Category Archives: Jews

The “None is Too Many” guilt trip does not apply to the Syrian refugee crisis

Posted on September 27, 2015 by Luke Ford

In the following essay, a Canadian Jew calls out the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the organized Jewish community for using the Holocaust as a battering ram to force Canada to take in more Muslim immigrants. How many Jews and non-Jews … Continue reading →

Posted in Canada, Immigration, Islam, Jews, Simon Wiesenthal | Comments Off on The “None is Too Many” guilt trip does not apply to the Syrian refugee crisis

Love and Mercy

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’m watching this 2014 movie Love and Mercy about Brian Wilson. Half of it takes place in the 1960s and the California beaches seem so white. There’s not a Mexican in sight. Today you go to the Santa Monica beach … Continue reading →

Posted in America, Israel, Jews, Museum of Tolerance, Simon Wiesenthal | Comments Off on Love and Mercy

It’s Lobbying, but Is It Really pro-Israel?

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

M.J. Rosenberg wrote for Haaretz in 2007: Critics of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John J. Mearsheimer and Steven M. Walt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), cannot be surprised that the attacks on the book prior to publication … Continue reading →

Posted in America, Israel, Jews | Comments Off on It’s Lobbying, but Is It Really pro-Israel?

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt – The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

I was impressed by this presentation by the two political scientists. At the end, John J. Mearsheimer says: “The United States would care about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons even if there was no state of Israel. There are two reasons … Continue reading →

Posted in Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jews, John J. Mearsheimer | Comments Off on John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt – The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Giving Up The Burden Of White Privilege

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

Troubled Conservative gay rabbi (who came out when he had three teenage kids and a wife) writes in the Washington Post: Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism. Let’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Jews, Whites | Comments Off on Giving Up The Burden Of White Privilege