What Magid doesn’t realize, but can be easily inferred from the statements, is that it is not the Western imperialists ‘job to oppress the non-western countries because the leaders of these non-western countries can do a fine job of oppressing themselves.
And, it appears, that as a rabbi, he holds the very deeply religious belief that the Israeli occupation is to be blamed for everything, ignoring the fact (because it may oppose his theological outlook) that Israel was not occupying Gaza and hasn’t done so since 2005. That situation, is in fact, a good illustration of my statement in the previous paragraph.
And, of course, he also decries the destruction of schools, hospitals, and mosques, somehow overlooking how these structures came to be destroyed. Maybe he should read a newspaper every so often.
I think that if I were alive during the Enlightenment, when de jure and de facto control by the church of the developed world began to wane, I would have thought that antisemitism will end. When the role of religion went from total control to marginalization, how could the hatred of a people based (at least in part) on their religion not lose steam? I think that was Herzl’s shock at the Dreyfus Trial. Here there were Jews who viewed themselves as entirely secular, the world ostensibly had left religion behind, and they were the targets of an irrational hatred anyway.
When Judaism stopped being ostracized as a deviant religion, the argument turned to its ethnic origin. As we recall, from the Nuremberg Law, whether one is religious or even a convert, made no difference. The Enlightenment’s idea of universalism failed on many fronts.
Academia is full of Jewish and Israeli grifters who know that ‘scholarship’ that confirms the politics of the academic far-left cult will secure them positions and maybe even tenure. The number of such token Jews is higher in academia not because they’re ‘brave’ but because it’s personally profitable to sell out for the anti-Jewish racists of academia.
This man and other poor scholars like Ilan Pape are empty people, grifters in service of genocide loving Marxists.
As far as Jonathan Greeblatt and the ADL, there were hate crimes in the greater NY area from
2019 and it got worse during covid and they were ignored by the ADL because the perpetrators were people of color; the ADL was only interested in white neo-Nazis.
The shooting in Jersey City in 2019 involved a manifesto- it was clearly motivated by Jew hate.
The ADL allied itself more closely with the Democratic party than fellow Jews. So that is a ridiculous criticism. They claimed that left wing antisemitism didn’t exist- despite people dead from it (Jersey City, Monsey)- until October 7 when they couldn’t pretend anymore.
What Magid doesn’t realize, but can be easily inferred from the statements, is that it is not the Western imperialists ‘job to oppress the non-western countries because the leaders of these non-western countries can do a fine job of oppressing themselves.
And, it appears, that as a rabbi, he holds the very deeply religious belief that the Israeli occupation is to be blamed for everything, ignoring the fact (because it may oppose his theological outlook) that Israel was not occupying Gaza and hasn’t done so since 2005. That situation, is in fact, a good illustration of my statement in the previous paragraph.
And, of course, he also decries the destruction of schools, hospitals, and mosques, somehow overlooking how these structures came to be destroyed. Maybe he should read a newspaper every so often.
I had to stop reading. Im sorry. It was too much.
I think that if I were alive during the Enlightenment, when de jure and de facto control by the church of the developed world began to wane, I would have thought that antisemitism will end. When the role of religion went from total control to marginalization, how could the hatred of a people based (at least in part) on their religion not lose steam? I think that was Herzl’s shock at the Dreyfus Trial. Here there were Jews who viewed themselves as entirely secular, the world ostensibly had left religion behind, and they were the targets of an irrational hatred anyway.
When Judaism stopped being ostracized as a deviant religion, the argument turned to its ethnic origin. As we recall, from the Nuremberg Law, whether one is religious or even a convert, made no difference. The Enlightenment’s idea of universalism failed on many fronts.
unfortunately, it is just one example. i see plenty of those and hear even more. i wonder if they really hold these views or cease the opportunity?
Harvard Divinity School-i heard it was the most left wing part of Harvard.
Academia is full of Jewish and Israeli grifters who know that ‘scholarship’ that confirms the politics of the academic far-left cult will secure them positions and maybe even tenure. The number of such token Jews is higher in academia not because they’re ‘brave’ but because it’s personally profitable to sell out for the anti-Jewish racists of academia.
This man and other poor scholars like Ilan Pape are empty people, grifters in service of genocide loving Marxists.
As far as Jonathan Greeblatt and the ADL, there were hate crimes in the greater NY area from
2019 and it got worse during covid and they were ignored by the ADL because the perpetrators were people of color; the ADL was only interested in white neo-Nazis.
The shooting in Jersey City in 2019 involved a manifesto- it was clearly motivated by Jew hate.
The ADL allied itself more closely with the Democratic party than fellow Jews. So that is a ridiculous criticism. They claimed that left wing antisemitism didn’t exist- despite people dead from it (Jersey City, Monsey)- until October 7 when they couldn’t pretend anymore.