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Order Kenneth Levin’s new book, ‘The Canary on the Couch: The Psychology of Jewish Self-Delusions in the Face of Rising Anti-Semitism’: HERE.
Some representative news stories from the past few years:
- Within hours after Hamas’s barbaric invasion of Israel, people across the Western world take to the streets by the thousand – not to declare their support for Israel, but to wave the flag of Hamas. Many of them are Jews.
- The executive director of the Anti-Defamation League defends Black Lives Matter, a virulently antisemitic organization, by maintaining that not everybody in BLM hates Jews and by pointing to the historic alliance between American Jews and blacks.
- The Jewish Council for Public Affairs supports BLM, too, explaining that this position is entirely in line with its dedication to “social justice.”
- After President Trump announces his intention to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, the Union for Reform Jews joins the Muslim world in condemning the decision.
- When Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy seeks to remove the bitterly antisemitic Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, several American Jewish groups rush quickly to her defense.
All of these stories are about the same phenomenon. Some observers refer to it as “Jewish self-hatred.” It became more visible in the wake of October 7, but it’s far from new. Jewish Self-Hatred was the title of a 1930 book by Theodor Lessing, a German philosopher; fifty-six years later it was the title of a book by Sander Gilman, an American historian. Now a psychiatrist named Kenneth Levin has written a book about the phenomenon, The Canary on the Couch: The Psychology of Jewish Self-Delusions in the Face of Rising Anti-Semitism (from which I took the above examples). Unlike Lessing and Gilman, however, Levin considers the term “Jewish self–hatred” too narrow, given that irrational Jewish responses to antisemitism take a wide variety of forms.
You may have seen some of these responses in your own life. I certainly have seen them in mine. A random case: when students at one of America’s fanciest colleges responded to the Gaza War with a days-long protest at which they savaged Jews and celebrated Hamas, a Jewish friend of mine who’s an alumna of that college insisted that the kids weren’t antisemitic – they were just virtuous young people acting on their consciences.
What makes people like my friend tick? Why do so many Jews – and Jewish organizations – excuse Jew-hatred, turn a blind eye to it, or even endorse it, when members of other minority groups and leaders of their organizations never would respond in such a way to bigotry directed against them? Think about it: although Americans elected a black president twice, black activists constantly claim that it’s the most profoundly racist country in history; although Americans bend over backwards to say nice things about Islam, Muslim leaders rail about the ubiquity of Islamophobia. Yet a remarkable number of Jewish leaders are capable of staring straight into the heart of antisemitism and insisting that there’s nothing there.
Why? Why do so many Jews seem desperately eager to forgive or ignore or even accept Jew-hatred? Why do they insist on pretending, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, that their enemies aren’t really their enemies at all?
These are the questions that Levin, a longtime professor at Harvard Medical School, probes here. One striking observation that he makes is that many Jewish apologists for, or appeasers of, Jew-hatred strive to distance themselves from their fellow Jews. This, too, has a long history. A few case studies:
- Karl Marx, son of a convert to Christianity, “was clearly interested in distancing himself from ‘the Jews’” – for example, by parroting the familiar argument that “Jews’ involvement in trade is evidence of their degeneracy.”
- The writer Karl Kraus (1874-1936), a Viennese Jewish convert to Catholicism, spent his career accusing other Jews of corrupting Austria – even as gentiles condemned him for “using an alien and corrupt Jewish literary language and stylistic mode to disseminate equally alien and corrupt Jewish ideas.”
- The philosopher Otto Weininger (1880-1903), another Viennese Jew who became a Christian, maintained that Jews are incapable of deep thinking or aesthetic feeling.
- The Jewish-American political columnist Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) championed other minority groups but “repeatedly echoed popular anti-Jewish indictments in his writing and blamed Jews for the hatred directed against them.”
- The historian Tony Judt (1948-2010), an English Jew who taught at NYU, contended that Israel, as a religion-defined state, was an anachronism in an era of “open frontiers” and “international law” – but he had nothing critical to say about the dozens of countries that identify as Islamic, many of them sharia states.
Why did these people make such a point of distancing themselves from other Jews – or from Israel? Levin’s answer: believing that their co–religionists are “tarr[ing] their standing in the world,” they wish to be viewed by gentiles as exceptions to the rule, and thus be accepted.
Some Jews, to be sure, don’t distance themselves from all other Jews; instead, they single out a subset of Jews and blame them – and not the Jew-haters themselves – for Jew-hatred. In the nineteenth century, for example, when gentiles in the German-speaking part of Europe rejected Jewish equality because they regarded Yiddish as crude, many German-speaking Jews agreed, with the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (b. 1729) calling it “a language of stammerers, corrupt and deformed, repulsive to those who are able to speak in a correct and orderly manner.”
(To be sure, when Yiddish-speaking Jews learned German in an effort to assimilate, that didn’t work either, with many gentiles arguing – and some Jews, again, readily agreeing – that in doing so, they were introducing ugly alien elements into Germany’s noble culture.)
What’s the psychology here? Frequently, notes Levin, Jews who parrot Jew-haters tell themselves that they’re serving some higher moral purpose. “For example,” he writes, “those who criticized Jewish involvement in commerce typically argued that there was indeed something intrinsically reprehensible in commercial endeavors.” Others tell themselves that castigating other Jews is good for the Jews, because it disproves the widespread gentile view of Jews as hopelessly clannish.
Levin brings up one aspect of Jewish-American behavior that doesn’t immediately seem relevant to his topic: the strong Jewish loyalty to the Democratic Party, which goes back to the days of FDR. For Levin, what’s worth noting about this loyalty is that during the last fifteen years or so it’s survived a good many Democratic moves that have been seriously problematic for Jews – from President Obama’s promotion of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, his courting of Iran, and his snubbing of Israel to the party’s acceptance of Critical Race Theory, which defines Jews as white oppressors.
Through all of these developments, Jews stayed firmly in the Democratic camp. Then came October 7, after which many leading Democrats chose to stand with Hamas. Even then, most Jewish voters and Jewish organizations remained solidly Democratic – some of them because they chose to close their eyes to Democratic antisemitism, others because their loyalty to the left outweighed their attachment to Israel.
Most recently, the Democrats ran a candidate for mayor of New York who is a devout Muslim and who has spoken warmly about a terrorist-supporting imam. Even he got Jewish votes – no, not a majority, but about one-third. That’s how strong the Jewish attachment to the Democratic Party is: it can run a candidate whose Jew-hatred seems undeniable, and yet a third of Jews will still somehow persuade themselves that he’s their man.
What explains this powerful party loyalty? In the 1930s the Democratic Party was FDR, whom most Jews viewed as a hero of oppressed minorities, themselves included. For them, being a Democrat meant being aligned with – and standing up for – all other oppressed minorities. (Hence the stubbornness with which Jewish leaders today will express support for Jew-hating groups like BLM.)
To be sure, even in FDR’s time, Jewish loyalty to the Democrats didn’t always make sense. During World War II, FDR chose not to bomb the railroad line to Auschwitz and strictly limited immigration by Jewish refugees. By contrast, the 1944 Republican platform was strongly pro-Zionist and took FDR to task for not pressuring the UK to let European Jews enter the Holy Land, then under British control. And where did America’s Jewish establishment stand? Mostly with Rabbi Stephen Wise, head of the American Jewish Committee, who was adamantly pro-FDR and called the GOP’s criticism of FDR “utterly unjust.”
And why weren’t Wise and other American Jewish leaders more concerned about Jewish refugees? Simple: they worried that making too much noise about the subject would spark antisemitism. Yes, there were American Jews who labored tirelessly during the war to rescue Jewish refugees – but few of them were members of the Jewish establishment, whose resources and connections would have aided their work immeasurably.
And then there’s the ultimate contemporary example – and a profoundly tragic one it is – of what you might call the chronic inability of many Jews to believe that their enemies are, in reality, their enemies. I’m referring to some of the Jews who were killed in kibbutzim on October 7. After that day, news reports emphasized that many of them had chosen to live close to Gaza because they believed in bridge-building between Jews and Muslims. They loved peace and brotherhood, and saw Gazans as friends. Many employed Gazans in their homes; some even hired Gazans to care for their children – children who ended up being butchered.
Levin’s name for the mindset that can lead to such hideous results is “[d]elusional categorial thinking.” It’s a kind of thinking that enables people to believe that they can form real “political alliances” with people who hate them – and that such “alliances,” far from exposing you to danger, will contribute to your welfare and security.
In Levin’s view, then, there are many reasons why a Jew might respond irrationally to antisemitism. Starry-eyed idealism (which Gad Saad would call “suicidal empathy”). Naked, kapo-like self-interest. The belief that tolerating antisemitism is somehow virtuous – or that it will make one appear virtuous. A devotion to leftist ideology (which, these days, preaches that Jews are always oppressors, never oppressed) that dwarfs one’s sense of Jewish identity or friendliness toward Israel. An inclination to embrace a fantasy of control in a situation over which one has, in reality, little or no control. A belief that other minorities, especially those that are purportedly oppressed, are by definition allies of the Jews, and that standing by them, even if they shout their antisemitism from the rooftops, is the best way of protecting Jews from oppression. Or – and this is me, not Levin, throwing this one out – an understandable inability to reconcile one’s wealth, privilege, and lifelong sense of security in America, a historically Jew-friendly society, with the notion of oneself as a vulnerable object of murderous hate, just like any poor soul in the Warsaw ghetto.
You might think that such a familiar and distinctive phenomenon would have one cause, not many. I don’t know what Levin would say about the following, but I wonder whether there is, in fact, in the psyche of many Jews, an ancient, deep-seated impulse toward self-delusion about antisemitism – one that, in expressing itself outwardly, can fasten onto some existing prejudice, proclivity, or predisposition that may then come to look like an underlying motive. Just a thought.
But whatever the cause of Jewish self-delusions about antisemitism, one thing’s for sure: the ultimate result is never, ever good. Kenneth Levin’s timely, incisive, and thought-provoking study of this profoundly perilous psychological phenomenon should be read by every Jew in America. Alas, it won’t be.
All of the reasons for Jew self hatred outlined above skirt around the real, and simple, explanation: Many Jews are embarrassed that God chose the Jews to be the lineage of Jesus Christ. Christ was and still is the antithesis of the ‘messiah’ to which they stubbornly insist they were entitled. Instead of an all conquering ‘messiah’, Jesus Christ has become the reason that Jews are reviled and hated.
Lol! Ridiculous! Jews are hated because they’re so mind boggling, mind blowing, SUCCESSFUL! It’s as simple as that.
Thus sayeth our unbounded authority on nothing except Objectivism as he thunders “they’re so mind boggling, mind blowing, SUCCESSFUL!” You sound envious.
I guess all of the Shtetel Jews of Eastern Europe and Russia were hated because they were so successful too.
Why you could be the next Walter Cronkite. He used to pronounce “And that’s the way it is” and it was so. Of course Cronkite was a closet Commie. Which closet are you hiding in?
Google Ai Reports:
“Yes, Russian officials and the Czars of the late 19th and early 20th centuries did promote the narrative that Jews were economically exploitative and became rich at the expense of the Russian people, which was a key factor in state-sponsored antisemitism and pogroms.”
And
“Yes, Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda consistently blamed the Jews for being rich and for Germany’s economic problems. This was a key part of their antisemitic ideology and a tactic to gain public support.”
And
“(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019), 126-127. Some Jews continue to be stereotyped as corrupted by an insatiable appetite for money and are often accused of hoarding wealth that they use to bribe people in power. Some continue to assert the false belief that the Jews pull the strings of the world’s financial markets.”
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Wow! How people forget… and how much people are out of touch with reality…
I think you pointed that out quite nicely the other day, concerning the same question put to Thomas Sowell. Jealousy of others’ hard work is the curse of the weak and old as man. It is always an excuse for one’s own failure.
Christ’s crucifixion was prophecy. Not sure why that should be a reason to hate Jews. They were just parts in a play. I thank God things happened as they did. It was for the betterment of man… our salvation.
Some of the most beloved Jews are also the most successful, e.g. : Rod Serling, Dr. Seuse, the Marx Brothers, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Steven Spielberg, Rodney Dangerfield, and dare I add the late David Horowitz?
Yes. You are right. We Americans have always admired success and the Jews you mention are among the many beloved.
I’ve never seen so much Jew hatred in my life… and… it continues to get worse everyday…
Trump is failing on his election promises… the FBI is covering up Charlie Kirk’s assassination…
The the America 1st movement is growing… and getting more support than ever…
The Christian Zionists are backing down on Israel 1st… and questioning a lot of things…
Because they’re ‘successful’ …? What utter nonsense! There are many “successful” societies and subsets of humanity who aren’t hated as the Jews are …
Germans were successful, and they were the haters, NOT the hated … The Swiss are incredibly successful, they are not hated … So too with the Norwegians, and many others …
No, the Jews would be as hated as they are now even if they were third world paupers on the level of Haiti or Somalia … sorry!
The answer was prophesied in Numbers 23: “…the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.”
The Jews in general — and Israel in particular — will never, ever be “just another nation”, ie. simply one of 193 members the UN … Why? Because, in fact, God Himself does not permit it …
A sick, twisted world hates the Jews because the world hates God … PERIOD!
Maybe some Jews hate themselves because all of their travails from the Old Testament to today imply that God has now lost faith in them.
(I’m only speculating. I am personally sympathetic to Jewery.)
They’re “successful” because they had no other choice! First Jews were reviled for being Christ-killing Jews (who used Christian children’s RED blood to make WHITE matzoh…), then reviled for evolving into multi-faceted business/trade excellence borne of utter necessity.
To this day, more often than not, If you’re Jews, you lose…but not in the eyes of YHWH, the Lord God Almighty. The Jewish people paved the genealogical way for Christ Jesus.
The Jews were hated long before the Crucifixion… 2,000 years beforehand…
Slaves in Egypt… and the Babylonian Captivity are examples…
Thousands years ago, many nations had been hated by their neighbors. Only Jews and their stories survived and Jewish stories are known by most everyone.
Then leftist should hate South Asians even more. They don’t.
You are one sick puppy. Your Jewish god does not figure into any Jew’s experience except as one of the noxious elements in the hate that is always coming at them. and from people like you.
When you grow up, you may try taking another person’s point of view instead of staying so afraid and embedded in your own delusion.
I think it is probably a lot more complicated than your implied Jewish victimhood or the alleged immaturity / sickness of STJOHNOFGRAFTON. But you are SPOT ON that “trying to take another person’s point of view” is essential to understanding the conflict. I am committed to it.
STJOHNOFGRAFTON hit only one element – Jesus. Surely that issue is not inconsequential. Even though a “noxious element,” Jesus looms large in the Tanakh and Talmud.
Ben Shapiro had John MacArthur as a guest on his show. MacArthur recently died, but he was considered a giant of a Christian man by many of us across all denominations. Here is a shorter version of Shapiro’s interview of MacArthur. Watching it would help you understand the Christian point of view, especially towards Jews. Please ignore the deceptive title because nobody “destroys” anyone else in this clip:
If you want the full interview, it can be found here on Shapiro’s Youtube page:
And of course I will consider whatever you say, should you feel inclined to respond.
I gave this a Thumbs up… worth watching…
Although; I’ve only got/had time to watch the first one… very good…
Thanks. I was moved by the exchange between them. They demonstrated the best way to exchange conflicting viewpoints.
People who wrote New Testament had been great Tanah scholars. When they described Jesus, they gave him all attributes of the Messiah as described by Prophets.
I think it is more accurate to say Jesus fulfilled all the attributes of Messiah. He was not “given” all the attributes of God because God does not acquire His attributes. That is why the earliest Creeds emphasize the divine nature of Christ. He was not made (creature), but begotten (Son). He is of one substance with the Father, having both aseity and divine simplicity.
There are several incidents when Jesus tells His disciples they do not understand now, but will later (when the Holy Spirit fulfills the promise to put the law and knowledge of God into the hearts of believers). The Apostle Paul was a scholar and had the revered Gamaliel as his teacher.
A lot of Jews, muslims and others would like the world to believe that…
It gives credence to their (false) narratives…
More importantly… sadly… it steers the masses away from Salvation…
That’s far fetched…
The OT description doesn’t get into such detail…
Additionally… reports show how Christ Jesus fulfilled over 356 OT Prophecies…
The chances of that are astounding…
Google Ai Reports:
“Some sources cite a probability of one in \(10^{157}\) (a 1 followed by 157 zeros) for one person to fulfill just 48 of these prophecies, or one in \(10^{17}\) for eight prophecies, with the odds being considered mathematically incomprehensible if all are fulfilled.”
Your comment can be summarized as blaming the victim.
???So 5000 years ago a Hebrew named Abraham made a covenant with Hashem He was the first monotheist, believing in one God while all the others believed in idols. Read the Old Testament part of the New Testament to see all I posted is from the Old Testament. Abraham came 3000 years before Jesus. In 1000 BC King David established Israel, Zion in Hebrew, with Jerusalem as its capital. That was 1000 years before Jesus. You know King David that wrote the Psalms that you quote in church? The Moshiach is predicted 3000 years before Jesus but never named. When the New Testament was written in 325 AC at the Council of Nicaea the Catholic Church put pen to paper and wrote the New Testament you use today. That was when the story of Jesus first came out. You recite the Nicaean Creed every Sunday in church. The Nicaean Creed from 325 Ad. In 1534 King Henry the 8th broke with the Catholic Church and established the Church of England, the first Protestant Church. The KJV Bible came from that.
The Nicene Creed is satanic… since it professes the satanic catholic fake church as the one, holy church…
No Protestant could in their right heart confess such a thing…
Additionally; The New Testament was not written in 325 AC… the Books/writings were compiled @ that time…
You’re a Christian. You go to church to set things right between what the Rev. Jonathan Edwards describe as your, “angry God.” You hear Jews described as a “brood of vipers,” and references to the, “Synagogues of Satan.” You also hear, “The Jews cried, ‘Crucify him!” How can you not hate Jews?
If you want to understand why anyone, Jew or non-Jew, appeases a bully read Ayn Rand’s essay “Altruism As Appeasement”.
“ Altruism as appeasement refers to the idea that individuals, particularly intellectuals, may adopt altruistic beliefs not out of genuine concern for others, but as a way to appease societal pressures or guilt about their own success and intelligence. This concept suggests that such appeasement can lead to a moral compromise, ultimately undermining individual values and contributing to a culture that tolerates irrationality and evil.”
Ah, the Kilt Lifter/Altruism game is now in effect. Kilties for all. 2 for each of you as the Altruism guru mentioned it twice.
And there is a bonus Rand quote. I always wondered why THX is so obsessed with altruism. Because the Goddess of Objectivism was.
Gee T. Do you ever have a thought of your own. The real bully, as always, was your girlfriend.
It isn’t easy to live in a hateful world. Some people do not have the character to maintain self respect and peace of mind while they are the unending target of smears and hate. Others do.
I have read this author’s other works and he is thoughtful. But I don’t think we need a tome to consider this issue.
If anti-Semitism ever subsided, there would be less so called “self hate”
Since it is currently rising on the left and especially on the right, I think we will see more people of Jewish DNA who cannot stand the pressure of that hate from without and appear express it from within.
I will not be one of them, as you may have guessed.
Nothing says “Never Again” like an armed Jew.
Bruce, since it sounds like you are but not referencing Tikkun olam, Jews around the world might want to learn where the idea of Tikkun olam came from and to whom it was meant. Since I promise the majority of Jews on the left have it made up for them to believe what they want and not where it came from and to whom it was for.
Tikkun Olam is Hebrew for social justice. Jews bear responsibility not only for their own moral, spiritual and material welfare but for the welfare of society at large.
Jewish self hatred is mainly by Jews who never got to sit at the cool kids’ table at lunch in high school and they never got over it. They have been trying to sit at the cool kids” table ever since.
They think the best way to prove to the cool kids that you are one of the cool Jews is to not be Zionist or religious or proud of being Jewish and to support those who attack Israel and those other Jews who are not as cool as you.
How wrong. What about in schools which are a Jewish school? The students in my high school were mostly of the Jewish religion and Catholic Italian decent. We had an ongoing discussion who was the smartest.
Cowardice masquerading as virtue. That is certainly part of this.
It is horrifying to me as a Jew that it is estimated that one third of the Jews in New York voted for Mamdani. I think most of them were simply scared. After two years of anti-Zionist Jew haters parading through the streets of New York and camping out in the middle of college campuses, threatening Jewish students, it is not surprising that they were scared.
Mamdani offered them an out. If you reject Israel and accept Mamdani’s view of the Gaza war that it is a genocide against the Palestinians, he will welcome you into his coalition. This is an awful bargain but fear is a driver of human behavior and given the history of anti Jewish persecution, it is understandable that Jews in New York are scared.
This fear is amplified by the fact that the non-Jewish part of the city is also fearful and refused to put a stop to the anti-Israel intimidation. College administrators all over the country tolerated behavior aimed against Jewish students and faculty that they would never have allowed if it was directed at any number of protected classes. In fact, intimidation tactics have been a part of the progressive tool box for decades at colleges, directed not only supporters of Israel but also students who are pro-life, opponents of boys in girl’s spaces (locker rooms, bathrooms, sports teams), opponents of affirmative action, and even Republicans and especially Trump supporters.
For most Jews, particularly Israeli Jews, the most galling part of the holocaust is not the cruelty of the murders or the indifference of the world while it happened, but the feeling of shame that so little resistance was offered by we Jews ourselves. When Jews say never again, we are saying we will never again go quietly.
I think living with fear is a feature of the lives of persecuted minorities. With that fear comes a shame for not resisting the persecution more strongly. I think this is a problem for black Americans as well as Jews. When Jews appeal to blacks by reminding them of the strong support they got from Jews during the civil rights era and point to the Jews who went to the south and risked their lives and sometimes died to end segregation, rather than gratitude it evokes shame. It makes them feel weak and they resent Jews reminding them of their weakness.
I believe you are closer to the truth.
When you, a relatively small minority are threatened and reviled by a large majority, you are faced with a dilemma–follow your impulse to fight back, risking something worse than derision, or play weak and harmless, unwilling to even stand up for other Jews, which can be easily interpreted as self hatred.
In their recent book “God, the Science, the Evidence” authors Michel-Yves Bolloré and Omivier Bonnassies cite the survival of the Jewish people through 3,500 years of oppression under several empires and in the exiles as evidence of G-d’s intervention. What is all the more remarkable is their survival in spite of serious mistakes and missteps, many of them recorded in the Bible itself.
Correction: Olivier Bonnassies
A Jew in Ramat Gan told me he befriended and hired a young Arab from GAZA to work at his restaurant. A year later he blew up the restaurant. Why? Because of the deep historical evil hatred of Jews.
Oh, and my advice to any scared Jews in NYC, one word, Aliyah.
Or Florida
Or South Dakota
Or Montana
The following is also Jew self-hatred and massive, complete distrust of fellow Jews in Israel.
1) In Israel a permit is required to have a semi-automatic pistol and 50 rounds of ammunition. Only 5 to 6% of the non IDF, non Law enforcement Jews have been allowed such a permit. That pistol is supposed to fend off a Muslim with a fully automatic assault rifle. That is also self hatred and in addition to stupidity.
2) When October 7th happened those Kibbutzim were hopelessly vulnerable. They had very few weapons to defend themselves. The attendees at the Psychedelic Tantric Festival (Nova) were also unarmed. They also happened to be 100% blotto drugged beyond imagination. Both sets of Israeli Jews were naive sheep ripe for slaughter. The Muslim Hamas group knew all this. They had scouted these areas for years.
3) The Tatzpitanyot women forward observers on the Gaza border reported for days, weeks and months on Hamas preparations and were totally and utterly ignored by an IDF General Staff that was solely focused on taking down Netanyahu. Those forward observers were on an IDF base, meters from the Gaza border, were also criminally unarmed and were murdered, raped and/or taken hostage. Not one IDF leader has been court martialed. Not one.
3) The Bottom Line: Israel insanely requires its Jews to have a “permit” to prevent their wives and daughters from being raped by Muslims. To prevent them from being brutally murdered. You need permission for that – a “permit” that you can’t get.
4) The self loathing and the consequential lack of trust for their fellow Jews in Israel is a very, deep and almost an impenetrable pyschological problem that is almost beyond diagnosis. You have a people that says “Never Again” when in reality it is “Over and Over.”
5) These policies before October 7, 2023 were stupid, but after? Now, after October 7, 2023 it is insanity and almost evil.
6) You start with the recognition of the problem. Something has to change in the psyche of Israeli Jews. Pray that it will.
This issue I’m very well informed about. With a non-Jewish population of approx. 20%, as well as Arab citizens with family ties to the surrounding states and Judea and Sumaria, there is an underlying distrust of the above. This is the reason Israel cannot apply “shall issue” (as is known in US). They’d rather take the chance leaving many Israelis vulnerable to terrorism than take the chance possibly arming irredentist Israeli Arabs.
Of course, Druze, Bedouin and some regular Arabs who serve in the IDF are excepted.
How about America’s self hatred which has been on-going for a long time now ?!
Has anyone seen the website
jtf.org Jewish Task Force
JTF
Esau Always Hates Jacob
In the notorious words of former vice president Dan Quayle, “a waste is a terrible thing to mind.”
Self haters are a waste of brains. Perhaps they should demonstrate the courage of their convictions and delete themselves from existence and spare the rest of us their misery.
The Jewish Sheep carelessly leap into the wolfs mouth and the wolf swallows them all
The Jewish residents’ New YOK City who voted for Zohran Mamdani must really hate themselves. For Mamdani wants the police to top responding to crimes committed by Muslims. Especially if those crimes
committed against the Jewish people of NYC.
Likewise, Mamdani had earlier said that “Israel should not exist.”
In addition, Mamdani is member of a mosque that called for the annihilation of the Jewish State of Israel. After all, Islam is very ant-Jewish and therefore anti- Israel.
Mamdani is very anti-Jewish and likewise anti- Israel So much so that before he had decided to run for mayor, he had declared that he wanted to “Globalize the Intifada “To this very day he has not denounced or retracted that statement.
The former US President, William Howard Taft had, wisely, declared in a speech “Antisemitism is a noxious weed that should be cur out. It has no place in America.”
Therefore, that dangerous anti- Jewish Muslim, Mamdani, is, in essence, therefore very un-American.
As the former US President, Theodore Roosevelt, had well-spoken when he declared in a speech “There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is only room here for only hundred percent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
I’m as befuddled as anyone at the ages old phenomenon explored so elegantly. However, I prefer the term “self-debasement” as opposed to “self-hatred.” In the later, it’s implied that the Jew in question despises the faith he’s carrying. This is too broad an assumption. Self-debasement, by contrast, describes a person whose actions and feelings result from a wish to escape from the yoke of Jewishness. Self-hatred might result from it, but, I’ll leave it to the psychiatrists.
I once read a fabulous book about Jewish anti-Jewism movement by a Rabbi/Dr. Marvin S. Antelman called “To Eliminate the Opiate”. This little two volume set was an eye opening bit of history to the ancient “Jewish” anti-Jewish movement started with the mixed multitudes coming out of Egypt attaching themselves to those that Moses had lead out. They are called “The Erev Rav” if I’m not mistaken….
Very interesting
The mainstream media can influence the public’s perceived importance and consensus on any issue by merely giving it enough publicity.
Articles about anti-Semitism and about Jewish self-hatred have been written endlessly in publications for many many decades. As a boy my friends and I used to laugh and talk about all the famous and successful Jewish scientists, performers, writers, doctors, lawyers, etc. The percentage of Jewish Nobel prize winners is extraordinary in light of the fact that Jewish people are a much smaller percentage of the population than they are as a percentage of Nobel winners. At the same time, throughout history, the Jews are among the most persecuted people in world history, and, ironically, all the other ethnic tribes found in the Bible are now extinct except for the Jews. So among Jews there is excessive pride, satisfaction, and joy about the wonderful contributions made by Jews to world culture; yet at the same time, there is pain, fear, sorrow, and even paranoia regarding the future. Two extremes — self-exaltation and despair brought on by cataclysmic suffering — are in a profound conflict within the souls of the Jewish people. Christ brought the answer to the Jews and to all people suffering from profound historical and personal conflict. He told the rabbi Nicodemus, “You must be born again.” (John 3:7) But Nicodemus made a joke of that statement by asking, “What? Can a person re-enter his mother’s womb?” The redemptive call to follow Him is the only working answer to a person divided by suffering and pain on the one hand and an intense pride in oneself and one’s heritage on the other. Being a Harvard professor shows the author of the book, Dr. Levin, has the ability to describe the tension in the Jewish psyche, but only Y’shua can resolve that tension and bring eternal peace to troubled individuals and the troubled Jewish people. He did it for me, and can do it for any Jew.
FEAR DRIVES THE COWARDS TO:
1. NOT SEEK TRUTH, BUT ONLY CONVENIENCE – “SEE AND HEAR NO EVIL” / “IGNORANCE IS BLISS”
2. GO WITH THE EASY ROUTE – TOO TIMID TO DO THE RIGHT THING
3. APATHY ABOUT THEIR INHERITED RELIGION
4. MORALLY-DEPRAVED