You forgot to mention, specifically, Chuck Schumer’s role in refusing the bring the Antisemitism Awareness Act to a vote, and also his emails to leaders at Columbia University telling them to ignore all the congressional hearings with the Ivy League presidents who couldn’t say if calling for the genocide of Jews is antisemitic. Chuck said it would all blow over. Nothing to see here.
Schumer, is what this article refers to is “a good Jew”. Ugh 🤮 Schumer is an embarrassment and disgusts me, for his pandering, and leftist endoctrination
I have news for you - progressives have NEVER had the backs of Jews. I recall watching the 2012 Democrat convention in horror as the largely union-affiliated delegates shouted down a speaker who was proposing a resolution in support of Israel. My jaw about hit the floor when the light bulb went on and I realized just how antisemitic the Democrats had become. I shouldn’t have been surprised though as we were halfway through the virulently antisemitic Obama- Biden years. Both Obama and Biden are guilty of treason and should be jailed for life, if not executed. Disgusting and disgraceful. The Democrat Party should be made illegal. They are no different than the gang who took over Germany in 1932. Any Jew who votes for a Democrat should self-deport.
I agree with mostly what you have said here, and I am one of the many, and unnoticed liberal Jews, that do so. I am glad that the anti-semitic environment is being addressed, but I had to laugh when you white washed the anti-DEI as compliance with civil rights. I am suspicious of what Trump really wants to achieve at the universities and I can see that it is already going too far. I'm worried that he is using anti-semiticism as a cover for McCarthy like attack on anyone who is liberal. I do support going after fake Palestinian humanity groups who raise money here to send to terrorists, and to fund group such as Justice for Palestine.
Jewish liberals still hold on to the notion that Trump and Republicans are the ones who Jews are endangered from despite all evidence to the contrary. I guess they must convince themselves of this to justify continuing to support and vote for the Democrats and leftist policies. They are unable to resolve the dilemma between standing up for their people or supporting their liberal beliefs. Many convince themselves that the GOP is antisemitic and point to some marginal right wing nutjobs to validate that even though the Republicans have overwhelmingly been pro-Jewish/pro-Israel while the Democrats have been openly hostile to Jews and Israel. You either stand with the Jewish people or you stand with the left, but you cannot do both. Jewish liberals are going to have to make a choice of which is more important to them.
It is no secret that Jews have been the financial, political, and media heft of the left and NYC is the center of that particular universe. Kind of hard to square that circle. A cognitive dissonance that goes far beyond strange.
We Jews need to take support wherever and whenever offered. We always need to be politically vigilant. The ones who were not died in the camps. There is only one sure thing-a strong Israel.
I totally agree with your analysis of the woke Left. And I will take support from wherever it comes. BUT . . . don't count on the Right for the long-term. Evangelicals use Jews for their end-times fantasy and believe we'll go to Hell if we don't accept J.C. And there's a host of right-wing types from neo-Nazis to skin heads that hate Jews. Trump himself has hosted Kanye and others who are clearly anti-semitic; he is not to be trusted in general. But sure, let's take the support while it's being offered. I'm not crying for Columbia. Meanwhile, I no longer support with donations any entity, charity, academic institution, etc. that has fallen prey to the ridiculous theories of the woke Left.
I'm no evangelical, but I know many here in Texas. The evangelicals are not as bad as you think. There is actually a great deal of respect for Jewish people among evangelicals because God chose to incarnate as a Jew. The Jewish people were chosen by God, so they don't actually believe any Jews will go to hell. Their way of thinking is that Jews maintain God's chosen culture until Jesus returns, then the evidence is so obvious they naturally convert. They have a deep respect for Jewish people.
Born as a South African I have always understood that the terms, Left or Right, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative or any other label does not matter.
According to my experience the so called left has always been the "one" to brake down values and morals under the guise of "human rights". "Do as you please", protecting the rights of the offender instead of the offended. Putting "human rights" as your new "g-o-d".
What does matter is the action. The difference between Right and Wrong according to Torah.
"Jews are told that if they want protection, they must first renounce their peoplehood, their homeland, and often their history. In essence, they are only welcome if they conform to a politics that has little interest in their actual safety.
Free societies are supposed to protect minority rights without demanding ideological conformity. But today, Jews are increasingly offered conditional belonging: You can be safe, but only if you agree to disavow your people’s story."
The actuality of the matter is that to the Left, Jews are acceptable at best when they are only nominal Jews (JINOs) but even better when they renounce their Jewishness in its entirety.
All the epithets hurled at us today by the Left are redolent of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer, grotesque caricatures of Jews. The most odious, because it is the most willful distortion of fact, is the accusation that Jews are "White." We are not! Whites are Christian heritage European origin and ancestry peoples. Jews are religeo-ethnically of Jewish heritage and Levantine origin and ancestry.
The statement "You can be safe, but only if you agree to disavow your people’s story" goes to the heart of the problem. The Left is cunning. By demanding Jews reject their people's story to be acceptable, the Left knows they are really demanding Jews abandon their identity — the very source of their peoplehood. But it is this very sense of self that safeguards our continuity.
Every time we fail to denounce the warped images of Jews the Left tries to foist on us, every time we accept the Left's claim it is only politics — we become willing if unwitting partners in our own erasure.
"The Left’s Jewish cover story has been exposed. The question now is whether it will double down on the fiction — or finally choose moral clarity over ideological lust."
One guesses the Left will not abandon its course. The consequences will be they alienate more and more centrist and moral people disgusted at the extremes the Left is going in their attacks on their culture, that national values, and self-identity. Ultimately it will lead to the Left's implosion.
Jonathan, please clarify your position re ‘Progressivism’ for me.
I imagine we share a distaste for neat compartmentalization, but please help me understand this one thing; ‘Where do you stand in respect to Progressive Political Positions?’. The impression I get from this piece is that you endorse the movement. Or is it that you endorse what you believe it once represented, but has now been warped and distorted into something very different?
The leftist Demonrats, especially in recent years, have been no champion of Israel or been Jewish supporters. Their support is a dog and pony show meant to capture Jewish votes (and money). This is the same party that has stood up for blacks-- not. Blacks form an obedient block of voters for them. Jews should, finally, understand that left wing politics, socialist, Marxist, progressive is detrimental to their future and that of Israel.
"And yet, when it comes to Jews, that “progressive” solidarity often disappears."
That is because the 'progressive' mindset in this time of DEI is based on the Marxist opposition between 'oppressors' and 'victims,' introduced by feminists then picked up by gays and blacks. DEI defines Jews as 'white oppressors,' and Israel as a white state oppressing Palestinian people of color. So Jews, like heterosexual white males, are evil, deserving attack and defeat by all right thinking people. So too with Israel, the apartheid genocider that every right thinking people must oppose, and must side with the innocent Palestinians.
Progressives for decades have watered down Judaism to mean absolute support for their agenda on race gender and climate and have long ago walked away from any support for Israel snd respect for traditional Jewish values and practices
I find using terms like left, right, progressive, etc is open to so much individual interpretation. Terms that define the values or concepts that one holds would make things much clearer. The fundamental value of Judaism from Abraham on is the Sanctity of life. Once physical violence or threat is not available, the individual is now Free to explore, learn, create, etc. Obedience and submission inherently creates prohibition of individual thought and new ideas, i.e. Enslavement.
Stating the Sacredness of life in every conversation or debate would make the interpretations much clearer and definite. This can be said loud, clear and often, where things would be less open to misinterpretation.
You forgot to mention, specifically, Chuck Schumer’s role in refusing the bring the Antisemitism Awareness Act to a vote, and also his emails to leaders at Columbia University telling them to ignore all the congressional hearings with the Ivy League presidents who couldn’t say if calling for the genocide of Jews is antisemitic. Chuck said it would all blow over. Nothing to see here.
Schumer, is what this article refers to is “a good Jew”. Ugh 🤮 Schumer is an embarrassment and disgusts me, for his pandering, and leftist endoctrination
I have news for you - progressives have NEVER had the backs of Jews. I recall watching the 2012 Democrat convention in horror as the largely union-affiliated delegates shouted down a speaker who was proposing a resolution in support of Israel. My jaw about hit the floor when the light bulb went on and I realized just how antisemitic the Democrats had become. I shouldn’t have been surprised though as we were halfway through the virulently antisemitic Obama- Biden years. Both Obama and Biden are guilty of treason and should be jailed for life, if not executed. Disgusting and disgraceful. The Democrat Party should be made illegal. They are no different than the gang who took over Germany in 1932. Any Jew who votes for a Democrat should self-deport.
You couldn’t be more right on every point.
These progressive Jews, in my mind, are shameful!
I agree with mostly what you have said here, and I am one of the many, and unnoticed liberal Jews, that do so. I am glad that the anti-semitic environment is being addressed, but I had to laugh when you white washed the anti-DEI as compliance with civil rights. I am suspicious of what Trump really wants to achieve at the universities and I can see that it is already going too far. I'm worried that he is using anti-semiticism as a cover for McCarthy like attack on anyone who is liberal. I do support going after fake Palestinian humanity groups who raise money here to send to terrorists, and to fund group such as Justice for Palestine.
Do you not understand that DEI defines Jews as evil 'oppressors.' How suicidal are you?
Jewish liberals still hold on to the notion that Trump and Republicans are the ones who Jews are endangered from despite all evidence to the contrary. I guess they must convince themselves of this to justify continuing to support and vote for the Democrats and leftist policies. They are unable to resolve the dilemma between standing up for their people or supporting their liberal beliefs. Many convince themselves that the GOP is antisemitic and point to some marginal right wing nutjobs to validate that even though the Republicans have overwhelmingly been pro-Jewish/pro-Israel while the Democrats have been openly hostile to Jews and Israel. You either stand with the Jewish people or you stand with the left, but you cannot do both. Jewish liberals are going to have to make a choice of which is more important to them.
Many people of Jewish family backgrounds have converted to the Progressive Religion. They have betrayed the Jewish People.
It is no secret that Jews have been the financial, political, and media heft of the left and NYC is the center of that particular universe. Kind of hard to square that circle. A cognitive dissonance that goes far beyond strange.
Jewish turncoats.
We Jews need to take support wherever and whenever offered. We always need to be politically vigilant. The ones who were not died in the camps. There is only one sure thing-a strong Israel.
Another excellent Joshua Hoffman essay.
I totally agree with your analysis of the woke Left. And I will take support from wherever it comes. BUT . . . don't count on the Right for the long-term. Evangelicals use Jews for their end-times fantasy and believe we'll go to Hell if we don't accept J.C. And there's a host of right-wing types from neo-Nazis to skin heads that hate Jews. Trump himself has hosted Kanye and others who are clearly anti-semitic; he is not to be trusted in general. But sure, let's take the support while it's being offered. I'm not crying for Columbia. Meanwhile, I no longer support with donations any entity, charity, academic institution, etc. that has fallen prey to the ridiculous theories of the woke Left.
I'm no evangelical, but I know many here in Texas. The evangelicals are not as bad as you think. There is actually a great deal of respect for Jewish people among evangelicals because God chose to incarnate as a Jew. The Jewish people were chosen by God, so they don't actually believe any Jews will go to hell. Their way of thinking is that Jews maintain God's chosen culture until Jesus returns, then the evidence is so obvious they naturally convert. They have a deep respect for Jewish people.
Agree 100 percent.
Born as a South African I have always understood that the terms, Left or Right, Democrat, Liberal, Conservative or any other label does not matter.
According to my experience the so called left has always been the "one" to brake down values and morals under the guise of "human rights". "Do as you please", protecting the rights of the offender instead of the offended. Putting "human rights" as your new "g-o-d".
What does matter is the action. The difference between Right and Wrong according to Torah.
Your only "measure", your only affiliation.
Tikkun ha brit.
"Jews are told that if they want protection, they must first renounce their peoplehood, their homeland, and often their history. In essence, they are only welcome if they conform to a politics that has little interest in their actual safety.
Free societies are supposed to protect minority rights without demanding ideological conformity. But today, Jews are increasingly offered conditional belonging: You can be safe, but only if you agree to disavow your people’s story."
The actuality of the matter is that to the Left, Jews are acceptable at best when they are only nominal Jews (JINOs) but even better when they renounce their Jewishness in its entirety.
All the epithets hurled at us today by the Left are redolent of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer, grotesque caricatures of Jews. The most odious, because it is the most willful distortion of fact, is the accusation that Jews are "White." We are not! Whites are Christian heritage European origin and ancestry peoples. Jews are religeo-ethnically of Jewish heritage and Levantine origin and ancestry.
The statement "You can be safe, but only if you agree to disavow your people’s story" goes to the heart of the problem. The Left is cunning. By demanding Jews reject their people's story to be acceptable, the Left knows they are really demanding Jews abandon their identity — the very source of their peoplehood. But it is this very sense of self that safeguards our continuity.
Every time we fail to denounce the warped images of Jews the Left tries to foist on us, every time we accept the Left's claim it is only politics — we become willing if unwitting partners in our own erasure.
"The Left’s Jewish cover story has been exposed. The question now is whether it will double down on the fiction — or finally choose moral clarity over ideological lust."
One guesses the Left will not abandon its course. The consequences will be they alienate more and more centrist and moral people disgusted at the extremes the Left is going in their attacks on their culture, that national values, and self-identity. Ultimately it will lead to the Left's implosion.
Jonathan, please clarify your position re ‘Progressivism’ for me.
I imagine we share a distaste for neat compartmentalization, but please help me understand this one thing; ‘Where do you stand in respect to Progressive Political Positions?’. The impression I get from this piece is that you endorse the movement. Or is it that you endorse what you believe it once represented, but has now been warped and distorted into something very different?
Thanks and G-d bless, Mike
The leftist Demonrats, especially in recent years, have been no champion of Israel or been Jewish supporters. Their support is a dog and pony show meant to capture Jewish votes (and money). This is the same party that has stood up for blacks-- not. Blacks form an obedient block of voters for them. Jews should, finally, understand that left wing politics, socialist, Marxist, progressive is detrimental to their future and that of Israel.
"And yet, when it comes to Jews, that “progressive” solidarity often disappears."
That is because the 'progressive' mindset in this time of DEI is based on the Marxist opposition between 'oppressors' and 'victims,' introduced by feminists then picked up by gays and blacks. DEI defines Jews as 'white oppressors,' and Israel as a white state oppressing Palestinian people of color. So Jews, like heterosexual white males, are evil, deserving attack and defeat by all right thinking people. So too with Israel, the apartheid genocider that every right thinking people must oppose, and must side with the innocent Palestinians.
Progressives for decades have watered down Judaism to mean absolute support for their agenda on race gender and climate and have long ago walked away from any support for Israel snd respect for traditional Jewish values and practices
I find using terms like left, right, progressive, etc is open to so much individual interpretation. Terms that define the values or concepts that one holds would make things much clearer. The fundamental value of Judaism from Abraham on is the Sanctity of life. Once physical violence or threat is not available, the individual is now Free to explore, learn, create, etc. Obedience and submission inherently creates prohibition of individual thought and new ideas, i.e. Enslavement.
Stating the Sacredness of life in every conversation or debate would make the interpretations much clearer and definite. This can be said loud, clear and often, where things would be less open to misinterpretation.
Martin Nash, M.D.