I tend to believe that there are two main threats to diaspora Jews who live in Western nations such as the United States and the United Kingdom. One of these main threats and the most violent one, is extremist Islam which has a very strong current of Jew hatred that runs through it like the name of a seaside town in a stick of rock. The other major threat is the Jewish Left itself. What about the ‘far right’ you may ask? Well as a politically conservative non Orthodox Jew I don’t find them much of a threat. Yes they are annoying online with their ‘happy merchant’ memes and their Holocaust ‘revisionism’, but they are often little more than basement dwelling loners with little or no political power. They are to me like a Housefly would be to an Elephant, of little immediate importance. Of far more concern to me are the Jew hating Islamic extremists and the Jewish Left who seem to have no moral boundary when it comes to siding with the enemies of myself and my family.
The Jewish Left is that part of the Jewish community that may not be large in number, although it seems to be larger in the United States than it is here in the UK, but it controls a lot of community assets such as Jewish charities, activist groups and even in some cases the upper management of entire communal organisations. The Jewish Left has got into this position in part because their activists have been the ones to volunteer to do the unglamorous work of sitting on charity and synagogue committees whereas other Jews, often politically unaffiliated or of a conservative viewpoint, do other things. The result of this steady and long term takeover of Jewish communal organisations is that now all too many of them are thoroughly dominated by the Left and sometimes the Far Left.
It is the Jewish Left, not the ordinary Jews in the synagogue pews, that have been a significantly powerful part of the driving force behind the ‘refugees welcome’ campaigns both here in the UK and in the USA. This Jewish Left didn’t seem to care that many of those that they were campaigning to let into our countries came from backwards and socially retarded Islamic nations that are soaked in a bloodthirsty anti Jewish culture despite many of these nations not having any Jewish citizens. It is the Jewish Left that has pushed socialism despite socialism being inimical to the freedom that we give thanks to G-d for each Passover.
It is the Jewish Left that refuses to follow the commandment to ‘seek the peace of the city in which you live’ by defending the diaspora nations that have sometimes given the Jewish people shelter at those times when we were pursued by monsters. It is also the Jewish Left that refuses to defend the State of Israel the ancestral home of the world’s Jews. Sometimes this refusal to defend either the diaspora state or the Jewish state takes the form of misguided pacifism or a naive desire to see those who want to kill us as friends. On other occasions it can take the form of the deliberate bastardisation of Jewish theology and practise such as with the appalling ‘Kaddish for Hamas’ event that took place in London a few years back. You will not be surprised to find out that a number of the names of those involved in this abomination of an event, are also heavily involved in left wing organisations that are characterised by anti Israeli and anti British sentiment.
But it is not just in communal religious organisations that the Jewish Left has done damage. The Jewish Left in mainstream political parties both here in the UK and in the United States have not stood up for Jews, not stood up for the nation or for law or even for equality of justice. To me these Left wing Jews are renegades, putting their ideology before the Eternal One and promoting policies that neither benefit Jews nor our non-Jewish neighbours. In both the UK Labour Party and the US Democrat Party the current incarnation of Jewish Left has excused Jew hatred within their parties, backed violent Marxist iconoclasts such as the those of the Black Lives Matter movement and facilitated the entry into these nations of those whose ‘holy’ book tells its adherents to ‘Kill the Jews wherever you find them’.
The Labour Party in the UK is no longer the party that supports the downtrodden worker, a category that could all too easily describe the thousands upon thousands of British Jews who worked in the various sweatshop trades that previous generations of Jewish migrants to Britain had little choice but to endure. The Democrats in the United States are no longer the party whose members and activists stood up to the anti-Semites who kept Jews out of the local golf club or who spoke up against Jewish quotas in US Universities. These parties no longer either deserve or are suitable for the support of right thinking and sensible Jews from across the various communal divides. They have become parties that are dominated by Jew haters of various sorts some of whom are of Jewish heritage themselves. The Jewish Left in these parties is not a religious group, many of them as Ben Shapiro once said have long abandoned Jewish religious practise, they are instead secular Leftists who trade on their Jewish heritage to push their true belief which is secular leftism.
We as Jews should no longer defend or vote for those parties that have sold their souls to either extremist Islam as in the case of Labour or to the secular Left as in the case of the Democrats. We might have familial or communal loyalties to parties like Labour or the Democrats, but these parties are no longer for us. A Democrat activist might have helped an ancestor get to college or rise in social status, a Labour affiliated tailors union might have helped some British Jews in the 1920’s to get improved working conditions, but these parties are not interested in helping us now. They are however interested in Jewish votes and this is an issue that is far more important in they USA where there are more Jews, than in the UK where the community numbers approximately 263,000 as opposed to the US’s 6.8 million.
It’s time for Jews in the West to walk away from those left of centre and left wing parties that have served us as Jews almost as badly as they’ve served the non-Jewish population of the nations where they have gained power. In the upcoming US Presidential Election the US Jewish population represents a potentially powerful voting bloc. At present it is split with Orthodox Jews leaning towards the Republicans whilst those from non-Orthodox and sometimes less religiously committed communities tending to fall to the Left of politics. So far the large number of non Orthodox Jews in the USA who tend towards the Democrats, vote Democrat like automatons at every election, possibly out of habit or remembering when the Democrats were the party that stood up for the little guy whether they be Jewish or not. If a sufficient number of those Jews in the USA who vote Democrat out of habit or misplaced sentiment either sat out the next Presidential election by abstaining or if they voted for President Trump, who it needs to be said is a notable friend of the Jewish people, then it might shock the Democrats away from the Far Left. Losing an erstwhile reliable voting bloc might just bring about the death of the far Left in the Democrat party.
I do not wish to destroy those with Left wing views in the Jewish community, that would be morally wrong as everyone should be entitled to follow their own political path. However, I would like to see those who mindlessly follow or are have allowed themselves to become affiliated with the Jewish left to repent and try to put right the damage that they’ve done. I would also like to see more non Leftists in positions of authority in Jewish organisations but that would be a long term goal as too many organisations are now run and indeed overrun, by leftists who have little incentive to employ in positions of responsibility, those who are not Leftists. Sadly I’ve had to come to the conclusion that if someone asks me if the Jewish Left is good for the Jews, I would have to reply categorically and emphatically ‘no’.
I would like to leave you with a short video by an American Jew who is saying much of what I’m saying in this piece regarding walking away from parties that have been taken over by far Left Jew haters. I know little of this person or her background or even her other views, but she’s correct when she says that the left or centre parties no longer deserve our votes.
And if someone asks me if the Gentile Left is good for the Gentiles, I would have to reply categorically and emphatically ‘no’.
Agree there. The Left is no good for anyone.
I understand there is a difference between Jewishness and Zionism. A fair number of Soviet elite were Jewish yet, in promoting Zionsm, were deliberately hard on ordinary Jews. The authors of the Frankfurt School of Thought were all Jewish communists, possibly more Zionist than anything else. Those considered to be THEM, the one world order, the Rothchilds, the Vanderbilts, the Maxwell’s, and Soros, are possibly more Zionist than Jewish. Consider how many of the British political elite are Jewish. Then try and figure out in which direction they wish to take us, including how many tenets of the Frankfurt School have already been enshrined in law in the UK or accepted as normal by current society. This may show whether these political elites are Jewish or Zionists. I forget who it was who said that we live in interesting times. For me, personally, I have only a few more years in this madness, but it is the future of my children and grandchildren for whom I fear.
Zionism is basically the doctrine that accepts and promotes that the Jewish people have a homeland in the land of Israel. That’s all. Some Jews such as myself are Zionists in that I believe that there is both a moral and practical need for a Jewish state. The moral reason is that all people’s deserve a homeland whether that be the British, the French, the Czechs or the Kurds, where they can manage their own affairs. I believe that it was one of the early Zionist leaders who said that there would not be normality for the Jews and Jews would not be seen as other people are seen until, in a Jewish homeland, a Jewish policeman arrested a Jewish burglar. On the other hand there are other Jews, such as those of the Satmar Hasidic sect who are vehemently opposed to Zionism on the grounds that only the Moshiach, the Messiah, can create the state of Israel not human politicians. Those Jews of the far Left that are opposed to Zionism in the meaning of a homeland for Jews on the grounds that their left wing views are primarily internationalist and opposed to the idea of nation state.
The early Soviet elite did indeed have some people of Jewish heritage among them, but they were not practising Jews, they didn’t practise the religion of Judaism. In fact I believe some Jewish heritage Communists of the early Soviet Union were actually subjected to a Herem the equivalent of an excommunication, by various Rabbi’s because Communism is incompatible with Judaism the religion and ethical path. The Soviet Communists were hard on believing Jews in large part and based on what I’ve read, because Judaism as with other religions, provided a separate locus of loyalty separate from the State which saw itself as the only thing fit to worship.
As regards the Frankfurt School. Many of those involved in it were Communists and if you know anything about Jewish ethics and Communist ideology you would see that Communism and Judaism are mutually incompatible ideologies. They were Communists of Jewish heritage and that’s a big difference from being Jewish as meaning a follower of the Jewish religion. As Communists they were internationalists who despised the nation state and would not have been favourable to the idea of a Jewish nation state therefore it seems odd to refer tothemas ‘Zionists’.
As for the other names on your list, the Rothschilds did help a lot of Jewish causes in the same way as the Cadbury family helped a lot of Quaker causes. The Vanderbilt are not Jewish and hail from Dutch origin with some saying that part of the family came from North African descent. Maxwell was Jewish in name and heritage only and behaved in a manner that was decidedly un-Jewish with his business practises, such as shafting the Mirror pensioners. I don’t believe that he should ever have been buried in such a sacred place as the Mount of Olives but sometimes money talks and ethics and morality is silenced. Soros is to all intents and purposes an ex Jew. He’s a secular Leftist and such a vehement opponent of the State of Israel that it is laughable to refer to him as a Zionist.
Jews tend to rise in the professions, including politics for the same reason Hindus and Sikhs do, which is a respect for education. Also there is the concept of ‘Tzedaka’ or doing good works in Judaism that does play a part in propelling some Jews into public service. The Frankfurt School would have been a small footnote in history had it not been for the American’s and the American government allowing this organisation to move to the USA and set up shop in US academia. I do agree that the Frankfurt school or rather cultural Marxism has damaged institutions and sometimes pushed stuff that has not turned out to be altogether good, however it is wise to remember that Cultural Marxism was a leftist Communist entity set up when some academic Communists realised that post WWI the workers were not going to join in with their fantasy of a worldwide Communist revolution and thereore set their sites on destablising society via take over of the institutions and this the left has done both to secular organisations an as I say in the ATL piece to Jewish communal organisations.
Zionism is only the ideology that states that the Jews should have a homeland. It is nothing to do with NWO fantasies or the sort of reptilian bollocks that Icke comes out with. Zionism is the desire that Jews should have the same rights to a homeland as everyone else should have.
Like you I fear for the future of my offspring in the UK and that makes me angry. My child’s grandfather came to the UK when France fell in 1940 and gave up his French citizenship so that he could be called up to fight for Great Britain because he wanted to be British and contribute to British soceity. It’s not ‘Zionists’ that has made my Jewish child’s position in Britain precarious (although not as precarious as the position of French Jews), it is Communists and other forms of Leftists that have done that. I’m just damned grateful that if the balloon goes up he does at least have a place of refuge in the form of Israel a nation formed by Zionists although I would prefer that never happen and that the Left are put back in their boxes and freedom and justice reign again in the UK.
Thanks for the clarification and I apologise if I have caused offence. For various reasons, I have my own views on religion and this may have led to wrongly interpreting certain aspects of religion and politics.
Although I rarely contribute to it, I read your blog on a regular basis, sometimes agreeing with you, sometimes not, but respect your right to (lawful) free speech. Keep writing.
No you haven’t caused offence. I apologise for my harshness of tone. I understand how the term Zionist can be used out of context and wanted to give clarification not just to yourself but to all who may see the word Zionist being used. I see the word being used by the Left and the Islamists as a code word to soften in the ears of others the inherent Jew hatred of both the Left and the ideology of Islam. No worries and thank you for the encouragement to write. Back on topic. One of the most disgusting things I find about Soros and those around him is that he has abandoned Judaism as a faith but he and his supporters are quite happy to claim that he is Jewish when he is not as a way of deflecting justifiable political attacks on him for his dangerous and destructive left wingery. May I make a suggestion for another blog to read as well as this one? I suggest that you read Edgar Davison’s blog as like me he’s a Jew who despises and is worried about the damage that the Jewish Left is doing to both Jews and non Jews. You can find his blog here: https://edgar1981.blogspot.com/ I believe that he’s dead right about the Left and he’s also in my view right about how pandering to enemies and wanting to be liked by them along with the Lefty domination of the paper, which has brought about the demise of Britain’s Jewish newspaper of record the Jewish Chronicle.