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Category Archives: Jews
Messianic San Bernardino victim was ‘gentile’ supporter of Israel, the Jewish people
(JTA) – While America puzzles over the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, many American Jews are puzzling over an additional element: the religious identity of victim Nicholas Thalasinos. Pictured on his Facebook page wearing a scarf-style tallit prayer shawl, … Continue reading
Messianic Jews
Comments to Steve Sailer: * A “Messianic Jew” (or “Jew for Jesus”, as we always used to call them in Manchester) is a believer in Jesus as the Messiah, who also follows Jewish customs and laws, to a greater or … Continue reading
NYC mayor urges Syrian Jews to empathize with refugees
Who wants to empathize with Americans? I suspect that Syrian Jews in America don’t feel great ties to Syria. The country was never that wonderful to them. REPORT: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in a Sabbath address to … Continue reading
Hitler On America’s Immigration Policy (1933)
From The New Republic Feb. 15, 1933: His greeting, when I was introduced to him, was perfunctory, suggesting latent hostility, and my first question brought this forth into full flame. I had asked him whether his anti-Semitism concerned Jews everywhere … Continue reading
Why Is AIPAC Silent on Syrian Refugees?
Like much of America, Jewish organizations have become increasingly inward and tribal over the past 40 years. Peter Beinart writes: Many American Jewish groups balance the Holocaust’s tribal and universal lessons. The most powerful one doesn’t even try. The last … Continue reading
Why Russian-Jewish Refugees are Different From Syrian Refugees
Yuri Kruman writes: In a recent op-ed entitled “I’m a Russian-born American Jew. My people’s rejection of Syrian refugees breaks my heart,” Ilya Lozovsky slanderously paints all Russian Jews as fascist hypocrites for failing to join his crusade to resettle … Continue reading
Senate Dems meet with Jewish leaders, talk Iran and refugees
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Senate Democrats meeting with Jewish organizational leaders pledged to police the Iran nuclear deal and applauded Jewish backing for resettling Syrian refugees… The senators were moved by presentations on the refugee crisis by Mark Hetfield, the president … Continue reading
Social Justice
Letters to the Fort-Worth Star Telegram: * Your Nov. 22 editorial (“Syrian refugees and terrorists are not the same”) said that “Jews must have cringed at the memory of times in their history … when they were required to wear … Continue reading
What Did Americans Say About Jewish Holocaust Refugees?
From Haaretz: Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking in along with the refugees rather than the ISIS militants or Mexican criminals that some fear today. JTA – They were called “so-called” … Continue reading
Aussie Dave: Antisemite Brendon O’Connell Reportedly Charged Again
From the website IsraellyCool, posted by Aussie Dave July 10, 2015: Remember Brendon O’Connell, the vile Aussie antisemite I have posted about in the past? After posting an antisemitic video in 2009 and being charged with racial hatred, he decided … Continue reading