T. Belman. In choosing the title for this article, I ignored a major difference between the Jews of America to day and the Jews of the Pale of Settlement of 100 years ago.
100 years ago my fathers family lived in Poland and became ardent Communists. The situation of the Jews at the time, was, as it had been for hundreds of years, very bad. They were very poor and were greatly discriminated against. The siren call of Communism was so convincing that it was a lifeline they had been waiting for. It promised equality and unity and economic improvement.
Today, the Jews of America are rich and empowered and not discriminated against. They are driven by a distorted interpretation of Tikkun Olam.
What’s more they should know better. History has shown the false promise of Socialism/Communism and also the true nature of Islam.
It boggles my mind that they are embracing BLM.
By Melanie Phillips
Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of history, it is said, are doomed to repeat them.
In the 20th century, thousands of progressively minded people supported Soviet communism. Believing this ideology was the key to a better world, they refused to acknowledge the horrific abuses under Stalin when millions were brainwashed, murdered or starved to death.
Today’s progressives are behaving in similar fashion in response to another onslaught on civilized values, perpetrated in the name of an ideology with the same roots as Soviet communism. And just as in the last century, a dismaying number of its cheerleaders are Jews.
In both America and Britain, Jewish leaders and community groups overwhelmingly back Black Lives Matter. Since Jews have suffered from bigotry, discrimination and social alienation, they feel a duty to express solidarity with black people who they believe are experiencing similar difficulties.
But BLM, which took off after last May’s death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer, is not about promoting fairness and tolerance.
It is instead a nihilistic, violent, revolutionary movement committed to defunding the police as an incorrigibly racist institution, closing the prisons, destroying the family and overthrowing white capitalist society. What’s more, many of its leaders are white.
There’s no doubt that black people experience bigotry, and that there are racist police officers.
But a significant number of police officers are themselves black; most people who are killed in police custody are white; and most black people who are murdered are killed by other black people.
Moreover, BLM’s denunciation of white society as racist is itself a racist act since it categorizes an entire ethnic group as bad. Yet progressive people have bought into this malign agenda.
In the name of the BLM movement thuggish mobs, including supporters of the “anti-fascist” Antifa, have been subjecting the public to shocking levels of violence over the past three months in a number of cities. Democrat administrations in such places have let this happen with no pushback against the rioters, sometimes even stripping the embattled police of funds.
In Seattle, marchers demanded that white residents give up their homes and abused them as racists when they protested. In Minnesota, demonstrators shrieking obscenities assembled outside the home of the president of the Minneapolis police department union and vilified his neighbors.
The worst and most sustained violence has taken place in Portland, Ore. This week, one such mob there beat up a homeless, white, transgender person. A man who tried to help the victim was attacked in turn by the rioters, who dragged him out of his truck and beat him almost to death.
Yet this sustained thuggery has been all but totally ignored by the media. There’s been not one word of criticism from the Democratic Party. Instead, it wove support for BLM into its convention this week, with Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez declaring: “We will not miss this moment to ensure those values are reflected in everything we do.”
Worse still is the reaction of the broader intellectual establishment. In both America and Britain, universities, corporations, voluntary organizations, cultural bodies and other institutions have adopted the BLM agenda of bullying white people to “check their privilege.”
In Britain, supposedly impartial civil servants have openly endorsed BLM activism and have declared their intention to “tackle the whiteness” of senior officials. One of these used her department’s intranet to advise her colleagues: “Recognize your white privilege … call out racism in your family, friends and colleagues … (unintended or not).”
This sinister attempt to force people to denounce themselves and their loved ones is straight out of the Soviet communist playbook.
As Yoram Hazony writes in Quillette, anti-racism and other “woke” ideologies are all rooted in Marxism. They have adopted some of its key precepts: that all relationships are defined by power, that people are either oppressors or oppressed, and that through “false consciousness” oppressors may not even realize they are indeed oppressive. Hence the demand for white people to acknowledge their guilt.
(JNS) What makes Jewish support for BLM even more grotesque is its profound antisemitism, identifying “Jewish privilege” as the worst manifestation of “white privilege.”
Many Jews, particularly in Israel, are in fact brown or black-skinned. Whiteness, though, is deemed to be less about pigment than power. BLM ideology portrays Jews as all-powerful because they are seen to run the world that “oppresses” black people.
This poisonous prejudice against the Jews, which has achieved such traction that “#JewishPrivilege” briefly became a trending Twitter hashtag until one feisty Israeli led a fightback, emanates in particular from two highly influential groups in the black community.
The first is the Nation of Islam, the black power movement led by Louis Farrakhan who calls Jews “Satanic” and says: “When you want something in this world, the Jew holds the door.”
The second is the Black Hebrew Israelites, two of whose members attacked a kosher grocery store in New Jersey last December after murdering a police officer. This group spreads the preposterous canard that black people are the descendants of Moses and real children of Israel, while the Jews themselves are imposters who stole Judaism from them.
All this has been ignored by progressive Jews, who instead are eagerly volunteering their community for mass self-denunciation by blaming “white Jewish privilege”.
In Forward, for example, Julia Appel defines this by “the way we’re visually categorized in a split second by the power structures of our society.”
And so: “You can be Jewish and the child of Holocaust survivors and still benefit from white privilege—a privilege that accrues to you whether you’ve chosen it or not.”
To people like her, only white people can guilty of bad things. “Black and Jew are uttered in one breath by white supremacists,” she writes. True; but it doesn’t occur to her that “white and Jew” are uttered in the same breath by black power ideologues. Nor do people like Appel square their “white privilege” with the fact that the Jews are racially attacked more frequently than any other group.
Over the years, Jews have been prominent in helping tackle prejudice and discrimination against black people, so many of whom are decent, moderate and patriotic and whose view of the Jews is benign. Yet here are Jews eagerly offering up the community’s collective throat to the metaphorical knife of defamation, vilification and the potentially murderous lie that their very identity makes them oppressive, exploitative and altogether bad.
So deeply are they gripped by this mind-twisting dogma, they simply cannot grasp that what they tell themselves is a Jewish moral imperative is in fact the antithesis of Jewish ethics—and one, furthermore, which has the Jews themselves in its sights.
In 1942, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was set up by Stalin to raise funds for the war effort against Nazi Germany. Led by prominent Jewish writers, it raised millions of dollars in the United States and elsewhere. The Jews on that committee believed they were on the same side as Stalin against evil.
Accordingly, they assured their Western audiences that there was no antisemitism in the Soviet Union. But when they started to praise Jews who had stood up against Hitler, Stalin’s antisemitism was unleashed; and so his loyal apologists on the committee were rounded up, tortured, subjected to secret trials and executed.
Today’s Jews who have signed up to the BLM agenda are their ideological heirs. Whether they are truly in the grip of this latest Marxist-based delusion or are simply trying to protect themselves by going along with it, they are helping promote anti-white racism, anti-Jewish hatred and anti-West insurrection.
And tragically, they fail to see that this monster they are helping create is coming for them, too.
Melanie Phillips, a British journalist, broadcaster and author, writes a weekly column for JNS. Currently a columnist for “The Times of London,” her personal and political memoir, “Guardian Angel,” has been published by Bombardier, which also published her first novel, “The Legacy,” in 2018. Her work can be found at: www.melaniephillips.com.
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@ Michael S:
“Big Brother” Not necessarily.
But even if you are right,
1) would keep the Earth’s population at least alive, taken care of, and with some hope for the better future’;
2) would kill off 80% of the population after which the remaining 20% would most likely die out on their own thanks to the “expert planners” a la Bill Gates & Co.
@ Reader:
“…there were two ways of dealing with it:
1) to create a distribution system… OR
2) just concentrate the riches…”
Either scenario involves a Big Brother government manipulating wealth. Lending money at 0% interests allows banks to obtain money from the US Treasury essentially for free (Therefore, it never has to be paid back). The banks are then allowed to lend out money that they don’t actually have, at, say, ten times the amount they just got for free from the Treasury. This gives the bankers tremendous power to make us all debt slaves to them forever. Then, through taxing and regulation, the phony money created by the banks is distributed to whichever people or institutions the US government wishes to give them to.
This system incentivizes the unproductive accumulation of weath, and disincentivizes honest production. As for robots and AI, they cannot produce the true innovation needed to keep pace with the social and material decay. Even at super speed and massive data accumulation, AI ultimately is limited by the algorithms fed into it. If it is programmed to believe that killing babies is a profitable venture, for instance, it will “optimize” itself to the task of killing babies. The end result will be total calamity; the speed of computing power will only hasten the horror.
I don’t know if we will get to such a place. We’ll see, soon enough.
@ Bear Klein:
“BLM and the bending of the knee during sporting events by almost all the players reminds of the Nazi regime, where Germans in self preservation gave the Nazi salute.”
I agree, Bear. Another scary comparison with 1930s Germany is the willingness of politicians to cave to the bullies.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
I don’t think you are paranoid but I don’t think they were trying to stage something really deadly this time around, either (unless they will be using the vaccines to cause infertility).
It looks more like an exercise to see how far they could go with it, how the people would react to it, the logistics, gathering and analyzing the stats, etc. while accomplishing a few other useful tasks, such as concentrating wealth in fewer hands, bankrupting smaller competitors, preparing to make money on the vaccines, getting the masses used to new laws and restrictions “for their own safety” (I am starting to think that the muzzles and even social distancing will become permanent).
Many in the elite believe that great depressions are great for cleaning out “trash” from the economy so they view it as medicine (which they personally don’t have to take, of course), not as a catastrophe.
Bill Gates has been warning us about the “age of pandemics” for years now, so this one is just the first rehearsal.
Also, there is enough material around to make a real “virus” timeline (at least 20 years long, I think) which would look even more convincing than the Johns Hopkins event but I am too lazy to do it.
Maybe someone somewhere has already put it together and we’ll get to see it eventually.
@ Reader: Reader, I am inclined to believe you that there are wealthy and powerful “players” in this world who are scheming to cause deadly pandemics as a means of “population control.
While this will sound to most conventionally-thinking people to be a wild, implausible conspiracy theory, I am inclined to believe that Bill Gates and many of the hundreds other people who attended the “Event 201” event at Johns Hopkins University, where they “simulated” a coronavirus pandemic that would kill up to 65 million people,had something along these lines in mind.
The conference, which began on October 15, 2019 coincided eerily with some sort of event that occurred at the Wuhan lab where experiments on bats infected with earlier coronaviruses were going on. All roads to the lab or passing near it were closed to traffic for severl days. Within two and a half months of the conference, and probably earlier according to British genetic scientists, the first cases of the Wuhan novel coronavirus had begun to make people sick, and Chinese labs had detected the new virus. The Chinese director of their infectious disease authority–their equivalent of Dr. Fauci–had been one of the 15 “players” who had carried out the coronavirus pandemic “simulation” at Johns Hopkins, took personal charge of containing (or spreading?) the Wuhan outbreak less than three months later.
Sounds awfully conspiratorial to me. Or maybe I am just paranoid.
@ Michael S: All very true, Michael. Our “white” ancestors, whether in Europe or even here in what is now the United States, were never “privileged.”
…”Today the Jews of America are rich and empowered and not discriminated against”.
Ted, you must be jesting. Not regular US Jews today. US Jews today are the hunted and assassinated. Rich and empowered, NOT.
Sure, the Larry David and The Grand Assed Elaine Benes Drypuss types.
@ Ted Belman:
I got it, it doesn’t like when you edit online and add any special characters.
I just tried using them in my previous comment (my response to you) and they weren’t even displayed the first time.
@ Ted Belman:
This is really weird. The comment posted at 6:07pm Israel time, and I saw that it needed to be corrected.
The edits wouldn’t take after I clicked Save, and I tried saving them several times after which the comment disappeared.
I posted the edited comment at 6:18pm, and needed (again) to add an apostrophe to another word.
Again, it didn’t take and the comment disappeared.
The last one which I edited in Word and posted at 7:56m is still around.
Maybe it doesn’t like it when the online edits include apostrophes?
@ Reader:
I removed nothing. I looked in Moderation and Trash and there was no comment of yours.
As much as the backward countries’ attempts at building socialism were actually equivalent of trying to speed up the flow of history (jumping from feudalism directly into socialism by skipping over capitalism), the United States’ and other countries’ (except for China and a couple of small European countries who decided not to participate in the farce) coronavirus convulsions appear to be an effort to reverse the flow of history and create a kind of permanent centralized globally neo-feodalism based on high-tech digital technology and artificial intelligence.
Before this coronavirus thing, I, of course, realized that soon the technological development (automation and robotization) would leave most people without jobs (human labor would no longer be necessary to produce most goods and services), and that there were two ways of dealing with it:
1) to create a distribution system to feed, house, educate, and keep healthy the Earth’s population at a certain decent level while developing the society and the technology further, OR
2) just concentrate the riches in as few hands as possible and kill off the “useless eaters” (about 80% of the Earth’s population).
Stupid, naive me – I thought that the 2nd alternative wouldn’t even OCCUR to anybody as a doable plan because it was simply unbelievably inhumane and cruel.
Guess what? IT DID! And we are getting to watch it and maybe even to participate in it on the receiving end, being of a “certain age”, i.e., qualifying as the most expendable group of “useless eaters”.
Why has my comment been removed twice and I wasn’t even able to edit it when I wanted to?
@ Reader:
I tried editing this and it wouldn’t let me save the edits.
“appears to be an effort” should be “appear to make an effort”.
The whole thing just disappeared, I’ll try again.
BLM and the bending of the knee during sporting events by almost all the players reminds of the Nazi regime, where Germans in self preservation gave the Nazi salute.
It is actually scary.
@ Reader:
Hi, Reader. You rightly said,
“In fact, when you watch the Shadowgate video, in the end there is a very interesting and scary explanation for the “defund the police” slogan.
Those who finance it don’t care one bit about how deadly it’s going to get, this way it will engage the masses even more without harming the funders.”
The US (and therefore world) economy is in danger, at any moment, of a precipitous collapse. The US government, with the continual support of honest, hard-working tax-paying citizens, has in the past 50 years turned a viable, functioning economy into a stacked Monopoly game, complete with funny money. Early this year, it sailed into complete Fantasyland, when Secretary Mnuchin gleefully wrote more US Treasury checks in 14 days than he and his predecessors did in the previous 14 years. What we are left with, is a financial system wherein the Treasury and Federal Reserve essentially dictate the value of money, and who gets how much of it.
The defunding of law enforcement is probably the last nail in America’s economic coffin. Without law enforcement, tenants do not have to pay rent, buyers do not have to pay for their houses and businessmen do not have to honor their contracts. Society then becomes anarchy, with mobs going around driving people out of their homes and taking them over, as well as assaulting, raping and killing them at will. Productive economic activity then ceases, and society crumbles.
The economist Keynes jokingly said, “then we die!” What he left out, is mentioning how much pain is inflicted on everyone before death sets them free.
@ Ted Belman:
Ted,
If your mind is boggled by your fellow Jews embracing BLM, don’t feel too alone. Many Evangelical Christians and their children are embracing it as well — in families that never embraced Communism.
Whether everyone accepts this here or not, this is not a uniquely Jewish problem, nor is it actually a new problem: It is, I believe, the “final chapter” in God’s dealing with a rebellious, self-seeking, devil-deceived humanity. Regardless of their religion, people need to honestly assess their personal trust in God. The “Sauls” of this world will be trying to please their peers, and will fall as Saul fell. The “Davids” will enquire of Him in all things, and will rule with Him in life.
BLM, Antifa and the Democrats offer the gullible a life free of rules, where life exists for our personal pleasure. That is also the message of Socialism and Communism; but the ultimate effect is bitter and painful.
In choosing the title for this article, I ignored a major difference between the Jews of America to day and the Jews of the Pale of Settlement of 100 years ago.
100 years ago my fathers family lived in Poland and became ardent Communists. The situation of the Jews at the time, was, as it had been for hundreds of years, very bad. They were very poor and were greatly discriminated against. The siren call of Communism was so convincing that it was a lifeline they had been waiting for. It promised equality and unity and economic improvement.
Today, the Jews of America are rich and empowered and not discriminated against. They are driven by a distorted interpretation of Tikkun Olam.
What’s more they should know better. History has shown the false promise of Socialism/Communism and also the true nature of Islam.
It boggles my mind that they are embracing BLM.
@ Reader:
Forgot to remove “the” before “actors” when rewritning my comment.
Sorry for the typo.
@ Michael S:
I am not making light of BLM.
In fact, when you watch the Shadowgate video, in the end there is a very interesting and scary explanation for the “defund the police” slogan.
Those who finance it don’t care one bit about how deadly it’s going to get, this way it will engage the masses even more without harming the funders.
The fact is that it is a fake performance for someone’s benefit, whose the actors are “useful idiots”.
@ Reader:
“all this BLM stuff is divide-and-rule “circuses” financed by multi-billionaires to make the masses forget about “bread”.
The sad part is that the masses go for it with a vengeance.”
“January 7, 1998 St. Petersburg, FL: A trainer with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus suffered severe head wounds after a tiger grabbed him by the head and dragged him around the ring. He was hospitalized in critical condition and required extensive surgery.”
https://bigcatrescue.org/big-cat-attacks-before-2000/
“65-year-old man killed by escaped elephant in Germany… A man taking his regular morning stroll was killed by an elephant who had escaped from a nearby circus, German police have said.”
— https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/13/65-year-old-man-killed-by-escaped-elephant-in-germany
Circuses and BLM riots can both be deadly, even though both are intended for show, to make money. The riots, the COVID drama, the coming economic collapse and the possiblity of a Dem-manufactured election crisis in Nov. – Jan. These “circuses” might break the US, China and the world. The prospect of these is very real, more real than I imagined when I first saw them coming. That is why I pray, and try to spiritually prepare myself and others.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
In my opinion, all this BLM stuff is divide-and-rule “circuses” financed by multi-billionaires to make the masses forget about “bread”.
The sad part is that the masses go for it with a vengeance.
@ Michael S:
Another interesting fact – most of the land in Europe STILL belongs to the European aristocratic families (believe it or not)!
@ Michael S:
Also, people of all ”colors” think today only of rich Europe and rich America whereas both Europe and the US (I am talking about the general population, not about the number of millionaires or the aristocracy) became wealthy (reasonably) only in the 1950s.
The revolutions in Russia and Germany in the beginning of the 20th century took place because the revolutionary situation was there as in most of Europe – backward oppressive governments, bad living conditions, industrialization, high mortality rates (especially of women and children), widespread food insecurity (using the modern euphemism), and a very large percentage of young people in the population in spite of extremely high infant and child mortality rates.
The revolutions didn’t happen because of big, bad Communists.
If people weren’t treated like crap, there would be no need for
Communists.
@ stevenl:
Stalin’s purpose wasn’t starving Ukrainians as such. This is Ukrainian propaganda.
The famine due to several different causes including the botched “collectivization” of agriculture was widespread well beyond the borders of Ukraine.
I also posted here previously that Holodomor is death of masses of people by freezing whereas Golodomor is death of masses of people from starvation.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Adam,
You don’t have to invoke the memories of the Irish and Arkies, in talking about “poor whites”. Just go back to the very beginnings of the American colonies, to the preserved and re-enacted “Plimouth Plantation” in Plymouth, Mass. The buildings there would make most Ukrainian shtetls look like mansions; and remember that half their number died the first winter.
As for the Irish, there’s a joke that an Irishman who had returned from the US was talking to his friend, who said,
“Paddy, why did you come back from America? You used to write to say how rich you were there!”
Paddy replied, “If I worked HERE, as hard as I worked there, I’d be rich here too!!”
After several years of digging into my family tree, I learned that very few in Europe or Britain had even a middle class lifestyle. The allure of America, in fact, came largely from the fact that here one could actually OWN LAND! — which hardly anyone could do on the other side of the Atlantic. Most white Europeans were landless peasants.
This is all part of the history that the BLM, Antifa and the Democratic Party want to erase, because it exposes their bald-faced lies.
@ Adam Dalgliesh:
Ahhhh, it all ultimately boils down to “The Politics of Envy”. Quite disgusting.
Holomodor 1932-34, Stalin starved to death millions of Ukrainians and both the NYT and Weeeeping post kept SILENT!
A nyt journalist even got a Pulitzer price for his lies! Just like today both “papers” for Russia gate! Fake and full of lies. History repeat itself and the same charters win.
“White privilege” has been a slogan of the Left for years before the present corona-crisis was manufactured by China and WHO. But the present lockdown has emboldened its advocates to seize more power.
I am classified as “white,” I broil rather than tan in sunlight. But be damed if I’m privileged. I’ve been poor all my life.
Millions of “white” people in the U.S. are dirt poor. Tens of millions are members of the struggling working class. Well over a hundred million are members of the struggling middle class. Tens of millions are now unemployed because of the lockdown. What sort of privilege is that?
Most American whites are descended from generations of desperately poor peasants and/or laborers. People who worked twelve or fourteen hours a day and still went hungry for hundreds of years in Europe and for decades, even a century or more in some instances, in the United States as well. Just how privileged, for example, were the hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrant laborers who built our railroads in the nineteenth century, many of whom died of malaria and other diseases while being worked to the bone? Or the mainly white “Okies” and “Arkies,” dirt poor farmers who farms literally blew away in the nineteenth century, and who were forced to work as migrant labors on the plantations of California, beneficiaries of “white privilege?” Are their present-day descendant’s children of privilege? B____t.
The whites people who push the “white privilege” narrative live in wealthy suburban neighborhoods in large, comfortable houses, surrounded by acres of green fields or woodlawns. Their only problems are the deer who occasionally invade their prileged enclaves to eat their vegetable gardens.
The reason they push the “white privilege” rubbish is that it makes them feel that they are no more to blame for the wealth gap in the United States than the majority of Americans who are classified by the government as “white.” The “white privilege” narrative helps them to rationalize their own privileges. which are actually based on their wealth, not the color of their skins.
Farrakhan, Omar, Tlaib, BLM, BDS, etc. all pale in comparison to the worst enemy of the Jewish people and the State of Israel which are the too many idiot Jews mentioned in this article.