THE GROVELING JEWISH LEFTIES BY JOAN SWIRSKY -
AN IMPORTANT READ FOR
THOSE ON THE RIGHT, THE LEFT AND THE IN BETWEEN
1. Introductory comments by William Navery.
Joan Swirsky has written a major essay – The Groveling Jewish Lefties
(full text below).
I believe Swirsky should have chosen a far less provocative title. That
title however, in my view does not diminish the power of her reasoned
analysis, arguments and conclusions, all of which are backed up by a
plethora of sourced material available for all to read.
Swirsky in her piece, shines a light on how and why the state of American
Non-Orthodox Democrat supporting liberal-left wing Jewry – AKA progressives,
is in her view, going in the wrong direction and away from ensuring a bright
future for Judaism and Jewry in America.
That non-Orthodox Jewish sector whose views about Judaism, Jewishness and
Israel are being increasingly shaped by assimilative secularism, constitute
about 80% of American Jewry.
What prompted Swirsky to write this wide ranging essay was a communique she
received "Why We Must Renew Our Commitment to the Civil Rights Movement",
from Melanie Roth Gorelick, the Senior Vice President of the Jewish Council
for Public Affairs
Swirsky says of the appeal to American Jews this year by Gorelick and JCPA:
“In short, Ms. Gorelick recommended that Jews concentrate
their attention not on the pandemic of anti-Semitism and violent acts
against Jews throughout the world and in the United States of America, but
instead on those poor oppressed blacks who have never had it better in the
good ole U.S.A., thanks to President Trump!”
JCPA could have chosen any other time to virtue signal its compassion for
oppressed people, other than Jews. Choosing to do so practically on the eve
of the start of our New Year High Holidays while ignoring the alarming
rising tide of antisemitism threatening all Jews and Israelis, is shameful.
Swirsky writes from a Jewish and political conservative perspective that is
neither an Orthodox nor a particularly religious perspective.
It is however, a perspective that reflects her valuing, regard, respect and
support for Judaism, Jewish history, heritage, culture, life, the importance
of maintain strong Jewish identity, the Jewish bond with and support of
Israel and wanting all that to be a part of a thriving diaspora Jewish
future.
For those who might doubt any of Swirsky’s views, statements, argumentation
and conclusions, she has provided a multitude of URL links to other sage
articles, essays and studies, all of which back her up. All are well worth
your time to investigate and inform yourselves even more.
No doubt progressive Jews’ first reaction in seeing Swirsky’s essay in
their email box, will be to summarily delete it.
Time and again those on the conservative side of the political spectrum
including myself, have found in encountering those on the left, including
Democrat supporting Jews, especially the Trump hating variety, that they
cannot tolerate any fact reasoned based opinions and conclusions that do not
conform to theirs.
They often react to even a hint that someone is about to try to engage them
in a sincere informed discussion and debate, by dismissively and derisively
variously saying in effect ‘there is no point in discussing things because
you are right wing, a Trump lover, a Republican, a fake Fox News viewer or
some other like pejorative characterization.’
To those progressive Jews who see Swirsky’s essay in their mailbox, I
appeal to you to not reflexively delete it. Rather, please do read it with
a fair and open mind.
It is so important that both the right, left and in between fairly,
respectfully, factually and reasonably engage in discussion and debate on
those issues that divide us.
Religious and political divisions within our Jewish diaspora community in
the U.S. and Canada too for that matter, have become so deep and too often
acrimonious, the situation is screaming that it is incumbent on all of us to
begin to actively work together to lessen those divisions for the good of us
all.
It is with that in mind that I implore all of you who I am sending this to,
be you on the right or the left, to take the first step to that end by
choosing to now read Swirsky’s essay and the source materials she has
included to back up what she asserts as fact, truths, argues, reasons and
concludes.
Bill Narvey
From: Joan Swirsky <joanswirsky@gmail.com <mailto:joanswirsky@gmail.com> >
2.The groveling Jewish lefties
By Joan Swirsky <http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swirsky>
September 23, 2019
Not long ago, I received a lengthy e-mail – "Why We Must Renew Our
Commitment to the Civil Rights Movement" – from a woman named Melanie Roth
Gorelick, who identified herself as Senior Vice President of the Jewish
Council for Public Affairs
Honestly, I thought it was one of the preposterous spoofs of that satirical
publication, The Onion <https://www.theonion.com/> .
But no... it was the real thing.
In short, Ms. Gorelick recommended that Jews concentrate their attention
not on the pandemic of anti-Semitism and violent acts against Jews
throughout the world and in the United States of America, but instead on
those poor oppressed blacks who have never had it better in the good ole
U.S.A., thanks to President Trump!
While Ms. Gorelick briefly mentioned that there is an "increase in
anti-Semitism and hate crimes" in America, her entire discourse was devoted
to a plea for the Jewish community (2.8 percent of the U.S. population) to
turn their impassioned efforts and energies to supporting the cause of
blacks in the U.S. (14 percent of the U.S. population), who she claimed
still experience grave discrimination.
This in spite of the fact that since President Trump was elected, blacks
have never experienced a higher degree of employment, independence, wealth,
home ownership, and freedom from discrimination in the history of our
country!
Not to omit the president's First Step Act <https://www.firststepact.org/>
that gives black prisoners serving lengthy sentences the first chance at
freedom for relatively minor offenses that they've ever been offered in
their lives – an opportunity never proposed by all those empathic and caring
Democrats who would have kept them in prison for the rest of their lives!
THE PLIGHT OF JEWS
* Jews by the thousands are fleeing from France
because of both violent physical and verbal attacks on them by Muslims
nue-to-rise/> that go unaddressed by the powers-that-be.
* Jews have been relentlessly assaulted, raped, and terrorized in
Sweden
by Muslims who go unindicted
ews-live-in-a-climate-of-fear/> .
* Jews have been driven to hide in their basements in the United
Kingdom as anti-Semitism is at an all-time high
-at-all-time-high> .
* Jews have been vilified in Ireland, which passed a law to support
the Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement to strangle Israel economically
israel-settlement-goods/> .
* In far-away New Zealand, the official government website
s-Israel-off-the-map-592870> published a fact sheet with a map of the
Middle East that showed a fictional place called "Palestine" – but not the
authentic, 71-year-old State of Israel.
* Anti-Semitic attacks in Germany – yes, Hitler's and now Angela
Merkel's Germany – have risen
a whopping 20 percent! The country is now what writer Dogan Akman calls an
anti-Semitic terrorist state
tate/> .
* Jews in the United States have been mass-murdered in a synagogue
hooting.html> , terrorized on college campuses
puses/24970/> , and spat on by the entire Democrat Party whose members
supported
mitic-remarks-democrats-helpless-stop> the virulent anti-Semitic racism
spewed forth from the Jew-and-Israel-hating Democrat Representatives Ihlan
Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), and Ayanna
Pressley (MA). In fact, recently the execrable Ms. Omar mourned the death of
the Muslim Brotherhood tyrant
called Jews "apes and pigs."
* Here
members-of-the-squad-so-far/> , in repulsive detail, is just a small sample
of the rancid hatred of these Sludge Sisters that Joel B. Pollak of
Breitbart.com spells out.
* And not long ago, Bernie Sanders, the Brooklyn-born Jewish senator
from Vermont who is running for president again in 2020, told his
Socialist/Communist followers
o-israel/> : "Our policy cannot be pro-Israel."
*
Then there is presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren
(D-MA), who recently said she would push to end the Israeli government's
"occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza (which it obtained in the course of
defending itself during the 1967 x-day war)
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War> . Not to omit that the senator's
"Director of Progressive Partnerships" is Max Berger, co-founder of the
extreme Israel-hating group "If Not Now," the goal of which is to "end
support for the occupation" – meaning to get rid of the Jews and Israel
itself.
* And let's not forget the Trenton, NJ, Democrat councilwoman Robin
Vaughn, who defended a colleague's use
-says-it-referred-to-negotiating-and-not-hate/> of the expression "Jew her
down," insisting that it's a verb that refers to negotiating.
* Or the non-stop assaults on Jews in Brooklyn. Or the relentless
calls for Jewish genocide by U.S. imams.
* Or, as writer Jonathan Tobin points out, that the Jewish community's
Reform movement
-high-holidays/> – to its everlasting shame – launched a political war on
President Trump right in time for the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom
Kippur.
LOOK IN THE MIRROR!
Apparently, Ms. Gorelick and others at the Jewish Council for Public
Affairs think the organization should ignore these dire facts and stick to
its 1960's retro agenda of helping the blacks who Regressives believe cannot
help themselves.
This is clearly an admission that the people who are traditionally known to
be the "best friends" of blacks – i.e., Democrat politicians who depend on
Jewish votes and prostitute themselves for the money Jewish voters send them
– have all utterly failed to improve the poverty, illiteracy, high crime
rate, single-mother rate, and rat-infested cities they have controlled for
the past 60 years.
WHY THE WORLD'S GROWING JEW HATRED?
The widespread Jew hatred exists because in the back of the minds of all
people who consider themselves oppressed is the question – Why are those
damned Jews so tiny in number but so much better off than I am?
To me, the answer is simple: Too many have bought the sweetened – but toxic
– Kool Aid that Democrats have sold them that has proved to be their
undoing.
Think about it: Why, as documented scrupulously
aders/?campaign=daily-news-email> by Robert B. Charles, a former Assistant
Secretary of State under Colin Powell and teacher at Harvard University, are
the 25 worst cities in the U.S. led by Democrats? And why do the top-ten
"most dangerous cities" in America, according to Forbes
<http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1242880/pg1> , all have Democrat
mayors?
WHAT HELP CAN MS. GORLICK EXPECT?
For all her social-justice posturing, I wonder which black "leaders" Ms.
Gorelick hopes to recruit to her mission. Let's speculate on potential
candidates.
* "Reverend" Al Sharpton, famous for creating the gigantic race-based
Tawana Brawley hoax
he was never indicted; fomenting antisemitic race riots
e-riot-crown-heights-twenty-three-years-ago-today> in Brooklyn, NY;
instigating the deadly boycott of the Jewish-owned Freddy's Fashion Mart in
1995, and his effusive praise of notorious anti-Semites like the former
Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammed, as well as Malcolm X, Louis
Farrakhan, and Khalid Abdul Muhammad. On and on, to this day! In fact, here
is a mountain of evidence <https://lidblog.com/pres-trump-al-sharpton/>
about other hateful acts of his to convince you never to enlist him in your
ridiculous goal!
* "Reverend" Jesse Jackson, who snidely called NY City "Hymietown
on.htm> ," then denied it, then admitted it, but still couldn't bring
himself to condemn the Nation of Islam's radical leader Louis Farrakhan, an
aggressive anti-Semite and old Jackson ally.
* Barack Obama, a heavyweight anti-Semite – see here
most-anti-semitic-2016/> and here
is-anti-semitism-n785375> and here
/28/id/770861/> and here
that's the short list as well.
* "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright, in whose pew Mr. Obama sat for 20 years,
who married Mr. Obama and his America-loathing wife Michelle, and who
regularly spewed virulent anti-American and anti-Semitic "sermons
-jeremiah-wright> " – which both Obamas mysteriously never heard!
How about the newly-elected congresswomen I referred to earlier:
* Ihlan Omar (D-MN): says Israel has "hypnotized the world" and "I
pray that Allah awaken the people and help them see [its] evil doings...."
* Rashida Tlaib (D-MI): ardent supporter of the BDS movement who
accuses American Jews of "dual loyalty" to both the U.S. and Israel, and
supports
global economic, academic and cultural boycott against Israel.
* Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY): supports BDS and falsely and
maliciously condemns
ccused-israel-of-massacre-in-gaza/> Israel for committing a "massacre"
against Gaza "protesters" when in fact the Arabs (who call themselves
"Palestinians") were violent rioters trying to infiltrate Israel to murder
Jews.
Or maybe Ms. Gorelick would like to recruit the famous actor Danny Glover
to her virtue-signaling mission – he who recently called for a cultural
boycott of Israel.
And let's not forget former president Jimmy Carter, 95 on Oct. 1st, a
life-member of the Hate the Jews and Israel Club
.html> – who endorsed Hamas and laid a wreath on Yasir Arafat's tomb.
Or how about the people I listed in a 2008 Canada Free Press article
either staffed Barack Obama's administration or acted as his advisors or
fundraisers, Jew and Israel haters all: General Merrill "Tony" McPeak,
Samantha Power, Robert Malley, John Kerry, Rashid Khalidi, Anthony "Tony"
Lake, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Lee Hamilton, James ("F... the Jews") Baker, on
and on.
WHAT A COINCIDENCE!
What do all of the above candidates to help Ms. Gorelick have in common?
They are all Democrats!
Aha...is that what her plan is really all about and why she launched it in
this presidential campaign season––to convince the American public that
Democrats are really not the racists they have been for their entire
190-year history
Does she hope that Americans will forget that Democrats opposed the
abolition of slavery, created the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws, and
steadfastly voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights
Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Acts of 1968, and the Equal Opportunity Act of
1972?
Does she believe that Americans will erase from their minds the ugly
history of Democrat suppression of blacks, as documented so scrupulously
acks/> by Bill Federer of American Minute?
Or is it because Ms. Gorelick wishes that Americans will strike from their
memories the facts American Spectator's Dan Flynn documents about Democrats'
oh-so-cozy and obsequious relationship to the Klan? This includes:
* In the 1980s, Democrat Senator Joe Biden voted to elect Robert Byrd
(D-WVA), a former Exalted Cyclops of the Klan, as the leader of their party
in the Senate;
* In the 1970s, a Democrat Congress named the Old Senate Office
Building in honor of Richard Russell, a staunch segregationist from Georgia;
* In the late 1930s, Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt nominated
Hugo Black, also a former Klansman, to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he
served for decades.
* In 1924, Democrats rejected a measure to formally condemn the Ku
Klux Klan at their national convention.
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE FIASCO
Liberal Jews – by and large raised in America and spared the 5,000-year
history of searing hatred, slavery, oppression, and mass murder – have been
drawn to leftist politics because it deludes them into thinking that if they
are good enough and generous enough and even agree with their enemies
enough, all their virtuous acts will somehow, magically, exempt them from
the oppression and hatred their ancestors experienced.
And that by subscribing to and acting on the concept of Tikkum Olam –
repair of the world – they will fit in and be appreciated, admired, liked,
and accepted.
But as writer Jonathan Neumann explains
n/> in "Liberal Jews Are Destroying Their Own Religion," the phrase tikkun
olam was lifted "out of context" from a Jewish prayer before WWII to mean
social justice and popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by radicals like
Michael Lerner, who founded the extreme left-wing magazine, Tikkun.
"Since then," Neumann continues, Jews "have been led to believe that the
purpose of the Jews in the world is to campaign for higher taxes, sexual
permissiveness, reduced military spending, illegal immigration, opposition
to fracking, the banishment of religion from the public square and every
other liberal cause under the sun – all in the name of God. But the truth is
that tikkun olam and its leftist politics have no basis in Judaism.
"Tikkun olam is not Judaism at all but a distinct religion [which] teaches
that the Jewish People is an outdated and chauvinistic relic, with no need
for a nation-state of its own in its ancient homeland. Consequently, Jewish
social justice activists help to defame Israel and weaken America's bond
with the Jewish State."
The alternative, says Neumann, author of "To Heal the World? How the Jewish
Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel
ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1529698084&sr=1-1&keywords=To+Heal+the+World%
3F+How+the+Jewish+Left+Corrupts+Judaism+and+Endangers+Israel&tag=nypost-20>
, is "a new generation of traditionalist Jews, proud of their heritage and
jealous to preserve it. These Jews know that their ancestors did not live to
worship a political party nor die for faddish causes. It's time American
Jewry repaired itself instead of the world."
To which I say, Here, Here!
But will the leftist Jews of the world wake up and smell the coffee?
Realize that the people they're fighting for loathe them? Reclaim their own
glorious heritage and start to fight on behalf of their DNA brethren?
Where there's life, there's hope!
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