If we Jews are too afraid to accept our own government stepping in to enforce our rights, whose violations are incontrovertible, then we learned nothing from our ancestors and our own history.
This has to do more with hating Trump than caring about free speech or academic freedom. When both the Biden and Obama administrations came out with guidelines on how to handle cases of possible sexual assault, which obliterated due process, these same groups denouncing Trump as infringing on constitutional rights applauded. That they are willing to commit suicide because they don't like who is fighting antisemitism is repugnant. I am so tired of how stupid these groups are and how society thinks they represent me or any Jewish person with a thinking brain.
Remember the old joke about “What is the the greatest Jewish dilemma?”, and the punchline being "Free pork!"? Well, today what I hear from my Jewish friends is that their greatest dilemma is Trump's support for Jews and fight against antisemitism.
Just today, I received an email from the ADL reminding me that Trump's putting the financial screws to Harvard over its unwillingness to put an end to antisemtism on campus. While Harvard loves antisemitism even more than it loves money, the ADL hates Trump more than it truly wants to see antisemitism vanquished from our schools.
Harvard isn't as good as the ADL thinks, and Trump isn't as bad as they say he is. This doesn't need to be a Hobson's Choice. Jews need to get over their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Amen. I’m not even Jewish and I’m wondering why I’m standing up for them more than they are? There is a deep sickness in white and Jewish liberals and it appears to be unwilling or unable to go anywhere.
Generational trauma and fear causes many to act this way. It is infuriating to see such betrayal by fellow Jews and alleged liberals, but it is a fear response from the Jews who do so. That or a financial response for any such Jew who gets paid via media.
Trump has shown you he loves antisemites. Elon does a Roman salute and his base who stormed the capitol had signs that said Camp Auschwitz. Sad that you are letting Trump use antisemitism as an excuse to control Universities and deport innocent people
which troll farm are you from? Russia, Iran, or maybe China? Funny how with your conspicuously oh so Jewish sounding name you despise fighting antisemitism and think Venezuelan gang members are the good guys. Oh you must be some Hamas loving c**t. Lech lazazel. Bint sharmuta.
🤮 That’s what I have to say about the words anti-semite and Tikkun Olam being used in the same sentence. As my brilliant Zayde/ADL director, Nathan Perlmutter once said, “People who expect us to not defend ourselves, are asking us to commit suicide”. Of course, he said it a little more eloquently, with a Brooklyn accent and with a slight grin.
🤗 🤗 🤗 made me cry! I was 13 when he died. Which means I didn’t understand the full scope of what he was doing. I found an interview with him via YouTube on The Firing Line. It hit me that this is really same sh$t different day. GD I wish he was here. Thank you, Diana.
I'm sorry but the hijacking of the term 'tikkun olam', by the non-orthodox movements, was a last gasp attempt to try and make some meaning for themselves. They are haemorrhaging followers. Without Torah and mitzvot it's not Judaism and is ultimately unsustainable.
None of these groups keep Shabbos, kashrut, tahara hamushpacha. Are the conservatives, liberals and reform not marrying out in increasing numbers? Membership of all those groups is plummeting. You may be the last hold out.
I was walking last Shabbat, and I saw a group of Haredi boys picking up and throwing rocks at cars while shouting "Shabbat". It's a real shame that Haredi do not keep Shabbat, unlike reform Jews like me.
Great article , but let’s start with one point in there when you stated were easy to massacre. Well, the Israelis are proving that despite the atrocities of Oct 7, it ain’t so easy to massacre us and not feel the consequences. And the animals in Gaza are going to feel it for decades or more. Gaza will not be rebuilt unless the Israelis become as braindead as American Jews .
Now let’s move to American Jews. They write letters and do all the other bull shit EXCEPT train to defend themselves from physical violence.
New York City , two million Jews , yet a few hundred imported activists and college misfits are not met by thousands of Jews armed with anything necessary to confront them. Too busy writing letters to black bastard politicians who are letting this go on, college elitists who are all in on the hate , and so blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome that it is as pitiful as it gets.
There will be no stopping this here until the Jews make it clear that if you threaten a person with physical violence or do it, you might get your head blown off. The pansies at Harvard and Columbia would shit in their pants if they weren’t in a mob .
The Jewish community has a clear choice. Either recognize who your enemy is and give up the social justice warrior mentality or endure their terror. It won’t stop without hurting any of them and defending yourself.
The average American with any intelligence can only ask one question when informed that 70% of the Jewish vote went to Biden and then Harris and that these some idiots would vote for Obama tomorrow.
You shoot off your mouth about counting you out of tikkun olam? What do YOU actually SAY or DO to rectify this world? That’s what tikkun olam means, and the Torah teaches us how to do that. “Do unto others…” for a simple starter. The Torah does not teach bigotry and you, Larry, are a bigot and the last person who should be weighing in on tikkun olam since you and people like you are what keeps breaking the world even further. It’s interesting that you read NOTHING I took the time to write to you. Instead you rolled out automatic slogans, blame, and VITRIOL; every word you wrote… all of it… goes against what the Torah teaches, which means the WAY YOU THINK is completely CORRUPTED. I hope that corruption doesn’t extend to your heart and soul but, so far…. it’s not looking too good…
The only thing any Jew should be doing , especially in Israel , is killing Palestinians.
What I do, as if it’s any of your concern , is give thousands of dollars to Israeli orgs ovations that help support families of soldiers and help rehab of wounded soldiers.
What else I do is not whine begging for help but arm myself to the teeth so anyone threatening me or my family will get a tactical ammunition bullet between their eyes if they come within range.
That’s the best way not to support anti Semites. Cowards and bullies do not like it when they get punched in their nose.
Hope that explains it for you. No interest in debating with anyone who wants coexistence with Palestinians in Gaza
How’s Barack Obama, Brandon Johnson , Karen Bass , Alvin Bragg, Leticia James for starters. And if you don’t consider them black bastards see your therapist.
Because there is no other ethnic group more anti Semitic that blacks. And if you don’t know they’re not our friends, go get some opinion surveys at HBCU universities. The Israelis they identify as white so obviously they support these Palestinian sub humans .
If it wasn’t for Jewish money and blood in the 60s fighting for their right and up until now being the biggest supporters of black organizations, they’d be nowhere near where they are now.
And how do they pay us back. With hate and support for those wanting to murder us.
That hasn’t been my experience at all. I’ve been heavily involved with Black Jewish Coalitions in every community I’ve lived in since childhood, as were my parents and my grandmother. In fact, this past MLK Shabbat at my synagogue, Terrence L Johnson gave the drasha that also honored Abraham Joshua Heschel. https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/terrence-l-johnson
Soul food Shabbats, Circles for Racial Dialog - there are lots of ways to direct energy into what you WANT to see, as opposed to seething with anger - that can easily become paralyzing cynicism. I put time and energy into these efforts and have positive experiences with them, and I change lives. (These folks tell me this all the time, because many are meeting a Jew for the first time and I love that I break open these dialogs in which people come away loving and understanding more and hating/fearing less. Below I’ve pasted a couple of links.
Cleaning up what’s wrong in the world is ALL of our responsibility. Blaming doesn’t help a damn thing.
The last thing I would like to say to you is that hate never transforms hate, but LOVE DOES have that power. I strongly encourage you to consider shifting your very strong energy into, as the song says, “Be the Change you want to see.”
As long as the vast majority of US Jews vote for Democrats, this problem will not go away. Joe Biden and his ilk were not our friends. Donald Trump and the Republicans are.
Those so-called Jews, who revere Tikkun Olam above all other common sense strategies to protect their fellow Jews, should just convert to Episcopalian (or Islam) and move on. The universities that dig in their heals and will not develop programs to protect its Jewish students, need to have all of their government funds frozen. If they need money, go to Qatar for more of what they have received in the past. And when the funds arrive, they should be confiscated by the U.S. government, in the name of prevention of funding to terrorist supporting organizations, and applied to Jewish studies programs.
This is all about the hijacking of the “Yiddishe Kopf” by the Left. Those who dumped their faith so as to eat treif, marry blonde shicksas, and join the country club found a gap in their souls, which the Left cleverly filled. Now our brethren bleat all the Leftist lies because that IS their orthodoxy. Sadly, their holy sacraments have become abortion and hating Trump.
I don’t see any path of return for these lost souls.
The only thing these universities are being required is to do is adhere to civil rights laws. But for the left, Jews don't deserve civil rights. Civil rights are only for the left's favored groups like blacks, muslims and LGBTQ.
I'm disgusted by "Jewish" leftist groups who misappropriate our holidays and their true meaning by turning them into the anti-Jewish "palestinian" cause.
Imagine the USSR during the Cold War donating millions to elite, American schools for the purpose of establishing American Studies departments which teach that America is an imperialist devil, and that capitalism will destroy civilization. In this scenario the USSR uses its money and influence over the schools to direct which professors teach in these departments as it funds young indoctrinees from Soviet Bloc countries to apply for foreign student visas to the universities the USSR bought with its investments. The universities in turn are more than happy to bolster their new departments by accepting as many foreign students from the Soviet Bloc that they can.
In the years that follow, an anti-America student movement arises with foreign student leaders from the Soviet Bloc countries leading the calls for revolution against their capitalist masters.
Would anyone who was around in the 1980s, or has any knowledge of the period think the Reagan Administration would do all it could to shut down such a national security threat? Would any politicians have defended foreign students who came here to destroy America?
Don’t be naive! KGB did all that! I’m sure you know they interfered everywhere: from Europe to Africa to S. and N. America. And of course created situation we have in the Middle East right now!
Stalin wanted Israel for himself to spread anti-Americanism but failed.
Later Soviets turned their efforts on to the Muslims. Arafat came to KGB for instructions on PLO. Mahmoud Abas did his PHd in Moscow.
Soviet spies were around Washington since the beginning.
NYT sent their Walter Duranty to Moscow who wrote complete lies about it and gotten Pulitzer while Stalin ran his Great Purges.
All those disgusting professors in top Universities are Marxists first!
Fighting by anti Semitism is vitally important but the best means of defense is being a strongly committed and educated Jew in the traditions of the Jewish People
This has to do more with hating Trump than caring about free speech or academic freedom. When both the Biden and Obama administrations came out with guidelines on how to handle cases of possible sexual assault, which obliterated due process, these same groups denouncing Trump as infringing on constitutional rights applauded. That they are willing to commit suicide because they don't like who is fighting antisemitism is repugnant. I am so tired of how stupid these groups are and how society thinks they represent me or any Jewish person with a thinking brain.
Remember the old joke about “What is the the greatest Jewish dilemma?”, and the punchline being "Free pork!"? Well, today what I hear from my Jewish friends is that their greatest dilemma is Trump's support for Jews and fight against antisemitism.
Just today, I received an email from the ADL reminding me that Trump's putting the financial screws to Harvard over its unwillingness to put an end to antisemtism on campus. While Harvard loves antisemitism even more than it loves money, the ADL hates Trump more than it truly wants to see antisemitism vanquished from our schools.
Harvard isn't as good as the ADL thinks, and Trump isn't as bad as they say he is. This doesn't need to be a Hobson's Choice. Jews need to get over their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Well I dislike Trump intensely, and don't trust him at all, but if he institutes one or more policies that I DO like, that's fine with me.
Amen. I’m not even Jewish and I’m wondering why I’m standing up for them more than they are? There is a deep sickness in white and Jewish liberals and it appears to be unwilling or unable to go anywhere.
Generational trauma and fear causes many to act this way. It is infuriating to see such betrayal by fellow Jews and alleged liberals, but it is a fear response from the Jews who do so. That or a financial response for any such Jew who gets paid via media.
Exactly!
Trump has shown you he loves antisemites. Elon does a Roman salute and his base who stormed the capitol had signs that said Camp Auschwitz. Sad that you are letting Trump use antisemitism as an excuse to control Universities and deport innocent people
which troll farm are you from? Russia, Iran, or maybe China? Funny how with your conspicuously oh so Jewish sounding name you despise fighting antisemitism and think Venezuelan gang members are the good guys. Oh you must be some Hamas loving c**t. Lech lazazel. Bint sharmuta.
🤮 That’s what I have to say about the words anti-semite and Tikkun Olam being used in the same sentence. As my brilliant Zayde/ADL director, Nathan Perlmutter once said, “People who expect us to not defend ourselves, are asking us to commit suicide”. Of course, he said it a little more eloquently, with a Brooklyn accent and with a slight grin.
Nate Perlmutter was the last sane head of the ADL.
🤗 🤗 🤗 made me cry! I was 13 when he died. Which means I didn’t understand the full scope of what he was doing. I found an interview with him via YouTube on The Firing Line. It hit me that this is really same sh$t different day. GD I wish he was here. Thank you, Diana.
I'm sorry but the hijacking of the term 'tikkun olam', by the non-orthodox movements, was a last gasp attempt to try and make some meaning for themselves. They are haemorrhaging followers. Without Torah and mitzvot it's not Judaism and is ultimately unsustainable.
As a liberal Jew, I resent your assumption that I am without Torah and mitzvot. Simply not true.
None of these groups keep Shabbos, kashrut, tahara hamushpacha. Are the conservatives, liberals and reform not marrying out in increasing numbers? Membership of all those groups is plummeting. You may be the last hold out.
I was walking last Shabbat, and I saw a group of Haredi boys picking up and throwing rocks at cars while shouting "Shabbat". It's a real shame that Haredi do not keep Shabbat, unlike reform Jews like me.
Lashon hara
Do you not own a mirror, or is the whole concept of irony just beyond you?
Great article , but let’s start with one point in there when you stated were easy to massacre. Well, the Israelis are proving that despite the atrocities of Oct 7, it ain’t so easy to massacre us and not feel the consequences. And the animals in Gaza are going to feel it for decades or more. Gaza will not be rebuilt unless the Israelis become as braindead as American Jews .
Now let’s move to American Jews. They write letters and do all the other bull shit EXCEPT train to defend themselves from physical violence.
New York City , two million Jews , yet a few hundred imported activists and college misfits are not met by thousands of Jews armed with anything necessary to confront them. Too busy writing letters to black bastard politicians who are letting this go on, college elitists who are all in on the hate , and so blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome that it is as pitiful as it gets.
There will be no stopping this here until the Jews make it clear that if you threaten a person with physical violence or do it, you might get your head blown off. The pansies at Harvard and Columbia would shit in their pants if they weren’t in a mob .
The Jewish community has a clear choice. Either recognize who your enemy is and give up the social justice warrior mentality or endure their terror. It won’t stop without hurting any of them and defending yourself.
The average American with any intelligence can only ask one question when informed that 70% of the Jewish vote went to Biden and then Harris and that these some idiots would vote for Obama tomorrow.
And that question they ask is
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?
No one I know can answer that one
You shoot off your mouth about counting you out of tikkun olam? What do YOU actually SAY or DO to rectify this world? That’s what tikkun olam means, and the Torah teaches us how to do that. “Do unto others…” for a simple starter. The Torah does not teach bigotry and you, Larry, are a bigot and the last person who should be weighing in on tikkun olam since you and people like you are what keeps breaking the world even further. It’s interesting that you read NOTHING I took the time to write to you. Instead you rolled out automatic slogans, blame, and VITRIOL; every word you wrote… all of it… goes against what the Torah teaches, which means the WAY YOU THINK is completely CORRUPTED. I hope that corruption doesn’t extend to your heart and soul but, so far…. it’s not looking too good…
The only thing any Jew should be doing , especially in Israel , is killing Palestinians.
What I do, as if it’s any of your concern , is give thousands of dollars to Israeli orgs ovations that help support families of soldiers and help rehab of wounded soldiers.
What else I do is not whine begging for help but arm myself to the teeth so anyone threatening me or my family will get a tactical ammunition bullet between their eyes if they come within range.
That’s the best way not to support anti Semites. Cowards and bullies do not like it when they get punched in their nose.
Hope that explains it for you. No interest in debating with anyone who wants coexistence with Palestinians in Gaza
“…too busy writing letters to black bastard politicians?” Please explain the last 3 words, Larry
How’s Barack Obama, Brandon Johnson , Karen Bass , Alvin Bragg, Leticia James for starters. And if you don’t consider them black bastards see your therapist.
I might consider someone an asshole, but assholes come in all colors. Why is the distinction “black” important to you?
Because there is no other ethnic group more anti Semitic that blacks. And if you don’t know they’re not our friends, go get some opinion surveys at HBCU universities. The Israelis they identify as white so obviously they support these Palestinian sub humans .
If it wasn’t for Jewish money and blood in the 60s fighting for their right and up until now being the biggest supporters of black organizations, they’d be nowhere near where they are now.
And how do they pay us back. With hate and support for those wanting to murder us.
That hasn’t been my experience at all. I’ve been heavily involved with Black Jewish Coalitions in every community I’ve lived in since childhood, as were my parents and my grandmother. In fact, this past MLK Shabbat at my synagogue, Terrence L Johnson gave the drasha that also honored Abraham Joshua Heschel. https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/terrence-l-johnson
Soul food Shabbats, Circles for Racial Dialog - there are lots of ways to direct energy into what you WANT to see, as opposed to seething with anger - that can easily become paralyzing cynicism. I put time and energy into these efforts and have positive experiences with them, and I change lives. (These folks tell me this all the time, because many are meeting a Jew for the first time and I love that I break open these dialogs in which people come away loving and understanding more and hating/fearing less. Below I’ve pasted a couple of links.
Cleaning up what’s wrong in the world is ALL of our responsibility. Blaming doesn’t help a damn thing.
The last thing I would like to say to you is that hate never transforms hate, but LOVE DOES have that power. I strongly encourage you to consider shifting your very strong energy into, as the song says, “Be the Change you want to see.”
Shabbat shalom
Things have changed since your childhood .
As long as the vast majority of US Jews vote for Democrats, this problem will not go away. Joe Biden and his ilk were not our friends. Donald Trump and the Republicans are.
Yeah, like the Camp Auschwitz dude.
Biden was probably too much of a friend of the Israeli Government. So are the people in this comment thread.
Thank you... it is a very powerful call to link arms and accept the hand that is given with grace...
shabbat shalom vechag sameach
Thank you so much for your wonderful article......should be read by everyone everywhere.....Chag Pesach Sameach.......Shabbat Shalom.....
You will never see an American flag at a pro-Hamas demonstration. They hate the United States for the same reason that they hate Israel.
Those so-called Jews, who revere Tikkun Olam above all other common sense strategies to protect their fellow Jews, should just convert to Episcopalian (or Islam) and move on. The universities that dig in their heals and will not develop programs to protect its Jewish students, need to have all of their government funds frozen. If they need money, go to Qatar for more of what they have received in the past. And when the funds arrive, they should be confiscated by the U.S. government, in the name of prevention of funding to terrorist supporting organizations, and applied to Jewish studies programs.
This is all about the hijacking of the “Yiddishe Kopf” by the Left. Those who dumped their faith so as to eat treif, marry blonde shicksas, and join the country club found a gap in their souls, which the Left cleverly filled. Now our brethren bleat all the Leftist lies because that IS their orthodoxy. Sadly, their holy sacraments have become abortion and hating Trump.
I don’t see any path of return for these lost souls.
Yes there is. It's called teshuvah. Please come back.
shabbat shalom and thank you Ellen.
The only thing these universities are being required is to do is adhere to civil rights laws. But for the left, Jews don't deserve civil rights. Civil rights are only for the left's favored groups like blacks, muslims and LGBTQ.
I'm disgusted by "Jewish" leftist groups who misappropriate our holidays and their true meaning by turning them into the anti-Jewish "palestinian" cause.
Imagine the USSR during the Cold War donating millions to elite, American schools for the purpose of establishing American Studies departments which teach that America is an imperialist devil, and that capitalism will destroy civilization. In this scenario the USSR uses its money and influence over the schools to direct which professors teach in these departments as it funds young indoctrinees from Soviet Bloc countries to apply for foreign student visas to the universities the USSR bought with its investments. The universities in turn are more than happy to bolster their new departments by accepting as many foreign students from the Soviet Bloc that they can.
In the years that follow, an anti-America student movement arises with foreign student leaders from the Soviet Bloc countries leading the calls for revolution against their capitalist masters.
Would anyone who was around in the 1980s, or has any knowledge of the period think the Reagan Administration would do all it could to shut down such a national security threat? Would any politicians have defended foreign students who came here to destroy America?
We don’t have to imagine anything!
Don’t be naive! KGB did all that! I’m sure you know they interfered everywhere: from Europe to Africa to S. and N. America. And of course created situation we have in the Middle East right now!
Stalin wanted Israel for himself to spread anti-Americanism but failed.
Later Soviets turned their efforts on to the Muslims. Arafat came to KGB for instructions on PLO. Mahmoud Abas did his PHd in Moscow.
Soviet spies were around Washington since the beginning.
NYT sent their Walter Duranty to Moscow who wrote complete lies about it and gotten Pulitzer while Stalin ran his Great Purges.
All those disgusting professors in top Universities are Marxists first!
Blunt instrument? We need a meat cleaver to rid our universities of Marxist, anti-Semitic, America-hating faculty.
. “The slope is slippery, and we are grasping with jagged nails at the landslide of societal indifference.”
A brilliant and powerful poetic statement.
Fighting by anti Semitism is vitally important but the best means of defense is being a strongly committed and educated Jew in the traditions of the Jewish People