The problem is that Court Jews were working the system as it were. We don't like them because they were traitors to their people, but they were also working a system that was stacked against them.
There is no reason that the likes of Butler or Feinstein have become "Court Jews." You could even say that they actually created the situation where other Jews, in order to get jobs in academia and certain professions, have to become "Court Jews." They propelled the ideology whereby Jews had to disavow their Jewishness in order to be accepted.
Court Jews would be Lander in NYC and Wiener in San Fran. But in truth they are all just garbage human beings, only worthy of mention when we discuss those who should be cherem.
Butler and Feinstein quite frankly are worse than Court Jews, because their betrayal has led to other Jews not only being expelled from professions, but have given succor to those who have murdered Jews.
Anti-Zionists, the self-erasing Jews included, are peddling the lie invented by Stalin who after WWII spread to the Islamic world propaganda against capitalism, western democracies which included Israel.
Stalin turned the word Zionism to mean Racism; Israel was singled out against having the right to self-determination.
Stalin’s Antisemitism, as malicious as the Tsars, starts after WWII. He was the first to dispense anti-Jewish, anti-Western, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, propaganda to the Arab and Muslim world. Those Muslim revolts made their way to the shores of America and the self-erasing Jews support this evil.
Holding Left wing, or Right wing politics will not save us. Only support for the well organised defence of Jews, including from Israel, will defend us successfully. And in the final analysis this is all that counts.
Excellent commentary and the author reinforces the themes that Prof. Ruth Wisse addresses in her book “Jews and Power”. As a people we have seen this movie many times. It always amazes me when those Jews who bash Israel, bash “our people’s affinity” believe that when the mob or power of the state comes after Jews that they will be spared.
You didn’t include any of the Israeli-born “Israel Studies” professors at prominent American universities who supported the pro-Hamas encampments and repeated every genocide slander against the IDF.
In a nutshell, the good Jew is the Jew who succumbs to anti-Jewish normalizing pressure. In the literature on antisimitism, this is in fact know as the normalization of the Jews (not to be confused with the normalization of antisemitism, although the two are far from orthogonal since the latter increases pressure on the former to occur). What awaits (and deserves) careful analysis is the social functionalist bases of the normalization pressure the author speaks of. For example, are most As a Jew," antizionists merely intuitive politicians minding their prospects in a world that is increasingly hostile to Jews? Or are some proportion of them also intuitive theologians who less than being strategic about minding their place in society, have acquired a moral reflex through their infusion in society, and academia in particular? Are others not intuitive prosecutors precommitted to a prosecutorial framework they no longer question? These are the three archetypes Phil Tetlock described in his 2002 Psychological Review article on social functionalist frameworks for judgment and choice. Of course, each of us has an intuitive politician, theologian, and prosecutor in us so the challenge of understanding the accommodationist Jew is not merely to select from the three archetypes, but to accurately characterize how their interactions determine judgment, choice, and behavior..
Excellent essay with astute discussion of the Court Jews of yesteryear with the As a Jews of today, and the purposes both serve as shields and cover for antisemites and systemic bias against Jews historically and today.
The State here in the UK maintains and supports Far Right organisations, including The re-formed Nazi Party. All Jews who identify as Jews on the National Census held every ten years have their names and home addresses collated by these organisations with the connivance of The State. This is how far things have got to here in Europe. Thus there can be no compromise with these people. The State maintains Nazism and Jew Hate. We have monitored all of this just as such. Court Jews note…It really is that simple.
This is the article that needs to be written but with a far more extensive list, a whose who of names. Butler and Finkelsteen arent enough.
Jews who don’t support the Jewish state are cowards.
The problem is that Court Jews were working the system as it were. We don't like them because they were traitors to their people, but they were also working a system that was stacked against them.
There is no reason that the likes of Butler or Feinstein have become "Court Jews." You could even say that they actually created the situation where other Jews, in order to get jobs in academia and certain professions, have to become "Court Jews." They propelled the ideology whereby Jews had to disavow their Jewishness in order to be accepted.
Court Jews would be Lander in NYC and Wiener in San Fran. But in truth they are all just garbage human beings, only worthy of mention when we discuss those who should be cherem.
Butler and Feinstein quite frankly are worse than Court Jews, because their betrayal has led to other Jews not only being expelled from professions, but have given succor to those who have murdered Jews.
Anti-Zionists, the self-erasing Jews included, are peddling the lie invented by Stalin who after WWII spread to the Islamic world propaganda against capitalism, western democracies which included Israel.
Stalin turned the word Zionism to mean Racism; Israel was singled out against having the right to self-determination.
Stalin’s Antisemitism, as malicious as the Tsars, starts after WWII. He was the first to dispense anti-Jewish, anti-Western, anti-capitalism, anti-democracy, propaganda to the Arab and Muslim world. Those Muslim revolts made their way to the shores of America and the self-erasing Jews support this evil.
Let's make it simple: For the many named, their LEFTISM TRUMPS THEIR JUDAISM
I am not a biblical scholar like many of you but as I read this my thoughts went to Esther and Mordechi. Today we have many Hamans in high places.
Holding Left wing, or Right wing politics will not save us. Only support for the well organised defence of Jews, including from Israel, will defend us successfully. And in the final analysis this is all that counts.
You lost me when you painted Finklestein and Beinart with the same brush as Friedman.
Excellent commentary and the author reinforces the themes that Prof. Ruth Wisse addresses in her book “Jews and Power”. As a people we have seen this movie many times. It always amazes me when those Jews who bash Israel, bash “our people’s affinity” believe that when the mob or power of the state comes after Jews that they will be spared.
You didn’t include any of the Israeli-born “Israel Studies” professors at prominent American universities who supported the pro-Hamas encampments and repeated every genocide slander against the IDF.
In a nutshell, the good Jew is the Jew who succumbs to anti-Jewish normalizing pressure. In the literature on antisimitism, this is in fact know as the normalization of the Jews (not to be confused with the normalization of antisemitism, although the two are far from orthogonal since the latter increases pressure on the former to occur). What awaits (and deserves) careful analysis is the social functionalist bases of the normalization pressure the author speaks of. For example, are most As a Jew," antizionists merely intuitive politicians minding their prospects in a world that is increasingly hostile to Jews? Or are some proportion of them also intuitive theologians who less than being strategic about minding their place in society, have acquired a moral reflex through their infusion in society, and academia in particular? Are others not intuitive prosecutors precommitted to a prosecutorial framework they no longer question? These are the three archetypes Phil Tetlock described in his 2002 Psychological Review article on social functionalist frameworks for judgment and choice. Of course, each of us has an intuitive politician, theologian, and prosecutor in us so the challenge of understanding the accommodationist Jew is not merely to select from the three archetypes, but to accurately characterize how their interactions determine judgment, choice, and behavior..
A long-winded way of describing the actual psychological transaction of the court Jew: Cowardice. And the stupidity of shortsightedness.
Excellent essay with astute discussion of the Court Jews of yesteryear with the As a Jews of today, and the purposes both serve as shields and cover for antisemites and systemic bias against Jews historically and today.
The State here in the UK maintains and supports Far Right organisations, including The re-formed Nazi Party. All Jews who identify as Jews on the National Census held every ten years have their names and home addresses collated by these organisations with the connivance of The State. This is how far things have got to here in Europe. Thus there can be no compromise with these people. The State maintains Nazism and Jew Hate. We have monitored all of this just as such. Court Jews note…It really is that simple.