As many regular readers of this blog will have by now realised, I’m a Jew with centre right civic nationalist political views. You may also be aware, if you’ve read my articles on the Jewish Left in the UK, and in particular the foolishness of ‘interfaith’ work with Muslims and support for the ‘refugees welcome’ idiocy, that I’m not a fan of how they cloak their (often far) Leftism in a religious or quasi religious garb. The Jewish Left are not a group that are massive in numbers but they are adept at giving a veneer of spirituality to what are often extremely poorly supported but extremely hateful left wing causes.

Part of my motivation for despising the Jewish Left is because I believe that they are theologically wrong. Jewish Leftists selectively take some statements from the Jewish Torah, the five books of Moses, such as those that call for ethical behaviour, for justice and support for the poor, and create a synthesis between Marxism and the Laws of Moses which although may give the outward appearance of being Jewish, is much more Marx than Moses. Ben Shaprio was correct when he once said that the Torah is ‘not a Left wing document.’ The Torah is not a document where you will find explicit approvals for gay marriage, abortion or stealing your neighbours stuff in order to ‘redistribute’ it. Those who try to impose not just a modernist but a doctrinally Left wing interpretation are basically trying to hammer the square peg of leftism into the round hold of Torah.

The other reason, apart from the theological one, why I’m opposed to the Jewish Left is that I know that they are not representative of a Jewish community that has a significant diversity of opinion. The actions of the small but loud Jewish Left really do give the wider Jewish community a bad name whether it be a Rabbi sharing a platform with a known Islamic extremist or as we are seeing in the aftermath of the Pittsburgh massacre, groups like If Not Now exploiting the dead for their own warped political ends.

I’d like to point readers into the direction of a brilliant piece on Front Page Magazine by Daniel Greenfield about how If Not Now have muscled into the remembrance for the dead of Pittsburgh and how disgracefully the members of this group have behaved.

Mr Greenfield said:

As President Trump arrived in Squirrel Hill to pay his respects to the 11 Jews brutally murdered in the Tree of Life synagogue, If Not Now, a leftist anti-Israel hate group notorious for targeting Jewish charities, unleashed an ugly hatefest that defiled the solemnity of the day.

Keffiyahs, a symbol of Muslim anti-Semitic violence, SEIU shirts and multicolored wigs were visible in the mob. A handful of protesters misused ‘shofars’, a religious ritual item sounded on the holiest Jewish days of the year, and not meant to be desecrated in street protests. Despite attempts to appropriate Jewishness, there was nothing Jewish about the ugly hatred and exploitation of murdered Jews.

Even though three police officers had risked their lives and were wounded trying to stop the gunman, the If Not Now flyer for the event condemned the “police state” and touted the black supremacist hate group, Black Lives Matter, alongside Free Palestine. An If Not Now speaker bizarrely bleated, “More cops in shuls will not make us safer. More cops in schools will not make us safer.” 

Where were If Not Now members while the officers, Daniel Mead, Michael Smidga, Anthony Burke and Timothy Matson, were being shot at in the Tree of Life synagogue? Blogging about intersectionality? Tweeting anti-Israel memes? Plotting their next hate rally targeting police officers and Israeli soldiers?

When the shooting was over and it was safe, they convened a hateful rally to attack Jews, Israel, Trump and the very police officers who had saved lives and stopped the rampage of a murderous gunman.

Read the rest of this excellent piece via the link below

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/271824/anti-semitic-leftist-hatefest-greets-trump-daniel-greenfield

Like Mr Greenfield, I also despise the actions of Jewish Left that seems to have abandoned not only common sense or thoughtfulness, but also who seem to have abandoned any pretence that they are decent people with any sense of decorum. I would not dream of disrupting the memorials for anybody killed in a horrific attack such as that which occurred in Pittsburgh, but it seems that for the Jewish Left or at least the very far reaches of it such as If Not Now, there is no action too far beyond the pale for them.

Neither the crass activists of If Not Now nor the misguided Rabbonim who share platforms with Islamic extremists represent myself or any other grounded and decent Jew who just wants to know that G-d exists and to live in peace and do good works. It is right that Israeli born writers such as Mr Greenfield along with those members of the Jewish community who are like me appalled by the actions of the Jewish Left, speak up against groups like If Not Now. If Not Now and other similar groups do not speak for the Jewish community and only speak for their own small hateful groups and I find it disgraceful when mainstream media treats these groups as if they have more support than they have in reality.