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| Abbie Hoffman |
This feeling is greatly exacerbated by the fact that I come from that very movement.
The children and grandchildren of communist and socialist Jewish Hellraisers - willing to face billy-clubs in the streets of New York throughout the first two-thirds of the twentieth-century - are absolutely terrified that patriarchal, Islamic Supremacists will call them bad names on their laptops.
It's pathetic.
And they are also terrified of - and therefore deferential toward - Black Lives Matter, which is basically the current iteration of the Panthers.
The truth is that the diaspora Jewish Left is "chickenshit"... as Obama people might put it.
From the soft luxury of the American upper-middle-class they spit contempt at Jews who are tired of kissing anti-Zionist ass.
The Jewish left is filled with privileged cowards wondering what the advance of progressive-left anti-Zionism means to their Social Network.
If you want to see a true split within the diaspora Jewish community, keep insisting that Jews bow our heads before our enemies.
some of it definitely guilt, whereas yea 50+ years ago, we had social status like that of other "marginalized" people, neighborhoods were restricted, we were hated in the South, today such things don't apply. Even tho restriction is gone,the lowness on society's popularity totem poll has not changed much for the blacks, Hispanics. It makes liberal Jews feel virtuous to imagine we're still among them, not that I condone racism, but at a certain point, no more tikkun olam. How about Tikkun Ourselves First!
ReplyDeleteOther marginalized minority groups don't like us very much.
DeleteI think we obsess about terms. What does it matter what we call them; Jews, liberals or what not?
ReplyDeleteWelcome to Berkeley: Home of the anti-free speech movement.
ReplyDeleteAncient Roman historians connected Jews with the Land of Israel:
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https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/02/guest-post-josephus-vs-muslim-liars.html
Why Israel’s 1967 Borders are Undefendable:
https://shilohmusings.blogspot.com/2017/03/guest-post-why-1967-borders-are-suicide.html
Midrash Tanchuma, Parshat Shmini, chapter 6:
He who only eats kosher foods fulfills the [Biblical] commandment to be holy.
Midrash Tanchuma, Parshat Shmini, chapter 7:
Eating kosher foods causes the Jewish people to become spiritually elevated.
Abbie Hoffman left this world fat, depressed and suicidal.
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