Where does Judaism celebrate racial diversity and cultural diversity among non-Jews? Where does Judaism say diversity for the goyim is great for the goyim?
Nobody can give me any examples of Judaism pushing multiculturalism.
A Jew rooted in Torah will tell you that diversity destroys community.
NEWS:
A Queensland woman has been charged with posting online abuse against the human rights activist Mariam Veiszadeh.
Police are alleging the 22-year-old woman from Collingwood Park used social media to attack Veiszadeh, who fled Afghanistan when she was a child.
The Brisbane Times reported the online abuse was allegedly sparked when Veiszadeh wrote about her dismay that a Woolworths store in far north Queensland was selling an singlet with an offensive message. It featured the Australian flag and the words “if you don’t love it, leave”.
The woman allegedly responded by calling Veiszadeh a “rag head”, and told her to return to her “sand dune country”.
Police have confirmed the woman has been charged with one count of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.
She will appear in the Ipswich magistrates court on 3 March.
Shmuel Rosner, Jewish Journal Political Editor, writes: “Could anyone come up with a plan that will make Europe safer for Jews without them having to lower their profile, without them having to forgo Judaism to keep themselves safe, without them having to constantly weigh the risk as they walk to a synagogue to celebrate a Bar Mitzvah in a public place? If anyone has such a plan, I’d like to see it. Maybe someone, somewhere, has an idea that is as good as, or even better than, Netanyahu’s. But what we’ve seen up to now is a chorus of rejections of Netanyahu’s sensible suggestion and very few ideas that are both sensible and practical.”
Yes, I have a better plan. Jews in Europe should form chapters of Jews for Consistency and seek for non-Jews the benefits of group unity that Jews seek for themselves. That would mean supporting the nations of Europe protecting their borders and their internal integrity, cohesion and trust. Jews should support the same sort of hearty nationalism for others that they want for themselves. Jews should identify with and support their host countries developing their own distinctive national destinies.
Isn’t that wonderful? Or are you some kind of anti-Semite? You like being French or German or Swiss? You must be an anti-Semite. Apparently, according to New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, Jews know that national boundaries, except for the Jewish state, are a bad idea.
Yes, there was often a sense of otherness, a self-imposed discretion, but there was also reassurance in being part of a great European convergence that over many decades dissolved the borders across which countless wars had been fought and affirmed the right of every European of whatever faith or ethnicity to equal rights, free expression, and the free practice of their beliefs.
The strongest criticism of Jews by non-Jews is that Jews push to create multi-culturalism and multi-racialism in their host countries, diminishing the importance of borders, while they seek the benefits of group unity for themselves. Roger Cohen is arguing here that Jews have “dissolved the borders.” I would expect European nationalists to take great exception to the Jews if this is true. Incidentally, are Jews seeking this same dissolving of borders when it comes to the Jewish state of Israel? Or when it comes to converting to Judaism? I think not because such behavior would be insane, just as it is insane for European countries to dissolve their borders.
That bit about Jews pushing for free expression in Europe must be a dark joke. Jewish organization in France in particular have pushed for racial vilification laws limiting free speech. Jewish groups have done this throughout the West.
“Europe, without the Jews, had lost part of itself. It had lost the very right to a conscience. It had been defeated in its essence.”
The essence of Europe is Jews? Surely you jest.
“Jewishness had lost one of its constituent elements, the European Jew of the diaspora. As for humanity, it had lost all hope. Humankind had succumbed to the tribal nightmare, to the darkest of tides. Tribal war loomed.”
Almost all wars since the beginning of time have been tribal.
“Israel is indeed the home of every Jew, and that is important, a guarantee of sorts. It is equally important, however, that not every Jew choose this home. That is another kind of guarantee, of Europe’s liberal order, of the liberal idea itself.”
Jews guarantee the liberal order? The liberal idea? No wonder many nationalists hate Jews.
“Many of the liberal Jews of Europe, long strangers in strange lands, knowing statelessness in their bones, mindful of Hillel’s summation of the Torah — “What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man” — refused to be part of the spreading settlements in the West Bank, Israeli rule over another people.”
I like the idea of Jews never asking for themselves what they would not wish for others and vice versa. I’m starting an organization on this line — Jews for Consistency.
I would say that every group creates reactions (but does not have the power to control reactions). When blacks act in certain ways, non-blacks react. When whites act in certain ways, non-whites react.
Different groups have different gifts and different interests and this frequently causes conflict.
So I think the radio host’s questions are fair and I would answer them yes and yes. How the Jewish state behaves will have an effect on how Jews are treated around the world. Yes, sometimes Jews do cause anti-semitism, though I would not argue that most anti-semitism is a reaction to Jewish behavior.
What’s most interesting to me is that these reasonable and legitimate questions have been ruled out of bounds by the powers that be.
If you want to know who rules you, ask who you are not allowed to criticize.
Now, not all reactions, perhaps not even most reactions, to blacks, Jews, Muslims, etc, are governed by how these groups behave.
In an interview with Isaac Bachman, Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Groll asked: “Do the Jews themselves have any responsibility in the growing anti-Semitism that we see now?” Bachman, naturally, was taken aback. “I reject the question altogether,” he said. “The question of how a woman contributes to the fact of being raped is irrelevant altogether. I don’t think there is any provocation that Jews are doing–they just exist.”
But Groll wasn’t finished attempting to pin the blame for European intolerance on its victims, and proceeded to suggest that Jews in Europe might have it coming due to the actions of completely different Jews in the Middle East. “But a lot of people would look at the Middle East today and say there are various conflicts that we know between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” she went on, “and a lot of people might say, ‘we see the Gaza war, we see things that have been happening, that Israel and Jews in Israel have a responsibility to reactions that are coming?’”
Why have 20 out of 23 nominated Oscar films on the Holocaust won the prize? Gee, I’m stumped. Could it have anything to do with most power brokers in Hollywood being Jewish?
Tabletmag.com’s Liel Liebovitz is a man of considerable accomplishment. No matter how many times he writes and at what length, he never adds anything. Today he argues that Jews in Europe should be allowed to carry weapons. What about non-Jews? Should Jews get preferential treatment and preferential legal authority? Liebovitz does not address this. Do Jews have it worse than non-Jews in Europe? He does not provide evidence beyond some examples of Jews getting attacked.
A friend says: Naftali Bennett is probably pissing his pants out of fear that NY and DC Jewish orgs are going to cancel the US’s special relationship with Israel over the latter’s anti-gay positions if his party is brought into a coaliton. I’m sure Adelson is on the phone right now with the mainstream Israeli parties, insisting that they as well as Bennett will have to move more liberal on “social issues,” like he demands of the Republican party. #consistency #organizedJewry
REPORT: Bezalel Smotrich, eighth on the Bayit Yehudi’s list, came under fire for calling LGBT people “abnormal” while on a panel at a school in Givatayim on Sunday.
“Every person can decide he doesn’t want to live a normal life; that’s his right,” Smotrich said in a recording from the event played on Army Radio. “He does not have a right, just because he doesn’t feel comfortable being abnormal, to demand from all of us to destroy the concept of normalcy and say ‘there’s no such thing as normal anymore.
“Every person can be abnormal in his house and form whatever family unit he wants. He can’t make demands from me, as the state.”
Gay people, Smotrich said, “feel uncomfortable being unusual. It’s not fun, so they come out of the closet and then run and say they’re proud of it.”
A Jewish friend says: There’s an aspect to the hostility toward Jews in France that is never mentioned. That is, the Jewish community, on the whole, sided with the French colonialist over the Arab nationalists which created a bitter divide that is still with us. The hostility there is a fabric with a number of threads. There is another divide, which is the Palestinian issue. So, what’s going on in France isn’t some rebirth of European hostility toward Jews so much as hostility between 2 communities. That is, if the Jews or the Arabs weren’t in proximity to each other, there wouldn’t be an issue. If the Arabs weren’t in France, the number of hostile acts would also be negligible.
I was new to Temple Ohev Shalom in Orlando in late 1993, I was troubled and I was frightened and I was far from home, and this guy I just met in shul gave me his card and said, “If there’s anything you need, a job, a car, whatever, call me.” I’ve met a lot of Jews like that. They’re the most generous people. Yeah, they may cut some corners that WASPs wouldn’t countenance, but it doesn’t take much for them to start treating you like family, which means a great deal when your own family is on the other side of the world.
When I first started talking to rabbis, I was largely bedridden by CFS, and their first concern was for my recovery, not for my soul. I’ve never had a rabbi ask me what I believed about God. Instead, they wanted to know if I needed anything such as a car, an apartment, a job, a doctor, a place for Shabbos.
I grew up a Seventh-Day Adventist, a high-intensity religion. Adventists take good care of their own. And then I joined Judaism in 1993, and I found even more intense community.
I couldn’t imagine living without community, and yet most people I know prefer to live without it. They don’t want it cramping their style.
Living in community means constantly subordinating your own desires for the good of the group. It’s not a sacrifice most people want to make today. For me, the rewards are worth it. I love how Judaism balances individual freedom with group cohesion.
Freedom and community are opposites. You have to give up some freedom to have some community, and you have to give up some community to have some freedom.
Community is a bit like having a job. When you work for someone, you’re a slave to that entity for a certain number of hours a week. Most people most of the time find that sacrifice is worth it.
I’ve never been married, but I assume staying in a marriage means often subordinating what you want for the sake of your family. I assume that for most people, this sacrifice is a good deal.
Chris: “Jews are a communitarian minded people/community. WASPS think of themselves as competing isolated individuals who just happen to share a common ethnicity or cultural background.”
My own cold uncaring heart is unfathomable to most Jews. That I could write something negative about a fellow Jew, let alone a group criticism of Jews, is beyond the pale.
I notice that all high IQ groups tend to take good care of their own while low IQ groups rely on government welfare generation after generation.
I read: “Despite the traditional German Jewish antipathy toward the unwashed, crude and lack of refined eastern European Jews, the German Jewish immigrants set up Jewish Hospitals, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, and many other social and practical institutions to help the more recent immigrants. The German Jews did not want to be judged by the Ostjuden’s appearance and conduct.”
And I would have expected that kindness and gentility would rule the day at Rikers prison. How shocking that there’s hard behavior going on there. I would think they would all have tea and cucumber sandwiches every day and discuss Jane Austen novels.
NYT: “But The Times’s examination makes clear that the violence has continued largely unabated, despite extraordinary levels of outside scrutiny, a substantial commitment of resources by Mr. de Blasio and a new team of high-ranking managers installed by the correction commissioner, Joseph Ponte, who took over the job in April.”
The Los Angeles Times reports:
That’s a huge problem for the tech economy. According to the industry group Code.org, computing jobs will more than double by 2020, to 1.4 million. If women continue to leave the field, an already dire shortage of qualified tech workers will grow worse. Last summer, Google, Facebook, Apple and other big tech companies released figures showing that men outnumbered women 4 to 1 or more in their technical sectors.
It’s why the industry is so eager to hire women and minorities. For decades tech companies have relied on a workforce of whites and Asians, most of them men.
A well-known engineer at Pinterest, 27-year-old Tracy Chou said she was once bypassed for promotion at a previous start-up, where she sensed a pattern of being excluded from conversations and “an undercurrent of sexism.” (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times)
Gee, why would she notice an undercurrent of sexism? Why would men want to respond to her in a sexual way given how she dresses? She’s deliberately posing for the Los Angeles Times wearing a dress that goes a foot above her knee? Why would she expect men to react to her in a sexual manner?
She’s the one choosing to pose as a sex kitten but men are the bad guys for responding to her in that way.
If things are so dire for women, why don’t they form their own companies? How many little girls grow up dreaming of coding?
As I’ve been pointing out for a couple of years, we constantly read news stories out of Silicon Valley about male chauvinist brogrammers oppressing women whose only dream in life since they were little girls has been to code. And yet, upon inspection of the details, another word often comes to mind: adventuress.
…You might think that Ms. Pao’s predation upon Mrs. Nazre’s marriage might be an issue, but that’s missing the point, which is that John Doerr is a deep-pocketed rich white man and therefore must pay. Woman v. woman conflicts, while fascinating to other women, don’t fit well within the dominant feminist legal and media frameworks, so they are of no serious interest.
…Note that Snatchsnap wouldn’t be worth a dime if young women didn’t provide it with so much free content to monetize by taking pictures of their more intimate regions.
