britons to the UK, of the French to France, not even of Americans to America, that latest manifestation of modernity for which the ancient Hebrew commonwealth was the seedbed society, which derives from the Hebrew Bible. So Jews should wake up and sign on to the deal they have so often betrayed and finally lay claim to their land; and when they find themselves elsewhere, make their enemies' lives so uncomfortable that they stop asking the Jews to deny their own existence.
"If you want our votes, prove it. If you want our donations, show it. If you want our participation, earn it." Agree with this statement but the key to it all is will Jews have the intestinal fortitude to walk away from those who ignore or take them for granted? No muss, no fuss, and no support of any kind, just walk away. These people need you more than you need them, remember that.
Some will. Most won't. It has always been like that. The ones who refuse to be conscripted in the war against our people become the remnant of a remnant who continue, and the ones who go along are the ones who G-d burns off in G-d's crucible, smelting off the Jewish people to leave only those G-d finds precious, the silver. The metaphor of burning off the dross comes up over and over in the Nevi'im. It remains relevant today. It's not pretty but it has repeated in every generation. It's G-d's way.
I used to be a Democrat. But I am revolted by the self-hating Jews in that party-Bernie Sanders I’m talking about you-as well as those who would associate with the scum who is Donald Trump. So now I am an independent. This post has helped me understand myself and my predicament.
Jews point out the shortcomings and inconsistencies of many of those who claim to "support" them; they hold a mirror up to those who supposedly "support" Jews/Israel and to those who explicitly want not to.
However, only those who think (self-)critically and are open to learning are grateful for this. Those who already believe they know everything are not.
And the latter group constitutes the ominous vast "majority" of those who claim to be "democratic" or consider themselves to be so.
Perhaps there should be introduced a test on attitudes towards Israel/"the Jews", and only those who pass it should be allowed to vote. That would probably solve many "problems."
שנה טובה Josh Hoffman 🍎🍯
שנה טובה!
"Jews can turn the tables: If you want our votes, prove it. If you want our donations, show it. If you want our participation, earn it. This flips the dynamic from dependence to accountability. Political parties and movements cannot simply assume Jewish support while ignoring Jewish safety, dignity, and continuity."
I'd love to see the day when two Jews can agree on any topic. Just look how many Jewish organizations there are in the US who cannot agree on anything. Those that support Israel and those who vilify and demonize the State of Israel just to seek favor with the Goyim, including pushing resolutions to boycott, defund and embargo arms to Israel.
What a disgrace 😤
Remember, we either stand side by side or hang side by side.
While this article is a excellent analysis that American Jews find themselves in, its only reaching self aware Jews who follow these writers. Instead of singing to the choir its writing to a very small segment of the American Jewish community who are in agreement with the article.
Way too many Jews actually (to put it bluntly) do not give a shit about their Jewish identity. They have in way too many cases replaced their parents and grand parents religion and culture with the new religion of either "social justice" or outright abandonment of the Jewish world. Much like the Jews of Germany in the 1920's and 30's when they said "we are Germans who happen t be of Jewish descent". Even when Hitler came to power these self deluded people who said that its got nothing to do with them and it will all soon pass. History proved them fatally wrong.
How as a group can we get respect from the wider world when a large segment of American Jews in a very public way either do not respect their own roots or actively support movements and people who wish the Jews either gone or assimilated to their idea of "Americanism"?
The way I see it we do not have any grass roots leaders like many other minorities in the states have to speak for Jews. What we have are "donors" that give huge amounts of money to get their names put up on some building they paid for which in their eyes entitles them to "speak" for people like me and others. Better that money be spent (I think) on allowing Jewish children to get a decent Jewish education either full time or part time either in some Jewish school taught by qualified teachers or meaningful after public school instruction without breaking the families pocketbook.
All these cerebral articles do is delay what has to be done because they are reaching a pitiful few Jews who have a interest in making Jewish life in the states more meaningful and yes, safe .
Absolutely! Thank You for this!
Very true… the malevolent contract at the top of The State here in Europe is that we must seek Protection from the very worst people who are the same people who attack and violate Jews to increase ‘State Power’. The nasty part about this is that part of the Jewish People in Israel are then made complicit in this racket, to oppress Jews. The way out is to expose this State Protection Racket for the corrupt practice which it becomes. We did so with the help of the people in part of the State who understood as I did that this made US ALL vulnerable to re-emergent Nazism. Our solidarity, Jew and Non-Jew, saved Freedom. I defend against Nazism both because I am a Jew, and I Love Freedom. And I was supported by Non-Jews who respected both. To them I say, much thanks!
💯 Well said. For those of us who want to remain attached to our heritage and history and Mothers and Fathers, we are challenged to make peace - peaceful coexistence - with one another. 2 Jews, 3 arguments, but somehow we have to show up for each other in the mundane, daily actions of life and survival.
It's not a simple way forward - many of us are rabid 'al pi Torah' others are rabid 'individuals' and many of us pick and choose between the two whether we are aware of it or not. The labels, the brands, are deadly. And, not anything goes. There are boundaries and limits.
May the Master of the Universe, ריבונו של עולם, help us navigate for ourselves, our families and friends, and Bnei Yisrael.
You write: "The Jewish People have endured precisely because they refused to be defined by others." Sadly, I think that is completly untrue. The streotypical 'Galus Jew', sad as it is, always was, and still is.
Care to explain?
Right but the Galus Jew was and is not the majority of Jews.