{"id":105130,"date":"2016-09-01T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105130"},"modified":"2016-09-01T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T01:07:41","slug":"black-lives-matter-turns-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=105130","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Turns Against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: Many progressive Jews are shocked that Black Lives Matter (BLM), a movement they support, has turned out to be virulently anti-Israel \u2014 to the extent that in its new platform, it charges Israel with \u201cgenocide\u201d against Palestinians. Their response calls to mind an event of nearly 50 years ago.
\nIn 1970, the most famous American classical musician of the 20th century \u2014 Leonard Bernstein, the conductor of the New York Philharmonic and a major composer (\u201cWest Side Story,\u201d operas, etc.) \u2014 along with other men of the left, both black and Jewish, threw what probably became the most notorious private fundraiser in American history at his Manhattan penthouse.
\nThe honored guests were the Black Panthers, an America-hating, police-hating radical Black group, a sort-of predecessor to BLM. In the words of liberal writer Adam Gopnik in the latest issue of The New Yorker, the Panthers were \u201cmindlessly cruel, misogynistic gangsters, capable of acts of torture and murder … \u201d
\nHere is how Panther leader \u201cField Marshall\u201d Don Cox began the evening:
\n\u201cWe call [the police] pigs. … We recognize that this country is the most oppressive country in the world, maybe in the history of the world. The pigs have the weapons and they are ready to use them on the people. … They are ready to commit genocide against those who stand up against them.\u201d
\nBernstein did not express a word of protest, let alone end the fundraiser, after hearing police labeled \u201cpigs\u201d and America labeled \u201cthe most oppressive country in the world.\u201d In fact, Bernstein (who, to make the parallels even sharper, was very pro-Israel) pledged his entire fee for conducting the opera \u201cCavalleria Rusticana\u201d to the Panthers. Four other prominent Jews \u2014 film director Otto Preminger, lyricist Sheldon Harnick (\u201cFiddler on the Roof\u201d), lyricist and composer Burton Lane (\u201cFinian\u2019s Rainbow\u201d) and renowned art dealer Richard Feigen \u2014 then made their pledges.
\nPrior to the Bernstein event, another Jew in the arts, film director and producer Sidney Lumet, also threw a party for the Black Panthers at his home.
\nAs New York Magazine reported:
\n\u201cRay \u2018Masai\u2019 Hewitt, the Panthers\u2019 Minister of Education and member of the Central Committee … laid it on the line. … If buildings were burned and other violence ensued, that was only part of the struggle that the power structure had forced the oppressed minorities into.\u201d
\nNo country in history has treated its Jewish citizens as well as the United States has, yet left-wing Jews have supported almost every left-wing group that depicts America as an oppressor (and as war-mongering, imperialist, systemically racist, etc.).
\nBut this love for the left has never been reciprocated. The left (not traditional liberals, it must be noted) has been Jew-hating (and later, Israel-hating) throughout its history.
\nJews adored Karl Marx for well over a century, but that grandson of two Orthodox rabbis wrote one of the most influential anti-Semitic books of the 19th century (\u201cOn the Jewish Question\u201d).
\nShortly before he died last year, Robert Wistrich, the head of Hebrew University\u2019s Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, wrote a devastating book on left-wing anti-Semitism (\u201cFrom Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel\u201d).
\nAnd one of America\u2019s most prominent liberals, professor Alan Dershowitz, has just written an article titled \u201cAre Jews Who Refuse to Renounce Israel Being Excluded From \u2018Progressive\u2019 Groups?\u201d
\nProfessor Dershowitz\u2019s answer is, of course, yes. The \u201cprogressive groups\u201d cited in the Dershowitz article have contempt for America \u2014 and America-hatred and Israel-hatred always go together.
\n\u201cLast year,\u201d Dershowitz wrote, \u201cRabbi Susan Talve, a longtime activist on race issues in the St. Louis area, was told that her advocacy for Israel was incompatible with the objectives of Black Lives Matter: \u2018Solidarity from Ferguson to Palestine has become a central tenet of the movement\u2019 she was informed, because \u2018Israeli and U.S. state oppression are deeply interconnected.\u2019
\n\u201cSimilarly,\u201d Dershowitz noted, \u201ca student who attended a Black Lives Matter rally at Northwestern University last year was told, \u2018you support Israel, so you cannot also support us.\u2019 \u201d
\nDershowitz then lists other major left-wing groups that are anti-Israel:
\n\u201cMoveOn, CodePink, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter [have] become openly opposed to the nation state of the Jewish people.\u201d
\nAnd all these groups are supported by left-wing Jews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dennis Prager writes: Many progressive Jews are shocked that Black Lives Matter (BLM), a movement they support, has turned out to be virulently anti-Israel \u2014 to the extent that in its new platform, it charges Israel with \u201cgenocide\u201d against Palestinians. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,42760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-blm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105131,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105130\/revisions\/105131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}