There’s nothing in Torah about modern politics and siding with the fringes against the core. There’s nothing in Torah about marching for civil rights. Jews didn’t work for blacks because they primarily cared about blacks (there’s no precedence for this in the Jewish tradition) but because they saw it (usually unconsciously) as in the self-interest of Jews that the fringes be strengthened.
When a tolerant and multi-cultural attitude clashes with Jewish self-interest, such as in the Jewish state (where the more Jewish it is, the stronger it is), the multi-cultural attitude is abandoned though its rhetoric may still be useful.
Israeli Terrorists, Born in the U.S.A.
By SARA YAEL HIRSCHHORNSEPT. 4, 2015As far back as the 1990s, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the founder and spiritual leader of the settlement of Efrat, seized upon this outlook, declaring, “I marched with Martin Luther King and feel very strongly about equal rights.” But, to him, settlers were now the victims. “We’re not fighting against an enemy who plays by the same rules as we do,” he argued. “Given the cruelty and barbarism of the Arabs to their own people, our ethical imperative is not to commit suicide.” He went so far as to compare the settlers to African-Americans during the civil rights movement. Another American settler activist, Yechiel Leiter, drew on Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to illustrate that “independence and freedom have their price.”
Not only is this belief still intrinsic to the self-image of many mainstream American settlers, they have also learned the value of speaking fluent liberalese on the international stage. By translating Scripture into sound bites, Jewish-American settlers have played a pivotal role in the public relations rebranding of the Israeli settler movement — and these professed liberals are now helping to deflect attention from crimes committed by Jews.
