My Open Letter to Jewish Quislings

 

Jewish Quislings

An Open Letter.

To Juice Voice for Peas, IfWhatWhat, Grand Rabbinic Council of Reconstructionists, NefelUK, JustJuice, JewEat? AsaJew, Juice Red Guard Corbyn Brigade, et al.

My Wretched Juvenile Quislings,

Not to worry. I will not be adulting you. I will not try to change your mind about the Gaza War. You have made your morally relavatist bed. And you will be known forever for your October 2023 choices.

Jewish civilization is a big tent. It is decentralized, and there are many contending tribes. I do not believe in excommunication; no one is authorized to serve as our civilization’s gatekeeper. 

Yet there have always been some general rules of the game. For example, if you accepted Jesus as your savior, you became a Christian. A Meshumad might be Halachically Jewish, I don’t know for sure, but they were dead to the community.

For many of you, Baptism is not an option. You are atheists, so embracing Islam or Christianity to win the acceptance of the non-Jewish world is not an alternative. You might dabble in Buddism, but that doesn’t buy you creds on the street. 

Vidkun Quisling

My Wretched Juvenile Quislings, what you want is acceptance in the woke world. You want to march with the masses who are asses. To chant, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be [Jew] Free.” You were raised and educated woke. You have little, if any, Jewish education. What precious little Jewish literacy you have emphasized the Holocaust and Tikun Olam. And either your teachers were themselves ignoramuses, or you willfully misunderstood the significance of the Shoah and the meaning of Tikun Olam.

If I threw you in a synagogue, you wouldn’t know which way to face or how to hold a prayerbook. 

Or maybe you are among those who did get a limited Jewish education and, like the apostates of medieval times, use what you know to harass your people. You recall the perfidious turncoats who incited the Christian clergy to burn Jewish books.

For most of you, however, your Jewish identity is rooted in having eaten bagels, lox, and cream cheese and – let’s not forget – having a good sense of humor.

You hook up with Islamists who would slit your throat if you landed on their turf. You somehow can accept 23 ethno-Arab states (see Arab League) and 61 Islamic states (see Organization of Islamic Cooperation) that identify as Arab or Muslim. However,  somehow, one Jewish state is too much for you. Too ethnic. Too parochial.

Your essential “Jewish” identity is rooted in the negative. What makes you Jewish, by your definition, is opposition to Israel and Israeli policies. If you get your way and Israel is destroyed, what happens then to your “identity,” you vacuous putz? Like the Wicked Witch of the East, you’ll melt away.

You say you are doing Tikun Olam. How, in your twisted, woke minds, will the world be repaired if Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the PLO triumph and Israel is defeated? Have you read the PLO Charter or the Hamas Covenant? Oh, sorry. They are probably not on your Instagram feed.

Rest assured, I am not trying to sway or deprogram you. I mean only to disparage you and express my contempt, not just to you. Your parents have much to be ashamed of. They had a choice about what values to inculcate, and the outcome speaks for itself.

And don’t think you are absolved if you hide behind “bothsiderism.” Maybe suggesting that under certain circumstances, Israel might (maybe) have a right to exist, or under qualified circumstances, Israel might (maybe) have a right to (gasp) defend itself. And then taking a stance that makes survival and defense impossible. Or maybe you’ve paid lip service to the “hostages” while supporting a ceasefire to save Hamas so that it can fight another day.

Bothsiderism is the choice of ethical weaklings. It’s rooted in Obama-babble, “What is also true is that” countered by “And what is true is that”... Intellectual Yada. Yada. Yada.

And so, my wretched juvenile quisling, there ain’t no coming home. There is a right and a wrong, a good and an evil. Israel is imperfect. The Zionist enterprise is flawed. But Hamas is evil. You picked Hamas.

Besides knowing right from wrong, one of life’s most elemental lessons is not to betray your civilization. No matter how full of self-loathing or how alienated from your heritage – do not hand over your people to the enemy in their time of distress.  

You have done that. You are a 21^st-century Meshumad. Don’t let the door slam your ass on the way out.

 

 

 

 

Gaza War - Aggregation & Commentary

Yehya Sinwar in subterranean hospital compound.

Priestess of Jewish anti-Israelism Perhaps the most hard working, skilled, and well-funded anti-Israel Jewish voice on X is @LaraFriedmanDC, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace @FMEP. @FMEP, in its various incarnations, has since the 1980s been instrumental in working to debilitate Jewish support for Israel among American Jews. You’d be surprised who has been in and out of their doors and coffers. While Friedman also plays a role with the U.S. wing of Peace Now, most of its supporters have no clue about the real work of @FMEP and how the two instruments are linked.

What would Engels do? Bernie Sanders -  I saw a young socialist holding up a pro-Hamas sign at some protest in Washington, lamenting how Bernie was standing with Israel against a ceasefire in Gaza. Against a ceasefire in return for nothing. Against a ceasefire that would save Hamas without releasing the captives taken on October 7. I had no idea what she was talking about until I came across this interview. The woke socialists look set to excommunicate Bernie. But I welcome his late-in-life epiphany. Let’s see if it is lasting.

Congratulations The great genda philosopher Judith Butler, an expert in ethix “third-wave feminism” and “queer theory,” has been awarded the “Sheik Yassen Chair in LBGTQRA-T” studies at the Islamic University of Gaza الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة It is expected to be a brief tenure. Writing in the anti-Zionist London Review of Books, Butler, an “AsAJew,” engages in tedious woke bothsiderism and doublespeak. But let me try to summarize her position. Israel=bad. Hamas=not ideal. Hamas= hideous Hamas=do not deserve to be blacklisted or threatened.Israel=settler-colonial Hamas= terrifying and appalling answer to Israel=racist framing of contemporary violence Israel=recapitulates the colonial opposition between the ‘civilised ones’ and the ‘animals’ who must be routed or destroyed  Solution= an end to the state of Israel that was itself founded in violence no future can be imagined Peace= a euphemism for normalisation which means keeping structures of inequality, rightlessness, and racism in place. Got all that? And, yes, she makes a nice living from teaching and writing this stuff.

Let’s keep Detroit’s Samantha Woll in mind as we await a determination if her murder was related to the antisemitism and anti-Israelism sweeping America and Europe. Mass rallies against Israel that often devolve into orgies of antisemitism have been held in London (on the Tube and in the street), NYC, and Washington, DC. In Sweden, “bomb Israel” rallies are staged outside synagogues.

The Washington Post hones the art of the micro-aggressive headline. “As Gaza death toll soars, secrecy shrouds Israel’s targeting process. Experts say Israel’s rules of engagement in Gaza, which are classified, appear to include a higher threshold for civilian casualties than in past wars.”  So, IDF operations have not been signaled to the Post in advance, and the Post disapproves of the unwillingness of the IDF to sacrifice its soldiers to protect the human shields Hamas has taken. Thousands of willing human shields sat on plastic chairs outside a hospital for a screening of the “best jihadist attacks on occupation soldiers,” cheering the explosions.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (J Street) – is what you need to understand in parsing The New York Times complaint that “U.S. Officials Fear American Guns Ordered by Israel Could Fuel West Bank [Settler] Violence” J Street planting stories in the more than willing NYT.

‘UNRWA, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians’ – What you need to know if you are just joining us is that UNRWA is the only refugee agency whose mandate is NOT to resettle refugees permanently. It is tasked to keep Palestinian refugees, whether in Palestine or abroad, refugees in perpetuity. Almost all its employees are Palestinian Arabs. Its schools teach the Palestinian curriculum of political agitprop: no to permanent resettlement or even permanent housing in "refugee camps." Its buildings have sometimes been used to store weapons and to shoot at Israelis.

Summarizing This war will not be quick. Israelis are paying a heavy price—soldier funerals. Air raids sirens over metro Tel Aviv. Hezbollah attacks in the north, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad launches from the south. Jerusalem is comparatively quiet of sirens. This is a war of “no choice”. It is either us or them. People who want a ceasefire without getting our hostages out and the removal of Hamas are, in effect, siding with Hamas. There is no room for both-sider-ism.