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When pro-Hamas insurrectionists stormed Capitol Hill, Brant Rosen, described as “one of the demonstrators”, was quoted as falsely accusing Jews of genocide. He was later arrested.
In Chicago, where he claims to have co-founded the “first anti-Zionist temple”, he showed up at a rally urging, “stop the violence, and then, to work toward a true and lasting and just peace.”
‘Rabbi’ Brant Rosen, a co-founder of the pro-terrorist JVP Rabbinical Council (the misleadingly named Jewish Voice for Peace is neither Jewish nor peaceful) is a public face of the political campaign against Israel disguised as calls for “peace” and a “ceasefire”. The media describes him as a “rabbi” and as a “peace activist”. Much like JVP, he’s as much of one as the other.
Rosen actually became a regional director for the American Friends Service Committee, a radical anti-American and anti-Israel Quaker group, after being pushed out of his synagogue for his hatred of the Jewish State and support for Islamic terrorists. In its 5-year tribute to him, AFSC did not use the ‘rabbi’ title. While at the AFSC, he claimed to have opened the “first anti-Zionist temple”. In reality, the “temple” appears to be a PO Box opposite a Little Caesars.
Whether the “temple” exists is unclear, but Brant Rosen’s hatred for Jews is all too real.
“When I heard the initial reports of Hamas’ attacks on Israel this past Saturday, I will be completely honest – my first reaction was ‘good for them,’” Brant Rosen wrote in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7.
When Hamas terrorists burst into homes in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, massacring families and livestreaming the horrors on Facebook, Brant Rosen described it as “not the first time this community had experienced Palestinian armed resistance”.
This is Brant Rosen and the Jewish Voice for Peace’s idea of “Palestinian armed resistance”.
“A father huddles over a mortally injured girl lying in a pool of blood as his wife wails.”
In his column, published at the People’s Voice (formerly the Communist Party’s Daily Worker), he claimed that “this latest violence did not occur in a vacuum. It is but the latest manifestation of an injustice that Israel has been perpetrating against the Palestinian people for decades.”
Later in October, Brant Rosen argued that, “Hamas’ abduction of hostages – brutal and heinous as it was – occurred in response to a colonial, apartheid regime that (sic) been governing their lives for the past 75 years.”
Brant Rosen gets a great deal of mileage for his activism by claiming to be a “rabbi”. In reality, he was “ordained” by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: an atheistic movement which believes neither in the Bible nor the G-d of the Bible, or in any actual form of Judaism. He speaks most convincingly about faith when discussing his love of Quaker spiritual teachings.
When he announced that he had founded the “first anti-Zionist temple”, the story popped up everywhere, including at the JTA: always eager to provide a platform for anti-Israel activists.
But the only address for Tzedek Chicago, the tattooed clergyman’s “anti-Zionist temple”, is a Chicago post office box seven miles from Rosen’s house and opposite a Little Caesars pizza place. The weekly “services” are happening in closed Zoom sessions.
The launch meeting for Tzedek Chicago was held in the basement of a Lutheran Church of the kind whose staff all list their pronouns. And he has described himself as “a Jew who also finds a comfortable spiritual home in the Quaker community” who testified that “my spiritual life has greatly benefitted from my encounter with Quaker thought and practice.”
The American Friends Service Committee had developed extensive Communist ties early in the last century and went to work covering up the worst horrors of these regimes. It even defended the Khmer Rogue genocide, claiming that the United States was spreading lies to undermine an “alternative model of development and social organization.”
After the fall of the Communist regimes, the AFSC turned to Islamic terrorism: its people met with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and traveled to Iran. The AFSC defended the Hamas fundraisers of the Holy Land Foundation and ran a piece arguing for “Decriminalizing Hamas” urging that the Islamic terror group be removed from the list of terrorist organizations.
“When the Palestinians chose Hamas as their ruling party, by and large, they were choosing another alternative,” another AFSC article argued. “In this instance, they were mistaken in thinking that the world would respect their choice.”
Rosen claims that by opposing Israel he’s advocating for Jewish values, the actual values he’s advocating for are those of a Quaker group that partners with Hamas’ backers in Iran.
He established the “Jewish Fast for Gaza” back in 2009 a few years after Hamas took over.
Brant’s purpose in fasting was, among other things, “to call upon Israel, the US, and the international community to engage in negotiations with Hamas.”
By 2012, Brant Rosen had become so extreme that he was actually attacking Hussein Ibish, a leading anti-Israel Arab figure, for writing too harshly about Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.
“It was only the armed resistance of Hamas in Gaza that managed to bring Hilary Clinton to the region and actively engage with the Israelis and Palestinians,” Brant Rosen argued.
“Meshaal’s opening went utterly unregarded by the Obama administration, who refused to deal with Hamas and chose to maintain its support of Israel’s crippling siege of Gaza.”
After the Hamas kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teens in 2014, Brant Rosen complained that Israel “knew full well that the teens had been murdered shortly after their abduction” and was “using the pretense of their kidnapping to brutally crack down on Hamas members.”
“If Israel was truly interested in following the course of justice in order to preserve life, it could have dropped its abject refusal to deal with Hamas following the November 2012 cease-fire and pursued further negotiations aimed at ending its crushing siege,” he went on to argue.
That same year, Brant Rosen left the synagogue he used to work at after his “views, work, and words on the Israel/Palestine issue caused deep rifts among the members” and got a job with the Quakers working against Israel and learning from the teachings that had praised Pol Pot.
The “close collaboration” between the American Friends Service Committee and JVP is such that some critics have questioned whether JVP isn’t just a Jewish suit that AFSC wears. Lynn Gottlieb, another member of JVP’s Rabbinical Council, used to head AFSC’s Middle East Program. May Ye, a current member, had ties to AFSC when she was a “musician”.
It’s unclear to what extent Tzedek Chicago exists off Zoom, but as a ‘church’ it doesn’t have to file 990 forms or reveal its financials. And there’s no way to know what the anti-Israel group could be hiding behind its “temple”. But Tzedek Chicago has the advantage of also advancing the “rabbinic” credentials of random anti-Israel activists.
May Ye, a Chinese-American activist from Maine who claimed that she “became a rabbi to be a Jewish voice for Palestinian liberation”, who was quoted in stories about the pro-Hamas assault on New York’s Grand Central Station over the Sabbath, had worked as a “rabbinic intern” at Tzedek Chicago before branching out as a “radical rabbi” with a focus on destroying the Jewish State.
What does it mean to be a “rabbinic intern” in a P.O. Box opposite a Little Caesars?
The media is too busy promoting collaborators like Brant Rosen to ask such basic questions.
And while Brant compares Israel’s Jews to the Nazis, his wife Hallie Esbin Rosen, who worked for the ADL for 15 years and used to work for the Illinois Holocaust Museum, has taken part in Brant’s anti-Israel rallies.
But Brant Rosen, like many other activists, would not exist if the media did not prop him up. And that is especially true of the JTA which has published multiple articles promoting a “rabbi” and his PO Box congregation whose main claim to fame is supporting terrorists and hating Israel.
The JTA ran 9 articles promoting Brant Rosen over the years. It ran two articles alone about his new “temple”. The average synagogue would never get such publicity. Stories about Rosen then popped up in every Jewish local paper in America reprinting the JTA’s publicity for Rosen.
Rosen, JVP, If Not Now, and other hate groups and terrorist collaborators have been blown up into public figures by the JTA and supportive media without revealing what they really believe.
Brant Rosen’s first reaction to Oct 7 was, “when I heard the initial reports of Hamas’ attacks on Israel this past Saturday, I will be completely honest – my first reaction was ‘good for them.”
That is the story about the Quaker Rabbi of the PO Box Anti-Zionist Temple the media won’t tell.
First reactions reveal more about the projector than the event.
Depravity and psychopathology and delusionary hatred on display.
Hamas and Islam and their lunatic friends …. The American Friends Service Committee
Not much of a Rabbi.
Or a human being!
First reactions include utter contempt and a strong inclination to swat the “rabbi”. He is, of course not a rabbi at all. My grandson, who is a rabbi, merely laughs at such fringe lunacy.
Maybe it’s time to stop laughing, take names and have some consequences.
I couldn’t even finish the article, I was so infuriated.
This anti-Semite needs facilitation by a rest-in-peace activist.
This no Peace Activists just a phony stand in anyone who supports Hamas is a Terrorists themselves
Any disagree with you doesn’t automatically mean they support the other side.
55 years ago, I had been reading about Theobald of Cambridge. I couldn’t understand what demons possessed him, but I learned that such monsters appear among Jews in every generation. Aaron Maté is just a modern Theobald of Cambridge.
JEWISH SELF HATRED FOR DUMMIES by Hawkeye
This days apostates convert to Arafatism and continue claiming to be Jewish
Thank you for a little insight into what is obviously crazy – anti-semitic Jews.
The most benevolent thing I can say about this guy Rosen is that he is mentally ill.
May I add, “and evil?”
….if by mentally ill you mean that he loves sin, evil and wickedness then yes I quite agree.
Obviously Rosen is not man enough to actually go to Israel and pull this shtick in Tel Aviv
I think he should be in Gaza fighting for the muslims, THAT would be interesting.
Plus he looks like a fag
As my Mother-in-Law would say, he’s “a shanda for the goyim”
If you’re right he can go to Gaza to support Hamas and end up as the victim of a “roof top sailing party”.
His talent begins and ends at posturing.. Narcissists don’t risk going to battle. There aren’t any mirrors and bloody wounds ruin their little outfits.
At least guys like this are overt. How many Jewish liberals in places like NYC keep voting for Democrats and then profess to be surprised when that party’s support open borders and immigration without assimilation along with having their teachers’ union allies teach American kids to hate their own nation, engenders the largest outbreak of domestic anti-semitism in the nation’s history?
He looks Arabic, I doubt he’s even really Israeli. Although Jewish does not equal Israeli. I bet he is of the line of Ishmael The line of Esau.
Yimakh shemo. May his name be erased. Enemy of the Jewish people.
Why did I know, before even encountering the sentence, that he ‘…was “ordained” by the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College’ ?
There is something deeply wrong with Reconstructionism. They seem to accept every form of modern perverseness – sexual, political or otherwise – all in the name of ensuring that – G-d forbid! – nobody ever has to feel that their personal opinions or inclinations ever should be resisted by traditional Jewish beliefs.
And the “Tikkun Olam” crap that is their never-ending mantra: I am so sick of that! As if that should justify the suicide of the Jewish people!
Reconstructionism is the idea that you can jettison Judaism and treat it as a culture of rituals.
And that means their religion is leftist politics.
I think Rosen is an example of a crisis that faces most western religions. What happens when people no longer believe in God. There is a lot more to religion than a belief in some kind of being with super natural powers. Reform Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, Unitarianism, Ethical Culture, to some extent Congregationalists, some parts of the Catholic Church, have all faced the problem of how to maintain the support of their members absent the need to keep on the good side of God.
My grandparents were members of the SAJ (the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a center of Reconstructionism) and they were also ardent Zionists. My grandmother was twice the president of Hadassah and close ally of the founders of the state of Israel. While she was close to the Labor Party leaders who were socialists, I can assure you that her priority was to the creation of Israel rather than creating socialism. My grandfather who twice voted for Eisenhower for president was a lifelong friend of Mordecai Kaplan, a founding member of the Reconstructionist branch of Judaism. My grandfather was also a devoted Zionist.
One of the great tragedies of woke progressivism is that it managed to damage many of the liberal institutions, both civic and religious, that protected the basic rights established by America’s founders. Like a cancer, they transformed the ACLU, the AAUP, the liberal religious groups mentioned above and perhaps most important, the Democratic Party into promoters of what I thin of as Rainbow Fascism. How this happened is certainly a subject for debate, but its consequences are all to evident in the chaos that has been caused by the ascendance of progressives in the governance of our institutions.
“Those who don’t fight evil, fight those who fight evil.”
-Dennis Prager
Thank you for sharing some of your family history. Kaplan was indeed a Zionist. Unfortunately that’s not reflective of where the movement is now.
And yes most liberal religious movements have gone that route, away from any belief in a specific personal deity and commandments, and toward social action and difuse spirituality.
As I keep saying …
Depravity and psychopathology seem to be taking hold of many people and institutions.
The Depravity and Psychopathology of Islam has been in effect for 1400 years,
which proves that once D&P becomes established and entrenched in a society and culture, it
becomes progressively more difficult to remove.
These people are mentally ill. Evil to the core.
We are VERY fortunate to live in the Greatest Nation on Earth! Well, it USED to be until the DEMOcrats (HYPOCRITES) infiltrated Our Government to such an extent that it’s nothing more than a vast corrupt, criminal enterprise!
We have LIBERTIES that other Nations do not, among the MOST important, is FREEDOM of SPEECH! That “freedom” has been ABUSED for way too long! When “speech” calls on people to act violently or to threaten people it seems like one or more Gov’t agencies jump on it – IF it’s the RIGHT kind of “speech”!
We are overrun with ENEMIES within Our Nation! MILLIONS are here to CONVERT or CONQUER Our Nation! We’ll have to make a decision whether to allow them to REMAIN! And that goes for some NATIVE born Americans too!
Nations USED to EXILE their citizens when they became ENEMIES of that Nation. Why not US??
2024 will see which direction Our Nation goes – either we END the DESTRUCTION of Our Nation or the DEMOcrats (HYPOCRITES) successfully steal another “election” and finish the job! I’m PRAYING and VOTING to END the DEMOcrat (HYPOCRITE) Destruction!
What a despicable character. He makes Bernie Sanders look like Theodor Herzl. A patently OBVIOUS rent-a-Jew for leftist and Islamic antisemites. Can you imagine the outrage and ridicule from the Left (or the American Friends Service Committee specifically) if a black, Hispanic, woman, Muslim or transgender person expressed such hatred for his/her/their own group and postured as the leader of a (non-existent) flock?
In Latin America, they used to refer to tiny Marxist groups with no popular support as “telephone booth parties”. Maybe “zoom chat room groups” are the logical successor to these.
This is how Communist operations have usually worked. But their black, Latino fronts tend to be nationalistic while their Jewish fronts are rabidly opposed to Jews.
The Left is great at setting up “telephone booth parties”. Much of their rallies consist of the same people showing up for differently branded causes.
As David Horowitz wrote about Leftist activism: “The issue is never (actually) the issue.”
And underlying all the “differently branded causes” is a common mindset characterized by depravity
and psychopathology.
This mindset is like a wildfire: It must blow itself out, or be deliberately blown out.
A very leftist progressive Jewish college friend recommended that I read “The General’s Son,” by Miko Peled, which is a very well-stated and passionate argument, ultimately, for the reconfiguration (end?) of Israel as a one state solution, where Arabs and Jews will live in a harmonious democracy. It all sounds wonderfully noble, and Peled comes across as one of those seemingly perfect humans who does not have a dark side. But, among the several elephants in the living room for the last 40 years or so, is the fundamental incompatibility between Islam and what remains of western civilization. And Peled, noble as he is, never wants to address that. I am going to recommend to my friend that he read “Son of Hamas,” and “Now They Call Me Infidel,” the latter by Nonie Darwish.
Miko Peled is anything but noble. He’s vehemently calling for the destruction of Israel while pretending that the outcome would be anything more than another Holocaust.
Currently he’s posting unhinged stuff like “Jewish terrorist control Palestine. They make life hell for Palestinians” and “There is nothing Jewish about Israel.”
Here’s how he describes the Hamas attacks of Oct 7
“The long term damage caused by Gaza fighters is immense:Israel is facing the ICJ with charges of genocide. The Israeli political system is in total disarray, the entire apartheid state is paralyzed. It is amazing what a small group of dedicated fighters from one of the poorest, most oppressed regions on earth were able to do to the State of Israel.”
Peled’s first response to Oct 7 was, “Savagery of a gangster who was humiliated – Israeli attacks on Gaza now are nothing but savagery of gangsters who want vengeance for their humiliation. There is no room for lack of clarity today, it is an issue of right and wrong and where our values stand.”
And “Palestinians fighters launch unprecedented attack from Gaza – Palestinian fighters control 22 Israeli settlements and at least one military base”.
Ask your friend if this is what he or she supports or finds acceptable.
What kind of minds support barbarism and slaughter of innocent people? Riddle me this, riddle me that. I don’t see any rationality in the minds of Hamas or the woke.
Thanks for the response and updated info, Daniel. I will have to copy and forward Peled’s comments to my old roommate.
To get to the root of the mess going on in US Judaism, I recommend “To Heal the World?: How the Jewish Left Corrupts Judaism and Endangers Israel” by Jonathan Neumann.
Here, these are the people this lunatic supports: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-782655
Brrent Rosen lives in his own woke world on many issues
This is a famous, witty polemic against “progressive” religion, from the 19th Century:
https://www.hyehudi.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Religion-Allied-to-Progress-Hirsch.pdf
Kind of sounds like the RINOS. Republican in name only. Jewish in name only. They don’t adhere to the values that used to be represented or that show intellegence or rationality.
This jackass sounds like a modern version of those Israelites that built a golden calf while waiting for Moses to descend from Mount Sinai. Such Israelites were slaughtered by their own people by Moses’ command. Also it’s because of this minority that the entire Israelite nation was further punished to wander the desert for another 40 years.
Today such people who side with the enemies of Israel, end up punishing the entire Jewish people! Because the the enemies of Israel point to these self-loathing Jews and say, “See – these people are the real Jews”, which ends up tainting Israel and genuine God believing Jews as being illegitimate.
Since the children of Israel were freed from the bondage of slavery in Egypt, they’ve been plagued by their own people, who created their own belief system and new gods like the golden calf. As well, the Israelites have been cursed with enemies such as the Amalekites, who launch military attacks against soft targets, which are unarmed civilians.
It’s sad that nothing has changed regarding self-loathing Jews and the enemies of the Jewish people since the children of Israel walked out of Egypt.
Rabbis, “rabbinic interns”, lutherans, Quackers.? No, just untalented actors embodying mental illness categories from the DSM 5. They’re pretending to hate good people for cash from the left or Muslims. Life is tough when you are utterly worthless.
True, True …
Good to see your handle.
Hope all is well with you and your family.
Thanks for your well wishing. I need it. My brother recently died and shortly before his funeral my wife fell down, was knocked out, and laid on a cold floor long enough to nearly die from hypothermia, low blood pressure, and an extremely low pulse. I spent two weeks in her hospital room jousting with doctors who, for whatever reason, seemed clueless. That is what we get now from our medical turned ideological hospitals. It’s a horror show.
She’s much better but still has some issues that the hospital couldn’t figure out in 12 days, which included MRIs, a. spinal tap, etc. Now she is refusing to let them get their hands on her again.
I was real impressed with the considerable numbers of Chinese doctors. I wasn’t impressed with the Chinese doctors.
I am a great admirer of Daniel Greenfield and I rarely if ever disagree with hhim. But, while I thank him for making us aware of this despicable renegade Jew, I must take issue with an all too broad condemnation of the Religious Society of Friends. Also, even though Reconstructionism, a recognized branch of Judaism, has morphed into something that has very little resemblance to what Judaism stands for, its founder Mordecai Kaplan can hardly be described as an atheist.
Thank you for this – I read last night of the anti=Israel stance of a group of pro-Palestinian Mennonite churches, and I then read this article with mounting horror at what seemed to be happening within the Peace Church tradition. I would be very glad to think that there could still be a range of views within this tradition, and that non-violence would preclude rejoicing over anyone’s suffering, of whatever background.
Kaplan was not an atheist, after all he had played a significant role in various denominations, including Young Israel, and he was most emphatically a Zionist, but unfortunately that does not reflect the Reconstructionist Movement today.
I did not mean to imply that the AFSC reflects all Quakers.
Glad there’s room for another comment: Fifty and more years ago, there were radio and TV talk show hosts like, Alan Burke, Long John Nebel, Joe Pyne and others, who used to have these nut cases on interview. The gentlemen I just named would have made short shrift of this “rabbi” and wouldn’t have subjected the audience to more exposure to him then was necessary.
The Rabbi is in good company with the 44+ Jews, highly placed in the Biden administration, destroying America.
jewishvirtuallibrary. org/jews-in-the-biden-administration
Ron Klain Chief of Staff (2021-2023), replaced by Jeffrey Zients.
Janet Yellin Secretary of Treasury
Alejandro Mayorkas Secretary of Homeland Security
Tony Blinken Secretary of State
Merrick Garland Attorney General
…and many more traitors!
Send the “Little Ceadars” rabbi on the next Air Qatar flight to Gaza – one way ticket….
There he can enhance his resume and “meet his fate” via the IDF.
If the Palestinians put down their arms there would be peace.
If the Israelis put down their arms there would be 8 million dead Jews.