HAARETZ – We American Jews are, at last, waking from our stunned disbelief, and that means we need to act: to denounce Donald Trump and what he stands for in our communities, our synagogues, at AIPAC.
American Jews are beginning to wake up. And they are getting ready to take on Donald Trump.
There is not yet much hard evidence that this will happen, but it will. And I suggest that it will begin at AIPAC next week. As a gutsy if non-specific statement by Reform Jewish leaders indicated, they intend to use the occasion of Trump’s appearance at AIPAC to protest his policies, and there is word that many others at the convention intend, in one way or another, to do the same.
This is, to say the least, a departure from past practice. The delegates to the AIPAC conference are there to cheer on Israel and go out of their way to avoid choosing sides among the political parties or favoring one candidate over another. But not this year.
American Jews, looking around in stunned disbelief, are concluding that protocol be damned; enough is enough. The address of the most divisive figure in American political life at the largest gathering of the organized Jewish community is pushing Jews to engage in precisely the sort of partisan intervention that AIPAC delegates of all persuasions have always been careful to avoid.
The interesting question is why it has taken so long. It’s not that we Jews had any doubts about who Trump is. His bigotry, meanness, and zealotry were clear to us from the first day of his campaign. But we have been silent because his politics of division were so ugly and crude that they seemed almost farcical and — you will excuse me — even occasionally funny. It was as if he were a bad, slightly drunk comedian at a seedy nightclub. And we told ourselves that he was not a real threat. Any minute now, we said, the American people would catch on.
Americans love their country, and American Jews, a deeply patriotic bunch, love it more than most. Could a rich, race-baiting reality TV star be elected our President? We believed that it couldn’t possibly be. Soon enough, we assured ourselves, the fundamental decency of our fellow citizens would cast aside this quasi-entertainer and babbling buffoon and spit him out.
But it didn’t happen. Like so many others, American Jews misread the depth of the anger that propelled Trump’s rise. And not only were the American people slower to react than we expected, and seemingly indifferent to the hurt and hostility that he inflicted, but Trump was shrewder, cleverer, and better at the political game than we ever imagined.
Might protests at AIPAC hurt Israel’s cause? They might. Will an ongoing, organized Jewish effort to battle Trump’s bigotry adversely impact Jewish security and well-being in America? If Trump is elected President, it could. But no matter. American Jews are seeing things that they never expected to see in their country, and they are dismayed and frightened.
First, of course, are the attacks on Muslims, Mexicans, and immigrants of all ethnicities. To be sure, there are legitimate issues of policy to be debated here, but serious debate is not what Trump is giving us. And we Jews, who have borne the burden of oppression, must forever be about inclusion. And we know better than anyone that those forces that come after one of us in the morning are looking for the rest of us in the afternoon of the same day.
Second, there is the anti-Semitism. Yes, anti-Semitism. And we don’t care a bit that Trump has many Jewish friends and a daughter who has converted to Judaism. What we know is that in his appeals to nativism and populism, Trump has called forth an endless stream of vicious anti-Jewish attacks from right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis who have rushed to defend him from his critics.
The best people to ask about this are the Jewish Republicans and conservatives who have attacked Trump from the right. Bethany Mandel, a conservative essayist and Trump critic who writes for The Federalist, a conservative-libertarian journal, has been subjected to a continuous stream of online insults, ranging from “you deserve the oven” to “you slimy Jewess.” So too has John Podhoretz of Commentary magazine. Does Trump himself believe these things? Probably not. But he has encouraged them with his sly, barely-camouflaged appeals to thuggery and mob violence, and seems content, if not delighted, with the chaos he has unleashed.
Third, there is Israel. I am a Zionist dove, and I don’t expect Presidential candidates to express lock-step agreement with the policies of Israel’s government. But I do expect a coherent, pro-Israel policy, rooted in a consistent and knowledgeable approach to foreign affairs and in a broad commitment to American leadership in the world. Trump has demonstrated none of these things, and seems to know hardly anything at all about Israel, the challenges she faces, and how the Middle East actually works.
And there is more, much more. And this is why Jews will be speaking up at AIPAC, and in their synagogues and communities. This is why, if Trump is nominated, Jewish conservatives and Republicans will be voting for Hillary Clinton. This is why rabbis will denounce Trump in their sermons, pushing the law about non-partisan pulpits to its very limit. And this is why Jews will be hoping and praying, for the sake of everything that we hold dear, that anyone other than Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States.
Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie served as president of the Union for Reform Judaism from 1996 to 2012. He is now a writer, lecturer and teacher in Westfield, New Jersey.
what a bunch of cheesy, hogwash, bull chit platitudes.
This article is vitally important …read it carefully ( Strong drink,seditive ,or hankerchef in hand) and you will see all the subjective arrogance ,pleading ,and sanctified formula.
Within this panicky screed we see their fear of losing control .The frustration of not manipulating events ,and not having one ot their annoited puppets wnning .
One can see the frustration,that they thought ” the American people would wake up “.
IE ,listen to the Jews lies ,slanders ,and distortions .
They even liken Trump to a ” sleezy night club comedian ” certain!y a profession the Jews founded ,and indeed dominate !
The Jews demand ,” Separation of Church and State ,and Happy Holidays over Merry Christmas ,yet Synagogue and state is fine !
They the ” light upon the nations ,” and their trained monkeys among the Judeo Christains surely agree ,while the Jews plot the former destruction after they are used up .
It’s obvious the Jews are plotting to ambush Trump at AIPAC. No obsequious promises or backtracking will carry the Donald through this unscathed .
He better stand tall in defiance after the usual salutations are given .
His cars are out of the bag ,and smart felines no their is no going back .
Trump has come this far without the Jews ,and he can go the distance without them ….nor will they ever get on board his train .
Trump is making the political system the Jews created …the Left /Right controlled Matrix obsolete and they know it…they have not been this high and dry since Germany ,January ,3O,1933 …delicious isn’t it .
WHAT THE FRUITCAKE IS A “ZIONIST DOVE”?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess you all caught the Holyco$t reference too? Could not be missed. Subtle, NOT. “They’re coming to take you away, haha.”
Dante your breakdown is perfect. They are afraid of losing their elevated status in the US of A.
AND THIS is why you who want change have to get out and REGISTER to vote. Your system is different from ours but do it. Jews vote as they are told to vote to gain power. Those rabbis will tell them what to do…
So you gentile voters… get out there and register. Support without a vote means nothing.
Hmmm
A call for American Jews to reject the notion that America and Americans should vote for a man that would actually put America and Americans before Israel? Now why is it exactly that us gentiles should do something stupid like that? Given that Israel has attacked America and killed Americans and continues to spy on America, illegally attempts to interfere in our elections and influence both foreign and domestic politics to the detriment of America and Americans, such a call is tantamount to treason.
I pray the Donald stays strong and fully realizes, as stated above, that he did indeed get there without the yidds/jews, and that we, the Gentiles, love him in part, for it. Were he to cow to these yidds, many of us would recoil and become disillusioned. I remember a similar situation – several actually – where this happened. One was when Marlon Brando spoke some truth about jews, their control of Hollywood and how they can and do lampoon all races, but allow nothing on film negative toward jews. He spoke the truth, bravely but then had a meeting with some yidds, whereby after, Brando groveled and begged for their forgiveness at his lying transgression. It was sad, to witnesss. But I expect more from the Donald – only time will tell. He knows how to handle them, but will he sustain their hornet swarm?
What the American people are “catching on to” is the long-standing perfidy of the Jews against our Christian civilization.
“And we Jews, who have borne the burden of oppression, must forever be about inclusion.”….. How’s that whole Palestine thing going oh ye of great inclusion? How are those Syrian refugees fairing in Israel? you don’t have any? oh… never mind. It seems inclusion only includes non-Jewish groups/nations. It seems inclusion is the op word to get Jews infested into other groups/nations.
“We American Jews are, at last, waking from our stunned disbelief,” that the Americans would begin slipping out of our mind-control matrix and begin to challenge our illegitimate power and control over every aspect of their country.
“Any minute now, we said, the American people would catch on.” They have caught on, but not in the way that the Jews expected. What’s next, the 9/11 Truth channel with Professor Kevin Barrett, or the Real History channel with your host Ernst Zundel? Someday soon, folks…
I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT: Trump begins to speak in the middle of that den of seditionist, anti-Semitic racist thieves, swindlers, and murderers – “Now that we have you, the leadership of international Jewry and your goyim bootlicking politicians, all gathered in one place…,” and as the clicking of the mag-locks on all the doors to the convention hall are heard, five hundred loyal American military men with fully loaded automatic weapons file onto the stage and into the audience, and without a word, begin blasting the f**k out of everyone at the AIPAC meeting, mowing the lawn, so to speak, as they say in Israhell. Over the loudspeakers, above the roar of military weaponry, comes the beat and reworked lyrics of a famous hip-hop song:
“I’m just a Gentile filled with wrath,
Here and now,
there’s gonna be a bloodbath,
of Jews
dyin in D.C.,”
and on and on until, in biblical fashion, there is not one left breathing, and then the alarm clock went off. Wow, that was some dream, and I didn’t even get to hear the rest of the Donald’s speech.
At this year’s AIPAC Treason Fest, the talons of the Khazars will be fully revealed and exposed to the American people as never before, and as I have said many times, the Jews are not a very intelligent people and, aside from their crimes against humanity, their snotty arrogance will be their ultimate downfall. The rabbinical writer of this Haaretz article inquires: “Might protests at AIPAC hurt Israel’s cause?…Will an ongoing, organized Jewish effort to battle Trump’s bigotry adversely impact Jewish security and well-being in America?” Uhh, yeah rabbi, that would be an AFFIRMATIVE to both questions.
He incredulously notes that, American Jews are “a deeply patriotic bunch,…” This sentence brings to mind the release of Jonathan Pollard and all the other little treasonous weasels inside the Pentagon and various branches of the service who helped out on the 9/11 attacks and many others.
“American Jews are seeing things that they never expected to see in their country, and they are dismayed and frightened.” Before forced deportations begin, perhaps it’s time to move to another planet.
“And we Jews, who have borne the burden of oppression, must forever be about inclusion.” The writer should have it rewritten as “We Jews have been behind the greatest mass murders of the 20th and 21st centuries, and when it comes to inclusion in Palestine, we are all about GENOCIDE and OPPRESSION.” Jew, thy name is HYPOCRITE!
The writer of this Haaretz article, a Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, states “I am a Zionist dove,” by which he means, “I believe in stealing a people’s land and oppressing them non-violently through deception so that our well designed and crafted PR image won’t be tarnished.”
With regards to the writer mentioning “thuggery and mob violence,” I refer the gentle reader to two George Soros organizations – MoveOn.org and Black Lies Matter – as well as all the Neo-Cohens using their publications to openly call for the assassination of Mr. Trump. And again, it is pathetically sad to see, for the umpteenth time, Jews exploiting uneducated black folks for their own purposes. These Black Lies Matter “activists” are completely unaware that it was the Jew slavery industry, run by Cecil Rhodes, that brought them out of Africa, selling and enslaving them in the New World while they built their mansions in Newport Beach, RI with profits gained through the selling of African slaves. He who does not understand Real History is destined to be a total sucker at the hands of the Jew. Unfortunately, for these Khazarian con-artists, there are two prominent black leaders that know this history – the Rev. Louis Farrakhan and the son of murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers – and they are both endorsing Trump!
Excellent comment Bill B
Very educational
Do you a blog?
Are you on twitter?
@AfricanTruther
America is for Americans. not for jews. get over it.
“Americans love their country, and American Jews, a deeply patriotic bunch, love it more than most.”
Deceit, arrogance and humor all rolled-up into one neat statement!
Yeah, the jews knew those twin towers were just an eye sore, so they did their patriotic duty on got rid of them.
I dont know why you said that Cecil Rhodes was involved with the trans Atlantic slave trade when in reality he was involved in mining diamonds and gold in South Africa and died at the beginning of the 20th century. Also he was not jewish although many of his financial backers definitely were.
Hahaha feeling the heat, Shekelsteins?
If they are going to denounce Trump in their synagogues then they should be reported to the IRS and lose their tax exempt status!
American Jews have a lot of self-concern about the United States and concern for Israel is not growing but fading. It’s embarrassing how Israel tries to exert itself over the United States and it’s obvious and transparent for peers to see. With the younger generations race and religion matter less and less and the daily mindset of the typical American is continually becoming more philosophical and accepting. Regardless of whether they are Muslim, Jew, Christian, or Atheist I think that the growing trend is toward acceptance and appreciation of diversity and understanding how the different puzzle pieces fit together to make something far greater as a whole. I think American Jews are understanding that the root of Jewish privileged is not violent, ruthless, or monstrous but has to do with a reputation of guidance, intelligence, and a capacity to understand the world with a more complete view. The beauty of Judaism isn’t because it is tough but because it is gentle. Like Tai Chi. It’s about genuinely progressing all of humanity. It’s clear Israel is very self centered and bullyish in terms of how it treats its friends and shouldn’t expect American Jews (as intelligent sentient beings with their own set of immediate life issues) to blindly follow The State of States if it’s choosing to make life difficult.
“Wizard’s First Rule: people are stupid.””People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It’s easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. ……Trump ……. is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do.”
It’s encouraging to see that more and more people are recognizing Judaism as a criminal organization and not a religion.
Jews are jews. They are not American. Obviously, we all know this.