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The Reverse Blood Libel
Commentary ^ | Jan 2020 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 12/27/2019 11:21:23 AM PST by Rummyfan

The same day two monsters murdered three people in cold blood in a Jersey City kosher supermarket—next door to a yeshiva housing 50 defenseless children, which was apparently the original target—the Trump administration announced it would extend anti-discrimination protections under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to American Jews. The juxtaposition is important, because one was an unspeakable act of anti-Semitic evil and the other an act of philo-Semitic friendship. And yet listen to the executive director of the Central Conference of American Rabbis speaking about this: “I’ve heard people say this feels like the first step toward us wearing yellow stars.”

Yeah, so have I. But you know, every day I hear people say stupid, factitious, wrong-headed, historically demented, and slanderous things. I read Twitter. And, for my sins, I am compelled to read the New York Times, which is where I came across that quote from Rabbi Hara Person. In my view, part of the responsibility of leadership in a community is standing strong against those within who peddle vile, ignorant, weirdly self-justifying and self-infatuated argle-bargle. But of course, Rabbi Hara Person of the Central Conference of American Rabbis didn’t just “hear” people say these things. She clearly shares a belief in this awful, unspeakable, vile calumny—the slander that a president who agreed to a change in policy to aid American Jews on college campuses in their efforts to advocate for the Jewish state is an anti-Semite.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; bloodlibel; podhoretz

1 posted on 12/27/2019 11:21:24 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

Bttt.

5.56mm


2 posted on 12/27/2019 11:23:02 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: M Kehoe
Anyone who tried to make Jews wear a yellow star would soon find themselves surrounded by 1000 armed Americans.
 
3 posted on 12/27/2019 11:25:43 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: Rummyfan

Podhoretz is an absolutely brilliant man ( of the hard left, alas). So my reply to him is —- what have you done to get the Nazis/ Krapistani islamonazis off America’s campuses ( -and into prison, at the very least). There are colleges that hewish people contributes to immensely - and which are now unsafe for Jewish or Christian students or faculty. If you have a fix, please do it ( and write a few less of your super- erodite academic papers —- they’re irrelevant now that Jews are being forced off campuses — irrelevant. Start some well- equipped and trained JDL chapters? Or?


4 posted on 12/27/2019 11:31:07 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Rummyfan

So glad John Podhoretz is speaking about this.


5 posted on 12/27/2019 11:32:50 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Yep.

5.56mm


6 posted on 12/27/2019 11:58:36 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: Rummyfan

How about the Trump administration extend 1964 Civil Rights Act protection to Irish-Americans and Italian-Americans, while they’re at it?


7 posted on 12/27/2019 12:03:10 PM PST by Alberta's Child (In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.)
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To: Rummyfan

“And yet listen to the executive director of the Central Conference of American Rabbis speaking about this: “I’ve heard people say this feels like the first step toward us wearing yellow stars.””

The ABJECT HATRED of Trump in some people that it even EXCEEDS keeping their brethren alive.


8 posted on 12/27/2019 4:53:17 PM PST by BobL (I drive a pickup truck to work because it makes me feel like a man.)
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The title ‘Rabbi’ does NOT automatically impart the attribute of ‘wisdom’

Consider this one to be towards the BOTTOM of the Bell Curve

Pandering to Leftists/Collectivists has NOT paid well historically for Jews.

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9 posted on 12/27/2019 5:49:15 PM PST by elbook
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