Jewish organizations in the USA. I used to have great regard for them, and felt they performed important, even vital, service for Jewry in the USA and around the world.
I knew that virtually all of them were partisan Democrat organizations. But that made sense, since Democrats, far more than Republicans, were fully supportive of equality for Jews in the USA and for Israel.
But, over the years, a sad shift has taken place. Now the Democrat Party, far more than the Republican Party, is the place for anti-Jewish and anti-Israel sentiment. And the Jewish organizations I respected so much have remained virtually unchanged in their partisanship. They are still sucking up to Democrats and disdaining Republicans…
…which tells me that, like the NAACP has become for Black citizens, these groups are more self-congratulatory societies which enjoy their status among Democrats too much to risk damaging them by calling out the increasingly anti-Jewish, anti-Israel nature of the Democrat Party.
Let me show you a classic case in point.
Over the weekend, there was a full page ad in the New York Times, attacking Susan Rice for her indifference to the fate of Israel at the hands of Iran – a country where the government stooges chant “Death To America, Death To Israel”, and which is on record as intending to “wipe Israel off the map”.
The ad goes into detail to show that this is not the first time Rice has put politics over genocide, and cites her despicable record on Rwanda as well.
Here it is:
That ad is blunt, hard-hitting….and, sad to say, rings true.
But, immediately, virtually every Jewish organization in the USA fell over each other to denounce it. If you read this article in the Jerusalem Post, you will see that the denunciations include comments such as: “revolting”, “spurious and perverse”, “outrageous”, “entirely inappropriate”, “ad hominem”, “grotesque”, “abhorrent”, “a sinister slur” and that the ad “is completely inconsistent with the record of friendship and loyalty this public official has shown Israel and the Jewish people”.
Tell me: which of these denunciations in any way accuses the ad of being untrue – including the dodge that Susan Rice is “friendly and loyal to the Jewish people” but does not talk about her ongoing record of being anti-Israel (here is one example, here is another, and there’s plenty more where that came from).
The answer? NOT ONE of them.
If this ad were untrue in any way, wouldn’t you be seeing specific examples of what those untruths were?
The fact that all they can do is fecklessly barf out boiler-plate condemnations like “revolting”, “perverse”, “outrageous”, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada, – without providing even one example of anything that is untrue or even exaggerated about what the ad says – shows us what has become of these groups; what they have devolved into.
That is why I have so little regard for them anymore. Do you blame me?
