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[Order Daniel Greenfield’s new book, Domestic Enemies: HERE.]
Democrats have tried to reassure Jewish voters that they have nothing to worry about despite Kamala’s harsh criticism of Israel’s war on Hamas.
To counter those concerns, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, headed by Haile Sofer, Kamala’s old policy adviser, rolled out a ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ online rally. But while the Zoom rally flier may feature a photo of Kamala and her husband, Doug Emhoff, awkwardly lighting a menorah, the leading figures in the rally only raise more questions.
The two most prominent non-elected officials taking part in the rally are Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers union, and her girlfriend, Sharon Kleinbaum.
While Weingarten is best known for her work in keeping school closed leading to as much as a grade point of loss in education, she is militantly anti-Israel and has used antisemitic rhetoric.
In response to a question from the JTA, a liberal Jewish media outlet, about the power of teachers’ unions, Weingarten launched into an antisemitic tirade in which she claimed that “American Jews are now part of the ownership class” who “want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it.” The American Jewish Committee had responded with an op-ed urging her to “Counter, Not Inflame, Antisemitism”.
I have tried to reach out to ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ to inquire if they agree with Randi Weingarten that Jews are “the ownership class” who “want to take that ladder of opportunity away from those who do not have it”, but have not received an answer.
Weingarten had befriended and defended antisemites including former Women’s March leaders Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour, calling them “friends” and “warriors for justice.” Mallory was an enthusiastic fan of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who had praised Hitler. She had described the creation of Israel as a “human rights crime” and attacked Jewish groups.
Sarsour had a long track record of antisemitism and support for Islamic terrorism. After the Oct 7 Hamas attacks, the Islamic activist claimed that Jewish hostage posters were entrapment and that Jews everywhere were watching them. “So when you go home, they have their little people all over the place, trust me I know them, I got a radar for them… you think they’re ordinary people, trust me when I tell you they are everywhere. They’re on your college campus, they’re outside the supermarket, they’re outside Grand Central Station.”
Not only did Weingarten not stand with Jewish activists against the Women’s March antisemitic leaders, but she is a board member of the Americans for Peace Now BDS group whose CEO Hadar Susskind praised Ben & Jerry’s decision to boycott Israel as a “principled moral stance which we fully support”. APN has platformed antisemitic figures like UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese who claimed that America is “subjugated by the Jewish lobby”.
Weingarten’s AFT union has demanded that Israel stop attacking Hamas in a resolution presented with personal support from Randi at a convention where Kamala spoke. The AFT defended the pro-terrorist mobs harassing Jewish students and faculty on campuses.
Randi Weingarten has repeatedly attacked Israel and tweeted a quote claiming that “the Hamas attack was heinous; the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza have been reprehensible.”
Weingarten’s girlfriend, Sharon Kleinbaum, and fellow participant in Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris is even worse. After Kleinbaum read the names of Hamas terrorists alongside fallen Israeli soldiers at the LGBTQ temple she formerly officiated at, congregants left feeling that it had become pro-terrorist. One departing congregant complained that it “was essentially delivering Hamas propaganda. … My partner and I are starting a family and frankly I don’t want to raise my kids in a synagogue that’s praying for people firing rockets.”
Kleinbaum had co-signed a T’ruah letter together with anti-Israel activists urging Biden not to allow Israel to finish off Hamas in Rafah and claimed that Israel cannot “lay the full responsibility for the unimaginable suffering of a massive population of trapped civilians at the feet of Hamas.” The letter also called for Biden to impose sanctions on members of Israel’s government.
Weingarten and Kleinbaum are not outliers at Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris.
Sharon Brous of IKAR, profiled by Variety as a “trendy, progressive congregation”whose wealthy congregants include Steven Spielberg and appears to have some link to Kamala’s husband, is also on the list. Brous had attacked the Jewish State before the Oct 7 attacks, including in a hateful Yom Kippur address, claiming that “there can be no democracy with occupation.”
Brous is a member of the councils of anti-Israel groups like J Street, and the New Israel Fund. Worse still, IKAR has participated in events with IfNotNow, an anti-Israel hate group linked to many of the ugly protests against the Jewish State.
Sharon Brous has a long history of supporting antisemites, attacking Jews for opposing Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ilhan Omar, claiming that Jews “have spent years in hive mentality, pouncing on indications of anti-Semitism among Israel’s critics”, accused the Jewish State of a “52-year military occupation of millions of Palestinian people” and ranted that American Jews must “hear Palestinian voices.”
Like Weingarten, Brous attacked Jewish critics of the antisemitism in the Women’s March leadership, falsely claiming that the criticisms were, “a deliberate smear campaign from the far right to delegitimize the march itself.” She complained that, “a much greater problem would be if the Jewish community stepped out of activism because we’re afraid that someone on the stage has a position on BDS different than our own.”
Lauren Holtzblatt, the final clergymember on the Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris call, is a member of J Street cabinet (while also tragically and inappropriately) serving as Hillel International’s director of campus initiatives and has also been associated with the anti-Israel group T’ruah and signed on to its letters.
Every single ‘rabbi’ presented by ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ is also affiliated with anti-Israel groups. This raises troubling questions about not only the anti-Israel extremism that had already infiltrated the Jewish Democratic Council of America, but Kamala’s campaign.
Not only does ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ appear to be co-hosted with the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, but several of its anti-Israel clergy have ties to Kamala.
‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ shows that the Kamala campaign, like the Obama campaign, calculatedly platforms and normalizes anti-Israel activists while shutting out normative figures in the Jewish community. It is not a coincidence that all of the clergy at the virtual rally were anti-Israel activists. It also not a coincidence that no pro-Israel clergy or members of more traditionally religious denominations were on the call.
The ‘Jewish Americans for Kamala Harris’ rally anticipates a Kamala administration that will pursue anti-Israel policies while surrounding itself with anti-Israel activists of Jewish descent.
Jewish Democratic Council of America has sent a clear signal that the only Jews welcome by the Kamala campaign are those that will join it in opposing the Jewish State.
that any jew would vote and fund the democrats is a mystery . just like the left wing jews in israel still touting a two state solution and vilifying their own citizens if support is not forthcoming , american jews are their own worst enemies . half would light the gas ovens if it meant they could escape the same fate by signing the form to exempt themselves from the death they would bring down on their own . the legal system in israel is out to prosecute soldiers in the idf for supposedly mistreating the oct. 7 murderers . you cant make this stuff up .
The IDF should have liquidated them all and never taken one prisoner. Now they have thousands inside Israel, the worst of the worst.
I did wonder why Barack wanted me to go meet with them there Jews, now I know thanks Daniel, he’s a genius, Barack not you. Ain’t no way CNN will mention this.
Leftist groups generally have false and misleading names.
My poor Mom never figured that out. She was on the sucker’s list, so donated to countless groups thinking she was doing good works, while she was chronically low on funds herself.
I first noticed the scam as a youngster visiting my (Dad’s mom) grandmother’s house, who was also on the sucker’s list, receiving requests for donations in the mail. Even as a kid something puzzled me, and I remember wondering if these groups were for real, and whether they were doing good work or were really doing harmful work.
People love to post on social media blaming Jews for voting the wrong way. Blaming Jews is an anti-Semitic habit that lets some feel powerful and themselves blameless. It gives them an excuse to kick the victims of terror and hate.
Less and less Jews are voting for democrats. As Ive stated, no one in my family or circle votes democrat. . But there are some older people, who watch network TV and still read the New York times who will never change.
I had an aunt who believed the UN did good works for children and donated money to UNICEF etc. She became anxious and upset at the suggestion that her charity groups weren’t really good. I have some sympathy for such too trusting souls who believe the propaganda. Not everyone can endure the soul wrenching pain of seeing the evil in our world. Not everyone can admit they’ve been mistaken.
It is easier to fool someone, than to get them to admit that they’ve been fooled.
Daniel, the fact that Gov. Josh Shapiro is being so desperate to be chosen as Kamala Harris’s running mate that you would look at volunteering for the IDF as something not to be proud of because you’re trying to appease the anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist wing of the Democratic Party as a Jew begging to be liked. This is the Democratic Party of today.
My hope is that the governor would be an effective source of useful leaks from a Harris administration…..if she wins.
Well, with her pick of Waltz largely because, unlike Shapiro, he isn’t Jewish, that is no longer possible, if it ever was.
Any Jew that supports the Democratic Party has given up any semblance of Judaism and just uses it when needed for political purposes, as in: “Look, I’m jewish and I support hamas” or “my company works for the PLO/ Qatari government so they can’t be that bad…”
The addition of females to the rabbinate has been a galling failure of biblical proportions.
Back when I was a liberal I was in favor of adding women.
Now, I must admit, the women rabbis have failed us. They allow themselves to be drawn into the Soros alternate universe. ….. They may wind up being the death of us all, including themselves.
These “women” rabbis – including Chuck Schumer’s insufferable rabbi – are hardcore leftists who love the Dem party which sees them as useful idiots. Many of them are lesbians (I guess they did not read Leviticus), hate Israel and are super pro abortion. As JD Vance would put it, they really are “cat women”. The fugly Randi Weingarten seems to really hate kids and of course, she never had any. There is nothing “Jewish” about them as far as I am concerned.
For Weingarten and Kleinbaum, building a family with cats (if they haven’t done it already) is probably a good idea. At least they cannot infuse them with anti-Semitism and other assorted politics.
Agree! I have benefited from orthodox women teachers and don’t mind if they lead discussions or lead in educating children or women or in certain other roles. But the (reform) female rabbis Ive met have been focused on LGBT and diversity, recycling, and hugging muslims and mostly on hating orthodox jews with a passion.
Who is funding these groups?
Follow the money trail.
The worst antisemites are almost always the ones with the Jewish sounding names.
A Jewish sounding name, as opposed to an actual Jewish name, usually indicates a father with Jewish ancestry married to a gentile mother….the both of which are go-along-to-get-along types — and who raise their children to keep their fingers to the wind.
If Jews were considered cool, then they would follow suit. The problem for Jews today, where these mixed up kiddies are concerned, is that we are considered uncool.
Gilda Radner is out.
George Clooney is in.
What was once shallow is now…..well, is still shallow.
Soros? A lot of them aren’t Jewish even though they promote the impression that they are if it can be weaponized to attack Israel and the manstream of the Jewish Community. For example, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink. She isn’t Jewish (her father, whom she accused, probably in malicious feminist way, of molesting her) was. Yet she will be trotted out along with Bernie Sanders (who hasn’t been in a synagogue since Eisenhower’s first term), Doug Emhoff (whose firm represents Palestinian terrorists and whose non Jewish daughter is a Hamas supporter) as “good Jews”. If the Left were any more condescending and obvious about it would describe Benjamin, Sanders and Emhoff as “credits to their race”.
I find it interesting that the New Republic has gone full core anti-Semite. The late Martin Peretz is turning in his grave now over this.
Many Christians don’t understand… how the Orthodox Jews don’t believe that the Jewish State should exist… and that Israel the nation should be given back to the satanic worshiping muslims…
Why? Why do they believe this?
Because… they don’t believe the Messiah has came yet… and their belief is that only the Messiah will establish the Jewish nation of Israel…
You are describing a small subset of Orthodox.
Small as in 4 or 5 dozens lunatics.
I think it may be a hasidic sect called Satmar. and their objection is to the socialist form of government that currently exists in Israel.
Yes and no. It depends if a Satmar is active in campaigning against Israel. The sect that has long worked even with Iran against Israel is Nuterei Karta. There may be 2,000 of them. With the internet, they are all over like dog you know the thing.
Every Christian is waiting for the Lord Christ Jesus to establish His Kingdom on earth… after the Wrath of God…
Anyone who is Jewish is waiting for basically the same thing…
Christians are waiting for the 2nd Coming… the Jewish are waiting for the 1st coming…
But… they are the same ‘coming’…
Thus… every practicing Jew has to ask the question… does Israel exist today because God had a hand in it? Or did evil men step around God?
And since the Messiah hasn’t technically establish His Kingdom in Israel yet… I believe more than a “small subset” are not in favor of the nation of Israel existing today. Except… they then have to ask themselves… “Where do we go?”
You are referring to a handful of “Orthodox” Jews many of whom I suspect are fakes with rented costumes who have time to go to anti-Semitic rallies with their goofy signage. Notice how they have NO PROBLEM TRAVELING ON THE SABBETH.
All anyone has to do is take a look at how so many Jewish in Israel are wanting to make peace with Hamas to get the hostages back…
That’ll tell you how many Jewish are willing to give back land for peace… a peace that will never come…
Thats only a small number of orthodox Jews. Some groups, but not most
I believe you are wrong… I would dare say that more than half of the Jewish living in Israel want peace… if not 95% of them do. And giving more land to the satanic worshiping muslims is their answer…
Yes… we’ll wait and see… as per the Two State Solution.
People like Weingarten are not new in Jewish history. From the ones who erecter the golden calf, to Hellenized Jews to Jews who started Christianity to the capos of WWII. Those Jew who hate themselves and their history always sought the approval of the Jew haters. The hope is those Jews never ever succeed again.
These phony leftist rabbis are exactly as irreligious as the pastors of Obama and Harris.
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As I’ve previously mentioned in my comments regarding self-loathing American Jews is that they’re equivalent to the Israelites who once were freed from the bondage of slavery in Egypt, created the Golden Calf and began to worship it. As a result of their transgressions, those Israelites that remained loyal to GOD, were punished and that generation of freed Israelites died, never to set foot upon the Land of the Covenant. Today, these self-loathing Jews in United States have created their own Golden Calf religion and as a result, the Jews in Israel are being punished for these false Jews’ transgressions.
A particular problem for Jews is that, even as Christians who abandon their faith are no longer identified in the culture as “Christians”, Jews who abandon Judaism are STILL identified as “Jews”…..and the most hateful among them do in fact use their (abandoned) heritage as a calling card for attacking real Jews.
Fortunately, they aren’t having families, while real Jews DO have families, and will soon be so obviously outnumbered that only the most blindered media will take the false Jews as being spokespeople for anyone.
And this fourth Obama administration luv luv luvs to utilize the “Kapo Jews” to do their dirty work. I imagine Obama sitting back and laughing his half black muslim a – – off. I don’t know how he finds them, but he does.
The so called rabbis in this post long ago substituted the false idol of social justice for Jewish traditional values-it is a perfectly logical jump hop and skip for them to mourn dead terrorists when in fact the only good terrorist is a dead terrorist
Those imposters are rabbis as Shabbetai Zvi was a messiah
Bingo
Justice is Justice, and takes no adjectives.
… other than “poetic” on occasion.
Daniel, Its all about deception. If the Jews believe the Left, they will regret it once again. There is always a pattern of lies and then regrets, eventually the destruction comes. Speaking for those who went through the holocausts.
There used to website called The Sh;t List which consisted of hundreds of pages of these self – hating sociopaths, perverts and erev rav. Truly shocking but eye opening. Unfortunately it was taken down a few years ago but it was useful in naming the enemy.
When American Jews decide they love the United States, Israel, and the survival of the Jewish people more than they hate Donald Trump and Republicans, they will stop voting Democrat.