Evidently, it
wasn’t enough that many Jewish activists and organizations, largely run by
religious Jews, falsely create a shared identify with the many primitive
peoples of the world (past and present) who have nothing in common with Jews.
And yet, in the interest of pandering to liberal multicultural hasbara types,
they’ve created nonsensical associations with people whose ideas are actively
contrary to our most sacred beliefs. My views
on this were expressed in previous articles.
The logical
extension of this illogical thought process led to other problems. After
exposing this disturbing trend of indigenous fixation, I was compelled to
revisit the issue to expose the “new peace movements” which many of these same people
are creating, based upon the foolish notion that our supposed shared indigenous
status with Arabs (as they would have it) can bring about peace. I addressed
this problem in yet another article,
reflecting on the sentiments of one particular “rightist” activist who saw fit
to express a theoretical empathy with the Arab’s “Nakba.”
And yet it
continues, because unrestrained foolishness and the absence of wisdom begets
wickedness. If there weren’t enough reasons to oppose indigenous rights
activists for Israel who eschew or de-emphasize our Divine claim to Eretz
Yisroel, in lieu of baseless, pseudo-scientific, irrelevant claims of
purported indigeneity, we now have one more. In yet another example of clichéd
foolishness running amuck, the Jewish indigenous rights organization LAVI is
now calling for Jews to support the racist “Black Lives Matter” movement.
All sane jaws
should drop. This would naturally preclude those liberal jaws who are more
bothered by an “All Lives Matter” hashtag than a growing black supremacist
organization whose acceptability among blacks and liberals is far more
mainstream that the KKK ever was. A violent organization with the blood of countless
innocent police officers (black and white) and ordinary citizens, staining
their hands. An organization headed by racist thugs who would spill blood
throughout America on the altar of their race war.
LAVI exposed
themselves with this latest “Black Lives Matter” gimmick to pander to young
Jewish liberals. With any luck, sensible Jews who may have supported them
previously will perhaps give pause and reconsider. Any organization that
supports such a group or calls for Jews to understand them is beyond the pale. The
BLM movement is the mirror image of the Ku Klux Klan, and the lives of the
thugs who join such a movement are as worthless as those who would join any group
which terrorizes another based upon color. The following post is from LAVI’s
Facebook page. My commentary follows each paragraph or two in order to
address every dangerous sentiment.
LAVI: The Jewish establishment's reaction
to The
Movement for Black Lives platform is embarrassing but not
surprising. It focuses on what the platform says about Israel rather than
addressing the policy ideas developed by a broad coalition of Black leaders to
attain justice for their people within the United States. The reactions coming
out of the Jewish establishment also come across as completely ignorant and
insensitive to the fact that there actually does exist a discriminatory system
in the US that disenfranchises people of color through formal institutions and
informal group practices (Jews have been both the victims of and beneficiaries
of white privilege).
The Judean Hammer: What Jewish establishment are they
referring to? The mainstream liberal Jewish establishment(s) which reflects the
views of too many American Jews is largely sympathetic in theory at least to
the actions of these thugs and other groups such as the New Black Panther
Movement. In this case, the people from LAVI are surely referring to another
Jewish Establishment. That is, any group that retains what many such activists
deem a white, colonized “ashkenazic” identity which rejects their multicultural
worldview. And this exposes what is the most perverse notion of LAVI’s doctrine.
Their oft repeated hostility towards anything deemed ashkenazic, which they see
as a rejection of Jewish identity. (Needless to belabor the point, since they
say as much in the following paragraphs.)
As far as discriminatory systems in America,
what are they talking about? What year is this, 1947, or even 1967? There is no
legal discrimination in the United States. If anything, the liberal system and
continued chaos of Obama’s America created a system of discrimination which
supports and encourages the violence of racist groups like Black Lives Matter, of
brutal cop-killers and those who would kill whites on the altar of black
supremacy.
LAVI: Jewish groups on the left also appear to
miss an important opportunity to find the appropriate place for our people
within the struggles of other oppressed groups. They prefer to participate as
privileged white Americans of the Mosaic persuasion rather than as another
minority group struggling to overcome injustices actually caused by the same
system currently oppressing Blacks (Jewish Voices for Peace going so far as to
refer to its own Ashkenazi leadership as "white supremacy inside of
JVP").
Most Jews in the US fail to appreciate the fact that
Jewish white-passing largely exists at the expense of the Jewish
ethnic/cultural distinctions that not so long ago identified us as
"non-white" (even in America). As a result of past traumas, the
betrayal of our own culture and the colonization of Jewish identity (the
relationship between the three should be obvious), Jews can often pass for
white but we must remain conscious of the price our people have paid and
continue to pay for this "privilege" (and another group not even
having the option of paying this price does not negate the damage that this
price has caused our people.
The Judean Hammer: More
race-baiting from LAVI. What proof do they have to generalize about the driving
efforts of liberal Jews? The words of an extreme left-wing self-hating Jewish
organization who perversely refer to their own misguided leadership as
exhibiting white supremacy?
LAVI: The illusion of Jewish "whiteness"
can only exist when one contextualizes Jewish identity in the US according to
the paradigm of another people's experiences and challenges (Jews can be
considered "white" within the context of the injustices many people
of color experience due to being "not white" but this has little to
do with our own understanding of our people's unique identity/history/challenges/collective
experience). And the fact that Jews have had to change our names, shrink our
noses, straighten our hair and betray our own culture and values in order to
achieve a "white privilege" defined by what others are denied is
telling enough. We should also be cautious not to define our people's situation
in America according to a temporary - and potentially fleeting - reality. In many
Diasporas over the centuries, periods where Jews enjoyed the illusions of
privilege and belonging were often followed up by harsh - and in some cases
catastrophic - wake-up calls.
The Judean Hammer: LAVI
sounds like a bad cliché of from the late 60’s. Their infantile generalizations
are laden with expressions parroting standard liberal notions of guilt. The
fact that many Jews may have tried to alter or conceal heritage, religion, or
identity, does not mean that we should create a new false identity to cater to
liberal multiculturalism. Jew haters will never support Jewish interests, and the attempt
to redefine Judaism to obtain support is reprehensible.
The Judean Hammer: We Jews should do what all self-respecting
people do, and what the great Rabbi Meir Kahane noted early on in his activist
career. We need to attend to our own house first. And to the extent that there
is room to support other just causes, it must always be within the framework of
supporting those causes the Torah would deem just.
As such, all decent Jews
should unequivocally condemn and oppose the ideology, actions, and the existence
of racist groups such as “Black Lives Matter”, as they would towards any group
such as the KKK. The ranks of Black Lives Matter all hate Jews (even liberal
ones!) and Israel just as their forebears did.
This was recently illustrated when members of the BLM movement came to
Israel to support the Arabs and show their Jew-hatred.
BLM’s cause is patently unjust,
and it is fueled by the poisonous motives of black race baiters and racist liberals
to perpetuate hatred and discontent. As Jews, we should support the police who
are ambushed and preyed upon by these racist terrorists in the streets of
America, and who remain the lone defense against a race war perpetuated against
the rest of America.
I hold no sympathy with
bigots of any color, and I am aware of American history. America is not the
racist country Obama would have it. Of course racism exists in the hearts of
too many diseased people, both black and white. But long before the creation of
BLM, statistics proved that black on white violence was far greater than that
of white on black, as it has been for some time in America. And let us not venture
into the issue of the epidemic of black on black violence, which remains the
real threat to blacks.
Black lives matter not at
all to the thugs who form the rank and file of Black Lives Matter. These racist
thugs care nothing at all for the fractured black family, and the rampant
violence within their community that eats up black society. If they did, they
would support such righteous people as Colonel Allen West, Sheriff Clarke, Ben
Carson, and the noted intellectual Thomas Sowell who exemplify the best of
mankind and are best equipped to help blacks in America with their leadership
and knowledge.
But they don’t. They choose the Sharpton’s, the Jackson’s, the Farrakhan’s
and the Obama’s. And they overwhelmingly support black hate groups like BLM.
And the fact that LAVI would align with such a vile organization which cares
nothing for people, be they black or white, is terrifying and tragic. And it
shrieks of ignorance.
LAVI has nothing of
importance to say to Jews or gentiles, not on matters of Judaism and not on
matter of race. They merely perpetuate another form of racism. Liberal
multicultural racism which celebrates everything ethnic and demonizes anything
with a “white hue” or appears to them as indicative of white colonialism. LAVI
often expresses sentiments which would earn them the term racism if the term,
black, Sephardic, Asian, etc. was replaced with white. Smart Jews would do well
to stay away from such organizations. From a Torah perspective, any man is
equal to another provided he retains his Divine image and uses his reason.
Evidently, the leadership of LAVI see more kinship with BLM bigots who
ambush and gun down cops in the streets, or their mainstream supporters who applaud the thugs who do.
It is a chillul Hashem to
allow such grotesque views masquerading as “Jewish” to go unopposed. America is
in the middle of a domestic war with Islam run amuck and black racist groups
terrorizing the populace. A proper Jewish perspective should be heard. The BLM movement
should be destroyed along with the thugs of the New Black Panther Movement, the
same for any group that terrorizes people based upon color, ethnicity, or
religion.
I am sick of LAVI’s
polarizing message trying to drive a wedge between Jews. The Torah has no
interest in race. Man is judged by his actions. I am sick of LAVI’s obsession
with color. Color is as relevant as one’s shoe size or their choice in movies. Black,
white, who gives a damn? Certainly not the rational, thinking Jew.
#divinerightsnotindigenousrights
#torahrising
#neitherblacknorwhitebutjewish
