By Carol Greenwald, AMERICAN THINKER
On December 2, a letter signed by one thousand rabbis was delivered to Congress calling on “our elected officials to uphold the great legacy of a country that welcomes refugees.” The leadership of virtually all of the Jewish defense organizations, from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to the American Jewish Committee (AJC), have echoed these demands to admit thousands of Syrian refugees.
These Jewish leaders have betrayed the Jews of America. They prefer burnishing their liberal credentials and parroting the views of a Democratic president to their duty to sound the alarm about the harm to American Jews from bringing to the US Syrian Muslims, who have been raised in a culture of virulent anti-Semitism. Seeing the destruction of Jewish life in Europe with the influx of Muslim immigrants from Arab countries, it would not take much imagination for these so-called Jewish leaders to see what mass immigration of Arab Muslims will mean for the safety of Americans and for American Jews in particular.
According to data published by the Department of Homeland Security, the US has issued 680,000 green cards to migrants from Muslim-majority countries in the five years from FY2009 to FY2013. Migration from the Middle East is one of the fastest growing categories of migrants, with 1.5 million Muslims having entered since 9/11. This does not include the hundreds of thousands of Muslim students given student visas since 9/11. This influx may well explain the anti-Semitism now rife on many US campuses. The President’s refugee plan would substantially boost the annual number of migrants admitted from this region. These in turn would be able to petition for their relatives to migrate to the US in the future.
Rather than raising concerns that an Arab poll of Syrian refugees found that one in eight were supportive of ISIS, these false representatives of the Jewish people opine that it is their role to raise the Jews ” beyond their narrow partisan views.” Since when is concern for one’s life ” a narrow partisan view”?
The Jewish Establishment has been guilt-tripped by a dishonest HIAS and J Street power play that has grotesquely conflated the Syrian Muslims with the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. HIAS tugs on the heartstrings of the largely immigrant Jewish community, pretending that it is the same organization supported by Jewish philanthropy which helped Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. But it is not. HIAS is now virtually an arm of the US government, which as an NGO government contractor stands to reap $100 million in its budget if it can get the US to admit the 100,000 Syrian Muslims that it is petitioning the government to admit. Follow the money. As Daniel Greenfield wrote in Front Page Magazine, “HIAS is now just a factory for importing hundreds of thousands of anti-Semites to America.”
J Street has supported every initiative that weakens US support for Israel. But there is more than one way to skin a cat. Increasing the electorate with violently anti-Semitic Muslims, thus skewing some Congressional districts, is another way to accomplish its goals. It, too, is demanding that the US admit 100,000 Syrian Muslims. And it is fund-raising for HIAS. How interesting.
If either of these groups, or any of the breast-beating Jewish Establishment, cared one bit for the Syrians, they would be fighting for safe havens in Syria and no fly zones rather than making a show of their crocodile tears for an infinitesimal percent of the 4 million Syrian refugees they want to admit to the US. They would be petitioning for humanitarian aid to the Syrians in the camps in Muslim countries where they are now safely living rather than fighting for money for HIAS’s own coffers.
But like the President, they do not care about the Syrians. If the President had cared about the Syrian people, he would have enforced his famous red line when Assad was gassing and bombing his people. He would have established no fly zones and safe havens. He would have vastly increased US humanitarian aid to the millions of refugees now living in refugee camps in Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon so that there would not be this mass invasion of Europe. But Obama said that he wanted to fundamentally change America and this is just one more crisis he is not letting go to waste in his campaign to reshape the West while vindicating the oppressed peoples who were subject to its colonial, imperialist past.
It is Christians in Syria and Iraq who are subject to genocide, not Muslims. But very few Christians are included among the refugees because Obama allows the Islamic-dominated UN refugee system determine who will get into America. Have you heard any of the Jewish leaders raising this issue about the real victims of genocide? No, because they have fallen for the false charge that a religious test in anti-American when In fact it is one of the criteria in American law determining who is eligible for refugee status.
Obama knows that 80% of the 1.5 million Muslims who have come to the US legally since 9/11, vote Democratic. They are a reliable constituency. This is the same reason Obama and the Democratic Party have championed legalizing the status of illegal Hispanic migrants. This is a power play, not humanism.
The displaced persons camps in neighboring Arab countries give the lie to the comparison to German Jews fleeing Nazi Germany in the 1930’s. When the US barred their entry, the Jews had no place to go since the British, under Arab pressure, had closed Mandate Palestine in 1939 to Jewish immigration. Unlike the German Jews, there are several Arab nations, with cultures similar to theirs, bordering on their homeland, who have taken them in. The Syrian migration is not about running from persecution. They have safe havens available. It is about running to economic opportunity. The Syrian civil war is three years old. The mass flood of “refugees” started when Prime Minister Merkel said that Germany would take one million displaced Syrians. Then the so-called refugee invasion started.
The Jewish leadership should have recoiled from the comparison of fleeing German Jews with the Syrian Muslims swarming Europe. As Ian Tuttle notes in the National Review:
“There was no international conspiracy of German Jews in the 1930’s attempting to carry out daily attacks on civilians on several continents. No self-identifying Jews in the early 20th century were randomly massacring European citizens in magazine offices and concert halls, and there was no Jewish State establishing sovereignty over tens of thousands of square miles of territory and publicly slaughtering anyone who opposed its advance…A non-trivial minority of refugees who support a murderous, metastatic caliphate is a reason for serious concern. No 13% of Jews looked favorably upon the Nazi Party.”
If security is such a minor issue, why has the FBI director James Comey expressed concern about the difficulty of vetting the Syrian refugees? Why are our Jewish leaders ignoring ISIS’s instructions to terrorists to hide among the refugees, something that has already taken place with the Paris terrorists and may well have taken place in California through our visa program?
The FBI reports that there are one thousand ISIS related investigations going on right now in every US state, and growing at a rate that exceeds our monitoring resources. Why do we cringe at charges that we are afraid of “women and children” when there were women among the terrorists in Paris, California and Israel and the Boston bombers came here as children? Why do our Jewish leaders refuse to face the truth that we are at war with a group that wants to destroy the American way of life and would massacre Jews, like they do to Christians, if they could.
In the 1930’s and 1940’s, the Jewish Establishment was largely silent in the face of the Holocaust because they did not want to be seen as raising “their narrow partisan concerns” in the face of the war effort. They have compounded their error by once again refusing to stand up for the survival of the American Jewish community. The Jewish community has often compared America to the golden age in Spain and wondered if this golden medina would end too. If it does, we will have the Jewish Establishment leadership to thank.
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Your not the old, still heat in those coals.
@ honeybee:
Ahh…. 🙂 Thank you for reminding me. Those I still vaguely remember.
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
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7@ mrg3105:
Dearest mgr3105, yawl sore no how to “drop a cow pie” in the middle of a party !!!!!!!!!
Thankfully I have no idea about Latin’s gyrations you portend to know so well. We, solidly rooted Kohanim and Levi’im leave that for those embedded on the pagan and later Christian language.
The Levi Standard. Did I at any time say is it is the original? It is a fair representation as the true ones were lost. Meanwhile our line is entitled to fly those colors. The Barkan’s were not Levites, but Kohanim.
Whatever standards the King took to battle, they carried.
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
“to each his own” isn’t from Torah culture but is a calque of Latin suum cuique, short for suum cuique pulchrum est ?(“to each his own is beautiful”). So I suppose it would be a Roman Catholic ‘rabbi’ that goes with that. It is the acorn of Western cultural relativism, i.e. indiscriminate acceptance of everyone, including Syrian refugees that were for generations brought up to hate Israel and Jews.
“Others follow different traditions and that is fine as well.”, no it isn’t, because minhagim don’t count for much after the community moves or disappears.
So you have a minhag for this degel design?
It wasn’t white, black and red, but IRREGULARLY WOVEN with those three colours in equal measure of dyed wool. The Hoshen was embroidered in wool and gold wire, but wasn’t “a representation”; rather it included duplicate stones (in multiples of 12, i.e. 144 stones) so if one on the actual Hoshen was somehow to become unusable, a ready replacement was always available. This is why a kohen went before the Army on campaign and not a Levi, so the degel never left the Bet HaMikdash. Why 12 of each stone? Stones of required purity and composition were not easily found, sometimes taking decades; Jewish experise in precious stones started here.
@ Paddy:
Amen!
@ honeybee:
Good idea but we do not have hash brown ready mix here, for now. Shmalz. We love but wife says, no way. Too heavy on the arteries. I will make some anyway… hehehhehh.
I prefer it on potato puree. And on everything else…
Fresh bread, spread shmalz and salt a bit and WOW!
@ mrg3105:
🙂 To each his or her own Rabbi and concepts or interpretations. We are scions of the Barkan Kohanim from King Solomon’s Guard. Our family on mother, Barkan, side were allocated by the King the Gilboa region defense, in particular the Barkan Mountain passes.
Each senior son of a direct scion of that ancestral family is named Solomon.
On father’s side we are Levites, directly traceable to Levi himself. In our father family they and us of course fly the Levi Tribe Standard. I have it now in front of me. The Senior female scion in each generation must be called Leah. Our Daughter 1 name is Leah in honor of IMA Leah. Mother of Levi. We visit IMA LEAH as much as we can in Hebron, Me’arat Hamachpelah. To me and our children the greatest joy is to stay for a long time near the small Mausoleum there. We then visit Abraham Avinu and Sarah Imanu. Exiting their Ohel, we approach the location where it is reported to be the resting place of Adam and Eve. It is at the left hand side of the inner sanctum at a corner of it and NO ONE is allowed to walk near it.
From both Families is where from our traditions hail. Of course Hannukah is related to events that took place much later.
Others follow different traditions and that is fine as well.
The Levi Standard as far as it is known is; White-Black-Red and at its center a representation of the “Choshen”, including the Twelve Tribal Stones as it was worn by the Kohen HaGadol while at the Temple.
May all be Happy and well.
I wonder who babushka Said:
Given many of the ‘rabbis’ who signed the letter are female, it would be a fair assumption that most are either Reform, Liberal or Conservative.
The 2008 American Religious Identification Survey found that around 3.4 million (down from 4.3 million in 2003) American Jews call themselves religious – out of a general Jewish population of about 5.4 million. 73% of these are non-‘Orthodox’, which means that these 1,000 ‘rabbis’ represent 2,482,000 ‘Jews’, or an average ‘temple’ congregation of 2,482. When I was in USA before 2003, I looked into a few Reform ‘temples’ on Shabbat, and none had more than ~100 people, most having a lot less.
Numbers can be extremely deceptive; the ‘rabbis’ that signed are not worth even .5% of the demographic they purport to represent.
The American story
Paddy Said:
Actually, Hanukah was about a war!
honeybee Said:
I once asked a rabbi how it is that given the celebration is all about olive oil, but the Ashkenazi Jews eat latkes which are mostly made up of potatoes, brought to them via the Spanish conquest of South America (funded by property confiscated and ‘bought’ from exiled Sephardi Jews) and the accompnying extinguishment of many native cultures, logically (al pi halakha) the latke should be mostly (51%) made up of olive oil, which of course would be impossible to cook, never mind consume.
The rabbi ‘choked’ on that one.
And then I looked in his kitchen and saw he was using polyunsaturated vegetable oil; excess consumption of vegetable oils is especially damaging to the reproductive organs and the lungs–both of which are sites for huge increases in cancer in the US.
And his kids were lighting wax candles because they were too young to handle oil and wicks…what a rabbi!
SHmuel HaLevi 2 Said:
Its not a ‘festival’, because many these days think of concerts, plays, or films, or perhaps Octoberfest like stomach churners.
And its not ‘of the Lights’ (even uncapitalised) because the essence of the commemoration is the oil, not the fact that it burned longer than expected. Lighting the wicks was a technicality.
May all Jews and Christians have a little Peace. Happy Hanukah!
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Don’t grate, I use frozen hash browns. easy peasy. And they don’t turn brown. Also lots of smaltz, my Father loved them. I also provide a Menorah and candles for each child. Prevented combat and tears.
Whahahah… funny.
It was my job today to grate about three pounds of potatoes and onions. I hate the machine grater so I did it the old way using the kitchen grater…
The best to you all always.
Thank you kindly. We shall be celebrating as soon as we rope and tie a potato.
@ honeybee:
Todah Rabah… Thank you so much.
Happy Festival of the Lights dear friend. Happy Hanukah y’all
@ SHmuel HaLevi 2:
Happy Hanukah
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@ babushka:
Yes, this was my point in the Glick post. It is the self appointed “leaders” , for example, psychologist turned rabbi and editor of the sickening so called puke tikkun magazine, Michael Lerner, who have designed, composed and orchestrated what appears to be the sell out of Israel by The American Jewish Community. it is all smoke and mirrors and can be undone. It can be fixed and MUST be, Now, no delay. lerner was for a time the trusted advisor to Hilary. All of these people need to be fully exposed and humiliated. The sheep who obey commands from these traitors need to be re-educated, big time. I think many are questioning their loyalty to these quisling stuffed shirts of which j street exemplifies. There are a whole lot of them. The LA Jewish Journal is a another brainwashing tool. All AMERICAN JEWS WITH A functioning BRAIN SUPPORT THE POSITIONS OF MORTON KLEIN AND THE ZOA.
Islamo-rabies appears to be a genetic component of Muslim DNA, just waiting to be activated at the neighborhood mosque, an Islamic website or a published picture of Mohammad. It does not appear to take much to turn all those sweet, gentle, mom loving boys into rabid Jihadists.
American Jews will be destroyed by the Muslim deluge.
The Jews’ security in America like in post-war Europe, is coming to an end.
It won’t happen in my lifetime but the growth of Islam here will ensure the inevitable extinction of the American Jewish community.
America’s Jewish leadership has its head firmly stuck in the sand. Its embrace of Israel’s enemies will be its own undoing.
Its hard to muster sympathy for a people who have learned all the wrong lessons from the past.
Sixties radicals have sought to gain legitimacy in the clergy. America is infested with priests and ministers and rabbis who are atheistic left wing activists. Most of the rabbis I have met are ignorant of Judaism but thoroughly marinated in liberalism. The God they worship bears a strong resemblance to Karl Marx.
Flooding America with violent anti-Semites who will vote Democrat sounds like a winning proposition to the legion of Marxists who pose as rabbis. Liberalism uber alles, Judaism be damned.
The scions of the renegades, formerly Jewish mutants that prevented during the Holocaust the arrival to the US of desperate Jewish refuges hailing from Nazi held lands, naturally will go all out to welcome to the US the Islamonazis of today.