LIBERALS AND THEIR NAUSEATING MISUSE OF JEWISH VALUES - DECEMBER 24, 2015

They can say what they like, but please don't drag Judaism into it.

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Published: Thursday, December 24, 2015 6:31 AM

Jack Engelhard

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Alan Colmes comes to mind whenever I think of American Liberals who happen to be Jewish, or were raised Jewish until they converted to Liberalism.


Liberalism is also a religion of peace and Colmes brings the message every day to TV, Fox News, and radio, the Don Imus Show.


He is the House Liberal. When you need the Leftist boilerplate point of view, here’s Juan Williams or Alan Colmes, but Colmes serves best when it comes to Jews or Israel or Islam because he’s Jewish, so it hurts less or hurts more, depending on how mousy you can take a Liberal.


According to the arrangement, which The New York Times uses all the time, a Jewish Liberal doubles the score on, say, Israel bashing.


That is a big win when the news media can find somebody to blast the Jews but pity the migrants and his name is Cohen.


On the question of the Syrian migrants, how many we should take in, not counting the thousands we’ve already taken in – I hear a figure of 100,000 since 2013 – Colmes and so many other Liberals who were once Jewish, here they come to teach us Jewish Values.


One day to the next here’s another convert to Liberalism to announce his Jewishness in support of Islam, which already has more than one billion supporters.


The pitch runs like this: “I was raised Jewish. My parents taught me to respect all faiths. That’s why I support bringing in as many migrants as possible.”


Your parents taught you this? Did they teach you that lovely as these people may be, more than 70 percent of them admit to disliking you, even you the Jewish Liberal?


Further: “My Jewish faith taught me to always come to the aid of people in distress.”

Funny, but I hear nothing like this when Israelis are in distress. Not a peep when Jews keep getting stabbed, shot and run over by Arabs.



They do not hesitate to proclaim, “Shared Values.” Such as? You mean that tossing gays off tall buildings, this is okay? You share this?
This very day two Israelis died, one from stabbing wounds suffered from the hands of Palestinian Arab terrorists and the other from a stray shot of a policewoman trying to stop the rampage. Hello, Alan? Mark? Anybody?


Suddenly, for Muslims, these Liberals have found religion. Once lost, now found.


They had lost any trace of Jewishness until they found a suitable cause and their own people are never suitable. Immediately after the compulsory suburban bar mitzvah they dropped the faith for being so inconvenient until, in a flash, in a moment of dubious clarity, they discovered something they can really get behind.


For the sake of the refugees, they shout to the bleachers, “I am Jewish and this is what I believe.”


They do not hesitate to proclaim, “Shared Values.” Such as? You mean that tossing gays off tall buildings, this is okay? You share this? This value you share?


It’s okay to beat your wife if she misbehaves? Honor killings – this too is acceptable?


Thanks for letting us know how you really feel. But please do not drag my religion into this.


Please stop using your freshly discovered Jewishness to make points that were never Jewish. This is an insult. This is abuse. This is nauseating.


You can tell Trudeau to knock it off as well, the prime minister whose Christmas message was about Canada’s shared values with Islam.


So you don’t have to be American or Jewish to be a useful idiot. That’s a relief.

NY TIMES WELCOMES ANOTHER ISRAELI USEFUL IDIOT - AUGUST 4, 2015

Well that didn’t take long.

Some 24 hours after two criminal attacks in Israel were blamed on “religious Israelis,” TheNew York Times found its man.

The paper, which clobbers Israel every Monday and Thursday even when nothing is happening, found its useful idiot immediately after something did happen – the anti-Gay stabbing in Jerusalem followed by a case of arson, both crimes blamed on “Settlers.”

A Gay activist died in the first attack. A Palestinian child died in the second attack (though still unproven who actually did this).

In a previous column we already spoke about how rare this is – Jews acting so un-Jewish.

We can count on one hand how often Israelis turn to such unspeakable violence. Literally, it’s one in a million.

The entire nation was nauseated and repelled by the two acts (allegedly) committed by their countrymen – but not loudly enough.

That was the crux of the op-ed that ran in today’s Times, headlined “Do Israelis Still Care About Justice?”  

Over the past 25 years, two Arab children were murdered by Israeli “terrorists.” The Jewish Times documents 177 Jewish children murdered by Arab terrorists over that period.
The byline was credited to Israeli writer Etgar Keret. The column was translated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston. So obviously leftist Israelis cannot keep their complaints within the family using Hebrew. They feel compelled to let the entire world share their grievance. The New York Times is always happy to oblige the English.

Keret’s beef is that not enough Israelis turned out to protest the two crimes. He counted heads.

Less than a million showed up at Rabin Square to denounce Jews and praise Arabs.

Never mind that every Israeli is entitled to his or her own way of commiserating, and that Jews seldom do flash mobs, for Keret, this was proof that Israel’s values are slipping beyond repair. As for mourning the wronged Arab child, the Jewish Nation grieved throughout the land and without exception.

On the other hand?

Over the past 25 years, two Arab children were murdered by Israeli “terrorists.” The Jewish Times documents 177 Jewish children murdered by Arab terrorists over that period. Where was Keret and the rest of Israel’s literary community when these innocents were slaughtered?

Did Keret count heads at Rabin Square or at Arafat Square in Ramallah of the million Palestinians who showed up to denounce the 177 killings?

If that many showed up, likely it was to praise the killings and to ask for more.

Where was The New York Times when it had 177 chances to illustrate an even hand? Not once did the paper run an op-ed to console a heartbroken Jewish nation. No voice of comfort spoke up on its pages, neither from Arab or Jew – though there are plenty of Jewish writers willing and up to the task.

But The New York Times has a specific theme that it demands of its op-ed contrubutors, styled as – “How Israel Failed Me.”

Keret did his part. Like so many other Jewish writers, Israeli or American, Woody Allen included, our literary elites trip over themselves to sell out their own people. “How Israel Failed Me” is a handy device to get published in the world’s most respected (fanatically leftist Israel-hating) newspaper.

Any op-ed favorable to Israel will not, absolutely not get published. I know this from companians and from personal experience.

Read this for more personal experience about how news and opinion are cooked.

I half-joked that since every Israel-bashing op-ed sounded so much alike, never mind the byline, they were all, I insisted, written by Tom Friedman.

I’m wrong. They’re written by people who do not know, or perhaps they do know, how much damage they do to their own people, their own country.

And that’s no joke.

New York-based Novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for Arutz Sheva. Website: www.jackengelhard.com