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The Key To Understanding Why Some Jews Will Vote for Donald Trump

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

J.J. Goldberg is my favorite left-wing intellectual. He makes an effort to understand different points of view and when he makes an argument, he usually treats the other side fairly.

He writes in the Forward:

We Americans aren’t who we thought we were. That’s why our presidential contest, like the rest of our politics, is so incoherent. We argue about jobs, immigration, abortion and guns. But those aren’t really what’s at stake. In reality we’re fighting over the nature of American society, and our problem is that we’ve become a nation of tribes. We know it, but we act, each of us, as though we’re above it. As though our neighbors are savages, but we ourselves are high-minded Athenians. Alas, we’re all tribesmen.

Our tribes are amalgamated into two great confederations, rather like the old Iroquois federation. Each side debates internally over issues, but unites around group loyalty. Each side thinks it represents the best of the nation and only the other side is a band of hunter-gatherers. It would be comical if it weren’t so tragic.

Now it’s reached crisis level. And if it’s a crisis for America, it’s a double-bind for American Jews. Jews are a tribe among the tribes, but we’ve planted our feet in both camps. It’s an untenable position. It’s tearing us apart as a community. And it could get worse.

For the past half-century, Republicans have been the party of white people. Democrats — who haven’t won a majority of whites since 1964, and only once broke 45% — have become the party of minorities, bohemians, rebels and dreamers. Each party knows it about the other, but denies it in itself.

Democrats see Republicans as people who believe that we’re not all the same, that difference is an innate human trait and that we should value solidarity with those who are like us. Republicans see Democrats as people who believe that everyone is basically the same under the skin, that we’re all free to construct our identity and that we shouldn’t favor those who seem most like us on the surface. These contrasting ways of understanding difference go a long way toward explaining why so many white voters are lining up behind Donald Trump. It also explains a lot about voting habits among Jews…

If my reading of the cultural difference between the tribes is correct, the Republican Party is the natural home for Orthodox Jews. It goes way beyond Israel. Belief in innate difference and tribal solidarity has deep roots in Orthodoxy.

By that token, non-Orthodox Jews belong in the Democratic Party. The idea that we’re all the same under the skin is Jewish Americanism’s foundational doctrine. But as the parties polarize and Democrats become more committed to minorities and dissenters, the place of Israel — and, increasingly, of Jews — becomes strained.

Democrats talk about their commitment to wages and workers, but in a crunch those issues nearly always take a back seat to race and gender.

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How Jews Created American Modernism

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

Andrew Romano writes in 2014:

What every fan of modernism may not know is that all of these designers were Jewish.
A smart, handsome new exhibition at San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum called Designing Home: Jews and Midcentury Modernism seeks to remedy this oversight. It’s the first show, as the catalog puts it, to “look at the contribution of Jewish designers, architects, patrons, and merchants in the creation of a distinctly modern domestic landscape.” But Designing Home asks a deeper question as well: Why Jews? What was it about the era—and Jews in particular—that made modernism and Jewishness such a good match?
To find out more, The Daily Beast spoke to curator Donald Albrecht. He explained why Jewish émigrés equated modernism with assimilation; how Hitler helped trigger the modern movement in America; and which major American museum was responsible for making modernism seem less Jewish than it actually was.

Groups only assimilate in the most superficial senses such as adopting the language of their new country and some of its customs. Otherwise, they behave according to their genetics and history.

About 80% of American Jews come from Eastern Europe where their ancestors for centuries hated the goyim and were in turn hated by the goyim. Jews from Western Europe, by contrast, tended to admire and seek to emulate their fellow citizens.

Radix Journal:

Jeff Goldstein of The Federalist has thrown up an article claiming the Alt Right is a mirror image of the New Left. There is some truth in that. Without the New Left’s full-frontal assault on American culture, history, and identity, the Alt Right would probably not exist. If America were still a White, Christian nation, we would still likely be humming along, ignoring contradictions in our society, and the biggest issue in politics would be the looming Social Security crisis.
Goldstein is worth responding to because he’s written a kind of comprehensive response thoroughly grounded in the “proposition nation” tropes of postmodern conservatism. The problem is, as many readers know, the “proposition nation” is itself completely ahistorical. America was not formed by sending questionnaires ’round the world, inquiring who might believe in the Sacred Propositions (whatever they are, no one has told me), and bringing them here. Nor has dissent from the Sacred Propositions ever been grounds for stripping anyone of his citizenship. The Declaration of Independence is grounded in the English character of the American nation. The Constitution was written for “ourselves and our posterity.” America was formed by Englishmen with a heavy seasoning of Germans and Frenchmen—the former of whom were required to jettison much of their German identity during WW1. The very first immigration laws limited naturalization to “free white men of good character.”
Thus postmodern, deracinated conservatism has a deep fear of history. You can argue until you’re blue in the face that America was founded on universal ideals and therefore will work equally well no matter its racial makeup, but the historical fact is that prior to Hart-Cellar, America was 90% White. Period. There is no actually existing non-White in America in history that “worked.” The attempt to integrate blacks and Whites has completely failed. Every single measure of social rot among blacks is shockingly higher now than it was before we decided to save them. The mass of Hispanic immigrants brought to our country has not assimilated and has fundamentally altered the political and cultural character of every state in which it has settled.
Culture and race are inseparable by geographic reality. For a distinct genetic signature to exist, a group of people must be separated from another for thousands of years. If two groups of people separate for thousands of years, they will develop different laws, customs, religion, language, and morals. The longer they are separated, the more incompatible they become.
The Alt-Right begins with simply stating the obvious: Multiculturalism isn’t working. Then we look a little more closely. Turns out low IQ is genetic. Turns out that a propensity to violence is heritable. Turns out not everyone in the world actually wants liberty. Turns out that “liberty” as we know it evolved out of English common law. Turns out that millions—no, billions—of people around the world would more than happily vote away the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness if given the chance, as they prefer Islam, slaughtering rival tribes, or sitting around and doing nothing all day. Turns out that Hispanics aren’t “natural conservatives” at all.
For Goldstein, “conservatism” is conceived only in purely financial terms. At this point, this should surprise nobody, and not because of the stereotype of the money-grubbing Jew. As Daily Beast writer Andrew Hermano wrote in How Jews Created American Modernism, Jews have always been separated from Western civilization and feel no sense of belonging to it. The only way they can feel they belong is if they purge those elements they find alien and hostile, what’s left being abstract and deracinated.
Really, Jews are America’s first failed attempt at assimilation. Unlike the nations of Europe, we allowed Jews full participation in our society, even the highest levels of education and government. The “reward” is Christianity banished from the public realm, sexual anarchy, feminism, and “conservative” redefined as conserving only Ronald Reagan’s tax code.

Comments at Radix:

* This is an excellent article that touches the real sore spot for neocons and their idiot dupes: our new elite are not really “American” in the true sense – they are foreigners with an immigrant’s tone-deaf approach to American ideals and traditions. Their entire worldview is trapped in the despotic and medieval world of the shtetl and the Pale of Settlement. This eastern European approach to government, based as it is on a system of feudal license and tax-farming, strikes the true American as the grossest form of tyranny. We hardly know what to call it; is it Communism, Neo-Liberalism, the New World Order? No, it’s just the natural expression of eastern European jewry’s native habits and predilections, as traditional American libertarianism is an expression of the Anglo-Saxon soul.

True American nationalism calls for the return of English Common Law and the old Anglo-Saxon ideals of government. This is the real meaning of the Constitution and our people’s most glorious possession – the Bill of Rights. Not all of the residents of these United States are true members of the historical American nation. However, all of these motley visitors will surely benefit from a return of traditional American laws and customs, save for those who have become accustomed to a life of parasitism and graft.

* We understand that Christianity is a flexible religion. The Bible has many contradictions and does not obviously outline even orthodox Christian theology, so certainly one can be a Nazi, SJW, WN, or whatever while being a Christian.

The point we argue is that Christian teachings have a universalist bent. This is why so many of the Churches you likely have attended are so anti-racist.

* Jewish to Christian convert Laurence Auster said that US Jews should be allowed to participate in political life only to the extent they are supporting the white-led Christian historic American nation, and that seems right to me. Hostile, destructive Jews need to be shunned.

* You know, in an attempt to explain the intellectual origins of the “alrtright” to people I’ve said that there are three main camps that make up the points of a triangle and everyone in the triangle is considered “altright”, the three camps are: The Neoreactionary Movement (Evola, traditionalists, TWP, /pol/, fascists, anything that became popular during the “dark enlightenment”) The European New Right (Alain de Benoist, Guilliaume Faye, Dugin, etc), and the American Alternative Right (Jared Taylor, Samuel Francis, Richard Spencer, Pat Buchanan, basically all the paleocons and uncucked conservatives) obviously a lot of these overlap each other in ideals but people in the altright usually have their ideological base in either one of these camps.

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A tragedy waiting to happen: Nigerian Man was FREED after assaulting a police officer and being found with two knives – just days before stabbing a much-loved lecturer to death on his doorstep

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

So sad. Looking at Femi Nandap, you’d never guess he was a killer. White privilege/white racism probably sent him over the edge.

Daily Mail:

Femi Nandap, 23, has pleaded guilty manslaughter of Dr Jeroen Ensink, 41,
Academic was knifed repeatedly in the back outside his Islington home
New father was out to post cards to tell people about his daughter Fleur
As Dr Ensink died on the ground Nandap stood nearby with a kitchen knife
His wife – and new baby – were waiting for him inside unaware of killing

A catalogue of missed opportunities from the authorities allowed a mentally ill man to stab a much-loved academic on his way to post cards.
Femi Nandap, 23, has pleaded guilty to knifing Dr Jeroen Ensink, 41, who suffered catastrophic injuries after he was repeatedly stabbed in the back outside his Islington home on December 29 last year.
Today, it emerged the academic’s killer was caught with two kitchen knives after assaulting a policeman but the case was dropped because the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claimed they did not have enough evidence to prosecute him.
Nandap, of Woolwich, south east London, was arrested in May last year and charged with wielding knives in public and assaulting a police officer.
He later flew back to Nigeria in June for three months, missing his bail appointment in August.
He finally appeared in court in October, but was granted bail by magistrates – despite objections from the prosecutor.

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Jewish Rabbis Opposed To Zionism

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

This was fun: @NYCGreenfield scolded Rabbi Yisroel Weiss of Neturei Karta, calls him mentally unstable #bdsfail pic.twitter.com/mgtthO9et7
— Jacob Kornbluh (@jacobkornbluh) September 8, 2016

From Wikipedia:

Weiss states that though Israelis have used the Holocaust to gain sympathy and advantage, he does not believe the Holocaust toll is exaggerated.[11] Weiss said that “The Zionists use the Holocaust issue to their benefit. We, Jews who perished in the Holocaust, do not use it to advance our interests. We stress that there are hundreds of thousands Jews around the world who identify with our opposition to the Zionist ideology and who feel that Zionism is not Jewish, but a political agenda…What we want is not a withdrawal to the ’67 borders, but to everything included in it, so the country can go back to the Palestinians and we could live with them…”[12]

Weiss has defended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against accusations of anti-Semitism. In March 2006, Weiss released a statement to Iran’s official IRIB radio in which he stated that: “it is dangerous deviation to pretend that the Iranian president is anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic. He is extremely friendly and he understands the difference between the Zionists and the Jews who do not embrace the state of Israel… We don’t look at him as an enemy.”[13]

American Jewish organisations, including Agudath Israel of America and the Orthodox Union, issued statements distancing themselves from Weiss.[14] The executive vice president of the Orthodox Union, Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, has called the group “embarrassing”,[14] and Rabbi Avi Shafran, spokesman for Agudath Israel of America, called Neturei Karta’s public display of affection for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “graphic and disgusting.”[14]

Since returning to the U.S. from the conference, Weiss and other individuals who attended have been ostracized by synagogues, denied service at kosher stores, and have been the subject of disparagement in some communities with strong Orthodox Jewish populations such as Brooklyn and Monsey.

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Is It Too Late for Hillary to Stop Being So Extremist on Borders?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* The immigration thing is a crisis of existence for western populations. In 1945, Westerners accepted an internal self-regulatory tool whereby all statistical behavior differences were ignored. This allowed the world to absorb the horrors of World War II. The world included the US, devastated Germany, the much shrunken global Israel, the much shrunken (by population) Soviet Union, China, the UK etc.

70 years later western people still deny all statistical differences in population. They are being outbred in their own lands (100-300 years+ control) all over the world, but can’t think about why because they can’t name it. Populations behave differently.

Hillary has already invested all her eggs, of which there is one, in the international banker basket. Her only daughter married a finance guy. He’s the son of a corrupt finance guy who knew Bill. So why would she ever turn on supporting the internationalization of the US populace?

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Rare Heterosexual BLM Leader Found Murdered

Posted on September 9, 2016 by Luke Ford

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Seals was a controversial figure in the police accountability movement. “He had and has a lot of views that many people regard to be sexist, misogynist and homophobic,” said Bynes, the protester and former committeewoman. “Many people felt like he spewed hate.”

In a Twitter post last year, Seals wrote: “#BlackLivesMatter is a gay/feminist movement not a black movement they are not ‘leaders’ they’re thieves who exploited the work of black ppl.”

The high-profile Black Lives Matter activists that Seals lambasted mourned his death via Twitter on Tuesday in restrained tones. Several of them referenced his death without using his name, a striking choice for members of a movement that uses “Say her name” and “Say his name” as rallying cries.

* People like George Soros, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton meet the leaders of Black Lives Matter and instantly recognize them as LGBTQ Studies majors. So they figure, How much violence can a bunch of narcissistic homosexual pseudo-intellectuals cause? But what Soros, Obama, and Clinton didn’t realize was that down on the streets it’s very very different. So now we’re headed toward maybe a 1,000 incremental homicides since Ferguson.

* Seals, BLM, and their allies roughly doubled St. Louis’s murder rate.

So there is about a 50/50 chance that Seals would be alive today if not for Seals, BLM, and their allies.

* Getting to the bottom of black men’s issues with police would surely bring about some very inconvenient facts.

For example, who is most likely to call the cops on a black male? I bet it’s black females. Very touchy issue there. I’ve lived around blacks for most of my life, and I’ve seen more of them hauled off for domestic disputes than anything else. I’ve also spent time in family court, and I remember the line for guys who were in for DV or associated issues. Very black line for a city that’s less than 10% black.

To be sure, this is a problem for white guys, too, but blacks get hammered out of all proportion to their numbers and in all likelihood their behavior as well. They are treated like slaves in family court. I’m not trying to defend people who beat the crap out of family members, but I can assure readers here that black men are routinely railroaded by family court. Many of the worst real police abuses involve these types of situations. Actually, seeing black women involved as leaders in BLM would be very insulting to me if I were a black male. I’ve seen so many instances of black women using the cops to discard their kids’ fathers that it strikes me as sheer opportunism.

Personally, I think the most effective outreach Trump could make to black America would be to promise black men that they will be given the opportunity to be fathers if they make an effort. He should really stress the black fatherhood issue and address the fact that the American system often does discriminate against black men in family matters — often in a very brutal, shameful manner. That was essentially Mark Twain’s point when he wrote Huckleberry Finn, after all, and that was a righteous book.

Of course, that would mean alienating feminists, but they were never going to vote for anyone other than Hillary anyway.

* To be killed in that manner suggests that Seals was a police informant.

* Most progressives (and conservatives, too) are completely ignorant of what the culture of low income black communities is actually like – they think it’s a bunch of earnest strivers who despite occasional setbacks like arrests or the birth of a child, are basically like white middle class people in their values and aspirations. Remove the police from their neighborhoods and provide affirmative action and they will be productive citizens who will never get crosswise with the law.

The actual reality is that the culture/values system is about as far from that of the SJWs as can be imagined in our country. When someone is upset or slighted about something in the neighborhood, they don’t convene a forum to discuss it and wag their fingers in lieu of clapping for approval – they immediately threaten violence as a means of preserving status, and often follow through on it. Despite the image of the strong black woman, women are generally treated as objects for sexual gratification, not as peers or potential lifelong mates. Littering wherever is convenient is fine, although cars are meticulously washed on a regular basis. In general, there is a level of disorder that is tolerated that would be completely alien to most of the country, and the spinoff effects of this are just shrugged at by the majority in the community.

The left doesn’t know what it has unleashed with its stoking of black resentment and de-policing of the most violent parts of our country.

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Slate: Airbnb Has an Aggressive Plan to Stop Racism on Its Platform. Can It Be Enforced?

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

For the sharing economy to work, it must be racist and discriminatory. Would you let anyone into your home? Why would you want to let groups with high rates of criminal behavior into your life? Why would you want to rent to them or give them rides?

REPORT: “Women who share living spaces with guests may refuse to rent to men. But they may not refuse to rent to trans women. … You can still decline to rent to families, young people, or old people, except where otherwise prohibited by law.”

Comments at Steve Sailer:

* Rather symbolic of our time that “families” have less protected status than trannies.

* I stayed at an AirBnB a couple of weeks ago in upstate New York. Yesterday, I received this email. I have edited it for brevity’s sake. A link to the full report follows:

Dear Airbnb community,

At the heart of our mission is the idea that people are fundamentally good and every community is a place where you can belong. We don’t say this because it sounds nice. It’s the goal that everyone at Airbnb works towards every day – because we’ve all seen how when we live together, we better understand each other.

Discrimination is the opposite of belonging, and its existence on our platform jeopardizes this core mission. …

In June, we asked Laura Murphy, the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington D.C. Legislative Office…

…

Brian Chesky

CEO, Co-founder

* I hope this is just AirBnB paying it’s tithe to the diversity racket so that they can continue to broker the honest, fair and apparently effective trade between owners and (temporary) renters.

* AirBnB has been a pleasant surprise.

An unexpected benefit has been the novelty of being able to stay in a variety of private homes in America with families and individuals. This has made travel in our country a lot more interesting—I get a much greater sense of place than I usually do when I stay in sundry hotels and motels.

Of course, the quality of my stays is a function of the good cheer and natural hospitality of my hosts. But I have been able to form an idea of these qualities in advance, thanks to AirBnB’s review system. Their reviews are tightly moderated, use real first names and pictures, and seem quite open and frank—which has led to a high degree of predictability of experience.

I am impressed by their screening (I had to submit a picture, a copy of my driver’s license and a link to my LinkedIn profile) and they took a couple of days to approve me as a guest. I expect their screening of hosts is pretty good, too.

It will be a real shame if it all comes crashing down thanks to overly meddlesome intervention. AirBnb has been, until now, simply an online marketplace and exchange between hosts and guests, which is why it has worked well.

Unfortunately, it now wishes to be a policeman.

* Discrimination is not the opposite of belonging. It is the counterpart.

This is not just a cheap point. Ingroup/outgroup behavior is one of the major features of primate species. That diversity officers never grapple with nor even acknowledge this fact dooms them to eternal failure – and eternal employment.

* The idea of staying at someone’s residence or even second home is creepy. My wife feels even more strongly about this. You don’t know or need the negative energy from what has gone on in that house or what negative history lies hidden there. It’s like a curse. It’s also the reason I don’t read books by people who’ve committed suicide (e.g., Confederacy of Dunces, Canticle for Leibowitz, etc.) or died in compromising ways. I don’t want to get in the head of someone who left this world in such an ignominious manner. But a lot of people are not freaked out about this kind of stuff even if they have full knowledge of negative history. I know guy who bought some suits from an estate sale where there was a triple murder and he doesn’t give it a second thought.

* It has already happened to bad thinking websites. A Christian dating site was forced to allow homos to join, because, you know, so many homos are closet Christians.

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Goofy Jew Tries To Free The Nipple

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

Judaism has a strong commitment to modesty, but a large number of those activists most committed to sexual freedom are secular Jews.

New York Daily News:

Women said ta-ta to their tops Sunday during a march through Midtown sponsored by a UFO-loving cult.
The parade was part of the ninth annual International GoTopless Day, which aims to encourage women to unburden themselves from their shirts and bras — as a feminist statement.
“I love being topless and it really bothers me that we can’t go topless without it being a big deal,” said 19-year-old Nickii Raynor. “Men go topless all the time and it’s so normalized.”
The group swelled to a few hundred as men and women joined the march through Times Square. The march was organ?ized by members of the Raelian Movement, known for its belief that aliens founded the world’s major religions.
But most participants were only concerned about the boobs.
“I’m just trying to convince women to understand that the law allows them to be topless,” said a nearly nude Clare Hogenauer, 70.
Still, the parade wasn’t all peace, love, and freedom.
The marchers were confronted by a small group of Christian protesters who screamed obscenities at the topless women,
There were also several small scuffles between some of the women and bystanders snapping photographs.
“The people who do genuinely support this I am happy about, but of course it still bothers me that there are people who came today just to over-sexualize us,” Raynor said.

Sexual freedom is least destructive to high IQ groups such as Ashkenazi Jews and most destructive to low IQ groups such as blacks.

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Jews Fear Surge Of Gentile Nationalism In Europe

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

REPORT:

The president of the Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, has reacted with anger to the strong showing of the AfD in the regional elections in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. “The AfD is not an alternative for Germany, but a sign of failure for Germany,” he explained on Monday morning in Berlin.
Unfortunately the AfD “have had success of stirring up resentments against minorities and offering words instead of solutions”. Apparently many voters do not understand or they do not care that neither in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern nor across the country has the AfD separated itself from the far-right spectrum.
In view of the electoral success of the party, the established parties should engage more strongly with the concerns and problems of the people. At the same time it is pleasing, continued Schuster, that the NPD* will not be represented in the new Mecklenburg-Vorpommern regional parliament. “However for many right-wing extremists the NPD continues to be the basis from which they start their actions. We continue to believe that a ban on the NPD is right and necessary.”

From World Jewish Congress:

World Jewish Congress (WJC) CEO Robert Singer and the leadership of the Greek Jewish community held a series of meetings with senior Greek government officials, including Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, Education Minister Nikos Filis, Minister of Public Order Nikos Toskas, opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the head of the Orthodox Church in Greece Archbishop Ieronymos II and others.
Singer emphasized the good relations between Greece and Israel and raised a number of issues, including the threat posed by the extreme-right Golden Dawn party, the security of the Greek Jewish community, and anti-Semitic statements made by Greek Orthodox church officials recently.
Robert Singer said: “Archbishop Ieronymos reassured us that the Greek Orthodox Church does not agree with these statements and that he is open to intensify the interfaith dialogue with the World Jewish Congress.”
Singer said that although there had been few violent incidents against Jews and Jewish sites in Greece in recent months, anti-Semitic stereotypes were still widespread in Greek society. He welcomed initiatives undertaken by the government to teach about the Holocaust in public and private schools in Greece.
“Racism and anti-Semitism are not just opinions, they are dangerous to our societies as a whole, and that’s why they need to be combatted vigorously. The key to this is education, and also firmness on the part of the government and the leaders of civil society.”
Regarding the far-right Golden Dawn (Chryssi Avgi) party, the WJC CEO said: “The actions of Golden Dawn are harmful to Greece’s reputation in the world. Golden Dawn leaders are currently on trial on serious charges, and I hope that this trial will soon be completed. Golden Dawn must be politically isolated and fought, and I am glad that nobody I spoke to here in Greece thinks that any contacts should be established with this party.”

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R. Yosef Mizrachi Attacked For Racism

Posted on September 8, 2016 by Luke Ford

From change.org:

We, the undersigned, protest the visit of the preacher Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi to the UK.
Rabbi Mizrachi is on record as expressing a variety of highly offensive, bigoted and hateful views:
A. That Downs Syndrome children and those with autism are being punished for their sins in a previous life for gossiping, “measure for measure” and are here to suffer.
B. That due to not being correctly religious, secular Jewish women acted without concern for their modesty at the gas chambers during the Holocaust.
C. Engaging in a [racist] form of Holocaust denial by challenging the Jewish status of five million souls who perished.
D. That Sephardic Jews were spared much of the Holocaust because Reform started in Germany, a demonstrably false claim in view of the decimation of the Sephardic population of the Balkans.
E. That children who are born with blindness are being punished for watching pornography in previous lives.
F. That women contract breast and cervix cancers as a result of sexual licentiousness.
G. That men contract prostate and brain cancers as a result of sexual licentiousness and what he calls “dirty thoughts”.
H. The racist accusation that crime has increased in America as the result of the emancipation of African-Americans.
I. That homosexuals are being punished for having chosen to be gay in a previous life.
J. That people cease to be religious because they are influenced by gay university professors.
K. That totalitarian laws should be imposed as a result of terrorism.
L. That the problem with the European far right is not their views, but that they detest Jews as well as Muslims.
M. The racist view that all Chinese people look the same.
We consider these views to be cultish, divisive and contemptible.
When criticised, Rabbi Mizrachi attacks his critics personally in the most intemperate ad hominem language, likening them to wicked Biblical figures such as “Amalek”, “Korach” and “Haman” or, sickeningly, as “worse than Hitler”. Videos of his more controversial statements are routinely removed in order to enable claims that they were “taken out of context”.
His remarks on the Holocaust and other matters provoked strong condemnation from the Novominsker Rebbe, the president of the ultra-orthodox Agudath Israel of America, resulting in a rare apology.
He was also forced to publicly disavow remarks he made about the Chabad movement, suggesting that they were hypocritical and greedy enough to praise a serious criminal, as long as they received a donation of $1,000.
Rabbi Mizrachi intends to visit the UK again on the 16th-19th of September. His last visit to the UK in 2014 was covered by the Jewish Chronicle and led to criticism of his views by two leading London rabbis, concerned at invitations to allow him to speak in a local synagogue and to school children.
The signatories of this petition condemn his views and, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, stand in solidarity with the Jewish community in its efforts to distance itself from extremism and condemn racism, ignorant bigotry and intolerance in whatever form it presents itself.

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